[Ordinarily, she'd likely have treated someone touching her head as condescending at best, but that look on Nobunaga's face tells her otherwise, and Ari allows it. He's right about Oichi, enjoying being in this place wasn't necessarily going to keep her safe. Ari's never had siblings, but she knows she'd go to great lengths to protect her father, however strained the relationship between them might be - and she'd defend Cardalek to outsiders, no matter how many fair criticisms she could make. Family mattered.

She affects not to notice Nobunaga's emotional turn, not because it isn't meaningful but because she worries it'll embarrass him if she draws attention to it. Instead, she speaks quietly.]

I'm sure we'll manage to find fair contract, if it ever happens. Don't worry about that, Demon King. [No, that's still going to be strange to say, but maybe she'll get used to it.]

Here's what I question, though. You weren't foolish. You didn't go to war just for yourself and for your ambition - at least that isn't how you told it to me. You did it so that everyone could be free to follow their dreams. Although the comparison you make to this place is flawed. In Japan, you didn't blame the lower caste people for their suffering, you blamed the monks. The ones who were causing it. If someone is suffering here, maybe it's because being imprisoned on an unpredictable, possibly simulated boat is something that causes suffering? Breaking free would mean escaping, wouldn't it? Not learning to be content with whatever is done to us.