"How ironic." His humor is a cutlass now, with an edge sharp enough to cut. "Your Shido is a daimyo who fancies himself a captain, and mine is the other way around."

The daimyo or the captain. I wonder which version would be worse.

"It may please you to know that mine no longer has a ship. My crew saw to that the last time he tried to kill me. No doubt the Company will give him a replacement, but for now, he's an impotent dogfucker's cock. Which is better than nothing, I suppose."