[Once L is a few paces away Niles frees Jin's hands and hops off of him. He rolls his eye at L's dramatic phrasing. Kind ugh. This is the same 'merciful' bullshit he'd spouted when Niles was the one trapped and scarred at his feet.

Wildly different circumstances of course, but the attitude that not doing the worst he could have done was something to be praised or thanked for still gets under his skin.]

You won't be able to magically compel others any longer. You'll have to settle for manipulating your enemies the old fashioned way like the rest of us.