Yeah military chain of command works that way true, the only thing is If she were re-asigned for another task, dismissing her primary directive, what seemed to happen in this case, MC protection was assigned to the team protecting the Callisters.
She was never the one in charge.
Strange that in the moment where the Greatmaster is abducted, the only one who is tasked with his safety is drawn out and given her another mission.
The other wicked thing is; although Kaija lied, she doesn't lie everytime she speaks, in none of the paths, one thing is consistent in all 3 paths of hers, is that she cares about their friendship.
(don't come with she should have thought of it before ...and similar) Is all valid, what I'm trying to say none of you did take a wrong decision out of fear loosing a valuable friendship ?
Please, don't think I'm not having a go at her. I'm not. I was trying to point out (however poorly), that she is an accomplished liar., it's just part of who she was trained to be. I like the friendship path with Kaija best (because I don't feel I can trust her and I need complete trust in a relationship), and she clearly values their friendship. Lying to him, is just what she has done, and so good at it, he had no idea there was an issue. So it is hard to believe she is telling the truth at anytime, you'd never know.
I also think it extremely suspicious for her to be called away right when MC needs protection the most. But, in my understanding, for her to be in trouble with the council, they must have directly told her to NOT save MC, thereby overriding her prime directive (or she has done nothing wrong). To do that, they must have 3 of the 4 votes agreeing to it. If 3 or all 4 did this, it is evidence of a widespread conspiracy throughout the council.
If they just reassigned her and she broke mission to save him and she is not in trouble, then there is no evidence of conspiracy (doesn't mean there isn't one though). It would simply be, Why did you it, Oh ok. No problem.
I just went and checked, and Kaija admits that she broke off mission (in both paths), but she does not say that she is in trouble for it. I can't actually think of anytime anybody says Kaija is in trouble for breaking off mission, just that she did. Can you?