(He wants to say this isn't like Ryouma but he knows that isn't true. For all of the hero worship and idolizing that people do for him, Mutsu knows the real Ryouma was just a man with a dream. He was a man who stayed up late at night and talked to himself and wrote himself in circles when no one else was watching. He was a man that wondered about hypotheticals and if he could have done things better instead of the way he had. Nothing was ever good enough for him because--)

I think its the opposite. You're mad 'cause you can't settle.

(He doesn't really get what this deal is. What it means to be a guardian. He knows Ryouma was summoned like him and he can only assume it has to do with his own job. His new one.)

And... I don't think there's nothing wrong with lying. Sometimes ya gotta lie to get things done but right now... you're not lying, right? You'er tellin' the truth.