So that's what you meant by having died before... It was a tragedy felt by all of monsterkind. We... all monsters felt the pain of your loss, I hear.

[Not like a robot as young as him should have been alive. No siree.]

Say... darling. When you took their soul... and you went to the Surface. What did you go there for?

[The story goes that Asriel was only trying to honor Chara's wish to be with the flowers of their village. But monsters don't often know that the soul they take can influence their actions.]