Before Kintaki could answer, several rojus and daimyos shoved there way through the doors. Upon seeing the former shogun Akuji, they began pushing one of the rojus to the front of the group, and shoved him towards Akuji. He trembled at Akuji's presence, but gathered the strength to speak.
"Uh.. uh.. B-.. Brother Akuji.. We.. Well, most of us are.. wo.. wondering.. Uhm. Why.. Why have you not killed yourself yet? Surely the.. the.. the shame m-.. must be unbearable?.. Well, uh.. uhm.. When.. When you are ready.. to.. to.. exercise seppuku.. we will be waiting.. Uhh.."
Shogun Sum-Gok-Li initiated an alert command through his neural net, then stood up and roared at the lesser ranked Dragons, his eyes ablaze.
"HOW DARE YOU ENTER MY CHAMBERS UNINVITED! BEGONE BEFORE I HAVE YOU ALL ARRESTED!"
The rush to get out of Sum's chambers was as fierce as the rush to get in...Shogun Horotami allowed himself a brief smile as the group ran past, he had not seen Shogun Gok-Li angered before.
Sum assumed his usual calm demeanor, and addressed Akuji.
"There is only one person here who needs to do any enlightening. You can dance around all day, but unless you can answer exactly who these Bakamono are - the Taishogun will not accept your return as one being in good faith."
Commander Leigh steps up to the podium and inserts a datachip into the holoprojector.
"Greetings honoured Blood Dragons," he says, bowing his head slightly.
"I come before you today with two worrying reports."
He switches on the holo projector. A copy of a comms log appears.
"Mostly due to the foolishness of this pilot in requesting access to Order space, it has come to my attention that Samura is looking to aquire alien artifacts for research purposes."
He pauses.
"Although the pilot claimed that the research is benign, given Samura's record I have reason to believe that they are attempting to put their research to military use."
"If they are successful in this endeavour then the implications for the Blood Dragons and the whole of Kusari could be dire."
He switches off the holo projector and continues.
"This brings me onto my second report requested by the Shogunate concerning the recent events with the TCG."
He stops to adjust his flight suit.
"To put it simply, the TCG have betrayed the Order. They have destroyed Order vessels, killed Order personel and attempted to assassinate Admiral Osbourne."
"To make matters worse they have now escaped into the Omicron systems, killing more Order personel in the process."
"Although their intentions are unknown to us at this time, we can now say that they are well and truly traitors to the Order."
"Although there are currently no plans to hunt them down due to our limited resources, we ask that if they do stray as far as Kusari the Blood Dragons offer them no assistance accorded to the Order by the treaty between our two groups."
He removes the data chip from the projector and steps away from the podium.
"Thank you for your time."
He bows to the Taishogun and returns to the crowd.
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Yuuma Saburo enters the Court with Emily. Unlike with others, he has no supporters aside from Emily, so he's met by cold views of remaining in the Court dragons. Emily and he approch Taishogun to bow him. Then Yuuma speaks. "The Wisest Mind here, allow me to speak speech, onegai. - Taishogun nodded. Group in the deepest corner of the Court started whispering. - Hereby I wish to return to active service to the Shogunate and continue spreading thruth through Kusari - through sword or word, laser or letter."
Someone from group in the corner loudly asked. "Explain me, Yuuma, how shall we benefit from your service? We already fed you for two months almost for free. You brought nothing to us aside from this gajin woman who's useless. You haven't ever brought any significant victory to us."
Yuuma sighed. "I wish I'd know your name, nameless competitor. However your wisdom knows I won't slaughter your people with you only to take revenge for lack of politeness. But yes, I lived here for two months for free, merchant. You need to count every coin wasted on me, am I right? Let's don't forget we have money, though.
How should I be useful?... Well, I think my skills are superior to yours, the Nameless One. Otherwise you'd not hide your eyes from true sight of me. Apologies, the Wisest One. Unnamed person needed to turn your attention and waste your time."
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' Wrote:Backing away from her place infront of the Taishogun, Tojo Matsumoto of course notices the presence of Aki.
She leans over to here and whispers some words
Hello Aki. I hope you're well and do enjoy your time here on Kyoto?.
She almost missed when Tojo steps back from speaking to the Tai-shogun and adresses her directly. She blinks once then turned her full attention to the Elder after having been observing the Court room and those gathered here today. With a slight bow to her Elder she then begins to speak in a very soft and difficult to over hear voice, making sure its only Tojo that should be able to hear what Aki has to say.
"Kobanwa Elder, one is pleased to see you this day and hopes it finds you well and in good health and spirits. This one has to profess, Kyoto is a fine place, but it is not Home and one worries that our home is not what it used to be or should have been."
She pauses a moment as she caught a snatch of a conversation about a lost Shogun having returned to Kyoto. With a glance away from the Elder she looks around even as she reached up to brush a bit of stray hair up over her left ear, using that as cover to touch a tiny and nearly invisible recordingstening device in her ear. Hopefully it will pick up more information not only about this Shogun, but from the various Order agents that are now around these days, and any other of the various 'guests' in the Tai-shoguns Court that would be useful to the Golden Chrysanthemums. She turns her attention back to Tojo and resumes speaking again very quietly as before.
"One hopes you have time very soon to talk with this one about some issues she feels she needs to bring up...privately. Of course this one does understand you are busy so when you have time and are able, she will be available to you Elder."
With that she stops speaking and bows slightly to Tojo and waits at her side as any good member of the Sisterhood would be, once more appearing to be nothing more than a common member of the Golden Chrysanthemums, although very very few would actualy know more than that about Aki.
And then Akuji was bored of the bureaucracy and tired at the sad state of the Blood Dragons he had left behind, activated his teleportation device because Akura wanted to get back to watching Stargate Universe and couldn't think of a better plot device.
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Hirosho Horatami walked down the hallways searching for Akuji. He stopped an oban to ask if any one had seen him, and he stated that he left a while ago. With that established, the shogun shrugged and proceeded to teach battle tactics to the daimyos.
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