The Demon King's Paladin Part 1 Vol 2.

Chapter 189. Mailmen Can Have Unexpected Difficulties

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. 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 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. I summoned Scarlet and intercepted the slash aimed at my neck.

" GRRRRR!!!"

Great he's growling at me.

/FLUFFLE/

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!"

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.

" 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.

" I apologize for my daughter; she hasn't had good experiences with Humans."

" It's fine, I'm just glad the fight is over."