Third-person POV
"S-Sir!" Kobayashi stammered at the 40-year-old shogun, who had been the shogun of the country for 20 years now.
His harem girls cowered in fear.
"Sir, I apologized for Kobayashi-san's intrusion into this important meeting with the delegates from Ruslav."
"Ruslav?!" Kobayashi's jaw dropped to the concrete floor of the royal gate. "That mythical land of the Forest Vamzoms?"
"It's no myth," Ormoc briefly replied. "It is real. My younger brother, Basilio, was their leapder."
"Greetings to you, sirs," Basilio addressed directly to both Kobayashi and Maximilian with a formal posture.
"Greetings to you, too,' Maximilian replied back formally. "Valencia Basilio, was it?"
"Yes, it is me, sir."
After that, Maximilian sent away Kobayashi and his harem just to get their obstacle out of the way (nothing else other than that) and led the Ruslavi entourage to the main house's big drawing room. The drawing room was big, and there were a few sofas, though frequently, Maximilian would sit down on the soft tatami mats with tea to do the Japanese-style tea ceremony for guests, both local and foreigners.
Now, Maximilian did his usual tea ceremony with Lyam and a few palace servants assisting in distributing the tea to the Ruslavi guests. In addition to him, Maximilian's children were present. His Children:
Carver (20 years old)
Sakura (18 years old)
Mark (15 years old)
The three children of the shogun are in their kimonos and yukatas, the formal ones for this occasion, and they are seated next to their father and poet mother.
"Thank you for the tea," Artem, alongside others who were seated on the tatami mats.
Some of his Vamzom comrades, as well as Basilio, poured a few drops of animal blood into their tea drinks and took a sip.
Though potentially be disgusted by it, Maximilian remained his stoical posture and remembered the biology of the Vamzoms.
"Yes, it is my pleasure for this meeting for a diplomatic partnership," he instead said.
He glanced at Basilio. "My soldiers who were stationed on the eastern border of my country, the one that bordered your country's Barangay Amarillos, had collected stories about you and your nation and origins."
"Ah, yes, I was an Otherworlder from a country of the Philippines," Basilio replied while managing to gather his words, "I was 17 when I died to a landslide while saving my friends from it."
"Ah, I see then, Basilio." Maximilian chuckled.
"Was it true you got attacked by these Forest Vamzoms on your sixth day in the town of Fresa de Ard?" Lyam asked.
"Yes, sir," Chivo replied like a witness. "It was on that day and on his sixth day. He was job hunting when that happened and…he also saved my niece Aldona from being abducted by the Vamzoms."
"That was us back then…" Juhani added, "…after we had managed to pull back Basilio-san from the abyss of death by intensive surgery, we stopped attacking and hunting humans and other races."
"Wow, very brave stories you have…" Maximilian was astonished while holding his cup of matcha tea.
"And sir," Helena replied, "all of these had happened on the days of my late older brother Ruslan Makesa, the old leader who took his own life by the blade of his own. He passed his Vamzom powers to Basilio via a wooden box. Chivo keep an eye on that box. Fritzi was the one who kept a distance between us Vamzoms and the Light Rays Church."
"And on that day that I had returned from the abyss of coma," Basilio replied, "I opened the box, and I gained another 20 percent as a Partial Vamzom. The total is 40 percent. I had become their leader on that very day."
Maximilian and his side couldn't help but be astonished on the Filipino Otherworlder and his journey in the first year of his life.