Rinali shook her head at his assertion that he was useless. He was always too hard on himself. "Allen, you're not useless," she said. "Not one of the rest of us could sense Akuma in the first place, and you could always do a lot more than that." She sighed slightly. "At least you still have your anti-akuma weapon. I...I'm not sure what happened to mine." If anything, she felt particularly useless now. Without her boots, how effective would she be against these monsters?

The idea of 'shinigami' who used false bodies to house their spirits seemed peculiar, but not entirely unbelievable. Stranger things could happen than spirits acting as guides to heaven for lost souls.