Right. I'm afraid I have only his word to go on, on the matter of his health. Though from what I know of Soul Edge and its counterpart, I do not doubt that he could suffer some negative effects from total withdrawal from it. [She just, y'know. Doesn't give a damn.

She can't help but smirk, a little, at that disdainful noise. Jonathan was a nosy meddler of the highest order, but he really had meant well. And he'd since sided decisively with Ivy in this little feud by banning Azwel from the premises at Haven. After Azwel kidnapped her the one time.]

I... frankly have never thought to offer him any of it. [Because the serum has thus far been to protect people from contact with Ivy's curse. Generally, when they are sleeping with her. And she wouldn't touch Azwel if they were the last two humans alive and the survival of the species depended on them.] He said that the Calibur shard did help, but he abandoned it once the pair were available to him again.

[She rolls onto her side to face him, hugging her chest.] This time, his friends are on his case. He swears he intends to remove himself from the gauntlets entirely. He promised that he was serious, and even to show me the method he intended to withdraw himself.

But that's all there is. There is no other evidence.