Was there a point in explaining what exactly that buffoon had said? What mattered was that he'd abandoned Ed out of fear and guilt, something that still weighed on him, despite feeling freer now than he ever had.
"He called me a monster and said that I destroy everything," he said in response, his eyes flickering downward toward his own hands. "His brother, my family, you. I brought 'history's greatest pirate to ruin' were his exact words, I think." It had been long enough now that he couldn't remember it precisely, but the meaning of it had hit him like a knife to the heart at the time. "I couldn't bear it."