"I won't forget," the-asset-slash-Ivan assures him. "I only forget things when they make me."

Which no one has in weeks. His head is starting to feel weirdly full, with all these memories piling up, but it also kind of feels like it's only a temporary reprieve. Something will happen eventually to take it all away again.

He finishes cleaning out the grooves of the metal hand and turns to Angeal for whatever task he might have for him in this "baking" process.