Why the nobility didn't keep their old roles and traditions? (Yonno does not appear to care about the relevant privilieges.)

"Humans change quickly. The old roles were dependent on them owning the land, and with the farmers owning the land, there was less room there, but more opportunities elsewhere, so they changed, and then changed themselves to better fit the new opportunities."

"I am mostly concerned that this might not be a stable model. Though, I guess that's an inherent problem when one is shorter lived."

Queen Hermalita suppresses the flinch. "Dear, dear. Don't be impolite to our hosts. If anything, they showed that humans can flourish without the meddling of outside factors. Even after the terrible events of recent history."

"I suppose it's inevitable we would seem unstable to anyone longer lived. Still, we have done well enough for ourself, and recent events were started by non-humans."

"And you're building yourselves right up." Queen Hermalita says. "Honestly, we - longer lived species - have the drawback that our stability can also be bad stability. The wars dragging between the Faen courts being the example that comes to mind."

"Yes. I think our longest conflict in history was the Warring States period, which wasn't even a single conflict but a series of them. Our longest single conflict lasted a decade."

"Oh, I am jealous." Queen Hermalita says with a lot of sincerity.

"I don't think we have that many decades long conflicts."

"One is one too many, and I got personally involved in three. Not to mention the effects of longer-lived grudges."

"It does mean we sometimes repeat mistakes we really shouldn't - there are benefits and drawbacks to both. Perhaps our peoples can learn from one another there."

Smile. "Ah, yes, that's the unifying Giant philosophy, anything can be learned with the right sort of effort."

"We often find that as well, though sometimes you must be a bit indirect in your effort."

"Of course, of course. The right dosage of influence and passivity for everything."

"I more meant some lessons are better learned not on the straight path. It is often easier to go around walls than through them, even for shinobi. But yes, sometimes it is also best to wait."

And of course, Queen Hermalita's initial statement doesn't comment that "the right sort of effort" is broad enough to include that.

They go back discussing political details.

Things can be wrapped up to everyone's satisfaction fairly quickly thereafter - Kyoku herself is the leader of a fairly small nation, if one with an out-sized political weight lately, and can only make so many promises.

They understand that! They sure can't complain about complicated political situations, given that their world ended and that affects diplomacy tremendously.

Good.

Do they need anything while they or any representatives stay here, or are the present diplomatic suites sufficient?

The diplomatic suites are lovely, and even the larger guests can't complain.

Good!

She makes a few last polite remarks, and then the meeting can be formally concluded.

Which means that they can retire for the evening.

They're informed that evening the Shinobi General, who is the de facto leader of the continent right now, will be arriving in time for a noon lunch meeting tomorrow.

They will prepare themselves accordingly in that case.

Most of their preparations is already taken care of, they just need to get ready in the morning.

And then a meeting between the Shinobi General, de facto leader of the continent, and the representatives can be arranged.

Haruno Sakura is young for her position, no more than seventeen, but her expression is well schooled and her body is one of a fighter, even in slightly more formal and diplomacy-appropriate clothes (which are made so they'd still be perfectly functional battle clothes, though she's not wearing obvious armor).

The delegation is there to formally receive them. Like before, they have ceremonial diplomatic gifts.

A set of an actanan board game. It involves various tiles, each representing a actanian gift. One must place matching tiles next to each other, once per turn, until their hand is empty. Then they win. WIth a (literal) tome of alternative rules, because Faen like complexity. Speaking of complexity, the tiles are brass and unfold into intricate representations. Just one of them is quite intricate and beautiful. There is a total of 128 tiles.

A small flowering bush, who will grow into a tree, people who have touched it a few hours before sleeping have remarkably better dreams and little to no nightmares.

Several sets of tapestries, most extra durable, many with mild magical effects to make them look prettier, one has a mild purification effect, which mostly means it keeps a small radius of itself from getting clean, but is known to help with some maladies as well.

And, like before, several sets of seeds to be shared and grown.

She's appropriately grateful and courteous! There's a few rough edges - this isn't a girl who was raised to be nobility - but she's a fast learner. She seems especially interested in the game and the planets, and makes arrangements for sharing of botanical and agricultural knowledge so everything will flourish properly.