[Mitsunari can't hear what the bird is saying from where he is, but it wouldn't interest him anyway. It's entirely irrelevant to him. No, it's Ragna himself that has caught Mitsunari's attention. In all the months they've spent aboard this ship, never once has he seen him as he is now. Is this really the same person who spoke ill of his lord and refused to apologize, and who hid from ghosts like a coward, and who nearly killed him only to bring him right back to the ship and decided against taking revenge against him (when even Mitsunari would understand if he wanted to)? It seems he's always seeing some new side to Ragna, whether he wants to or not.
And the only conclusion Mitsunari can come to is that he'll never really understand him.
Mitsunari takes back the bird, silent. Whatever Ragna heard, it affected him deeply. Any idiot, this idiot included, could see that. It's just that, of all people, Ragna is the last person he ever would have expected would have any concern for what the dead have to say. Someone who blasphemed Lord Hideyoshi couldn't possibly understand loss... right? And certainly they could never know how it feels to lose anyone.
Mitsunari doesn't assume that the gravity of Ragna's grief (whoever it may be about) will ever compare exactly to his own, because one thing he can't comprehend is the concept that anyone else could have ever suffered a loss and felt the way he did when Hideyoshi was killed. What other pain could sting that deeply? What other loss could leave one feeling as if their very spirit had been killed? But he's gotten better in this regard -- he's come to acknowledge that other people's grief can be valid too, and that he's not the only one in the world who's ever had their heart wounded.
He doesn't care personally, because several months worth of hatred doesn't dissipate and turn into sympathy as easily as this, but perhaps, somehow... even Ragna is capable of grieving for someone. He's seen again and again that Ragna is capable of a great many unexpected things.
That in mind, Mitsunari says the only thing he can think.]
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And the only conclusion Mitsunari can come to is that he'll never really understand him.
Mitsunari takes back the bird, silent. Whatever Ragna heard, it affected him deeply. Any idiot, this idiot included, could see that. It's just that, of all people, Ragna is the last person he ever would have expected would have any concern for what the dead have to say. Someone who blasphemed Lord Hideyoshi couldn't possibly understand loss... right? And certainly they could never know how it feels to lose anyone.
Mitsunari doesn't assume that the gravity of Ragna's grief (whoever it may be about) will ever compare exactly to his own, because one thing he can't comprehend is the concept that anyone else could have ever suffered a loss and felt the way he did when Hideyoshi was killed. What other pain could sting that deeply? What other loss could leave one feeling as if their very spirit had been killed? But he's gotten better in this regard -- he's come to acknowledge that other people's grief can be valid too, and that he's not the only one in the world who's ever had their heart wounded.
He doesn't care personally, because several months worth of hatred doesn't dissipate and turn into sympathy as easily as this, but perhaps, somehow... even Ragna is capable of grieving for someone. He's seen again and again that Ragna is capable of a great many unexpected things.
That in mind, Mitsunari says the only thing he can think.]
Every time we speak... I am surprised.