[Part of him resists what Ryuji says. The memory of Eboshi and San scrabbling at one another with blades in hand, driven by separate impetus to kill the other. The woman that had, in despair for the loss of someone she had loved, shot Ashitaka through the chest as he left in as much peace as he could muster. In a way, raising one's hand to violence was always wrong, but Ashitaka had bloodied his own, leaving corpses in his path that had attacked him rather than let him pass. Heavier still, the weight of the death of a god that he had caused himself, though that god had succumbed to the corruption of conflict that had been directed towards it. To where did the blame go? Could one even attribute justice of the same to the divine?
An absolutist route of thought is difficult for him. It didn't seem to fit the world that he had seen so far.
He considers it for a bit.]
Then who is the one that judges what is right and what is not?
[There would be many who saw his mortal curse as just, as killing a god was a foul act - one that encouraged some charged to do so to have another do their dirty work for them.]
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An absolutist route of thought is difficult for him. It didn't seem to fit the world that he had seen so far.
He considers it for a bit.]
Then who is the one that judges what is right and what is not?
[There would be many who saw his mortal curse as just, as killing a god was a foul act - one that encouraged some charged to do so to have another do their dirty work for them.]