[He can sense that hurt, and that more than anything is enough to spur him into answering. He still doesn't know what to say or how to say it. He's kept all of this to himself for all of this time, because to tell the Yamainu would be to hurt them with how little they are cared for or trusted by their superiors, and there was nobody else he could trust enough.

He doesn't know if this is right, but Tenka wants him to share what things were like over the past 10 years, and so he says it, blurts it out really, if in the same quiet tone as he always uses.]

Iwakura-sama had taken to referring to the Yamainu as little more than useless dogs. [For the record. For what it's worth.] He grew a temper with his worsening health, and would often throw things when what he wanted did not go his way.

[Namely at Sousei's head--or threw Sousei out in general.

...And only just now is it striking Sousei that this is probably not what Tenka was asking for, but it's too late to stop now.]

I am aware of the fact that the Yamainu have been placed on the watch list of the other factions of the government. [Either to take out if they made a move that was too radical, or to follow to find dirt on either them or Iwakura.]

That...is what we have come to.