[Casting his shyness aside for the moment, Tanaka addresses the stranger with a smug grin.]

Yes, of my class. Do you not sense the difference in our power? Appearances aside, I am far beyond a mere human.

[But he shifts to flustered frustration with the rest of what she had to say.]

Th-that is nothing more than hearsay created by your own delusion! My ring only happens to resemble those other rings. After all, there is no one alive who could successfully convince a dark lord to wear something like this!