[But then the brackets would grow too powerful, and we can't have that!]

so there's something hidden in these answers. i've killed bugs, and plants by accident, but i think i'd remember killing something like this.

[If he takes it seriously, and if he accepts the emphatic answer that says he enjoyed whatever slaughter he committed, it makes no sense that he wouldn't have a single clue what it means. No memory (except the ones that haunt him, from what he still thinks of as someone else). Nothing that makes sense.]