[There isn't much in Ashitaka's expression that's budged as she continues, though perhaps there is just a shade more dubiousness as she continues.
He feels as though there is much between the lines of what she is saying, an entire story that would lead to the truth of why she felt the need to take up a vendetta to a person she openly acknowledged as a paragon. But he reminds himself that she is no longer human, and that perhaps she viewed what she did in the past in a different way than he might what he had done in his own.]
Do you claim ownership of what you did? [He pauses for a moment before he continues,] Or do you regret it?
[The question of the common people was a bit more of a complicated one. Ashitaka had not seen much, but he had seen enough to know that a peasant has little opinion or control over who sat in a throne in a keep with dominion over the lands they worked on. Irontown had been different, for Eboshi had been different. But for many villages he had passed by, politics had meant nothing to the people until the samurai had descended upon them, weapons drawn and intent on blood.]
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He feels as though there is much between the lines of what she is saying, an entire story that would lead to the truth of why she felt the need to take up a vendetta to a person she openly acknowledged as a paragon. But he reminds himself that she is no longer human, and that perhaps she viewed what she did in the past in a different way than he might what he had done in his own.]
Do you claim ownership of what you did? [He pauses for a moment before he continues,] Or do you regret it?
[The question of the common people was a bit more of a complicated one. Ashitaka had not seen much, but he had seen enough to know that a peasant has little opinion or control over who sat in a throne in a keep with dominion over the lands they worked on. Irontown had been different, for Eboshi had been different. But for many villages he had passed by, politics had meant nothing to the people until the samurai had descended upon them, weapons drawn and intent on blood.]