Chương 206: Chapter 189. Mailmen Can Have Unexpected Difficulties

Warm... The fireplace was just recently put out in Warrick's office. It looks like I just missed him... It's strange though, on Tuesdays, like today, he works from around this time till around the late afternoon in his office. I thought about how strange it was that he wasn't in his office for a moment. The entire time I learned from him, he never deviated from his schedule. A few hypotheticals filled my head as I made my way to the Throne Room.

Once I had made my way to the somewhat familiar door, I began to hear voices on the other end, it seems Warrick and Aqua were speaking to someone. I decided to open the door to show I had arrived so the Staff wouldn't freak out if they saw me. I wonder why no one was guarding the door on my side? /creek... /" Yes, it's always nice to have visitors." As I opened the door, Warrick's voice came through clearly to me.

Once the door was open, I thought about how the Palace doors were in better condition than my own home. With the opening of the door however, the conversation stopped, and multiple eyes turned to look at me. There were some familiar eyes, but the new ones were filled with hostility." A HUMAN!" With a yell full of surprise, a slim figure charged at me while withdrawing a blade from a sheath at their waist." Wait!" Warrick and Aqua tried to stop the advance, but this person paid them no heed.

It seems my appearance put them into a panic? The sword strike looked sloppy to me though... He must be emotional, full of rage. I summoned Scarlet and intercepted the slash aimed at my neck. pressure... push..." GRRRRR!!!" Great he's growling at me now. /wiggle... / The person was short. I had about 6 inches of height on them. Before I went to look at my attacker in the eye, I noticed that they had animal ears on their head. Cosplay was the first thing that went through my mind, but we were in Gaia." Animal ears?

Real animal ears?"" What Human!? You've never seen a Beastman before!?"" Actually no, but I have done this before!" Shift! In an instant, I shrugged his sword off of me and cast a Barrier Magic around me. I then stretched a portion out of the Barrier from in front of me and hit the person who attacked me directly in his stomach. This sent him flying back. I dispelled the Barrier and was getting ready to speak to Warrick and Aqua to figure out who I just sent flying at their feet. /CRASH!

/ He landed on the steps to the Throne. Above him, Warrick and Aqua were sitting together on said Throne. The guy who I hit, got off of the steps and spoke one word with rage filling his voice." Human!" I was getting ready for another sword strike, but then, a deep sounding laugh stole both of our attention." Hahaha! Alice! Looks like you got bested by the kid!" I looked to see a dark-skinned man with the build of a Greek statue laughing at us.

He had long flowing red hair and yellow eyes with slit pupils like a cat. The guy that tried to attack me, tried again, I defended against him again. / clang. / Push..." I think that's enough, Alice. You should stop before King Warrick or Queen Aqua step in. Oh, even the Maid seems to be willing to step in?" The guy with red hair started to talk to the guy who was attacking me. Wait... Alice? Okay, it's a girl that attacked me. The man with red hair looked at me and began to speak.

If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation." I apologize for My Daughter, she hasn't had good experiences with Humans."" It's fine, I'm just glad the fight is over." I looked at his daughter, Alice... Looks like she's thinking the "fight" is only over for now." I think we've gotten off on the wrong foot. My name is Alan Mars, I am the King of Bestia. This is My Daughter, Alice Mars. As you can guess, she is the 1st Princess of Bestia." Fuck... More Royals.

Time to act like a Noble again. I put on a pleasant smile and being to go through the motions. Maybe I should've tried to come here yesterday instead of holding off after all?" Nice to meet you, King Alan, Princess Alice. My name is Matthew Drake. I'm just a humble Marquess, I've returned here to Diablos to deliver a letter to my King."" You've "returned"?"" A Human is a Marquess in Diablos!?" They both had interesting reactions. The Princess had dark-brown shoulder length hair and red eyes.

I suppose she got her hair color from her mother and her eyes from her father? They each had the same slit in them after all. Unlike her father, Princess Alice was quite thin, but that appearance betrayed the power she had. If she would've struck me about a year ago, she would've sent me flying into a wall like a tennis ball. However, both parent and child had similar animal ears to each other. It looked like dog ears to me. They wiggled them after my words drew different reactions from them."

