James let out a chuckle as Kiri excessively refuted James' idea that Kiri had entrusted his partner with James' identity as a witch. "What?" he grinned. "How could it be? Weren't Meisters and weapons supposed to see each other as partners?" he said in mock shock. Back when he was still with the witch community, James had been taught on how the Meister's fought but a lot of it was still a mystery to him, with his parents - later, parent - only starting to seriously teach him how to fight after his mother was killed, and he ran away shortly after anyways.