[Nods.] If I was being absolutely true to the roots of the genre, there wouldn't have been a 'third option'... but then, the heroine would have no agency, and the readers would just curse the author for being stubborn and offering them nothing but depression. And they'd be right. In my mind though, they wouldn't succeed in ending the zaibatsu completely. Not ultimately. --But that's just between you and me.
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