[Hijikata? Taking care of himself? Perish the thought.]
I'm fine. I know my limits.
[It's only a half-truth. He has gotten a bit better about it here than he was at home; being but one part of a much larger and decently well organized force with no shortage of talented officers means he doesn't have as much riding on his shoulders as he did when he was one of the only experienced leaders the shogunate had left.
But even so, there's still plenty to be done here - for his own men, for making arrangements to get the army ready to deal with rasetsu and oni, or just because he happens to be there and it's faster to take care of it than to look for some other officer to deal with it - he's perhaps slowed down a touch from home, but he's far from slowing down to what anyone would consider a reasonable pace.]
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I'm fine. I know my limits.
[It's only a half-truth. He has gotten a bit better about it here than he was at home; being but one part of a much larger and decently well organized force with no shortage of talented officers means he doesn't have as much riding on his shoulders as he did when he was one of the only experienced leaders the shogunate had left.
But even so, there's still plenty to be done here - for his own men, for making arrangements to get the army ready to deal with rasetsu and oni, or just because he happens to be there and it's faster to take care of it than to look for some other officer to deal with it - he's perhaps slowed down a touch from home, but he's far from slowing down to what anyone would consider a reasonable pace.]