"…Is probably what the Sekigahara Confederate is thinking at the moment."
In the depths of the Imperial Palace, sat a man sipping tea in his office while he read through the reports of the Britannian Intelligence Service.
Prime Minister Edward Gel Dermont had been perhaps the sole head of government of the Britannian Empire to not have been alarmed by the shocking reports of the mass breakthroughs of Martial Apprentices at an absurdly high rate.
He was also the sole head of government who didn't bother employing standard intelligence protocols to try and steal the method of breakthroughs to the Apprentice Realm.
His rationale was simple.
"The Emperor of Harmony is too careful."