Chapter 228: Meeting the Emperor
The Emperor sees Renzai, and Seiryuu at the bridge. And Astri is with them. Astri’s spouses and family were lined up before the Emperor arrived at the bridge, and they also bowed in respect to him. Seijuurou looks at Astri and is impressed to see a beautiful female, he wasn’t expecting to meet a young and good-looking female. He imagined that a Goddess would look like an Elder, and he was very wrong.
The females of the Himeya noticed quite fast Seijuurou’s eyes on Astri, and they got envious and angry at Astri’s presence. She was being favored constantly since she arrived. The older one, Seiryuu’s mother, spent almost all of her life there, and she could rarely walk inside the sacred areas unless with Renzai. And he seldom looks after her after she gave him enough heirs.
Seijuurou walks to meet them and looks at Astri with impressed eyes. She simply smiled kindly at him and bowed in respect:
"It’s my honor to meet you, Emperor Seijuurou. Great leader of Tsukihina."
He might not be a Mizuryuu, but he can sense her great energy, and soon he falls to his knees and bows his head deeply to her. Shocking the females of the Himeya. In their culture, if the Emperor bows, all of them should bow, and soon everyone but Astri’s family was bowing, too. Even the females of Himeya.
"Wow.. That was something I never saw happening so fast." Carist whispers to Galion.
"Should we bow..?" Dieg whispers to Wayde on his side.
Wayde shrugs his shoulders, not knowing the right answer.
"Goddess of Nature... It is an immense honor for me to be in your presence." Seijuurou says.
"I say the same. It’s more than an honor to meet such an amazing leader who makes a whole nation in balance. I can only thank you for trusting and empowering Nature." She says, and kneels, bowing to him the same way.
He’s shocked to see her bowing to him, and he presses his forehead to the ground as he tries to be lower than her. Seeing Astri bowing to Seijuurou made her spouses and family also bow to him.