The next morning

Beep

So it was a dream then.

Beep

Your assistant wasn’t a trained courtesan just waiting for someone to devote herself to.

Beep

You were just a Commander and she was your intelligence agent. You both had a purely professional relationship and you were just a loyal (if under appreciated) General of the Empire of the Rising Sun.

Beep

“Perhaps you should get that John. We can continue this later” Suki said, rolling to your left you saw her watching you sleep. With a loving smile on her face.

So not not a dream. Wow.

“Err yeah I guess I should” you groan getting up and throwing on some clothes.

“I’ll make you some breakfast sir” she said leaving the bed butt naked and leaving for the kitchen. Ruggedly dressed you finally found your way to your ICU, and turned it on.

“What was the delay Commander?” asked crown prince Tatsu.

“Time lag, it’s just morning here” you lie, truthfully it was the afternoon but he didn’t need to know that.

“Very well I understand commander” he replied, a dismissal in his tone that had formed since his occupation of the world. Arrogant fuck. Without you he’d be the ruler on little more than an Island in the ocean, what with their stupid military decisions that you’d barely pulled off.

“So what is it?” you demanded impatiently. You were too important for them to dismiss, so you could be as rude as you wanted.

“You are to report to Iceland, we have reports that some of the Western Barbarian resistance are protecting an old futuretech research facility. We do not know why they are there but we fear that they are creating another time machine. We need you to take it out” he ordered, smug arrogance as usual. You meanwhile scoffed, the allies no longer had the minds to create such a machine, that had died with the Soviet Scientist.

“I’m on vacation, don’t you have other commanders?” you asked to which he was outraged.

“This is a direct order from the emperor” he all but shouted. You sighed, there goes your vacation.

“I guess I’ll have to obey it then” you sighed.

“Yes you should. Do not forget that you are no one compared to the wisdom of my family” he replied as the screen turned off.

Suki has returned wearing nothing but an apron, a tray of breakfast in her hands. It was clear she had heard that conversation.

“His family has lost the wisdom my family once served. He has no right anymore to order you around” she replied indignantly, once again leaving you at a loss at how this could be the same woman who once proudly proclaimed her family’s loyalty to the emperor.

“Nonetheless we have a job to do, we’ll continue this vacation later” you reply sighing, as you packed up for the mission.