Alistaire stopped walking, tilting his head as if he heard a sound he didn't understand. He turned and looked at Reiko.

"Sensei... no-one is innocent; but the people I, and Alisa by extension, will be dealing with should fall very squarely into 'not' innocent by most civilized standards you would hold.

I simply have to resolve a dispute over some of my late father's holdings. The local executors of his estate have been... obstinate."