[He . . . sticks the tip of his tongue out of his mouth, then bites down on it delicately. He knew this was coming, of course, but still.]

It would be inadvisable to try. I . . . tried to bring someone back from the dead once, and it would have been better if I hadn't. I feel that trying to make a human being from nothing would be . . . significantly worse.

Besides, that's—

[For a moment he stops, then tilts a tight smile at Polnareff.]

That sounds like something Dio would do, doesn't it?