Snake smiled sadly, "We may look happy. But we're not. Especially the females." She curled up, pulling her knees up to her chest before continuing. "The female Zodiac is born bestowed with the gifts of magic, the males have it too, but not as much power as us, they learn much slower. But this gift comes with a price, you see, the more we use the more of our lives we use. Our lifespan is far longer than a humans but we also use a lot of magic, with jobs like hunting demons and wars sprouting all over the place it's hard to restrict magic." Snake twirled her hair with her hand, staring at nothing in particular. "The males of this Generation have suffered tremendously too, suffering from physical pain, loneliness and abandonment. We're only happy when we're together - live and well." She patted Akio's head, "You're lucky not be a Zodiac. This is a curse. We are destined to live this way for many years, and more children will go through the same troubles as us after we die. And we cannot commit suicide to free ourselves either, an dishonorable way of dying like that will only take us to Hell."
