No, being forgotten had not been pleasant. But perhaps it had been a fitting payment for his own sins. A way to accept the purification the warrior goddess had granted him. The steps one had to take to serve as a Weapon of the Planet.

Still, he's glad to hear that this is likely to be a greater reflection of the man he had once aspired to be the match of.

"I am more powerful now than I was before. If you lose yourself, and I promise not to push that this time, then I will do my best to stand to stop you."