"Mori-san, you and everybody who's helping Noda are the ones who've done the betraying." Tam stared her in the eye, daggers.
"Even though you are Fujiwara, you still let him continue," Mori pressed on, oblivious. "His scheme to manipulate the Emperor, to undermine MITI—"
"That's got nothing to do with—"
"It is the duty of a Fujiwara to protect His Majesty."
"Speaking of His Majesty," I cut in, "how much did you have to do with Noda's fake sword? Guess that 'protected' the Emperor too. Nothing like being handed a new lease on divinity."
"The sword was to be his gift to me." She said it hesitantly. "To restore—"
"Perhaps we can clarify what it's really intended to restore, Mori-san," I interrupted again. 'The shogunate, with Noda as—"
She turned on me. "And you helped him too."
"What?"
"You and Asano-san stole the only thing I could have used to stop him. The contents of that silver case. And then this operation. After I'd tried to warn you both."