"Wait, you guys aren't serious, are you?" Mari asked. "You can't just become an Emperor because you want to. Especially of a nation so torn in war for the past 30 years. When the republic happens to lose—"
"Which we don't know it will. We could always win," Matthew said from the side.
"Okay, on the off chance that the republic happens to lose, it will immediately be filled with armies of the other two or three factions. You will have to go against those armies for this. Or what, do you think you can just sit on the throne and those armies will magically start following you? Think, kids. This is stupid."
"It is," Ning said. "But if she wants it, it might be something fun."
"It's not fun!!" Matthew shouted. "At best it's idiotic, and at worst it's downright suicidal. You're just trying to get her killed."
"No, she won't die," Ning said. "I have my own ways of saving her in dangerous situations."
"From an army?" Mari asked.
