It's been months, after all, since the first time she explained any of this. So he'd forgotten that the card monsters were originally cards, and the holograms let them put on a show.

"All their cheering fans put a little bit of magic into them, until they came alive... That makes as much sense as anything."

Monsters making monsters doesn't work quite that way, but. There's similarities. And the stranger material monsters had to originally come from somewhere.

He puts that topic out of mind, partly because it's not as though Reira - a human - needs to know where little monsters come from, and partly because she'd sat a little abruptly.

"Hey, are you alright...? You're moving strangely. I could see if anyone down here has good healing magic."