You get to meet another fellow relic of the past as well.

Soon, you are brought into the office of the one that appeared to be in charge of this place along with Lieutenant Moore and the Rear Admiral and it appeared to be once belonged to the manager who used to run this oil platform. Once the door is closed behind you, the chair behind the desk slowly turned around to meet you and your male companions.

Before you is a ghoul in a black suit with black tie and two eyes on the head. However, only the upper part of his face still have fleshes while his jaws and their muscles are completely exposed.

"So... you are the ones who just anchored at our home, am I correct?" The ghoul in suit said as he's eyeing you and your male companions.

"Yes, Mr... um..." You said but you realized that you have yet to learn his name.

"Mikes! Vern Mikes! The first and the only President of the Great Community of Petronius!" The ghoul in suit now identified as Vern Mikes said with an attempt from his jaws to make it looked like he smiled.

"Greetings, President Mikes. My name is Lajos Buchanan, the Rear Admiral in service of the Republic of Florida and this is Anton Blake, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Utrecht, and..." Lajos said but then he realized he had yet to learn Lieutenant Moore's name.

"Elijah Moore..." Elijah said politely.

And upon hearing those two names, President Mikes' eyes go wide for a moment before becoming normal once again.

"On behalf of the Great Community of Petronius, I welcomed you all. So tell me, what brought you all here?" Vern asked as he keeps his eyes on you, Lieutenant Moore and the Floridan Rear Admiral.

"You see, there have been some troubles regarding some of the privateers in your service." You said with a bit of nervousness in your voice.

"Oh? And it is?" Vern asked as he's wondering what is the issue about this.

"They refused to pay the fees to Alma's government, which is a city that located at the mouth of a river a few days from here up north. And by doing so, some pirate gangs looked to them as examples and come down here and attack my home country." Lajos said firmly.

"Ooh... about that. First, allow me to say that I apologized for this. But as you can see, we needed more than just fishing around here to survive and since peoples rarely wanted to trade with us, I have no other choice but to issue the letters of marque to some of my folks to make a living." Vern said as he's getting up from his chair and walk out to meet them on their side of the desk.

"Does this mean you will deal with this issue?" You asked him back.

"Yes, I do. But that means we needed to draft a treaty regarding this first. So if you gentlemen allowed me, I will drafted a treaty and present it to you and the Rear Admiral and see to it if you agreed to the conditions or not. And when you did, I will announced it to my citizens to hear." Vern said and upon hearing that, he invited you, Lieutenant Moore and Rear Admiral Buchanan to leave his office.

After you and your male companions left, President Mikes sits down behind his desk and begin to write down the invitation letters for you and Lieutenant Moore. Once done, he began to draft the treaty regarding the matters about the relations between the Great Community of Petronius and the Free City of Alma.

Meanwhile outside, the Rear Admiral returned to the anchored fleet alone while you and Elijah decided to take a tour around this ancient oil platform.

In no time, you found that the girls in your harem and Elijah's wife are already here in the platform and they appeared to be hanging out together at the place that looked like a bazaar.

Among them, Eva seemed to be energetic the most as she keeps running around in search of something in particular at every shop and every stall that are selling electronics. And obviously, her mother is not far behind her to keep her safe.

As for the other girls, they are clearly having fun walking around the bazaar and checking things out together.

"I'll go help my wife to keep Eva in check. You go and take care of your ladies, Mr. Blake." Elijah said before he leaves to help his wife looking after Eva.

Since you have nowhere else to go, you joined the girls in their little adventure around this bazaar. But not long after you joined them, a male ghoul in security guard's uniform approached you with a letter from President Mikes himself.

"The President wished you meet you at dinner in private. He said he wanted to talk with you about something. And no, I have no idea what it is. So you better asked him yourself." The ghoul in security guard's outfit said before he leaves for elsewhere.

"Hmm..." You groaned as you're looking at the envelope before you. Curious, you opened it and found that you are indeed being invited to have dinner with President Mikes himself!

But that is still hours away, you decided your time with the women in your harem touring around this bazaar.

A few hours later and the Sun is beginning to set, you headed to the office of President Mikes with the invitation letter. And you are not alone. Elijah too received the same kind of letter and he too had been invited by President Mikes to come and have dinner with him.

As soon as you and Elijah arrived, you found that President Mikes is already standing at the front door of his office waiting for you and him.

"Follow me, gentlemen. I know where we can get some good foods to eat." Vern said as he gestured you and Elijah to follow him to the elevator that will lead both you and him up to where the cafeteria of this place is supposed to be.

"Thank you for accepting my invitations, Lieutenant Moore and Mr. Blake. This had been a long time coming..." Vern said as he's standing between you and Elijah as the elevator is leading all three of you to where the cafeteria of this platform is.

"What do you mean by that?" You asked as you turned to look at him, curious by what he just said.

"You don't remembered me, Mr. Blake? You were there at the wedding between my son and one of your female colleagues that occurred some months after he received diploma because they had been in a relationship for a while and even pregnant with my son's child." Vern said as he turned to look at you.

"Wait! You are... him? So the name is not just the coincidence?!" You said as you looked at him with wide eyes! You have found another fellow from the ancient times!

"Remember me now? I was also that kid in the class that used to sit behind you and want to grow up to become a mayor like his father!" Vern said as he looked at you with an attempt to form a smirk on his jaws.