[Ashitaka's stare becomes a little blank. He blinks slowly, owlishly.
Until this moment he probably hasn't considered that 9S isn't human. Even with the strange name (and he knows Soldier 76, so human beings with numbers in their names isn't that strange for him), even with a moment or two of something abnormal or beyond the reach of a standard human's ability, there are enough strange people in COST's number (himself included) that he wouldn't have been that confused. He has met people with robotic limbs and even cybernetics integrated with their entire bodies, but even that is usually very easy to pick out...
It is certainly true that he was made in the image of mankind, then, and whoever was behind that design was incredibly capable at what they did. Without having been told, Ashitaka surely wouldn't have guessed.
He slowly regains his composure, nodding and clearing his throat before speaking.] In my own time, machinery is incredibly simple and... antiquated, by nearly anyone else's perspective. I apologize, therefore, for my surprise. [By this point, he should be less fazed, by everything he's seen, but every time he feels he's beginning to understand something, the rug is pulled out from beneath him yet again...]
If you do not mind me saying, it is rather odd that you would remove humans from these fights. In all that we have seen, it is men waging war against their fellow man. It... is foolish, yes, but it would be something else entirely to place the responsibility of settling it upon someone else. [Someone like a machine, or android. Ashitaka believes that humans should be responsible for their own peace, and hopefully decide to reach out and achieve it on their own power.
That's obviously not how things tend to go, though.]
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Until this moment he probably hasn't considered that 9S isn't human. Even with the strange name (and he knows Soldier 76, so human beings with numbers in their names isn't that strange for him), even with a moment or two of something abnormal or beyond the reach of a standard human's ability, there are enough strange people in COST's number (himself included) that he wouldn't have been that confused. He has met people with robotic limbs and even cybernetics integrated with their entire bodies, but even that is usually very easy to pick out...
It is certainly true that he was made in the image of mankind, then, and whoever was behind that design was incredibly capable at what they did. Without having been told, Ashitaka surely wouldn't have guessed.
He slowly regains his composure, nodding and clearing his throat before speaking.] In my own time, machinery is incredibly simple and... antiquated, by nearly anyone else's perspective. I apologize, therefore, for my surprise. [By this point, he should be less fazed, by everything he's seen, but every time he feels he's beginning to understand something, the rug is pulled out from beneath him yet again...]
If you do not mind me saying, it is rather odd that you would remove humans from these fights. In all that we have seen, it is men waging war against their fellow man. It... is foolish, yes, but it would be something else entirely to place the responsibility of settling it upon someone else. [Someone like a machine, or android. Ashitaka believes that humans should be responsible for their own peace, and hopefully decide to reach out and achieve it on their own power.
That's obviously not how things tend to go, though.]