Sanguinity

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Tomioka | 21:00-21:07

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Now that her proposition was out in the open, Tsuya stood silently as Cait put on her mask and got to work. As Cait's mannerisms suddenly changed, Tsuya could feel that the game of words had just begun. She turned around to face away from the two after Cait finished, and crossed her arms together. Lifting one to massage her chin, she considers her next approach. If it's truly a viable and legal strategy to set up a small group of OSC suppliers working for the Dragons in secret, it would become a massive advantage. Having a sympathetic supplier with legal access to most of Sirius is quite lucrative indeed, but... Her intuition told her that Cait was going to try to milk this out for her own gain and yet, all she's demanded are distant promises that one could easily take advantage of in the future. A smile slowly crept across Tsuya's face as it became her turn to speak. That smile turned into a laugh as she slowly turned back around to face them, clapping as a form of banter. Her own facade is on.

"Yes, yes! That's the Cait I was waiting to see. That opportunist side of you is so bombastic and amusing. Such bold demands you make of us. But don't worry..." She took her seat at the table once more and leaned on it with her arms. "I'll do everything in my power to hold up my end of this bargain. You will provide us with legitimate identification and codes for these proposed discreet transports, and I'll give you some real estate in Tottori once we eventually remove all enemy presence from the system. However..." She paused, knowing that the Dragons are undeniably the underdogs in such a takeover. "You may easily see years pass before such a result comes to reality. I fear that a swift hostile takeover of the system is not sustainable for us. The better approach may be to covertly tear it apart, piece by piece until we are the ones controlling it from the shadows, as is our nature."

A moment passes. She shrugs and shakes her head. "But that's just the thing. People like you can be the difference that tips the scale, and gain something out of it. I can see the cheesy resort advertisements already. And the race track? What could you possibly want with that? It's very intriguing and absurd, but I'll humor you on these. These things will have to be fleshed out later, after it's all said and done. But that bit about protecting the Maldives? That's the simplest bit. We have the means to stop threats before they even approach points of interest to us, making our motives rather ambiguous. And of course, we would promise never to attack it ourselves if this all goes over smoothly. I do also believe you sharing your connections with us to expand our intel reach would greatly increase our capability to do so. Additionally..." She takes a moment to reconsider the demands Cait made, and a clever thought appeared in her head that she would run with. "If it's resort space you want on the planet, you might feel free to reserve it now... for a fee. Even I don't know what would be available after we establish our own control. But... our food should be here any minute now, so better think fast."

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