Yes, he is, Princess Alice. And if you've found his words strange, King Alan, Marquess Drake is a Noble who lives here in Diablos." Warrick cut in to the conversation and proceeded to try and help me out. I don't think I stumbled any of my words? I decided to keep "where" I had gone vague, just in case he didn't want a Foreign King to know. To Warrick's words, King Alan responded to them in an attempt to clear up a misunderstanding it seems."

No, King Warrick, I don't doubt he lives here, I was just wondering where he's returned from?"" I see." Warrick began to think about a few things. Now that I don't have anyone aiming to plunge a sword into my neck, I took a look around the Throne Room to see that the Demons around us outnumbered the Bestmen, but it seems that the atmosphere was pretty relaxed. It seems that this King and his men aren't exactly a rarity around here.

Some of the Demon Guards were striking up conversations in a friendly manner with the Beastmen Guards." Why don't we move this conversation to my office? Shall we, King Alan?" Warrick proposed an idea and King Alan seemed to like the idea." Sounds great, King Warrick." With King Alan agreeing with the idea, we began to walk to Warrick's office. Altogether in the room were Warrick, Aqua, Trish, Zack, King Alan, Princess Alice, who was staring a hole into my head...

And of course, I was there as well, since I had King Leonard's letter. Once we had all sat down, Warrick began to speak to me." Sorry about all of that, Matthew. Alan's an Old Friend and we both ended up becoming the Kings of our respective Countries. He's always been spontaneous, and he decided to take a trip to visit me."" Well, you're always doing something interesting! I mean look, you've got a Human as a Marquess! Who does that!? Hahaha!"

King Alan's deep laugh filled the room like the bass of a speaker's sound. Again, even with the laugh... A Princess was watching me like a wolf watches a sheep." Anyways, Matthew, you said you had a letter for me? How was the trip to Darkheim?"" The trip was pretty smooth sailing all around. The biggest problem was just boredom after the first few days of travel.

The 3 days I ended up staying with Sarah and Anna were a bit rocky however, I ended up competing in a sparring match with the 2nd Princess Charlotte Nyx... Which leads me to needing to inform you about a few other things..." I looked at King Alan and Princess Alice." Oh, don't worry, Alan's always been good at keeping secrets. I handed the letter to Warrick as I spoke about Charlotte winning the match and how I ended up in a trade deal and gaining a Chief of Staff.

After I finished speaking, Warrick began to read the letter while King Alan laughed. After he finished reading the letter, he passed it to Aqua and he began to think to himself again." So, this Princess beat you in a sparring match, right?"" Yes, she did. Granted I don't think either of us were doing our best."" Oh, you make it sound like you went easy on her."" No, King Alan, I tried my hardest to win, but I did have certain handicaps given to me by my Wives.

I still tried as hard as I could to win with those handicaps though."" Wives?"" Yes, I'm Married to Sarah, King Warrick and Queen Aqua's daughter as well as a woman named Anna."" You married Big Sis Sarah?" Princess Alice spoke for the first time since entering the office." Yes, Sarah and I were Betrothed last year, and we got Married not long after that."" What did you do to her?" Princess Alice seems to think I did something to cause Sarah to Marry me... Well, technically she's not wrong.

But it's not my place to talk about that to an outsider." Alice. Despite the way you may be thinking it went, I assure you, if My Daughter didn't want to Marry Matthew, it wouldn't have happened. In fact, Sarah was the driving force behind their Betrothal."" Uncle Warrick... That's almost unbelievable to me."" I couldn't believe the way she acted around him either the first time I saw it. If you can trust me about anything, Alice, trust me that Sarah loves him and also, Matthew is a good man.

I view him as a Friend as well as my Son-In-Law... So, I'd prefer if you didn't try attacking him anymore."

"..." Princess Alice seemed puzzled about Warrick's words." You keep getting more and more interesting, Kid." Pat! Pat! Pat! King Alan patted me on the back as he spoke. In between the strong pats on my back, Aqua spoke to Warrick." My Love... This is interesting. I guess we should fill you in on this as well, Alan." Aqua began to explain the contents of the letter. King Alan went from having a smile on his face, to the face of a King. It was interesting to see that dichotomy. Oh! His ears wiggled again!