[Welcome to Pao-lin's world, Spada. She lost all her friends at age 6 as soon as it came out that she was a NEXT, and basically was unable to make any new ones until she came to Sternbild. And even then...]

Yeah, it does. [A soft smile.] Sometimes I wish I had ice powers like my friend, though. She can use her ice to launch herself into the air like a rocket. And I think it's better to freeze people than to shock them.