"...Yeah, that sounds like him, all right. I won't bore ya with details, but his answer made it clear that he wasn't just thinkin' about banning tall people or not based on what he thought was fair to him, or fair to that hypothetical person. He took the scenario into account. The question involved a ruler who had to make that decision for his people, right? He was concerned about his responsibility to his subjects. As a ruler, he felt that he had to take their feelings into account."

Heiji smiled a little. "So if that guy really was a gangster or somethin', I bet he'd have been good to his subordinates."