The shove pushed him off balance enough to have no recourse when Mingyu pulled him in, other than to half catch himself with one arm planted on Mingyu’s knee.

“I don’t think protecting people is letting it be worse,” he murmured quietly. “Haven’t you wondered why I was brought here? I have no magic, no power. All I have is what I know. And that happens to be how to fight the thing here that hurts the people the most. Don’t you think that means something?”