"Band" activities, heh.
I wonder if there's a corresponding double meaning that would work in Japanese between "band" (a group of musicians) and "band" (as in "wedding band")
Agreed. The funniest part to me was that the entire rivalry felt less like a conflict between two high-ranking generals in the midst of a war and more like a spat between office ladies.
Yeah, the coffee bit feels 100% like the author is taking revenge-by-proxy onto the character for an actual coffee spill that happened to them.