Pain still sucks, even if it goes away a few minutes later. Put yourself in her shoes for a bit - if you met someone and they just kept killing you no matter how many times you resurrected, you'd eventually just give up too.
Also, I just noticed how lazy ZUN is with spell card backgrounds, especially early on. Patchy's in EoSD is just a 256x256 scrolling stained-glass window texture that doesn't even wrap properly.