[Immediately folds her ears back, lashing her tail a little as she stiffens and leans back a little, like Shrike just somehow became physically imposing???]

Cute. But we're getting a little off-topic.

Way back –– like, before you were ever here –– they stuck us with this crazy girl who thought it'd be a great idea to go randomly kill that "Shoes" idiot that never shuts up over on Taisho. He's got some kind of feud with Eichi from their home world, too, I don't know what that's about.

[She starts counting off on her fingers as she goes through other members of Taisho other than Shu, pacing a little as she does it.]

One of their guys didn't even hesitate and murdered me in that game.
And apparently is totally fine with it.

Another wanted to do it outside of the games, because I ran a Live in the lobby.

A third just kept making weird cryptic comments and said that whole killing-me-in-the-game thing was something BARiTONES owed them––

[And she stops the pacing here, turning to face Shrike again, though she's managed to put a little distance between them now.]

Which brings us to your little friend, who I don't even know but somehow has some hangup on me or BARiTONES or both, and I'm wondering why it's so offensive to ask for that kind of deal, so important that Taisho has to be an exception in a contract about protection.

So, yeah, I think someone would, and they should know we're ready to protect ourselves if they decide to actually act on whatever stupid ideas are bouncing around in their heads.

[She doesn't say "because no one else will", that part is pretty much obvious, and Shrike already pointed it out anyway.]