[ Every time he thinks he's grown numb from the constant experience of losing people, he's reminded that he's still very capable of still feeling the emptiness and grief that follows. ]

Thank you. She was designed to hurt me, as were the others to the rest of our team.

[ It gets a little easier to tell the story each time. Because that's all it is, a story. No part of it had been real except for the physical and mental injuries. The people... none of them were real. ]

We fought in that tournament for two rounds. I was killed in the second, and I'm not sure how the others managed to fare, but it looks like we were all able to return.