AN: Sorry again for the delay, fully back. I'm doing better now, thank you to you all, and sorry for the delay again.
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After the reunion was cut short, Relious, followed behind Star, and had Marco on his tail, only for their tracks to stop early.
Before them a mob of villagers came forth carrying not weapons but brown balls of something relatively slimy with some more solid parts.
"Young Lord Noctis! We humbly demand that Princess Butterfly be put on trial for destruction of property!"
"Yeah! Bring her to justice!"
"Justice!"
"Justice!"
"Justice!"
Their voices echoed through the dark and quite empty main hall of the castle, part of the path to the meeting room, not that it mattered at this moment.
In the face of this the three of them looked at one another.
"What did you break?" Relious asked, an eyebrow raised as he was already sure it was real.
"Me?! Nothing!…" Star crossed her arms with a light blush still on.
"Star…" Marco urged her with a disappointed look.
"Well… Ok! Maybe a few houses…" Star fiddled with her fingers.
"How?" Relious sighed at her words.
"Giant chocolate cupcake…" Star responded quietly, almost inaudibly so.
"As the princess of this kingdom, you should know better than to do that here! So much sugar…." Relious frowned as he scolded her, rubbing his temple as he did so.
"I know! Ok! I'm sorry…" Star covered her face with her hair as she spoke.
"Huh?… Sugar? Is that really the problem? Not houses? Or I don't, injured people?" Marco looked at them both in confusion.
"Oh yeah, you're not from here… The nightmare pits have a sugar deficiency problem, which tends to cause comatose. My father hated it, and said it made us too weak." Relious explained.
"Young Lord! Don't ignore your people! We demand a trial!" One of the people in the mob yelled.
"Yes! Princess or not! She could have killed someone!" Another one followed.
At the same time, Marco was busy being in shock at the news. "Wait! Really?! If I like give you a cake you're out?!"
"Tch!" Relious snorted, saying nothing more.
"It is! I guess all action heroes have a weakness, I just didn't think it would be sugar. Wait… How did they get here? There were guards outside unless…" Marco gave the mobbers a good look and realized some of them had balls and chunks of chocolate cupcake and filling in their hands.
This happened as Star tied her hair around her face like a mask.
"If the Young Lord will ignore us! Attack!" Someone yelled from the group of mobbers.
Jumping to the center of the room, in the wide space with purple and black walls, carrying a gothic decor, Relious held his hands up.
"Wait! I am listening! While I understand the feelings in place, we can't just force royalty inti a trial. I will instead, send an appeal to the butterfly, if they won't allow for Star to go to trial, they will have the pay for all the damages and I'll make sure it is seen through.
"We are building a proper relationship with them today, now is not the to enter this type of conflict. I'll solve it, just give me the chance." The young Lord of the nightmare pits spoke, his words calm and pleading.
There was a moment of sharp silence, as various people in the mob looked at each other, many of them slowly letting go of the chocolate chunks, one by one.
Before a man stepped forward to say. "I respect your father, so I'll give you a chance. If even as a banned exile among exiles you can prove your worth, then you might as well take your rightful place."
There were many looks, doubt, hope, confusion, but among them all, the ones wearing masks, were those who narrowed their eyes.
"Good, I guess that solves that." Relious extended his hand to the man I front of him.
Immediately from within the mob, one of the masked assailants threw a strong cupcake chunk glazed in chocolate, faster than most could react, towards Relious.
Not expecting this, especially not this fast, the young lord was in a bad spot.
However, there was someone paying attention.
"Heya! Star counter! The masked one right in the middle!" Marco who had just been focused on the mob, caught it right before it hit, covering for him with a high kick.
Following his lead with quick precision, the hair masked Star pointed, chanted, and shot. "Big Walnut Cannon Color Bomb!"
As the air converged into the shape giving way for the construct to come forth as the walnut emerged before growing into a blast that dashed through the air.
In entire act, taking but a few seconds and rummaging through the mob of people, pushing them out the way until it hit the target the hardest.
Sending him flying to a wall before exploding into a mesh of colors that would given the young people with the best of eyes an epileptic attack.
Thus everything who could covered their eyes, and every who couldn't suffered in agony.
"Arghhhh!"
"My eyes! My eyes!"
"Ahhhhh!"
Once the flash bang effect died down, eyes began opening to see, various people on the ground due to being pushed or blinded
However, what came as a surprise was the masked assailant's identity.
Looking at it caused Relious to sigh.
(So it's these guys?… Of course.) He shook his head.
"A monster…. Judging from this whole scheme, not one of our mindless troubles…" He said outloud.
"Wait it's that guy! The one guy… Uhm… Yeah! Him!" Star did not remember his name whatsoever.
"Buff frog!" Marco pointed at the monster in question.
There he was, the exposed assailant, a large pale green humanoid frog with yellow eyes, dark green lips, and webbed wings on each side of his head. He had a bulky upper body, but disproportionately short legs.
