To: Gen'an

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Comm ID: Chihaya Hachisuka

Are we looking at the same battle around Kinkaku-ji?

The Waran I launched out of my ultralight carrier was the only ship I even bothered to commit to my assault on that metal monstrosity you call a shipyard. Its one sortie met with your entire response being forced to withdraw after losing most of its armament after a few rounds of "ring around the heavy guns rather than fight", and now you tell me that you were looking outside the window watching all this but did not think to intervene? What did poor Rin do to you, steal your candy?

Okay, requisite "I can kick your arse" posturing done, let us take a look at things that we know actually happened.

I have every reason to think you traitors when you, without provocation, launch an assault upon my Liner. As far as I was concerned, you had betrayed the whole Sisterhood for no tangible gain. When you went ahead and launched a nuclear assault upon the Emperor's strongest domestic enemies, it looked for all the world like you were showing your true colors as his agents. It was my duty as a Chrysanthemum to see you punished for your betrayal of Matsuda's word, especially after you, again, completely unprovoked, sent a few pawns to attack me for no reason. You started this. Not me.

Why did I attack your Maltese ally? Stahlbrecher is no true Maltese. He is some wretch even Rheinland's streets didn't want with an over-inflated sense of self-importance from partaking in that good orange stuff. How dare he stand there and attempt to dictate to his betters, the Kusari people. That is why I sought to punish him, until he proved his not being completely worthless fighting the Hogosha and the Kempeitai before my eyes (but do they count as true Kusari?).

My view of you has not changed in the slightest, actually. You whacked my Liner in a surprise attack, and I trashed your ships in the open, before the guns of your greatest stronghold, which you yourself said can repel an entire fleet, and I am going to call it even right there. By your own admission, you have personally witnessed that. My courage is proven and my honor satisfied, so I may honorably offer peace to you and expect you to honor it. You are not so foolish as to attempt another betrayal, and indeed, I believe we would stand to gain more working together than at each other's throats.

Most importantly, your reason to "let me live" is because the alternative is that I will "kill you first".

What, you thought I would beg for forgiveness? Please. This is a cold, hard equation. You can ill-afford an asymmetrical campaign being waged against you and you know it. You simply lack the resources to protect every asset, to adequately engage every enemy, to defend your own strongholds, against a foe that can hit and fade as you do. You theoretically could devote the resources to hunting me down, but then you will have to explain to the entire Sisterhood exactly why you are going after a Sister who has not betrayed her oaths, and to the Emperor and his minions exactly why you are not bringing your full forces to bear against them, the actual people we ostensibly exist to overthrow. You might even get me. And then you would stand in the ashes of your victory, count your dead, and realize that it was you, and you alone, who sent them to die fighting loyal Sisters because the truth does not matter. What happened that day that started all this no longer matters. All that matters is exactly what kind of threat we pose to each other, and you, my fine original plan friends, have become the establishment, which makes me, the terrorist, a greater threat to you, existentially and ideologically, than you could ever hope to be to me. All you can do is kill me. But if you strike me down, I become a martyr, proof positive that you are more interested in attempting to impose power over the rest of the Sisterhood than fighting its enemies, and my death will lead to your ostracism and my vindication.

But let us go back to my suggesting that we stand to gain more from working together. As you have seen with my ultralight Carrier, it is quite a potent tool. It sure would be nice to have something like that to stage hit and fade attacks out of. Your resources being as visibly taxed as they are, one being practically gift-wrapped for you saying "I am on your side" is something you cannot just ignore like that.

One way or another, this conflict between us will come to an end.

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