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By the way, my new operating theory for why Genji's motives are completely inscrutable in the stories:
Yasu didn't actually know very much about him at all.
It kind of makes sense. Genji's job probably required he keep a stiff upper lip and most of what he'd do was related to stuff Kinzo was telling him to do. Decades of that kind of attitude probably kept him a mystery to the lesser servants, and he wasn't open with her the way Kumasawa was.
So in the stories, he's just used as a narrative tool, because so little was known about him by the author that she had only his public persona and archetype to work with. So he was made into a stock character and baseline accomplice.
And of course Battler/Tohya wouldn't know anything about him either, and would glean even less from the message bottles, leaving the man a complete blank.
EDIT: Obviously this I think means that in any R-Prime, Genji could not be counted on necessarily to be some robotic murder accomplice. But we don't know what he actually would have done.
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