The Kaientai wouldn't be considered a neutral entity if we were to be selective of our clientele, now would we? I can't say I've done dealings with the man before, not off the top of my head, but I'll be sure to keep this new information in mind come the future.

[ a pause, businessman's smile frozen before giving way to something a little more natural, his stiffened posture melting back into the slack laziness of a man at lunch. ]

He can't be that bad, can he? He's so small!

[ what Sakamoto did was never without purpose. here, in the Kaientai's dealings, everything. where the chance for peaceful resolution existed, he was there. if he could prevent further carnage, further war, further strife, he would. if it meant bowing his head and crawling through the dirt, so be it; he'd done it a hundred times before up until now.

forsaking the sword didn't make a man any less a samurai.

he protected his country, his goddamn planet in his own way. ]