Another small smile, though Ienzo tried not to look like he’s laughing at Demyx. It’s not like that at all. “I’m not having you chase after it. It didn’t do much damage - it could be that they’re mostly harmless.”

Ienzo told him, a little surprised this hadn’t come up before, “Research, of course. Our hearts aren’t gone forever. Even if you aren’t … recompleted as violently as some of us were.”

As he had been. “Even and my studies have demonstrated that our hearts, for example even my own heart … before I became myself again … regrow. It’s gradual, and it takes some time. But of course, that sort of evidence had been hidden from us by him.”