"it is a pleasure and honour to be able to finally talk to you. Arigato for sharing these insightful informations; and I can relate to the obligations overshining the more pleasurable things, such as a meeting in person with a friend.
My mind perceives the concept of 'true friendship' as one involving receiving -and- giving. The Lane Hackers were always excellent in doing both in the past which led to our current friendship." Her voice and expression are friendly. "Thus I agree with you and our former Hatsuyume: This relation has to be cherished by the both of us. And as long as we both fully commit to such task we will succeed and this concept will flourish and prosper even more.
Which leads me to your questions, I suppose. The sisterhood contacted the children of Malta from the Crimson Cross based on a misperception. As you are aware I wasn't present at the meeting you mentioned between yourself and Hana Ken. I had only limited insight and was led to believe that the professorship wasn't willing to exchange any active support with each other until we had proven the stability to be worth the expenses. I expected to be contacted by you, once the time arrived. Believe me, if I would have known that this is not the case I wouldn't have wasted either of the involved parties' valuable time." Her face cringes in displeasure for a moment, but she quickly regains her positive countenance. "Anyways, now we are here, hai?
The software will be needed in the process of restoring the bridge of a Battleship our movement managed to capture and will be used to make it fully operational. I would be delighted if I was capable to shed some light on the exact technicalities, but when my sister in charge of this project started to talk about it... it made me quite dizzy to be honest. I don't possess the expertise in such matters to do so myself. I can get you in contact with my sister if you happen to wish so.
As I already mentioned to two of your familiars, Goro Yoshida and his traveliing companion when encountered near Ainu: We agree on joint operations in our shared space. Namely: Shikoku, Galileo and Kepler. Aside from that I couldn't find any actual agreements made between you and Hana Ken in the data you provided nor in our own. I assume that was the mentioned agreement then, hai?
'The Orange Dream' and its dwindling flow to Leiden Base is caused directly by the current market situation on it. I already mentioned to Mr. Yoshida that it is 'bad' during our short meeting as well. 19 Sirian credits per unit are hardly a supportive offer from your brokers towards us and it is not very helpful to our cause to say the least, I mean no offense.
And yet, in these past months when we traveled down the Yume no Kusari from our depot to pick up ammunition and weaponry from Morioka Base for further use in the core systems of Kusari and our fight, we brought 'The Orange Dream' with us and shared it with you - essentially as gifts - as sign of our good-will and respect - every time." She raises her eyebrows a bit accompanied by her head very slightly bobbing.
"I hope that clears up the questions you had. If you don't mind, I have one on my own. This 'Orange Treaty' you and Hana Ken talked about... what is it -exactly-? What part would the Golden Chrysanthemums play in it? What are its benefits to us? Since the Liberty Rogues have already proven in the past that their concept of 'true friendship' only contains them being on one of the sides I mentioned earlier - the receiving one - I wonder what may lie within it so it would be even considerable by me and my sisters to shackle us to those savages in any shape or form. You must understand that we have a low to non-existent broad-mindedness for people who try to take advantage of us. We have no desire to repeat any mistakes by bonding us to those who seek to do so."
Munen leans forward to end the transmission but stops in motion like her mind was struck by some sort of mental spark. "Ah, another question if you don't mind, Hunter-san. In the transcript you shared, you mentioned 'allies' in Kusari. And I apologize if this is caused by a linguistic insufficiency on my end. But - in case it isn't - who are those multiple allies, if I may ask?" Munen smiles genuinely and leans forward once again. She bows and pushes a button.