Jingyi paused, lifting both eyebrows in a slow, incredulous way.

"Other kirin bind demons into the service of themselves and their kings? How often does that go horrifically wrong? I know you might not know, but I'm absolutely betting it happens."

All oddities and massive differences between their three worlds aside, demons are at least familiar territory, and creatures that powerful and that self-aware are dangerous, always. Bound or not, there will be some way to break the binding; more that he believes in no absolutes with safety, long trained out of them.