The three new people coming inside the room are an adventure. How do I know that? They are wearing their adventuring armor and clothes. Not only that, but they are also twitchy without their weapons.
Only someone with a Grandmaster title can have a meeting with the king with a weapon in hand. Todor brings his magical staff and magic orb, and Valentine brings her rapier inside the room.
"Before we start, can I ask who that is? Does he deserve to be here?"
I can see Duke Verqur's expression change into a frown when the man is wearing tiger skin on his shoulder and says that word with that tone. His tone is mocking and arrogant. He looks down on me, a Grandmaster of the Gipan Kingdom.
Duke Verqur is all about etiquette, after all. He can look over it when it is not an important meeting, but this is a meeting with a king, and that man's tone is not something he can use with a guest that the king invites.