[A short barking laugh.] Equally rare for people who've just met me! [He's an acquired taste.... if ever. The if-ever is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.]

Only two ever liked me without time, and often trying to kill me first. My second in command, and my partner. And there were a lot of destabilizing circumstances to Tayrey meeting me, and Klaus is just ... unique. [Cheerily noms his crab.] Both my left and right hand [A beat!] ... Generals [As funny as it is for people to take him literally, even Nobunaga has some small sense of comedic timing, and now isn't it.] tried to kill me repeatedly first.

Perhaps you'll have a better sense of what you want to do here when you know of word of your companions.