"Gentlemen, please follow me..."
Led by Kamo Anzai, Noritoshi Kamo, Akutagawa Shang, and the former clan head,
arrived together on the platform outside the Head of the Family's Room,
Below the steps, every member of the Kamo Clan had gathered.
Voices clamored within the densely packed crowd,
Every clan member below the platform looked utterly bewildered,
They had practically racked their brains to pieces, yet still could not figure out what important occasion today marked,
that required every clan member to assemble here for such a solemn, grand ceremony...
In their memories, the last time a ceremony of this scale had been held,
was when the former clan head had succeeded as head of the Kamo Clan...
The clanspeople below whispered back and forth, their murmured discussions continuing without end,
The noise was like mosquitoes buzzing beside someone's ears while they slept, enough to make their head spin...
"Everyone, silence!!!"
Just then, Kamo Anzai's solemn, resonant voice drifted down from the top of the steps,
As his words fell, the previously clamorous crowd immediately fell utterly silent.
Kamo Anzai's expression was now intensely stern and imposing,
Compared with his earlier servile demeanor before the clan head, he seemed like an entirely different person,
Even Akutagawa Shang was somewhat shocked...
But that was understandable,
As the ancients said, even a prime minister's doorkeeper ranked as a seventh-grade official...
The higher someone's position, the higher the standing their personal attendants enjoyed outside,
Just as Wei Zhongxian could only be a servant before Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youjiao,
yet before outsiders, Wei Zhongxian was the Lord of Nine Thousand Years, second only to the emperor throughout the Great Ming Dynasty...
The same principle applied to Kamo Anzai. Before the clan head, he would take no offense at being called Uncle Anzai,
But outside the