"His life was nothing to boast about; his only concerns on the battlefield were his wife and daughter. He feigned death to escape the war and found me on a samurai's corpse… He must have longed for affection, yet lacked courage…"
Red Armor wasn't talking about itself, but rather about the… hmm, Corpse Ghost inside it. The rice balls it ordered weren't for itself either; they were for the Corpse Ghost.
After all, it was just a 'Strange Creature' that had only been awake for a few months, much like a baby. Moreover, unlike a Ghost, it had no past life and, naturally, bore no grudges.
However, it also couldn't maintain its physical form for long, so it needed a body to 'prop' itself up. When Red Armor awoke, a Corpse Ghost was already wearing it.
This Corpse Ghost possessed little reasoning, so Red Armor easily controlled it, using it as the 'core' of its own body to move.
