[Fortunately the mask hides his grin because while he feels like he's a pretty badass cyborg ninja, no one has ever just straight up told him that. And that feels... pretty good honestly.]

Thank you. That's nice to hear, most are afraid of me.

[Which is understandable, since he usually doesn't meet people outside of when he's killing things. Which is not the best place to make friends.]

There are times I would have rather died.

[Yeah that's a great thing to say to the guy who was trapped as a ghost for years. Real considerate. Groaning he can't help but continue.]

I didn't mean to say that either. This is fine now, but it was very painful to begin with. It still hurts sometimes, but not every moment is agony as it once was. I thought that death would be kinder. But perhaps I was mistaken.

[Being in agony or being a ghost. Both sound terrible!]