So it's definitely something he's deliberately choosing to live by, Alice thinks, as she hears his response. If he thought that his own stoicness had been forced, surely he wouldn't still be keeping it up at this point.

Alice slowly releases a breath, releasing some of the tension that came along with the inherent need to rebel at such an idea. Instead she just finds herself being reminded, once more, that Tobirama has a pretty sensible head on his shoulders.

"It was a long-fought freedom," she just says. Because it's just objectively true. She spent so much time and effort just to be able to feel whatever she wants to feel.

She looks over at him.

"How about that war you fought back home? Was it at least for some cause you believed in?"