"I'm not sure I can. It feels like a 'type error'. It's pretty easy to imagine - the direction I'd have to move in, even if for now I've chosen not to, to become somebody who could burn his current personality to ash by borrowing Asmodia's headband for an hour, and take pride in his 'dignity' for accepting the hurt and updating."
"Doing that with pain? I don't - know what series of mental changes I'd even try, to do that, regardless of whether or not I want to."
"Pain doesn't mean things the way that thoughts do."