Kalir was just relaxing inside the cabin. While reading a booklet written in Japanese, Splero entered inside.

'Hey there, Dad.'

'What are ya doing, Son?'

'Oh. Just reading some Japanese.'

'I see. Very well.'

Splero sat down beside his canine heir.

'We're be arriving at Japan in about 6 hours.'

'6 hours? Whoa there, Splero. That's a long time interval. The Mikado and his cabinet might not wait anymore longer.'

'There's nothing we can do, Kalir. The SS Whaji Keang's boilers were in such poor shape and we can't force its engines to take the speed to the max in order to speed things up and make up lost time.'

'I know that, Dad. I know that long ago.'

Splero sighed.

'It's hard to do some maintenance on these ships brought from nations that were no longer have a global naval capability.'

Kalir went confused.

'What do you mean?'

'What am I saying is that this ship was being brought from Qing China. This obsolete warship needed everything that we Splenish don't have. We don't have any equipment and spare parts that were compatible with this vessel.'

'Oh. I understand that one, Dad.'

'Yes. You will, Kalir.'

The wolf-dog lowered down his booklet.

'But why would you purchase these such ships. People all over the world even say that the Empire's navy was poised to great decline because much of the ships of the entire fleet were ageing, obsolete and past their pride.'

'Let me tell you something, Son. The reason why i bought these ancient vessels is because I wanted to put them to good use. With their previous owners fallen out of line, who would going to look after it? Obviously, we can't let it to be rusted into despair and desolation for nothing, Kalir. I know that refusing to buy some modern era ships and buying ancient warships would sound stupid to some foreign observers but to me, they are nothing. I know the risks of using these things. If we lose these ships one day, at least we could say to them that we did use them with our pride, honor and dignity.'

Kalir was feeling a bit inspired by his father's words.

'I know what you were referring but I would say that was quite patriotic of you, Dad.'

'Thanks, Son.'

A series of knocks was then heard from the door.

'This is the Imperial living quarters. What is it?'

'Sire, this is Borisco reporting. Captain Philips wants to see you in the bridge!'

'What's the rush, Commander Borisco?'

'We have a problem, Your Majesty!'

Splero groaned and he stood up.

'Got to head back to the bridge, Son. Duty calls.'

'Alright, Dad. I'll be here then.'

'Okay.'

The monarch opened the door and confronted Borisco.

'Alright, Commander. Come with me then.'

...

At the bridge, alarms were blaring. So loudly that Philips had to covers his ears with his bare hands. The other crew members with him were also trying their best to silence the alarms or to troubleshoot the cause of the alarms.

'What's with the alarm?!'

'I don't know, Captain but I have a bad feeling about this!'

'Wait! All of the boilers were damaged, Captain!'

'Are you sure?!'

'Yeah!'

Splero and Borisco arrived.

'Captain Philips, what's going on and why the alarms blaring off like haywire?'

'Your Majesty, the boilers were all out.'

'What do you mean that the boilers were all out?!'

'Sire! The engine's damaged now. If we haven't pushed it further a moment ago, this would never happen!'

Splero wouldn't reply back since Philips' words were basically true in the first place. Realizing that it was his fault at all, he immediately orders a simple command.

'All hands, mount the sails on our masts. We're sailing from now on, guys.'

'Yes, Sire!'

Philips manage to silence the alarms and everything went quiet for now. Splero then approaches to him.

'Captain. I guess you're right and all about this. I'm sorry for not listening to your advise.'

The captain simply sighed and he tapped the Emperor's shoulder.

'No worries, Sire. At least our trip to Japan didn't go in vain.'

Splero nodded.

'Yep. It is.'

...

As the Kecleon brothers were busy in organizing their merchandises, Wigglytuff, Chatot and Bidoof arrived and they greeted them.

'Hello there, Kecleons!'

'Hello, Guildmaster. What can we do for you and the others today?'

'We wanted to check if there's anything that we could buy.'

'Ah, sure thing!'

The Kecleons shown to the trio some of the newly delivered Big Apples, Max Elixirs, Reviver Seeds, fancy TMs and so far and so fourth.

'Wow. These were a lot to choose from, guys!'

'Indeed. All of these were newly arrived to the shelves, Chatots. From different places around Treasure Town and beyond!'

'By golly, I wanted to buy some but I don't know what I choose for my mission later.'

'Oh? You have a mission?'

'Yep. I'm going to help a Krabby who had lost his way inside of Beach Cave. The reward would be 250 Poke.'

Kecleon chuckled.

'That's great! Good Luck on that one then, Bidoof.'

'T-Thanks. Please excuse me, everyone. I'm going to check my inventories at the storage.'

Bidoof then went to Kangaskhan Storage. The Kecleon brothers looked at Wigglytuff and Chatot.

'He seems to be eager on his mission, Guildmaster.'

'He was.'

'Bidoof was always eager to go on ahead with the jobs that was posted from the Guild. I have nothing more to say about that at least.'

'I see.'

'How's the Guild, by the way?'

Wigglytuff smiled.

'All things were going smoothly in the Guild. Our members there were working on their jobs with such successes and there were even some other Pokemon who wanted to join us to become new guild members too!'

The Kecleon brothers smiled.

'That's great, Guildmaster. We're hoping to be looking forward to serve the other recruits with our fresh provisions and other goodies that we have in this shop then.'

Chatot squawked a bit.

'Of course you would, guys! The recruits would love to!'

'Great!'

Bidoof then returned. His Treasure Bag was obviously stuffed to capacity.

'Okay, guys. I'm all set to go for Beach Cave.'

'Sure thing, Bidoof. Good Luck!'

'Thanks, Guildmaster. I'm off now.'

Bidoof departed for Beach Cave while the others bid their goodbyes and godspeeds to him.