[Quiet, his back is still very very tense.]

Being close to someone else, touching or being touched. It was a long time without those things.

Just hating everyone. Hating the Score and those who followed it, hating Van... And being angry at you because you were going wrong, you were becoming...

[Trails off, the "selfish like me" is unsaid.]

I was "nothing" for too long, I'm not used to being "Asch".

[Well done, Asch, it only took you like. Months to talk about this.]