To: Gen'an Cell

[Emperor Tekagi]

Kon'nichiwa, voice of the Gen'an Cell.

I believe we did not have the pleasure yet. I am an 覆面エージェント, gomen-ne, undercover agent, of the small intelligence branch serving directly under the Advisors of the Empress. More so, I believe this is the first formal message with your sub-cell since its foundation.

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⧫ The case

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It appears that on late night of the 27th April 826 A.S., a transport belonging to your cell was seen carrying a huge amount of slaves towards Malta. Ship used was a "Big Dragon"-class transport vessel labelled "Fuyuzora".
Going by the evidence received from the Advisor commanding the "Soleares", you did not respond to their question regarding your vessel carrying slaves.

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⧫ The issue we have

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Firstly, transportation of humans in a vessel only fit for cargo transportation is beyond inhumane, you literally accept that people may get injured or killed during transport.

Now to the real issue:
While your intention behind this action were clear, your sub-cell simply ignored Matsuda's ways with this action. Our glorious Matsuda showed us the truth, showed us that we have to stand up and fight for the rights of opressed women in Kusari, but also beyond.
I believe you are not aware why Malta requires slaves, are you? Long-term, especially throughout many generations, consumption of Cardamine lowers a human's fertility close to zero. We are affected by this ourselves but in a far smaller degree than the Maltese.
Their need for slaves is easily explained; They require cheap workers for the Cardamine fields, but even more they require women and children to ensure Malta's existence in the future.
Our long standing alliance with Malta made us accept that this is their fate, they cannot avoid getting people to Malta in one way or another. This does not mean you should take part in this actively. You are selling off women and children, poor people with no perspective, into forced addiction and slavery.
Additionally, it appears to be useful to inform you that not all Maltese families grant slaves rights of lower citizens after several years, meaning that a considerable amount of the people you brought to Malta, may end up being slaves for the rest of their days.
In case of war prisoners, it looks differently, but it is highly unlikely that you were carrying 3000 captured hostile pilots, right? Indeed, this were slaves, usually originating from poor parts of houses like Liberty or Rheinland.

We never force anyone to Cardamine, you did. A sister joins us and takes it voluntarily. A hostile agent gets executed, not forced into addiction.
You are a disgrace of Matsuda's ways, instead of fighting for our rights and standing up for the rights of opressed women everywhere, thus upholding our ideals, you choose to take part in actions similar to the people we wish to overcome.
The traditions of Kusari opress us women, they take our rights and in the end try to force us to be not more than the child birthing housewife. You sell women into sex slavery. This is even worse.

Slavery commited by Malta has been always a painful sight for us, now with a sub-cell thinking it is a wise choice to take part in this acts of inhumane treatment, we see that we should have acted in the past already. We will act accordingly and work on a solution against slavery but ensure Malta's existence to continue from now on.

An additional issue we have here is that your vessel ignored the consequences slavery has to our public reputation. We are seen as terrorists by the entire world of "law" in Kusari, yet we find supportive elements within Kusari. If they got to hear we carry slaves, we would surely lose their support as they would end up fearing to end up on a slaver ship if they approach us. Additionally, our closer allies of the Blood Dragons condemn slavery just as much as we do.
More so, we have relations with several entities outside of Kusari, tolerating or even liking us. If any of them ever got to see us partake in slavery, we would lose our faces in front ot them. I am very sure the Queen of Bretonia does not welcome us as friends of the Crown when we tell her that we stopped caring for women rights and stand up against opression but instead make use of the slavery market for money and fueling a warmachine we can easily assist through other means.

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⧫ Our demand

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As representative of the Advisors of the Empress and Empress 'Red' herself, we demand the following point of the sub-cell labelled the "Gen'an Chrysanthemums":

⧫ Cease of slave trade towards Malta, as this dishonors the ways of Yuyu Matsuda

⧫ Considering to assist the main cell of the Golden Chrysanthemums (GC|) with a new approach of the slavery issue, namely buying off slaves from Maltese families, letting them work as hired workers under a contract between us and several groups of Maltese.

⧫ To provide Malta's warmachine assistance through goods such as raw materials, example being Titanium from Bretonia.

In return we offer you the following:

⧫ Not enforcing the usual penalty of dishonoring the ways of Matsuda against the Gen'an Cell, namely death penalty.

Hopefully, you are not drifting away from the Sisterhood and the teachings of Matsuda. If you can't seem to understand our reasoning, you will be best off entering a Maltese family directly, this is my personal advice for you.

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Signed, Agent Chanai, 覆面エージェント.