[And there it is, the loaded question. Soma pours both glasses, then recaps the bottle before taking a rather large sip from his cup. He sets it back down before answering - stalling for a couple seconds, admittedly.]

Before Lisa came... he was mostly just interested in toying with them. But when she arrived... she had been pulled from the depths of the fire. He refused for a long time to even acknowledge that it could be her - very nearly went to war with this world because he was certain someone had created a clever homunculus and given it her face. When he finally accepted it... for a time, he was nearly content. You were here, then, as well - briefly, he had the whole of his family.

Until she was taken away again, and you followed soon after. I have been doing what I can to contain him, with the help of his adopted daughters. But even wielding the same power he holds, I am but one man, and the others... they are reluctant to fight him.