[Ordinarily, Ari Tayrey is perhaps Nobunaga's most attentive audience, no matter how much detail he chooses to explain things in. Not this time. She's impatient, fidgety, quickening her pace. Earther religions mean nothing to her except for what she needs to understand Nobunaga's metaphors. She doesn't believe in a literal heaven or hell, and to her anyone who claims to be from one is either speaking figuratively, or lying.
She follows Oda's argument well enough, despite this - but she doesn't accept his conclusions.]
And yet you said it yourself. She has an accord with you. She wrote you poetry. She's not so damaged as all that, or she wouldn't trust you that far. She would fear that you were like Saito Dosan. Do you know what she did to me? [Ari scowls.]
She has a problem. One I could help with, so I offered a deal. Very favorable terms for her, because she was new here. Because I wanted to help her. Do you know what she did, Oda? She didn't just reject my deal. I don't care if someone rejects a deal. She rejected all notion of contract with me, and then turned her back on me and left. Do you know what that is? It's not someone saying they don't want to join your army. The contract is the building block of society. Fair contract, in all dealings with each other.
It's like... [how to make him understand?] The caste system. The one you hate. Saying no contract that way and walking off is saying - you are so low to me, I would never do business with you. I would never hold even to social contract with you, like agreeing not to harm one another. Can you imagine what an insult that is to me, and to the Tradelines?
[A little sigh.] She did not physically harm me, so I will not physically harm her. That's code, you don't need to worry about that. But if we were out on the lines, I'd see that no ship from Kishar to Lorentzen Delta would trade with her, that no Company would finance her. [Here, Ari doesn't have that power, so she's showing her disapproval the only way she can.]
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She follows Oda's argument well enough, despite this - but she doesn't accept his conclusions.]
And yet you said it yourself. She has an accord with you. She wrote you poetry. She's not so damaged as all that, or she wouldn't trust you that far. She would fear that you were like Saito Dosan. Do you know what she did to me? [Ari scowls.]
She has a problem. One I could help with, so I offered a deal. Very favorable terms for her, because she was new here. Because I wanted to help her. Do you know what she did, Oda? She didn't just reject my deal. I don't care if someone rejects a deal. She rejected all notion of contract with me, and then turned her back on me and left. Do you know what that is? It's not someone saying they don't want to join your army. The contract is the building block of society. Fair contract, in all dealings with each other.
It's like... [how to make him understand?] The caste system. The one you hate. Saying no contract that way and walking off is saying - you are so low to me, I would never do business with you. I would never hold even to social contract with you, like agreeing not to harm one another. Can you imagine what an insult that is to me, and to the Tradelines?
[A little sigh.] She did not physically harm me, so I will not physically harm her. That's code, you don't need to worry about that. But if we were out on the lines, I'd see that no ship from Kishar to Lorentzen Delta would trade with her, that no Company would finance her. [Here, Ari doesn't have that power, so she's showing her disapproval the only way she can.]