"What better way to surreptitiously undermine my daimyo than by taking a form which represents rebellion against her authority?" Yoko smirks. "You wish for me to be seen by Rene? To befriend him? Seduce him? Then, I am to be your geisha, not a shinobi...You are an odd daimyo, Julia." The formerly vulpine woman seems to reevaluate the professor. "In that case, what do you know of his tastes?"
"I know some things." Yoko crosses her arms. "Japan has been subjugated by the Americans. Took them long enough. The centuries and centuries of bloodthirsty warlords grew stale after the first hundred or so years. The gods and demons are dead or sealed away, thanks to shrine tenders such as yourself. Most of you who play this game...Duel Monsters do not know the power they wield. Good enough?" She nonchalantly asks.
After a moment to consider a cover story, the duel spirit proposes an idea. "You mentioned a cafe? Perhaps I work there and you happened to find me and convince me to join you here."
"Oh, you think I'm worried about him winning you over?" Julia's usual flirtatious smirk returned. "Believe me, it wouldn't take much for me to win you right back."
While her relationship with the kitsune was somewhat complicated, internally, Julia thought it was because they are actually quite similar to each other. Which is exactly why, she knew Yoko was going to be tough to control. She had to guess that Yoko might actually think the same. Which....is exactly why they're friendship was something along these lines. "Keep out of sight, if possible, but the options need to be on the table of what to do if it's impossible to get close to him without being entirely beneath notice. I'm not too sure of his exacts, but he's a bit of an sophiscated type...at least on the surface."
Julia had a somewhat mixed expression to Yoko's assessment. "It's....far more touchy than that. We'll definitely have to go over that more in class. But...the short version largely involves everyone being terrible to each other. History in ways doesn't actually change much. Even much of modern Japan tends to ignore Naking and their actions towards Korea....and in turn, they willfully ignore ignore all the things they've done to Japan as well. The whole history still is rather tense politically...but bottom line for much of the world can be labelled as many people going "You got to let that go what I did to your people, but what you did to mine is unforgivable, and this is completely different." That's nothing new."
Julia shook her head. "The full story will have to wait. It...might not be the best opinion for a foreigner here to say...but Imperial Japan
needed to be destroyed." She knew how touchy the subject was, so she didn't want to get into it especially.
"As far as duel monsters goes, that seems mostly correct. There's still much of the history that I'm unclear about. I've pieced a lot of it together, but it's worth admitting much of what I know is also conjecture. However, my current working theory is that it's entirely possible a number of civilizations had contact with each other before the time they were documented. Many religious and myth deciptions have strong similarities even across regions that should never have had contact with each other. What we-"
She shook her head again.
"This will have to wait to get properly into it. I suppose we should get a move on with our plans for now. The cafe idea sounds workable....I think I can work on getting someone to verify it, if it comes down to it."
