"we are indeed very sorry to part with you, mikoto, for we have enjoyed your stay with us very much. you have been a noble and honored guest and we have heartily made you welcome. i quite understand that as you govern japan you ought to be there and not here, and that it is vain for us to try and keep you longer with us, much as we would like to have you stay. i hope you will not forget us. strange circumstances have brought us together and i trust the friendship thus begun between the land and the sea will last and grow stronger than it has ever been before."