[Giving no damn about what's considered acceptable within societal norms and just putting his foot down and saying what he thinks needs to be said frankly is both one of Douman's best and worst traits, depending on who you ask. Abe no Seimei and a certain other who shall not be named certainly enjoyed it. Or maybe that was only because he had told the Emperor himself in no uncertain terms to quit acting like a sissy and making their work more difficult once. In front of the whole inner court. Nope, he has no clue how he got away with that one, either.

As it is, he is thinking about he wants to say right now.]

In a nutshell, we either do something incredibly stupid ourselves, or we convince a group of irredeemable experts to stick out their necks and risk taking one for the team instead.


I'm for the latter, personally. Let's just enable a small team of elites, and keep enough in the backhands to drag them back out if things go inevitably to hell in some means along the way.