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Chapter 135:  Iris’s Role part 2

Now that the city’s administration had shifted to imperial governance, we needed someone whose sole job was to oversee the system.

What we needed was a capable prime minister who could supervise imperial administration and education, handle all rear-area command for the war effort, and take the entire logistics burden off my shoulders. It didn’t take long to reach the conclusion that Only Iris can do that.

There were limits to what Iris could do from virtual space. Bringing her down to the surface had been the subject of repeated debate.

Using a clone had been rejected. The method was far too dubious legally, and a clone grown from an embryo has its own independent personality. That would be a life we had no right to tamper with.

Our policy of banning clone production hadn’t changed. Even in terms of capability, a clone would pose problems. What we needed wasn’t a clone that