That's how you know he's lonely is he's more of a jerk than usual so people will talk to him longer by arguing or fighting.

[Another shrug. Don't ask him to explain the reasons for Laharl's psychology, but that's just what he noticed.]

It's really complicated, but basically I lived a second life. I went back to being dead when I left, I think, but then my master-

[He grits his teeth a little and corrects himself.]

Then Ganon summoned me up again and I lived another nineteen years.