Malfunctions. That's cold. That doesn't sit well with him, like some of the other unsettling details in that second memory. Just doesn't feel right to treat a person like that, he keeps thinking. He knows it's sometimes done, those sorts of extreme experiments to turn someone into something new and better and more effective at killing - by both sides, in his world. The deals his brother had laid out with the emperor Kaidou sounded like they could result in one hell of an army if they succeeded, so of course the Marines have to use their own research teams to be prepared. To fight back. And as much as they stand for good and justice, he knows his side hasn't always done the right thing either.

He dips his head at the half-question, shrugs. "It's easier when you've always had it. Every moment adds to the last. You don't think about all of it at once. It's all still there, just quiet."

Thank gods for that, because there's a hell of a lot buried in his own head he doesn't care to think about most days. But it's there. Made him who he is, for better or worse.