251 6.45 An Unexpected Change Of Hear (2/2)
”You mean Himura? To us, it's nothing. Calling him by his name is a form of respect too. By the way, you better watch out with him, he's the King Dragon. Ask forhis Kodachi if you'd like to know what we mean by that.”
”King Dragon? What does it mean? Dragons are folklore and legends and only appears in a fairytale and so on, not in real life?”
”Not in real life you say? Himura...! Could you summon Baff and Belch along with Butt and Head?!” Tuffnut called out to me as soon as I had reached the garden area. I looked at them quizzically and I realised that the twins wanted to make a deep impression on this delegate and so I sucked in on my lower lips using my fingers and whistled.
Soon, our skies went dark as 3 dragons came flying over and hovered near to us and landed gently on the grounds and bowed their heads and closed their eyes before me. Townsend Harris nearly peed in his pants seeing these beasts that overfed and landed.
To him, it was like a serpent without wings based on Chinese and Japanese folklore on how they depict dragons and on Westerners point of view, they were like lizards with legs and wings. Hahahahaha.
So before him was the Western version of dragons and the look of the twin-headed, twin-tailed dragon frightened him most that he was simply buckling at his knees.
”What Ruffnut mentioned is true, our dragons here could simply vamoose your entire fleet of ships on the coastal waters on the Sea of Japan anytime. No cannons or firepower could suppress these winged beasts.” I patted my hands on the dragon's heads and stroked their chins and told them to go back and rest. Later at 9 am they would start their work dredging the river beds again.
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They opened up their eyes and nudged me with their snouts and slowly flapped their wings and flew away to roost in the mountains.
”It is truly amazing... I've never figured that you would be able to control these beasts.” Townsend Harris finally spoke up as he watched the winged beast flew into the air before heading to the mountains.
”No... I don't control them. That's not a word to be used against beasts and humans. We don't exercise control but we have a mutual understanding. These beasts knew who I am and who their riders and tamers are. And control is not a word to be used around here. It's an understanding. Do you get it through you, Mr Townsend? ”
”Ah Yes, Your Excellency... We understand. Thank you for pointing it out to us. We would make sure we won't make such a mistake again.”
”Remember what I mentioned yesterday about respect? We don't demand respect. It's how we earned respect with our residents here. The title of Mayor and Governor is just a title in the end. What matters most would be respected we gave to every single resident here, except for those lawbreakers which we won't give any second chances at all.”
”We gave respect so we would be respected by our residents, no matter if they are our juniors or seniors. We are living here as one big family and as a family, we look after each other. Right now it's New Kitakata Town, next it would be the whole of Fukushima and the next would be the whole of Japan.”
”We won't mind having Westerners ideas and influences. Sooner or later, we going to have WacDonalds, HutPizza, FFC, King Burgers, Bendy's and House Waffles fast-food restaurants. Yeah... I like that idea and we would be moving into the Industrialization Era with the Westerners ideology and inventions.”
”However, these ideologies and implementations would go through His Majesty and my approval first. Too much too fast would topple the whole Japanese Empire and we won't want that to happen as long as His Majesty and I are alive, won't we?”
I motioned to Tokugawa Iemochi as he stepped into the garden and was oblivious to what was happening except seeing the 3 dragons flew off earlier when he was coming in from the trading district.