He ignores her struggle, because it seems like the right thing to do.

"I don't blame you. My life was... very different from yours." Zouichi smiles a little, ruefully. "Although I guess in some ways it was rather similar."

"I... didn't know you used to be so many other people. Or that you had to protect yourself from that... god. I just assumed..." he shrugged a little, helplessly.