"I threw away my school uniforms as well," you admit. "Even though Mummy told me to keep them, she said that she'd kept her old uniforms and they'd come in handy. I can't fathom why.
Tongue firmly in cheek, here... Gee, Yui, can't imagine what tight, undersized old student outfits might be good for for a married couple...
Ahri was a little disappointed that you weren't going to be with her, but she put on a brave face and asked you to give her regards to Aunty Natasha. The memory of her forlorn expression, when she thought you weren't looking, twists your heart.
D: Poor girl really needs a boyfriend, girlfriend, or both. It's obvious she's crushing on Yui hard, but we can't be her teacher/mentor/substitute-maternal-figure AND her lover. But a desperately lonely young woman who is badly in need of a hormonal outlet, a confidant, and a partner is not a good thing to just throw on the dating scene, or even introduce to likely people her age. She's going to be seen as the ultimate power-marriage bait, and she's vulnerable to manipulation right now in a bad way. So we need to
very carefully find a way to let her meet people she might like to date and court. She really, really needs more people for emotional intimacy and support. While just more or less adopting her into Yui's family is good, it can also be seen as Yui trying to get into the same position of long-term influence ambitious people will be seeking for themselves.
Ahri did seem a little preoccupied with how easily it could fall off, though.
Ahri's rather... thirsty, I see.
You weren't expecting them back yet. Indeed, you anticipated they might need two to four weeks in-system, but you ought to have received a preliminary report by now.
You consider the matter. It's not yet a time for concern, you decide. Not yet.
I'm already getting a bit concerned. Not even a messenger boat? Hmm...
The pushback is immediate, in the form of the Speaker of the Imperial Senate, Dagmar Marzbanzadeh, Baroness Entilibon. "Respectfully, I must disagree with the Lord Chancellor," she says. "As the Regency Council, we wield the Empress' powers in Her stead. It is necessary for this council to retain the full powers of Her Majesty - we can hardly govern in Her stead if this council's powers are restricted."
Yeah, I don't trust this. We will still
have said powers. We're just making a basic statement of how much we plan to use them, and what sort of Regency we mean to be. Restraint is 'Ahri will be Empress in 2 years, there's no point in making a bunch of new laws that might get tossed nearly as fast as they're published if she doesn't like them when she's crowned.' Unrestrained reads too much like 'Get a bunch of new shit passed the old Empress would never have allowed before her kid gets in, and then present it as the status quo!'. Way too good a shot for people trying to sneak stuff passed the much more experienced Empress would have stomped on. Like this Navy bill. I'm getting big alarm bells at this.
"Lady Speaker, there is much to be said for stability," offers Lady Akagi Sumeragi. "Consumer confidence always falls during a time of political uncertainty - any laws passed, any edicts proclaimed in this time, will not have the same surety of laws passed once the Empress has ascended. It is Her Majesty's divine right to review all laws and actions taken in Her name during the period of Her Regency, and Her Majesty Empress Meigyoku is, to speak frankly, a political unknown. This council has seen how unpredictably she may act, with her earlier intent to appoint an Imperial Vicereine."
This is, frankly,
such a Sumeragi move. Good, solid advice that makes a ton of sense... that we are immediately suspicious of
because a Sumeragi said it. And capped with a passive-aggressive dig at Yui. Such a bitch.
Also, a sneaky good move if she wants us to vote against that position, since we automatically suspect she's up to shit.
OTOH... if we
don't assume she's up to shit, and she's actually making a good argument for the best interests of the Empire and is just Yui's mirror... gah. Impossible bloody Sumeragis! It will be fricking hilarious in the long run if we one day find out the Sumeragis thought
they were the steadfastly loyal Imperial supporters trying to outmaneuver the sneaky Yui, who obviously was manipulating a dependent Ahri to obey her.
Unrestrained does increase instability. Can't think of other arguments against: can someone else try?
See above. I'm struggling to think of any good arguments
for Unrestrained. We do not want to let the Nobles slip shit by. They want something big, they can wait 2 years and ask Ahri.
The only question is Abstain or Restrained, and Abstain looks too much like we're making a bloc with the military. So I say Restrained. In the event of an actual crisis, we are not blocked from acting, and Restrained sends a message of stability, which the Empire very badly needs right now.
I was trying to bait kancolle peeps but I was too subtle. (the combat adjuntant from OP is not!Ashigara and Ayako Tomioka, who because we didn't pick her as our adjutant went merc because her career stalled out, is Oh!Yodo).
