[After a moment, Naoki locks the conversation. This conversation was trying enough the first few times.]

Boxing Tower out of the competition at large was... important to several of us, from the perspective of the Arcana's game at large. Unfortunately, with Chariot being on the other side of things it wasn't as simple as 'restore the old order' - it had to fall apart somehow, but that would have been very nasty on several fronts.

And then you get the people who think you can't care about a world's welfare and the entire universe's welfare at the same time, or letting their personal biases get in the way of what was actually happening.