[Mitsunari has the easiest time understanding -- and appreciating -- the importance one person holds to another if he compares that relationship to the one he had with his lords. Actually being able to do that (never mind accepting the answer he gets) is not so easy, but during his time in this world he has changed (or maybe it's 'healed') just enough that he can both ask and not immediately reject what he hears.]
...I see.
[In a way, it's difficult to take in, because his failure to keep a closer eye on Yoshitsugu and Motonari and stop their traitorous plan before it could be hatched is the reason they're having this conversation at all. That he is complicit in that betrayal -- no, that it is betrayal, specifically -- feels more important than ever.]
...Then... your grief...
It... can compare to mine.
[He sounds like he's forcing himself to admit some deeply painful truth. But from his perspective, that's exactly what it is.]
[Action]
...I see.
[In a way, it's difficult to take in, because his failure to keep a closer eye on Yoshitsugu and Motonari and stop their traitorous plan before it could be hatched is the reason they're having this conversation at all. That he is complicit in that betrayal -- no, that it is betrayal, specifically -- feels more important than ever.]
...Then... your grief...
It... can compare to mine.
[He sounds like he's forcing himself to admit some deeply painful truth. But from his perspective, that's exactly what it is.]