"If we take action, once he is dead, all his backup plans will be useless. A man is gone, and the tree falls and the monkeys scatter—you, Father, should understand that principle better than I do."
She felt that keeping this man alive was too great a threat. She still had military exercises to attend to; she simply didn't have the time to spend on him.
Especially now that he was of no use, his only remaining purpose was to threaten them.
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