"Cause once you do enough, they just end up in the Pokemon Center, fixed up. What's the point? I strangle somebody, I wanna see the light going of their terrified eyes as I'm doing it. Don't get that here, it sucks." Holy shit, it's been over a year since he killed anybody. Like even a little. Even an indirect, ordered death.

Ugh.

But he's distracted by the Phantump. Is that...yes. Yes it is. Aw, that's kinda cute. Stupid, but cute.

"Not exactly an imitation of the original there, pumpkin." He's actually addressing Flood. "Back home, they sell replicas. Big item, make tons off of'em."

Maybe he wasn't much here (yet), but that doesn't change what he was back home. A god damned king.