Knight and Samurai

"Knight and Samurai" is a three-parter, in which Volkonir and Masato are trapped by the Percolation Wave inside of the Dromedeverse pocket dimension Earth-KCHLN-1 by Seirsionnach. They also find themselves back in time, sent to ancient China. Seirsionnach teams up with a local warlord mayor of the city of Yuli with global conquest (and eventual multiversal conquest) on the table, as Seirsionnach claims his Percolation Wave sensitivity gives him even more right to achieve the Gwirdons' ultimate goal than the non-sensitive King Gwirmalesh. The warlord mayor, Zhobin Xioan, bullies his former student Ki Cho into contemplating suicide. However, Ki is spared by Vinny and Masato's intervention. Masato has a hard time as a Japanese man getting the Chinese scholar to trust him; which he considers karma for not trusting Vinny about Editrab earlier. Irritated that Ki isn't dead, Zhobin attacks Ki's home; and he forces the knight and samurai to confront him while Ki contemplates his destiny. The two are overpowered easily, and Ki's fiancee Lan Feng is forced to reveal herself as a Xomified - that acquired plant manipulation abilities similar to Lemon Witch and Cherry Babe's after surviving an unhappy encounter with Xiboruty. Volkonir and Masato originally squabbled over the fate of Tarantrum, who exits on first chance in order to not have to choose a side in the war against Gwirmalesh after learning the truth about why Silnya abandoned him. These events are inspired by Chinese mythology about Zhong Kui, renamed Ki Cho in this story based on the Japanese "Shoki" pronunciation. His fiancee Lan Feng being a chloropoeic fairy via Xomification is a reference to Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal, in which Lan is a substitute for Little Snow. Her demonology was removed, in order to avoid a conflict with the cosmology of Cherinob. However, Cherinob herself doesn't appear in this story, in spite being considered for a role in it.