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How dare that idiot ignore me! ME of all people! His adorable bride and daughter of the Demon Lord herself!" Aria ranted with a pout as she stormed through the vast hallways of the castle, not caring for the direction she went. "If he thinks his punishment was so bad then I'll just make the next the next one dwarf it. HA! What do you say to that you dumb... dummy... GHAU Naruto you stupid dummy-face!" Aria plotted with a devious expression before her face scrunched up as she worked her brain for an appropriate insult, before finally settling with what she blurted out, her hands being thrown into the air as she did so.

Coming to a stop in front of a small window coated in so much snow that barely any light filtered through Aria's small body slowly relaxed as her angry expression faltered into a saddened expression. "Naruto... You idiot..." Aria softly spoke as her arms moved to wrap around herself. Despite all the warmth provided by the magic in her clothes the young princess felt cold as she stood all alone in that empty hallway.

Above her, sitting with in a sizable crack in the old stone wall was a rat with its pitch black eyes watching her every move. As it sat there the flesh hidden beneath the dark grey fur of its back started to shift and bubble before forcing the creature to hunch over as a blob of flesh burst out. Slowly shifting and forming itself the mass grew limbs, claws, and teeth as it finally split off from the main body as a nearly fully formed duplicate. After a minuscule moment longer the clone had completely formed before taking off into the inky blackness of the hole in the wall, leaving the main body behind to keep an eye on the girl.

Within the negotiation chamber both side sat in uneasy silence. For an hour now they had been left to sit by themselves. The king of Vaiphate had yet to present himself before them and so they had little choice but to wait, and wait, and wait.

"Unbelievable..." Sheryl huffed out as she sat in her cold, iron chair with her eyes never leaving the enemy before her for a moment. The lilim was composed, the baphomet had started fidgeting around in her seat soon after the silence fell over the room with the fox sitting next to her being the only thing keeping the child like fiend from getting out of her seat and running around, and the man accompanying the monster princess was just as composed as the lilim. "The man calls for us at HIS castle, on HIS schedule, and HE has the gal to keep US waiting. It's insulting!" the green haired knight spat as her armored hands folded over her chest.

"It's precisely because it's HIS castle and HIS schedule that we can't do anything but wait" her fellow knight reminded her as he turned his head to the side to look at her. "Imagine if we weren't here when he finally arrives? It would come across as an insult" the hero proposed.

"An it's not an insult to keep your guests waiting?" Sheryl argued through grit teeth as she glared at Dottye who sat across from her with her cool and composed expression still plastered over her face. "It's pathetic" the woman hissed.

As the make knight pondered over what he could say to quell the growing temper of his companion Rae's father spoke up, the entire hour they'd been sitting there he had simply chose to sit in silence with his arms cross and his eyes held shut. "Is it?" his question finally got Sheryl to turn her gaze away from the monsters sitting across from them.

"I don't need your bullshit Normun!" the woman snapped at the man.

"Then you can choose not to listen" Normun spoke as he opened his eyes. "But for arguments sake, assume that we haven't been siting here for nothing, that there is a purpose behind it."

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