[Leaning back into her chair again, letting him have some space because she knows he gets too sensitive when he's cornered (like a prey animal), Rin decides to push a lock of her hair over her shoulder with a, "hmph."]

"Saying the world sucks is super edgy," says the man who probably didn't have his parents die young. Come back to me when you have to take care of your disabled mom for four years.

[Way to kill the mood, Rin. Though the way she says it seems so... disconnected? The blase manner of her delivery makes it sound like the early death of her parents was just another fact of mage life. And in truth? It is. Most mages don't get to live to old age because other mages take them out.

Besides, she doesn't want pity. Rin just wants him to eat his own words.]