Glad he is to take that arm all the same. His smile also warms at the praise. While he has been called a 'brilliant mind' by others, it didn't hold quite the same sort of sincerity that he knows Obsidian conveys. The man was always so genuine in everything he did after all; in a way, Aymeric was a bit envious of him being able to be so... free.

Though now that he's here, he has to wonder: Is such a thing possible for him? Something he'll have to consider as time goes on.

"... Usually?" he can't help but question with a small tilt of his head. Although he knows what the machine said and Obsidian confirmed, well- He hasn't quite connected the dots in a lot of ways as to what that all truly means.