But there was no response. Ronin assumed as much.
It's not that the God of Death was inside his body or resides as a second personality.
It is more like they are one and the same. He was Ronin Dreadborne, the character, the one who was the equivalent of Fausforus or his incarnate.
But what he really was, the 'person' he truly was... conflicts with that.
Ronin Dreadborne must have been a very arrogant villain, that looks down on all kinds of humans, and does not think before he acts because he doesn't have to.
He was already powerful and mighty, especially back when he was still the god of death itself, the one thing that was inevitable.
Being the god of something that no one else but fellow gods could defeat.... Having that much power over Life itself...
It would make you grow an ego. Anything that challenges that ego will make him lash out.