"I do not want to undermine you."

"And I do appreciate that!"

"If you want me to play messenger again. --I'm not going to lie to him. But if you want me to send the message."

"I'm gonna be honest, Jingyan, I don't know that I trust you with that right now. I mean. Last time you played messenger, we ended up here."

"You are the President. It's your decision."

"Okay. Great."

He's not sure what to say to that. Tubbo is in charge. If he wants to lie to Tommy, that is his prerogative. "The arena should be close to done now. We'll be able to start training soon."

"Good! That's good. I think it'll be good for everyone to get some practice, get more confident, you know."

"I'll also try to go mining soon. Bring up our stocks of netherite."

"That's, that's really good. I was thinking about maybe setting up a tax, get some supplies that way? I dunno." Shrug.

"Do we have enough people to support a tax?"

"I mean, we have--you, me, Quackity, Fundy, Ranboo, Niki, Ghostbur, and Phil? Is that everyone? I think that might be everyone."

"That's not that many people."

"Yeah, but like, Manburg was even smaller and it had taxes. ...Mostly just on Niki, though. I kind of get it though, stealing is fun? I mean. Not as much as Schlatt did. But, y'know."

"...How are you planning on taxing people?"

"...Ask them for diamonds?"

"--Right. That seems reasonable, though I'm not sure how much we could raise."

"I mean, more than nothing! And I can get other things too maybe."

"It will be a start."

"Great, that's--great. I'm going to go do that then. Um, bye, Jingyan." Thank Prime the conversation can be over now.

"Good luck."

...Finally.

Tubbo will go run off to steal put off conversations he doesn't want to have inform his citizens of the new taxes, then.

You know what could still be tinkered with, via means of hitting it repeatedly with a pickaxe? The arena.

After an hour or two of putting it off, Tubbo goes through the nether portal.

He comes back half an hour later and locks himself in his house.

There's no personal conflict in the arena. It's very good that way.