A Taste of Power and Control

In the Hasegawa's Conference room, are five men whose ages range from late 60s to 80s.

To any outsider who do not know any better, they would simply look like a bunch of old geezers having warm sake, but to anyone in the know, they will recognize the five as the most powerful men of the Hasegawa Clan.

"We've been on this for an hour now. Can't we just let the girl go?" Hasegawa's First Elder, Hasegawa Gorou's uncle, and the former Hasegawa Clan Head scratches his brows in annoyance.

"Let her go? After what she did?"  The Third Elder, Gorou's father, sneers.

"Why make things complicated when it's not? That's why we don't use civilian law. Gorou's kid harassed the treasurer's daughter for months. The girl decided to fight back for the first time, which made Hideki unreasonably snap, which made the girl snap too. We all know what happened next. We should be thankful that Gorou's kid wasn't killed." The First Elder explains in dismissal.