Wearing a common nightmare pit armor with its black thorn-like spikes, chest plate, and heavy boots.
(I thought monsters would be easy to spot, but with how… Odd some individuals can look in this world, just armor or enough cover can make them look the part, honestly, I don't even understand what classifies a species as a monster in this verse…
(It's best if I make them come out then try to guess, who is and isn't, if they are like in the show, they are here for Star's wand, and probably wanted to take the chance to stir trouble, easier to steal the wand if the butterfly are busy at war with us, but that idiot, Ludo would not think this far… Unless he has that guy already…) Relious thought to himself as he walked forward.
"All you masked bastards, can step out, your plan has failed." He declared.
"Yeah! I we caught you all!" Marco stepped up as well.
"I'll blast everyone! Come out!" Star also came up, though she seemed even more avoidant to look anyone in the eye right now.
The damage caused was not small after all.
The cracks on the wall, and people as well as monsters on he ground in pain still, were proof of that.
"Hahaha! You fool! We were distraction! Wand is not the only magical item in Mewni!" The Buff Frog laughed even in the ground bruised and beaten up.
"What?!…" Marco was trying to process what he just heard.
"Hah! You're lying! We won't fall for it, right?!" Star retorted before she turned to the young Lord.
"My Dad's spear…" Relious commented as he realized.
"Precisely! We have won! No guards or anyone can stop us now that we know your weakness!" Buff Frog smirked as he spoke even unable to move.
"We can still stop you! You haven't won anything!" Marco responded a bit uncertainly himself.
"Take us to it! We can still-" Star was turning to the young Lord only to be meet with a surprise.
"Hahahaha!" Relious laughed hard, his hand moving to his stomach.
This didn't stop at him, various of the people of the nightmare pit began laughing having heard that.
Confusion reached Star and Marco who looked at each other, then at the monster who was just as lost.
"Huh?… You not panic?!" Buff Frog's smile died off at this response.
Boom!
An explosion was followed by tremors that spread throughout the castle.
"No, Hahahaha!…. Sorry… Hajajaha!…. Huff… My mother and my sisters look over it, since the old man forbade me from going near it until I'm worthy! Urgh, he was so annoying." Relious laughed but soon stopped himself.
"Wait? Was this explosion them?!" Marco questioned with widened eyes.
"Oh yeah! Your mom is super scary, but like I can handle your sisters, totes!" Star nodded to herself, her face still hair covered.
The Bull Frog looked less and less confident.
"Attack! Guys! Now!" He yelled.
And the monsters that could still move did, they got up close charging at the three of them.
Before some of the monsters could even get close, they were tackled and slammed to the ground by the citizens of the nightmare pits, they who could survive in such a place, were not to be underestimated, despite their unusual weakness to sugar.
Some of the rest of the monsters, tried to catch Relious off guard again with chocolate chunks, but this time they were met with a dodge or a punch.
Similarly, Marco punched and kicked them out cold, as Star did the same, slamming them easily.
In no time, the ground of monsters was handled.
[Experience points gained. Level cap I in place. Please complete the condition to level up any further.
Condition: Begin your harem, and acquire the first girl. Choose wisely.]
The notification was ignored by Relious.
"Ok, we have handled this! Thank you to the people! I'll make sure you are all compensated for the troubles of today, don't worry, the pain in the eyes, and blindness are temporary. You'll be fine soon." He said to everyone around.
The mob of people listened and quickly began picking themselves up.
"You better keep your word, young lord." The man from before said to him as the people were rounded up, to leave the palace.
(To think the monsters infiltrated and used the mad mob to sneak in… Things are starting the get dangerous. I need to start the harem and get stronger.) Relious nodded in response.
Soon, all the people left, some carrying the others.
Then the monsters were taken to the dungeon prison of the castle by Relious, Star, and Marco.
"Done. Thanks you two." He said to them.
"It's cool, man, we deal with these guys all the time, I'm more surprised they don't have any dimension scissors on them, we checked like what? 5 times?" Marco responded with a thoughtful expression.
Star on the other hand, nodded her head, her face still covered by hair, and she even refused to look at the young Lord for longer than a few seconds.
"Yeah, it doesn't matter, we should head to the meeting room for now. This is still a political visit, I'm sure my mother and sisters will find us there." Relious looked at Star with determined eyes, before focusing on the meeting ahead and leading the way.
"Oh yeah! I forgot all about that… Can I even be there? I'm not a noble or anything…" Marco asked.
"Marco, you're my company, like a guard or a personal servant… maybe a squire. So long as you stay quiet, and still, nobody can legally try to kill you." Star waved it away with a casual tone, before dragging him along.
"Huh.… I don't know if I like the sound of that… Plus, they said they wanted the Spear, should we not check on that?" Marco frowned at the thought.
"Trust me, if they can get past my mother, they don't need the spear to get the wand. It would be theirs by now." Relious said and went on.
Finally they made their way to the meeting today room, for real this time.