[ good thing for salieri that koga didn't actually hear that claim, no — his sharpened sense is his nose, rather than his ears —, but it'd have been better luck if koga hadn't heard the following claim instead. a witch; no, of course he isn't one. but no matter how much koga oogami has been denying his label in this place, and how it generally works, at times the reality comes to hit him in the face. ]

Tch. 'Course you're wrong! Do I look like a damn monster t' you?! [ 'monster', not Monster, because for this stubborn idol boy, these things are no more than creatures that have nothing to do with him. he's human, too much so — ironically, ah, despise how often he claims to be a wolf and refers to humanity in third person. no matter how the people in this place look at him, how some scorn at him. ] I'm neither of those things. I'm a human! Don't wanna be associated with any of those things, either.

You're one as well, ain'tcha? [ the question comes almost like an accusation. salieri doesn't look like a monster to him in the least — therefore, he's normal. like him. what an ignorant mind koga has. ] That means we gotta stick together, huh. Don't let this freaky place get to ya.