Levitate objects and put up protective barriers? Yeah, he could explain those well enough. The tearing people apart on a cellular level makes him feel pretty bad. It's pretty insane to think of that, intimidating.

"Float spell for the first, shell, protect or reflect for the second depending on what you want to protect from, and that's terrifying but the closest I could think of would be a meltdown. As for now..."

He waves his fingers. Nope, nothing here. No magic. But he wasn't the best of it before, and he didn't even have it now.

"No GFs, no magic. This world stripped me of it. And the enhancements that came with it."