🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

- I cannot recommend a visit to this region, forgotten by the gods, but I understand that sometimes life's circumstances force one to go where they wouldn't want to go otherwise. Your path there lies only through Asahina. It is the only land where foreigners are treated more or less kindly; in other kingdoms, you might face trouble.

—Yes, in this case, your comment is as appropriate and truthful as it is to my not-so-adequate earlier remarks. ...Through Asahina, then. I'll hope for our good neighborly relations, if I may express it that way, across the sea border. Otherwise, you wouldn't have arrived here, would you? —he directs a brief glance at the samurai. —And "mikoto," is that, hmm, something like our supreme leader, right?