Someone knocks on the door violently, Henry stands up from his bed to open it, seeing Ichiro in front of him.
Henry: "Ichiro, how did you find us?"
Ichiro: "Aura-control, I noticed your aura and followed it"
Henry: "You can do that?"
Ichiro: "Yeah but I was joking, I was the one suggesting this hotel to Emilia"
Henry: "Ohhh, okay makes sense but, what do you want?"
Ichiro: "Remember what I asked you in the evening?"
Henry: "Yeah I remember"
Ichiro: "You think I could still join?"
Henry: "Even after all what happened today?"
Ichiro: "Yeah, even after all I have seen, after all you guys' kind of involved me into your matter"
Henry smiles, dragging him into the room,
Henry: "Welcome to the squad, Ichiro"
Jack smiles a little at Ichiro while Lenny gives him a thumbs-up with a big smile,
Emilia walks from the hallway to the open room,
Emilia: "I see, so you guys are all awake,"
…
Everyone is gathered together in the boy's room, sitting on the beds, talking with each other,
Emilia: "Quick fact-check, the three vampires were a mercenariy group send by the border-baron of Transilvannia to get that blue stone also called the tear of the forgotten"
Lenny: "Right"
Emilia: "The stone can somehow heal any disease and that is why the new count of Transilvannia: count Nostradamus Dracula, wants it for unknown reasons"
Ichiro: "Right"
Jack: "And the baron is scared of the count that's why he want's the stone as quickly as possible back"
Emilia: "Right"
Jack: "So this fucker gave us the bounties on our head, not the police or the government or the Adventure Guild"
Ichiro: "Basically"
Emilia: "So we now know who our enemy is and we know that he wont stop until he gets what he wants"
Henry: "Why don't we just give him the stone?"
Jack: "Easy idiot, that guy wants everyone that knows about his failure dead, since he didn't kill us with those vampires means he couldn't, means he will send more mercenaries to us"
Henry: "Why don't we just go to him and beat him up"
Jack: "How do you want to get into a country with closed borders, without a map and most
importantly: without a boat"
Henry: "Good point, but we can't let him just send more mercenaries at us, look what happened in Eryndor, this doesn't just affect us, it drags everyone around us in it"
Ichiro: "My aunt will arrange something for us as a thank you because we kind of protected the city"
Emilia: "A new boat?"
Ichiro: "I don't know yet, but I guess"
Lenny: "Your aunt must be pretty rich for her to be able do that"
Ichiro: "Yeah kind of, she is the head of the Mitsunaga family"
Jack: "Wait what? You're a Mitsunaga?"
Ichiro: "No, only my aunt because she married their previous head"
Jack: "How come that she is the head then"
Ichiro: "When her husband died, all their kids where still kids so she took over the role as the head until one of them is ready"
Jack: "So you are related with the richest family in the Kagetsu Kingdom, nice"
After the war and their emigration from their old province, the Mitsunaga family joined the rise, tea and textiles market, dominating and building a monopoly on it, gaining control
over important trade routes, caravan routes, harbors but also building up their financial and social influence.
Ichiro: "Jack, you know a lot of the Kagetsu Kingdom, how come?"
Jack: "As a kid, I read a lot of books, this was my way of passing the time"
Jack gets quiet, making a sad expression, before snapping back into his normal self,
Jack: "Why? Is it a problem?"
Ichiro: "Nah, I just found it really cool"
For Ichiro, it's not ordinary that someone outside of the Kagetsu Kingdom talks with him about his family business, meeting someone outside of the Kagetsu Kingdom who has some knowledge is a first timer for him.
Lenny: "I got two questions for you, first: why are you fighting with a broom, second: why did you have to do social work?"
Ichiro laughs ashamed,
Ichiro: "I am to broke to buy a katana and when I have the money I spend it for other things, forgetting that I need one"
Jack: "And you do social work to earn the money?"
Ichiro: "No, basically I cut the statue of the first shogun in half out of anger"
It gets quiet,
Everyone: "YOU DID WHAT??"
The statue of the first shogun, also known as the "Heiwa o motarasu mono" or "the
bringer of peace", is one of the five national treasures of the Kagetsu Kingdom, glorified by the Kagetsu citizens.
Damaging one of the national treasures means as much as starting a war against the country.
Emilia: "Why did you do that?"
Ichiro: "My dad wanted me to be his next successor as the Takeda-clan head, but I
didn't want to, he then showed off to his brother that he had found his successor before his brother had, but I then told him that I did not want to be the head, since he never stopped posing, I had to do something as a protest"
Emilia: "By destroying a national treasure"
Ichiro: "When you say it like that, it sounds like Im a terrorist"
Jack: "You basically are one because of that, you know?"
Emilia: "How come that you only got away with doing social work?"
Ichiro: "My dad and my uncle laughed about it, saying something like "that old man never wanted a statue anyways" so they made a cover-up story about renewing the whole garden the statue had been standing"
Jack: "Who is your family that they possess such high authority?"
Ichiro: "Eh, I don't like to talk about my family that much, but my father is Takeshi Takeda, and his twin brother is Akihiko Takeda"
Everyone gets quiet for a second before,
Jack: "YOUR FATHER IS THE HEAD OF THE TAKEDA CLAN?"
Lenny: "YOUR UNCLE IS THE KAGETSU KINGDOMS SHOGUN?"