Shiroko couldn't help but see the look that passed over the faces of her fellow guardians. Apparently they trusted their own judgements more than that of the royal family. Of course, pointing that out would make her guilty of the same thing, so she kept her mouth shut. Instead, she looked meaningfully in the direction of Mount Fuji.

[i]These guardians... it hardly seems right to call them such. They are more a collection of clashing egos and physical desires than they are warriors. They act as if they have never been given a disagreeable assignment before.

It gives me no pleasure to lead our princess into some unknown fate, but it is not my place, nor anyone else's, to question this order. I fear that I may have to take the mission into my own hands if they cannot submerge their desires for the greater good.[/i]