[Hijikata's temper flares up as always when he sees Ozymandias, but this time his feelings are a lot more confused than before this whole incident started. This entire time they've been like oil and water, but given what happened, Hijikata now has to grapple with his opinion of the pharao and inhowfar it's been justified.
Ozymandias is an arrogant king with a massive ego, but does he really look down on those he chooses as his concubines? It's not only the fact that Medusa didn't want to fight him - not out of hesitance or insecurity, but with an unexpected vehemence, as Hijikata only realised seconds before her transformation -, but also the fact that he brough him, petrified as he was, to safety when he could easily have broken him in retaliation for what he did. Shoto, too, spoke of him with respect - granted, Shoto is a polite and respectful boy on the whole, but it seemed like he... appreciated what Ozymandias did.
He decides to sort all of that out later and focus on the matter at hand for now.]
There's got to be something I can do! What else am I even good for if I can't help her after she became like that because of me?
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Ozymandias is an arrogant king with a massive ego, but does he really look down on those he chooses as his concubines? It's not only the fact that Medusa didn't want to fight him - not out of hesitance or insecurity, but with an unexpected vehemence, as Hijikata only realised seconds before her transformation -, but also the fact that he brough him, petrified as he was, to safety when he could easily have broken him in retaliation for what he did. Shoto, too, spoke of him with respect - granted, Shoto is a polite and respectful boy on the whole, but it seemed like he... appreciated what Ozymandias did.
He decides to sort all of that out later and focus on the matter at hand for now.]
There's got to be something I can do! What else am I even good for if I can't help her after she became like that because of me?