81 What I Want Is...

In the palace, the panic arising with the devil invasion began to subside as the people who were mostly safe emerged to start work on the daunting task of restoration.

However, this was only the case for the centre of government - chaos still reigned outside the relatively untouched royal grounds.

Maids, servants, butlers, groundsmen, guards, porters and all kinds of palace staff hurried about trying to restore a semblance of order to the place. They wrinkled their noses but huddled down to perform every task no matter how bloody or gory it was - such as lugging away the hundreds and thousands of dead devilkin corpses littering the palace grounds!

It was to this backdrop of noisy hustle and bustle that the Duke waited attentively for their guests to arrive.