It's alright. [ His reply comes quickly - too quickly - and he would even have shook his head if they were having this conversation in person. ] I am clan head no longer. I died and left the world we once lived in.

[ It's a long story. ]

A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Miss Chizuru. I am Kobayakawa Takakage, retainer of the Mouri clan. [ If she read history, she would also know that he was the penultimate head of the Kobayakawa. ]