@13org It has to do with Cabal's upbringing. Since he could walk, he's been participating in an underground war that spans a whole country, and has lasted for over five thousand years.
Friends can turn out to be enemy spies or assassins.
Mercy is a foreign concept.
Death is a natural outcome, and life expectancy is nonexistant. They were born with the mindset that they could die at any time.
It wasn't even about survival. They could die in the most humiliating or excruciating way possible if even one mistake was made. Sometimes not even then.
He considers Einars words ignorant because, well . . . Cabal has experience being weak and being strong. He especially found the human part funny. Aswang
live among humans, its second nature. They know how to use human tools, they know how to use human cunning, and they know how to use human intelligence.
Can you imagine, an horde of Aswang, almost unkillable, able to change their forms at will, and strong enough to rip a horse in two with sheer strength, armed with guns and everything that's allowed humanity to flourish?
The Philippine Night War has evolved, and with it, the participants. To see someone assume less is both intriguing and entertaining to Cabal, not to mention childish. To him, it's not arrogance, it's common sense.