[Asriel blinks.]

...no. I guess not.

[He sounds a little surprised by that, but...there's not really any reason to be. Sure, he's done a lot of fighting lately, but that was mostly Flowey stuff, right? So why would he want to fight?]

Monsters...our magic comes from our souls, so sparring or fighting is sort of like a way to communicate for us. You can learn to use your bullets to express yourself, and other monsters can feel that. No one's supposed to really get hurt.