It's not having a soul that's in question, it's whether mine pings as human or not.

[He shrugs.]

Physically I'm no different from any other human, but...

[For a moment - just a moment - the memory power of this night lives again. The deep voice of the memory brings with it pain, the pain of a mind to mind connection with something that no human can ever truly comprehend -

Luke. Fragment of my soul. Heed my voice...

- coming not from anywhere but from the very atoms of the Asch of the memory.

And then it fades away, just as quick as that, though Asch is still rubbing his head.]

...I don't miss that.