Seven

Mumin Rider was busy putting medicine on his wounds and was rolling some bandages around where it was slightly worse.

It looked like he had treated himself many times and had become quite proficient in it but it was to be expected for someone that always gave their all in many difficult scenarios and would often be confronted with many difficult adversaries.

If it was not for his protective gear then he may have already died many times over just like many other low grade heroes.

He leaned back in his seat and let out a sigh. "I will tell you but you need to answer some of my questions too. Where are you from? Your goal? Are you hostile to humans?"

Queen Knuckle had no change in her expression as she answered calmly. "I am Queen Knuckle VII of the United Knuckles World, I was a queen not that long ago but I suddenly appeared in this world.

I have no goal yet but it would be nice to find my way in this strange new world. I can think of a greater goal later but I will not be hostile to your race so long as you do not provoke me first."

There was no need to conceal anything from him since she had expected to be staying around him for some time and concealing too much would only continue to make him more wary of her.

She continued. "Those that I ruled over were annoying and caused problems all the time so I have no plans on going back to my old world. If… If they have followed me here then I should warn you to prepare yourself but I will go over that later if they really have shown up."

She had been raised as a queen from a young age and that was all she had known, she mastered many languages and all kinds of necessary skills to be able to run her world even with such troublesome knuckles all around her.

It was all she had known and a new life seemed quite thrilling for her so the thought of being taken back once she had just been given such a chance was not too pleasant for her.

Mumin Rider nodded slowly. "Hmm.. a queen.. there seem to be many queens and kings of some kind that have led their kind to cause problems and harm innocents. How can I be sure that you are not the same?"

Queen Knuckle looked towards him with disdain in her eyes. "If anyone is making trouble upon arrival then it would be them but I do not condone such behaviour."

Mumin Rider continued to ask. "If they do come then will you surrender yourself and go back with them if it is for the greater good?"

There were always cases where visitors were pursued to another place but the visitors were sent away due to the problems they had brought along with them.

If such visitors brought too much danger and harm then the hero association would be the first to propose for her to leave or to have any threat eliminated.

They would much rather protect what was theirs than to side with and protect an outsider.

If she resisted and went against everyone who wanted her out then she could become their enemy too so that would make things difficult for Mumin Rider too who had gone out of his way to bring her back to his home.

Queen Knuckle shrugged. "If they have come then they will not do anything big besides annoy others or attack those that tried to harm them. There should not be any major events unless someone does something stupid.

I do not wish to go back there and if I have to do so then I will likely resist even if it means going against each of them."

She was loyal to her people for so long but they had brought her nothing but trouble and with little time to herself.

She was unable to find anything that she truly liked or a goal of her own so if she got a small taste of that then she would not want to go back even if it meant going against those that tried to drag her back.

The main issue was that there were many of the Knuckles that were much stronger than her or had very strange abilities.

She had her own abilities but they had limited uses and her physical abilities were only shown to be above the lowest grade of humans so she needed to find out more about the world she was in and what the strange sources of energy were that she had picked up on.

Just as she thought that she would gain some kind of answer to her questions, Mumin Rider continued to ask. "So.. you are a queen.. but what actually is your name? I cannot just keep calling you Queen Knuckle all the time."

She had remained still for a moment and let out a sigh. "I have always been a queen from the day I was brought in to be trained as the next queen. If I did have a name then I have no memory of it."

Mumin Rider was quite shocked by what she had said and felt a little sorry for her so he spent some time thinking to himself. "Hmm.. seven… seven… how is Nana? Is that okay?"

It did not take a great deal of thought for him to come up with a name for her since he had simply taken the seven from her title as Queen Knuckle VII, in his own language the name Nana had meant Seven so he had asked if she was satisfied with being called that.

She spent some time thinking it over and then nodded. "Nana.. okay that will do. Now can you tell me about this world?"