[He did at Cliff asked, putting a dash of salt and pepper into the bowl as he mixed with a pair of long wooden chopsticks.]
We are the Shogun's personal police force and are charged with protecting the capital and enforcing his laws. My country is on the brink of civil war since the foreigners came, between those who wish to reinstate the emperor and dissolve the old ways and those who wish to uphold the government and protect them. It's more complicated than that, I suppose, but it boils down to that in a way.
[He finished whisking the eggs and turned on the stove, waiting for the pan to heat.]
We have different ideas of how to defeat the foreigners who are trying to flood onto our shores and change our way of life. The Joi think that by reinstating the emperor, they can force them out with a war. The Shogunate thinks that we can only defeat them by first opening our doors to learn from what they have so we can later turn it on them.
[Souji shrugged slightly and slid the egg batter into the pan, listening to it sizzle. Everything he said was detached from his reality now. This was the textbook answer, the things anyone could find from what Souji had left in the library. Books about the Shinsengumi, the people, and the outcome, however, he'd carefully picked out and removed, destroyed or obfuscated enough that no one could read them.]
It's a difficult time for my country, but our lives are relatively dull. We patrol for the Joi rebels and ensure that no harm comes to the Shogun, his retinue or the Emperor while we are in Kyoto.
action;
[He did at Cliff asked, putting a dash of salt and pepper into the bowl as he mixed with a pair of long wooden chopsticks.]
We are the Shogun's personal police force and are charged with protecting the capital and enforcing his laws. My country is on the brink of civil war since the foreigners came, between those who wish to reinstate the emperor and dissolve the old ways and those who wish to uphold the government and protect them. It's more complicated than that, I suppose, but it boils down to that in a way.
[He finished whisking the eggs and turned on the stove, waiting for the pan to heat.]
We have different ideas of how to defeat the foreigners who are trying to flood onto our shores and change our way of life. The Joi think that by reinstating the emperor, they can force them out with a war. The Shogunate thinks that we can only defeat them by first opening our doors to learn from what they have so we can later turn it on them.
[Souji shrugged slightly and slid the egg batter into the pan, listening to it sizzle. Everything he said was detached from his reality now. This was the textbook answer, the things anyone could find from what Souji had left in the library. Books about the Shinsengumi, the people, and the outcome, however, he'd carefully picked out and removed, destroyed or obfuscated enough that no one could read them.]
It's a difficult time for my country, but our lives are relatively dull. We patrol for the Joi rebels and ensure that no harm comes to the Shogun, his retinue or the Emperor while we are in Kyoto.