[ she's so not wrong. his shoulders sink juuuust a little at the invisible weight of having to consider such a task (again). a lot of people had said getting satsuma and choshu to come to the table was impossible but the path forward had been a lot clearer back then too for a lot of reasons. ]

Seeing as they didn't hesitate to start a war at the first opportunity, I'm gonna bet you're right about that. I guess we'll just have to try and think of something they like more than killing each other.

[ haha, it's FINE. who needs sleep in hell? ]