"I'm certain Max would still be more than happy to make it for you if he were to come. You could tell me how to contact him and I could invite him here to solve both of our problems." He knows Nobunaga isn't going to actually agree to that, so it's said entirely in spite.

"As a lord? Not that it's any of your business to know, but one must first reach the age of a thousand years and then they must claim a territory for themselves, declare and defend it. I have done this." That type of system should sound very familiar.

"As for humans? What makes you think that I fear them? I work with them, and quite often. I do business with them, I entertain them in my home, I am policed by them. You really do not seem to know much about how my kind operate at all. You should stop pretending that you do. Life is not a chess board. I tire of that metaphor. But I do agree with you that Max is irreplaceable, which should explain why I am so eager to locate him now."