"The younger me wouldn't have given the time to find what your worth was to him past what you could do in a fight. Fortunately I'm older and wiser, so let's just call it a gut feeling." Cable clearly has no issue with feeding Mikumo's sense of self-worth either way; no matter which way it went for him, it could end heads up as far as he was concerned.

"As for my first wife: her name was Aliya. She was beautiful. Strong. Capable. She saved me in more than just one way back where we're from."