The Demon King's Paladin Part 2. All Out War.

Chapter 438. Knowing How To Make Things Interesting Is A Skill

                                                                 John Ericsson's Point Of View

" Huh?"

" Me! I want to spar you, Human!"

The guy... Who now that I think about it, must be one of the Princes of Bestia considering he was following Queen Andrea into the room and speaking to King Alan the way he did... And now he's acting as if I absolutely need to do what he suggested... I mean, how did I even get here? I was just about to attempt " that" against King Alan, but I didn't brace myself correctly and I got sent flying into a wall, and now, Queen Andrea flew in here with a confident smile as she walked in with this guy walking next to her. He was really thin, almost too skinny looking. His face seemed to be handsome, or at least I guess it would be? He sort of has the look of a member of a boyband from my world. His brown hair was done up nicely, it was cut short and combed nicely. His grey eyes showed that he was somewhat excited about the idea of fighting me... I can only wonder where that idea came from? My face obviously showed what I was thinking as I looked at him, since he started to talk again...

" What's the matter? Don't you want to spar me!? It's not an everyday situation to spar a Prince, you know!?"

Looks like I was dead on the money about who he was. He's like his father as well... They both get loud when they're excited.

" Adam, calm yourself. If you're so fast to announce you're a Prince, you should also act with the grace and dignity expected of them."

" Humph!"

With Queen Andrea's words, Adam? I guess? quickly stood himself up straight.

" Hahaha! And why is it that you want to fight him, Adam? I seem to recall we told you that we'd be welcoming Warrick and his group today and you said you'd rather spend that time training? What changed?"

King Alan said something a bit shocking. I'm pretty sure that outside of things like being sick or out of town, greeting visiting Royalty is more or less mandatory for High-Ranking Nobles and a country's Royalty to do. If it were to ever get out that they just wanted to skip out for something as simple as voluntary training... Well, it wouldn't be good.

" That's because you only said Uncle Warrick and Aunt Aqua would be visiting! You didn't tell me that " he" would be here to!"

" He?"

" You! Who else would I be talking about!?"

" Try using my name, it'd make things clearer, don't you think?"

" Are you testing me?"

" Do you even know my name, Prince Adam?"

" It's Matthew isn't it!?"

" Yes, Marquess Matthew Drake, now then, any reason in particular that you want to spar against me?"

After making sure that I was the right guy he was after, I decided to ask the reason for his desire to spar me. I mean, it's not like Queen Andrea would just drag her son into fighting me for some petty reason like Alice defending me, or anything? Right?

" I... Have my reasons..."

" And what are they? King Alan might be able to drag me into it, but I'm not under any agreement that states I need to spar against anyone. This entire event was just to check and see if King Alan's arm is okay after being reattached."

" Well... Is My Father's arm okay?"

" Did you not see the me shaped hole in the wall? Yeah, he's okay. With that... I don't exactly need to continue this exercise."