It's self-aggrandizing to take the credit of those who came before you.

If you think I haven't heard as much and worse before now, you're a bigger fool than you sound.

[ and with that, he cuts the connection.

if there's anything that truly wounds him — it's that this cruelty is human sourced. not from a demon, or an angel. but the very species he gave everything for.

that's what will remain with him days from now. ]