Not despite. Because. I would've preferred victory, yes, but I had rather a fun time.

[And that is truly all that matters.]

And now? Supposedly dead - but I can move, I can talk, and not surrounded by nothing. I can enjoy myself yet. Until a way out presents itself, of course.

[He has high hopes...first he escapes the no-place, now he thinks he can cheat death...?]

You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?