Endurance - Yuki Ayaka

[NixOlympica]

She chuckled slightly, getting little more reserved again, thou not as much as before.

"Betrayed? Of course not. To be betrayed I would actually have to trust someone. That's not a thing you do. The only two people I trusted in my surrounding had nothing to do with that coup. But hai, I was deposed of influence, influence is what you need in Hogosha. The paths of getting that influence differ. Blackmail? Money? Your own body? she looked into Lilly's eyes for a moment

"The point is to keep the sides balanced. So no one has an upper hand and let them think they are not forced into anything. As a woman I might have had a worse starting position but that's about it. The principles just remain the same. Why did I get couped you ask? I underestimated Kayo Chiba's influence and his supporters felt threatened by me and the situation in Kusari. Well can't say most of them helped themselves up considering how many of them ended up in jail when Kogen fell."she smiled