Mutsu's gentleness makes this scene actually really beautiful and moving. Especially so when considering the implication Nagato is turning into an Abyssal (right before her eyes), and yet Mutsu's feelings remain the same.
Mutsu's gentleness makes this scene actually really beautiful and moving. Especially so when considering the implication Nagato is turning into an Abyssal (right before her eyes), and yet Mutsu's feelings remain the same.
It could also be the Mutsu’s comforting a recently defected abyssal. And if we go off the idea that abyssals fight each other as much as, if not more more than they fight humanity, possibly one that lost her fleet to such infighting.