2 weeks ter:

  We are at a round table meeting with King Admaris, Lord Tendu, Ayame, and Fumiko.

  “Well, it’s unfortunate to hear what has happened to Camon. As king of the Admaris nation, I hereby recognize Ayame and Fumiko as queens of the Weika kingdom.”- King Admaris pointed toward Ayame and Fumiko. He looked confident in his decision, with a big smug smile.

  “We will need more people to recognize them as the queens of the Wieka Kingdom. We must stop other kingdoms from pressing cims on the nd, especially the other lords of Wieka. Thank you for your backing but we must get backing from other kingdoms as well”

  “We understand that and sent an invite to the queen of Wiefra, King of Celsus, Prince of Monari, and ruler of Nanao. They should be here today.”- Fumiko pointed to the door and then pointed to a set of teacups.

  “Well, I guess we must make our guests feel at home. Hana, Ayame, Fumiko, you know that it’s time for us to cook”- We must surprise them with our cooking.

  “I will join in as well. I haven’t cooked in a long time”- King Admaris rose from his seat, and he proceeded to change his clothes. He came here battle-ready with his sword and armor on. But now, he is changing into more casual clothes.

  “You are welcome to.”- Ayame and Fumiko started to y down all of the cooking ingredients and utensils.

  As usual, I am better at cooking noodle-based dishes so I got onto cooking some Udon and Ramen. I am sure they won’t come it alone, their guards and servants must be hungry as well.

  After 2 hours of cooking, we suddenly heard the door opening, we were still in the cooking process.

  Standing in the doorway we could see 2 women and 2 men.

  “Maybe we got the wrong location. This seems like a kitchen”- One of the women spoke, she looked like someone that lived in a desert, with darker skin, wearing bright colors, she looked all around like a dancer but she also had a ring on her hand with a cyan gemstone.

  !That is the ruler of Nanao, Ishtar. Her looks denote the way she battles, she considers battles as an opportunity to dance, and she incorporates dance moves in her fighting style!

  “Hello there. We were waiting for you”- King Admaris was the one to greet them. He let us cook in the kitchen, well the kitchen was visible to everyone.

  “Admaris, why are you without your armor? Why are you, a king of all people cooking?”- A man with a little bit darker skin spoke, he had long golden hair and wore something that I can only describe as royal attire, something fit for a prince or even a king.

  !That is the Prince of Monari rainforest region, Camil on the other side of the globe. He is a very skilled magician, he is very overconfident in his abilities.!

  “Everyone has to start from somewhere. When I was your age I was a very good and skilled chef, after that, I took a liking for the sword and became a holy knight. A proper man should know how to cook and take care of housework as well. My duties as king stopped me from doing that too often, but now, I have some free time and I said, why not”- He hit Camil on the back in a friendly and encouraging way.

  “I can get around that. So, who are the new demon lords? Where are they?”- Ishtar stood near me, she is looking me up and down

  “Can I help you with something?”- I turned to her and spoke

  “By any chance, I am searching for the Demon Lord Hikaru Tanaka and Hana Tomura, have you seen them here?”

  “Well, you are talking to one of them”- Ayame spoke from behind Ishtar. Ishtar looked behind her, looking a bit scared.

  “First, don’t scare people like that. And second, this man does not possess the energy or magic to be the demon lord, it’s so dangerously low I am surprised he is alive”- Ishtar looked at me once more, this time her eyes widened.

  “Wait, do you and Hana possess shadow magic or shadow skill by any chance?”- I know what she is talking about now. Shadow Magic conceals your energy and magic, at least for the level it is here, we had to always conceal it when we were in Wieka, so I guess it became a habit for us.

  “Yes, we do”- Hana and I spoke at the same time.

  “That expins it. I wouldn’t want to get on your bad side”

  Ishtar took a seat at the table followed by Camil.

  “Excuse me, I am Hesta, the queen of Wiefra. Nice to meet you, I hope we can agree”- Someone patted me on the shoulder, and I turned to see who it was. The person who patted me on the shoulder was a short woman around 165cm, she wore a white dress with green accessories, and she had long bck flowing hair and crimson bloodshot eyes.

  “Hi there. I am Ceii, the king of Celsus. Nice to meet you”- After Hesta, a man that was about my age greeted me. He had pale skin, and blue hair with a greenish tint to it. He had worn light armor made of orichalchum.

  !Ceii is a pretty id-back ruler. His country is pretty prosperous and does not need too much management since he has other people managing parts of it for him.!

  Our guests waited for us to finish cooking. It was rather pleasant for them to wait for us. Some of them looked overconfident at first, 1 of them is but we got to deal with it. The negotiations will be tough, but we will try to be kind and let things from ourselves. I know it’s not recommended when you negotiate something like this, but we have to take some risk, or none at all if we do a little mind manipution with Hana’s skills.