Exactly! I mean, why focus on the past or what-ifs when there's so much stuff going on in the present, right?

And if I started worrying about all the times I almost died now, I'd never stop! I mean, I can't even count how many times that's happened in my life, nya ha!

[That's not even a slight exaggeration, but do you really expect it to be?]

Sure thing! You'll be the first person I show, promise!

...Ooh, ooh, maybe if I get it working I can magic up a wyvern army for us! Imagine Minerva but instead like... a hundred of her! We'd be unstoppable!

[It's a good thing he's on Ylisse's side now, because that's starting to sound like supervillain talk.]