CHAPTER 2, ARRIVAL AND WELCOME

We entered the protal and what we saw was a large gate before a castle. Before us I saw familiar faces. Tsubaki-san and some of his teammates that helped me during my journey. Beside him, a man who looked rather familiar stood, in a black suit, with deep blue hair and emerald eyes, his white glossy skin shined beautifully. "Welcome, people of the land." He said in Aerial Language but everyone else couldn't understand.

"Greetings, I must ask if you can speak the language spoken on the land." I said as I bowed my head.

"Oh, sorry. Now then, my name is Hikaru Hoshi. The prime minister of this nation." He said in normal language. "May I ask who you are?"

"Ah, pardon us. My name is Haru Morganite Tsuki." I answered him.

"My-my word! The Hero's sole descendant!" He exclaimed. "Gather the people, we must hold a festival!"

"Um, wait, we only came here because of a certain thing." I told him.

After explaining things to him, he told us that we were free to enjoy the town as much as we liked. We all were given tour of the castle, the throne room, the courtyard, the training grounds, alchemy ward and library were my favourite places. After that he brought us to large room, a round table at the center, atop it hangs a chandelier, around it chairs were seat. They had beautifully carvings on them. "This is the meeting room, we would like to ask all of you to stay here for a bit while we gathered members of the court." Hoshi-san said.

"What for?" I asked.

"There are some things we wish to discuss with you." Hoshi-san answered. "If it is fine."

"I don't see why not." Master said.

"Oh, one more thing, here a translator." Hoshi-san gave us a small chip. "Insert into your communicators and they'll translate what we're saying."

"Thank you." Storm answered.

We were all offered chairs that were beautifully carved and polished, they were seated beside the large round table. Not long after that, people stared to enter the room sitting down on the four chairs with the fifth empty. "Greetings everyone, I am Riku Mangestu of the Noble Paladin Family Mangestu." A man with black hair, amber eyes and brown skin introduced himself, he was dressed in Knight armor with a cape of light grey hue on his back.

"Get to the point Riku." A woman with violet hair, sapphire blue eyes and white skin said, she wore a robe and a cloak of pink color asked angrily. "Why are we gathered here Hoshi?"

"Calm down, Ginga." Hoshi-san said trying to calm the woman.

"We the four heads are gathered on this occasion to welcome the last child of the Hero." A woman with a black cloak, she had silver hair with ruby red eyes and white skin.

"I see, thanks for telling me Himari." Ginga-san said calming down.

"Well? Bring him here!" Riku-san said with a joyous tone.

"Um... I'm right here." I said as I stood up.

After that a discussion was held about what would happen to me. They asked me if I wanted to ascend the throne or if I would like to assign a successor. "Hmm... that's a tough one... was there someone in charge during the absence?" I asked them.

"We divided the jobs amongst us." Hoshi-san answered.

"Master, can you give me your opinion?" I asked Master.

"It's up to you dear... I don't have much knowledge in these fields." Master said.

"Hmm... can you give me some time?" I asked them.

"Of course." They answered.

Soon after that, we were given rooms in the castle to stay in. As we all entered our separate rooms I wondered what would be best. Just then, a large bell sound rose from the town. I immediately asked a maid in the corridor what was going on. She told me that it was a warning bell signaling wyverns attack. She hastily ran for cover the moment the sound of a gong was heard. The gong apparently signals that a Tyrant Dragon was among the group of wyverns.

I hastily looked out the window and saw the group of dragons heading for the palace. I rushed outside and saw that the knights and magicians were easily killing the wyverns but the Tyrant Dragon was a different story. Among the fighters, Himari-san, Ruki-san and Ginga-san were fighting as well but even they were having difficulty with the Tyrant Dragon. Helping with the wyverns the other members were fighting. I hastily ran to the place where Hoshi-san was and with him was Ella. "It'll be impossible to kill that dragon..." I overheard Hoshi-san say and just then, I heard Aria scream.

I hastily turned and saw her being attacked by the Tyrant Dragon. I rush towards her side and as I run through the crowds I pulled out the keys from my pocket. "Open, Gate of the Lion Familiar, Leo!" I opened Leo's gate immediately as I got close enough. He appeared beside me, he has changed forms completely, he's now wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a collar neck, a sweater vest of navy blue hue, black pants and boots that reach his knees and now his hair is spiky and he has side bangs on his left facial side, his ears are still there as well as his tail, on his belt I saw a sword.

