You've got to understand, miss. Where I'm from I fight Echoes 24/7 for five years without a break and then I get one month in the land of the living. Then back to it. I can't die by aging because I don't do that anymore, but no one said anything about not dying in a battle. Fighting's only going to get tougher. Here, look.

[He pulls his shirt right off, his pigeon wings fluttering in a ruffled manner, to display his scars.]

See how they look like burns? They're actually attacks from things like claws and knife-like spikes and things from Echoes and Ghosts. They have spectral forms that burn the skin when they hit.