Looking at the USB drive in front of her, Mira inexplicably felt as though she had become some Art Student who had just failed an exam, finished giving a speech in a beer hall, and was now rounding up certain oily-haired titanium people.
"Take this list, and you'll no longer be an ordinary Queen. Everyone on it will be thrown into concentration camps, caught in one sweep. Every opponent who opposes you will vanish into thin air."
Mira thought about it and found it a little too terrifying, a little too extreme.
It would very likely earn her a mountain of infamy in her little corner of Europe.
"Um, wouldn't catching them all in one sweep be a bit too extreme?"
"When did I ever say to catch them all in one sweep?"
Fujino looked at Mira speechlessly and complained, "That kind of absurd idea isn't realistic. Extreme measures like that will only send you to the guillotine."
As he spoke, he handed over the USB drive. "The existence of a certain group cannot be completely erased. A heavy-handed crackdown will only create another, even more troublesome group in the end. What I'm telling you is that the best approach is to completely hollow them out from within: identify some, crack down on some, turn some, and support some."
"First, put them on a little list. Then find some people within Vespania's civil service system whom you can arrest to make an example of. That can intimidate the others while earning you a good reputation."
"After that, promote your own people and take control of that power vacuum. Keep that portion of power firmly in your own hands."
"And then there's turning them. Investigate their backgrounds, find their weak spots, then use their families or things they care about to