I’m just realizing the emperor is really bad at his job. If it wasn’t for Lass’s intervention from the pirates, the oil, and now this, the country would’ve been shafted hard. He was literally about to agree to getting involved in a war that really didn’t have a clear benefit to him. He was about to lose all his weapons because he was like “fuck it we haven’t killed anyone in awhile.” Like why? You are an idiot. If Lass had any bad intention she could absolutely turn him into a puppet king because she apparently does all the thinking in this relationship