[...]

I said it before, right? What usually happens to the monsters? —This isn't about calling myself one, so don't start.

[but in the end—]

It's not that I left, but that everyone else died. Ares was killed... well, I'd killed Caleb myself before that, but anyway, the rest of us were wiped out along with Ares that day.

Not that we didn't have it coming.

[given... everything. he's not torn up over the demans' loss.]