Chapter 32 - What is a Shogun? (From Keiko Scene) (Patreon)

“I know, I heard that you were on the station from Miles and saw you a few times from afar in Quark’s, though we never talked. I also heard that somehow you had become a General in the Bajoran Militia,” she replied, a bright smile on her face too. “How did that happen?”

“You and everyone else have asked that exact same question,” I answered with a laugh, her hand still in mine; for some reason, we hadn’t yet let each other go. “I’ll give you an answer that I don’t normally give in polite company, but one that’s just as true as the one I normally give. They made me a General because I killed a lot of Cardassians during the Occupation, killed them in the most bloody, violent, and gruesome ways, which played a significant role in driving them off the planet. And now here I am. Greatly rewarded for being the best killer, the best warrior. In a way, they made me their warlord, you could even say, their Shogun, in the terms of your ancestors.”