[If not for what the General had said, the disappearance would be the more troubling than his return. Though as it is, if someone had to come back... well it's like with Asuma.

Morally, it's probably best if the dead stay dead, but if anyone were given the opportunity to live a second life, it might as well be people like them.]

I'd like to give you a heartfelt speech, but it's nothing that hasn't been done before. Instead I'll say it's telling what you've been a part of in the last couple of years that I wasn't the only one to notice you were gone this time.

[He kicks his feet up on the coffee table.] Most of 'em will be happy you're back, I think.