Because it's the truth. At that time we were objects... being given a body like this happened only recently.

[It's odd to have someone get offended by it, considering he's mostly used to speaking with other swords, but- he supposes having this form must make it sound stranger to others than he means it to.]

Before taking this shape, I was a sword-- and there's little purpose for a blade with no master, is there?

[Of course he's been patient during the times he wasn't wielded, waiting for someone to retrieve him, but he was still theirs.]