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The tension of the moment didn't seem to abate one bit as Shimizu stared down at King Sigurd, listening to his words carefully while considering his next move.

Azaka and Kamidake quietly kept their defensive stances, watching as everyone began to assemble around them. They watched the archers, and they watched the common folk assemble behind the shield wall waiting for a battle. This wasn't going to end well for them, either of them thought. They may have had the power, but they were in Sigurd's kingdom, and they were woefully outnumbered.

Yukiko made her next move too, sliding the wooden tiara onto her head, threading it through her hair, and adjusting it so it sat securely like a crown around her head. This provided her a mental link to the royal tree Mizuho. Yukiko quietly prayed to it, pleaded with it to come and help. Status symbols flicked across her field of vision, a HUD moving through her ocular cortex and becoming superimposed into her field of vision.

The Hybrid ship would arrive in due time. They only had to hold out long enough, it's weapons were more than enough to vaporize the entire settlement.

Shimizu quietly considered Sigurd's words, the primitive king's defiance angered the Emperor, and with each of King Sigurd's words in defiance, Shimizu's face seemed to only get redder, and his eyes only seemed to narrow even more.

"In the same breath, you say you are no match for our mightiness. You say you will defy us, that your sword will run red with our blood." Shimizu said, Tenchi still humming.

"So much as a drop of my blood gets spilled here..." Shimizu warned, as he pointed to the sky. "That thing up there, that is the Soja, it is my personal flagship." Shimizu said, slowly stepping forward, almost challenging the King.

"So much as a drop of Taiyou blood gets spilled, that ship will reduce your kingdom to ash in an instant! Everything you have worked so hard to build destroyed! With so much as a push of a button."

Shimizu was about to strike the King down, as he stepped within close enough distance to take a swipe at him with Sword Tenchi, but Yukiko made her move, several long strides away from Azaka, and Kamidake, she reached out and put a hand on Shimizu's shoulder.

"Stop." She said, the magic of the guardians still translating their words. "We cannot fight them, this world is worthless to us, there is no need to provoke this further!" The elder sister implored Shimizu.

"Our father would never allow this to happen, he was an honorable man, and you dishonor his memory with your actions." The woman pleaded, but her words seemed to anger Shimizu further.

Another crack of thunder filled the bay.

"Shimizu, please... let's go home." Yukiko pleaded.

Shimizu kept his gaze locked with Sigurd, before he extinguished Tenchi and whipped around. He shoved Yukiko aside, knocking her to the ground as she stormed towards Kayabuki, grabbing the middle aged woman by the collar, and pulling her close to him.

"I want an army commissioned, equipped, and trained to fight on this world." The Emperor hissed. "These people will be made to pay for their impudence."

He shoved Kayabuki away, and she stumbled backwards several paces before Azaka moved to catch her, Shimizu raised Tenchi in the air, and used it to mentally call out to the Sōja.

A Spherical portal opened up several paces away from Shimizu, crackling, and hissing, it took several moments to stabilize.

Shimizu began to walk towards it, leaving Kraiger where he sat.