Jae feels like that first bit is rhetorical, so he just tilts his head at it, versus responding. He doesn't feel like attempting to argue or justify - he isn't comfortable rejecting his entire life just because he has magic powers. And he isn't comfortable embracing something that's just going to end up getting him put back in a laboratory or -

- he doesn't want to think about Ilde's world.

"How to treat people."