The corner of his carefully held expression twitched some at Ashelia's comeback. They had no such blatant slavery in the equation as he related to it, such a lifestyle was something he had only read about in the history books within the Shinra archives. Something far less civilized that what he was used to. Yet at the same time, the Company did hold -with the defeat of Wutai- the entire world under it's control by way of holding the monopoly on Mako.

"Not so where I have come from, slavery is something written in history only. Though I appreciate your point of view." And he did, as far as was possible.

"But you are right, all beings die much in the same way."