Road's grin grew wider. "No," she answered. The fact that Lumi wasn't giving a rebuttal was interesting; obviously he found the reputation useful, but then, who wouldn't? "Why do they think you are?"

Something had to have happened. Maybe it was an image they fostered deliberately. Maybe it was an informed trait, something they'd been quick to tell everyone so that the idiots kept their distance? Or maybe he had actually done something.

It wasn't something you took so mildly if you didn't know people thought that, anyway, and if you knew, surely you knew why?