[ Does he realize how it sounds?? Toph is not really the right audience to try to excuse something by saying she's a gentle soul. And she comes from a society with such a long history of war, she's at least abstractly familiar with the problems inherent in excusing actions because they were orders. Was Katara supposed to forgive the man who killed her mother because he was ordered? Toph doesn't see that conversation going over well.

She wants to be respectful of how important this woman clearly was to Vincent, but, well. Toph herself had a good dose of incense. ]

Okay, first of all, stop apologizing for her, [ Toph declares. ] It's sad she's dead and she can't make up for what she did, but it's not your job to do that. You weren't in charge of her decisions and Hojo wasn't, either.

And it sounds like you tried to get Sephiroth out of there and couldn't, right? [ From what he's saying, that's what it seems. Toph's not sure what else he was supposed to do in this situation. ]