Higgs survived the beach and came back changed in ways the game is still mapping. The forgetting in the epigram is the specific forgetting of grief — not the large facts but the sensory details, the laugh, the way someone moved, the particular texture of their presence that no memory can fully reconstruct. Higgs fighting the Red Samurai is spectacle. The epigram underneath it is about someone who is fighting because they have lost something they cannot get back and the fighting is all that is left.