Perhaps it would create an alternate timeline. I'm not sure. If you just showed up... The kids aren't that old. Most humans that have heart attacks are older than that, right? It'd be a little weird though, all things considered. Right back from the dead.

[ half-teasing. ]

It'd be a disappointing fight for you, the way I am now. You really in it for disappointing mercy killings? There's no one to release my last seals, here. Nor do I have any of my old souls.

[ he quiets, kind of thoughtful, before he speaks again. ]

Everyone wants me to live. I don't understand why. I've been thinking about my seals here, though. Maybe... If they were broken, I could... somehow bypass the rest of it. What's keeping me alive.

[ that's a dangerous line of thought. ]