[Those words hit home, in a way. After all the reason Hijikata ran away from his family was his violent outlash at the bandits who invaded his home and seriously harmed his oldest brother when he stepped in to protect him. Hijikata's other older siblings were horrified to see him with a bloody knife in his hand, and while it doesn't haunt him anymore now after so many years he still remembers how they recoiled from him in fear.]

...

Is it because you're a Berserker? I don't know much about your kind, but berserkers are said to be unable to control their fury, right? If so, then I'm a little like that, too.

[He's just a human with a horrendously shitty temper, but since it's bad enough that they call him the 'Demon Vice-Commander' it's got to count for something!]