Blessed Nations by Daniel Schinhofen

Author:Daniel Schinhofen [Schinhofen, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-three

Doc sat there, stunned, unsure of what he should do. Before he got up, Sakura and Rosa appeared in the room. “Um… soooo…” Doc trailed off, wondering how to explain things.

“Daimyo Sato took his own life for giving insult,” Sakura said softly.

“What?”

“He gave you offense, and when you told him, he did the honorable thing by taking his own life. Just as he would if he gave grave offense to the shogun or emperor.”

“Doc, it’s alright,” Rosa said gently as she knelt beside him. “I shouldn’t have let you go without me. I’m sorry.”

“No, Rosa. We had no idea,” Doc said as he turned to her. “There haven’t been any threats here.”

“Until he said he would kill you,” Rosa said tightly, clearly upset. “I wouldn’t have been here for you if he’d tried.”

“He wouldn’t have been able to kill me before you got here,” Doc said. “If he drew his sword, I’d have shouted for you.”

Rosa nodded. “Yes, but it wouldn’t stop the fact that I wasn’t here for you at the start.”

“You were helping change Wisdom after her accident,” Doc said, comforting her. “I should’ve waited for you, so please don’t blame yourself.”

Rosa met his eyes, then bowed her head as she leaned into him. “I’ll try.”

“Sakura,” Doc said, holding Rosa. “What the hell happened? Sato was drawing his sword when a ninja came out of nowhere.”

Sakura licked her lips for a moment. “Meiji ordered Jin to make sure you had an unseen guard. Having heard of all the attempts on your life in Qin, we didn’t want the same thing to happen here. Jin ordered his daughter to guard you, giving you the best of his clan, besides himself.”

“Won’t his death cause a problem?” Doc asked.

“No. He committed an offense, then atoned for it,” Sakura said. “It is a lie for his clan to retain their honor.”

“Why?”

“If he tried to attack you, then he committed a crime and dishonored his name. His clan is tied to his name and honor; his entire clan would suffer for it. Rosa told me you would rather innocents not suffer, which is why the story will be that he gave offense, then atoned for it himself.”

Doc frowned, but what Sakura said kind of tracked with what he knew about Japanese customs. Of course, his knowledge was all based on western media from Earth, so he could be wildly wrong. “If we agree that he took his own life, then what?”

“His brother will take the role of clan head and be blessed as daimyo. His wife, who is waiting to see your wives, will be politely shifted to an honorary position, but will no longer be in power.”

Doc hesitated. “I know most women don’t have positions of authority, at least now. Have women never held power here?”

“Long ago, they did,” Sakura said softly. “When the time of wars came across most of the world, the emperor deemed that women should focus on children. The nation accepted that as the only way our people might survive.

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