"Here goes!" Leo says as he charges at the Tyrant Dragon.

As Leo fights the dragon, I rescued Aria and brought her back to safety. I pulled out my whip and used it to wrap around the dragon's body. Leo, not missing the opportunity cut the head of immediately and tons of blood flood out of it. Everyone had rushed away from the river of blood. The natioon that floats in the sky has only one problem, flying monsters. After we made sure the dragon had died, I closed his gate and returned to everyone. I heard loud cheers from everyone upon my return fro killing the Tyrant Dragon, but I told it wasn't me but Leo who killed it.

After that we returned to the castle, I rested in my room after a bath. I'm surprised though, here it's still day, could time be different here? What a day too. First I arrived and what we see is a dragon attacking the Aerial Isles, but according to Ginga-san that is pretty normal here at this time of year. I thought these things, I heard the three fiancees knocking at my door so I opened it. "Need something?" I asked them, they were really excited about something.

"D-do you want to go around town?" Ella asked with a shy face.

"I don't see why not." I said with a smile.

With happy faces the three dragged me out of the castle to the town. It looks just like the ones back home but as we traveled along the cobblestone pathways, I could feel it's completely different. The people here are lively and seem to always be smiling, they were dressed in kimonoz or yukatas. In the distance, we saw a café so we all entered it. A maid cafe, meaning lots of maids. The three of us sta down and I noticed that they had a special event today, you could try out the maid or butler outfit if you pay. I looked at the three girls, I bet they'd look cute in it. "Um... excuse me, can we try out that special?" I asked the maid.

"Understood master, this way please." The girl with sky blue hair, emerald eyes and white skin said.

I paid the fee and the girls tried out the maid outfit while I tried out the butler outfit. We had a picture taken, it was a magical picture made by a special magical tool. After it was taken we took a look at the picture it's nice, I asked for copies of the photo. We changed back to our normal outfit and sat back down. Aria sat beside me, Ella sat down on my lap since she was the younger one and Yue sat down on my other side. I wonder if I'll be having a harem like this soon... no, first settle the personal issues. The girls were still chatting so I checked the menu to see if there was anything nice. As I was reading the menu, I noticed that the maid from earlier was being bothered by some male customers. She seemed scared and I seems her fellow workers were too. She had tears in her eyes, she was practically trembling as the men insisted she joined them... hmm... maybe if I were to... "Tilt." I casted the spell in a low whisper, the spell is one of Libra's, it causes the target to shift their weight. The men, who were fat and looked like stalkers all fell of their chairs.

The men were having trouble getting up and it seems they were still after the poor girl. Hmm..., no choice... I'll ask her to come over here. "Miss, excuse me but could I ask you something?" I called out to her and she happily cane running, much to the fat men's disapproval.

"What... is i-it m-master?" She asked, this girl... she's far too timid to be working in a place like this. "Could I get a parfait?" I asked her.

"Y-yes." She said and hastily went off.

Poor girl, she must be having a hard time at a place like this. The girls returned soon after that whole scene and so did my parfait. It seems the men haven't given up on her yet though. I noticed that they're having an event where the customer can have any staff member join them if they can finish a whole large parfait that's why I ordered this large parfait. "Wow, Haru-san are you going to eat that?" Ella asked as the large parfait was placed on the table.

"Yeah." I answered and began eating but I'm actually using Libra's ability to alter the amount once the enter my mouth so after I finished it I'm not full at all.

"Thank you for finishing the parfait master, please select a maid to join you." Another woman came, her dress seems to imply she's the manager.

"If it's fine, the girl over there." I pointed to the girl that's still being bothered by the men.

"Understood. Asami-chan please come here." She called to the girl and soon she sat down beside us.

I told her order anything she liked and she had a shocked expression on her face above the timid look. Poor girl, she must be really scared around guys. And as I was trying to help her I felt cold wind blow around me so I turned my head and saw my three fiancees having emotionless faces. So I explained everything to them. "I see, Asami-san is being targeted by those men." Ella said.

"Why am I not surprised?" Aria said with a sigh. "She's cute and would be a target by perverts."

"T-thank you." Asami-san said.

I want to help her out even if it's just a bit. It's always been my nature to help others out when in such situations.