I was assigned the essence the moment I arrived. Like everyone who came into that realm by the Storyteller. [He might have raised his voice a little. He could tell Susato is trying to separate him from Hyde, reason with him that he's not responsible.]

Whether the outcome of the story followed the original or not didn't matter to the Storyteller, as long as it was completed. So Hyde could sabotage them all he wanted. And with each story we restored, he became even stronger. [So he was all for "restoring" stories.]