[The threads of the web that entangled Megumi into clan politics are much more clearly defined all of a sudden. Given everything else the boy has told him, Matoba can now see the path of an estranged heir, or- as the case may be- an estranged not heir.]
[It's enough to make him laugh to himself, in the privacy of this text conversation. He wonders what would happen. If children were born to her of greater power.... He would not discard the option, no.]
I see.
I suppose it does not matter. You are the one with power, and not him- or so I am to presume, but that is only a guess from my own standpoint.
There isn't any need to assign arbitrary worth to someone who has not earned it from you.
[Not for family, not for anyone. In a way- it was telling him that he understood what he meant- and that he didn't disagree.]
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[The threads of the web that entangled Megumi into clan politics are much more clearly defined all of a sudden. Given everything else the boy has told him, Matoba can now see the path of an estranged heir, or- as the case may be- an estranged not heir.]
[It's enough to make him laugh to himself, in the privacy of this text conversation. He wonders what would happen. If children were born to her of greater power.... He would not discard the option, no.]
I see.
I suppose it does not matter. You are the one with power, and not him- or so I am to presume, but that is only a guess from my own standpoint.
There isn't any need to assign arbitrary worth to someone who has not earned it from you.
[Not for family, not for anyone. In a way- it was telling him that he understood what he meant- and that he didn't disagree.]