Perhaps
I look down at you, at those people who love you and care for you, who have so much damned faith in you. I don't know exactly why, but I know that it's because you understand them, and because you are brave.
Look at me. I am stronger than you, and have more experience with you, but I am not as brave as you. I was afraid of more pain that my blade has brought me. I hid up in the mountains, behind the cocky grin and sake.
Stupid apprentice, perhaps you are not as stupid as I thought.
