[He opens the journal and checks some pages as she talks to get a better idea of what it is. He raises an eyebrow at the voices that filter through the pages and nods at the part of the Malnosso monitoring them. It would make sense, no point in allowing the people locked to communicate without at least one way to keep an eye on them.

Iris' gets his full attention again as she mentions death not being a permanent solution.]

What do you mean with that death is not a permanent solution?

[Ikki chuckles at her question, a special significance? That's a tricky question.]

The phoenix is the same in my dimension, and so I am. [Which means that, yes, he is basically immortal as after death he revives by himself.] It's also significant to my attacks and powers, I suppose, I've never really stopped to question it. And it means that the Phoenix Cloth is mine, but besides that I don't think there's anything special on it even among the Saints.

[Other than the fact that he's the first Phoenix Saint in... What? More than two hundred of years? To the point where no one really ever expected to see the Phoenix Saint ever again.]