[By the way that the man goes quiet with a sorrowful frown in the wake of Angela's question, she can probably take that as an answer. After a lingering moment of worrying over a button on his shirt, Nansen speaks up again,]

Mrw... After he signed the treaties, during the fight over the succession, he'd ordered a purge of a buncha anti-government loyalists. It was that same faction that ended up attackin' him later...

[The events he'd had to go back and watch again play out in front of his eyes as he thinks about it.] ...In the first snows, Naosuke was attacked and beheaded in front of Sakurada Gate, while he was on his way to the castle for a meeting.

[There's a moment of quiet where he bites his lips and grips the edge of the desk he's sitting on. That was the correct history, right? That was the one that was already recorded and passed down to people.]

[... But what about the alternate history? Was it so bad to tell people about what could have happened, the Naosuke that made a brighter future for everyone? Nansen leaps up from his seat,]

--Nya, but, there's another version of this story, too!! Can you write that one down, too!?