Chika was a bit less set in stone about the issue than Shito. For him it was only the thought that someone might be able to control him that made him frightened - and therefore angry. He had no personal experience of it already to goad him on.

That didn't mean he was being reasonable about the issue, however. "I still think it's gross to be using the bodies of dead people as your slaves, soul or no soul," he growled. "And we don't use magic." Though he was uncomfortably aware that he had no reasonable explanation for his own existence other than 'the gods did it', which could certainly be interpreted as magic. But still! Chika was a modern Japanese boy, he didn't believe in things like magic.

Souls were different, that was all.