"I ... " Rin trails off, looking between Ishiah's hand and his sword with a strange kind of fear. Rin isn't afraid that he will be hurt He is afraid of what will happen if he isn't. He can scarcely find words to communicate what he experiences at the thought of doing something like Ishiah is suggesting. Even when he'd been soundly beaten the second time, fighting with Amaimon ... had not been unpleasant Only losing had been. Rin doesn't want to lose a second time.

Even knowing that it shouldn't, he feels satisfied, when all of the power that he has within him is drawn out. There is a part, which he does not want to recognize, which only has contempt for the way he's been handling himself.

Rin is terrified of that part.

"How much confidence?" he asks, boldly honest Rin doesn't speak from ego; only caution.