[He can't imagine that big gorilla being afraid of much of anything, but he wisely doesn't voice those sentiments, opting instead to pat Mitsunari on the shoulder. He can understand completely the futile sorrow at not being there when your loved ones breathed their last. He still can't quite grasp how anyone could be as attached to Hideyoshi as Mitsunari is, but Mitsunari in turn can't understand why Motochika is so close to Ieyasu, so...]

You can't hear them, but you can remember them. That's what's important. No doubt it would come to that eventually anyway, be it age or sickness that would have taken them in time. You just keep their memory in your heart. I'm sure I've told you that before.