It's an accurate point, so he doesn't patronize Kaz by contesting it, though privately Altaïr thinks that if temperament made all the difference, they would be much more evenly matched this night.

"Not really. Violence stopped being a useful outlet for me some time ago." The desire to engage in combat for its own sake had been locked away behind layers of discipline and focus. A good thing, to be sure, but other unhealthy outlets had risen in its place, something he'd been blind to at the time.

"Not that I don't have frustrations." No, he has many. Altaïr smiles a thin smile. "Don't ask me to say whether I'm better or worse at dealing with them now."