[Celeste Kingdom]

Amidst the silence of the surroundings, coupled with the noise of the rain pouring heavily in the south gate of the capital city is Celeste Kingdom, every noble in the surroundings including the pope and the bishop of the church was slightly stunned and silenced upon learning that Asagi was a queen of another kingdom itself

If that was the case then this mere visit of another species is no different than a delegation of another kingdom visiting their country, thus in that moment a tense atmosphere enveloped everyone as the nobles begun to panic on the inside

After all no one had actually predicted that the little girl right in front of them  who is no less the same age and same charm as their kingdom's princess would actually be another royalty, but upon seeing that the two angels behind Asagi seemingly moving like a real proper royal guard, then such claim must be so

In that moment while the nobles, crown prince, and princess were panicking inside, Queen Celestia on the otherhand broke the ice once more as she cleared her throat and spoke out towards Asagi

"Then your a Queen yourself? a ruler of your own kingdom?"

"Yes" replied Asagi

Hearing that Queen Celestia then sighed for a bit as she said

"Then your visit is no different from a delegation, in other words then this visit can be said a formal visit coming from your side of the kingdom"

"Pretty much like that... well we were planning to secretly observe your capital at our own leisure, but upon seeing the crowd in this place, especially the fact that you guys seemed to have anticipated our arrival for some unknown reason, we then decided to actually confront you and make ourselves fully known"

Once more everyone was silent by Asagi's reply as they imagined that kind of situation

Since a first impression is important for everyone no matter what race you are,  every person in the vicinity couldn't help but imagine the scenario wherein the angels would be disappointed on their impression of their capital

Since mostly at times people evaluates the capital city as a base to know whether the ruler itself is good or a tyrant, a just or a corrupt person, a good governor or bad governor, people would then always make their capital city look good no matter the circumstances

In that moment everyone was then grateful for the pope for giving them a heads-up on Asagi's group's arrival

Pushing the tension aside Queen Celestia then regained her composure once more as she smiled and offered a roof towards Asagi, Michael, and Gabriel

"It would have been nice if you guys can walk around the city, unfortunately the weather isn't that accommodating today, with that i offer the roof in my castle and would like to have a nice chat with you  on equal terms... you know a talk between queens and ruler of each kingdom"

Upon hearing Queen Celestia's words, Asagi then nodded accordingly as she had no qualms towards talking to another person

Thus seeing Asagi nodded at her offer, Queen Celestia then ordered the people around her to prepare welcoming party for their visitors, of course not one of the nobles dared to refute her since their attention was fully focused on their certain pure white winged guest

With that some men then came with Carriages for everyone to ride towards the castle, through that Asagi, Michael, and Gabriel then occupied one carriage as they rode towards the huge castle at the center of the capital city

It didn't take them long to arrive at the castle, which consisted of few minutes of carriage ride  since they are already at the capital to begin with

Upon entering a covered drop point numerous maids, knights, and butler then came their way as they showed their extreme prowess and discipline to serve every important figures inside the carriages

Unfortunately they didn't expect the people in a certain carriage to contain the three angels,  thus when one knight and three maids opened the carriage door, instead of welcoming them wholeheartedly, they were instead stunned speechless upon seeing the beauty of three angels as they stepped down the carriage while dragging their huge white wings on their back

Not only them but even the other maids, butlers, and knights were stunned when they saw the three angels and seemingly admired their beauty

Seeing such  a nostalgic scene Queen Celestia couldn't help but remember their first reaction when they saw the three angels, the reaction of her worker or employees in the castle was exactly the same to their reaction a few minutes ago at the south gate

But that deter her from exacting her plans with Asagi this day, thus with a cough she then ordered to her workers

"Can someone please lead the two gentlemen behind the woman to our reception room along with the other nobles, as for the little queen herself i would like to offer you some chat along with some tea... would that be fine for you?"

Hearing Queen Celestia's effort to have an alone time with her, Asagi then slightly nodded at Michael and Gabriel on her back, indicating that she can handle herself when trouble arises

With that both Michael and Gabriel then nodded back towards her, as if indicating that they trust her judgement

Through that they were then split accordingly as Queen Celestia led Asagi to her own glass covered garden for a talk, while her son Crown prince Rodrick and Princess Hayne were then leading the other group towards the reception

In fact everything goes well for the current moment except for one particular person, Pope Michael himself

Currently the pope himself was following Queen Celestia towards her garden without uttering a single word, thus causing the former herself to be quite irritated by this situation

"Pope Michael! I believe that the reception room is on another different direction, don't tell me that your currently lost?"

"Oh don't mind me! I'm currently following you to the garden, in fact i plan to converse with the ruler of the angels herself according to some questions i wanted to be answered, and since your bringing her to your garden to have some serious talks, then you wouldn't mind another person joining in right?" asked Pope Michael cheekily

Faced with that kind of reasoning, Queen Celestia couldn't help but resign to her fate as she allowed Pope Michael to tag along, meanwhile Asagi herself was quite surprised that the pope had the same name as her archangel Michael, but aside from that there is nothing else noteworthy to the pope himself

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[Queen Celestia's Garden]

Soon after they then soon arrived at Queen Celestia's glass covered garden

As they all took a seat at the sole table in the middle of Queen Celestia's garden, the person herself then ordered some of her maids that were on standby to prepare a cup of tea for the three of them

Following her command those standby maids then bowed their heads as they left their presence

With that Queen Celestia then started out the conversation between the three of them, as the sound of the rain drops hard on her glass roof

"How about let's start on our introduction? After all i do believe that introduction is needed since everyone here has a status of its own right? If that will be the case then I'll start with myself... I'm Queen Celestia, the current ruler of Celeste Kingdom"

Hearing her introduction Pope Michael then sighed for a bit as he said

"If that is the case, then im Pope Michael, the highest order in the religion of Christianity, you can even call me its sole leader or it's top brass"

With that Asagi then had no choice but to introduce herself as she realized that the other two had introduced themselves towards her as a sign of respect

"I'm Asagi! Queen of the sky castle! Sky Queen Asagi! Sole Queen of the Azure Kingdom... I had many titles since I am a Queen of a kingdom hidden in everyone's sight"

At that Asagi then ended her introduction, unfortunately she didn't expect that both Pope Michael and Queen Celestia to somehow grow interest of her titles at all, especially the former

When she finished her introduction, Pope Michael then abruptly asked her some question all according to what her titles portray

"Queen Asagi! If how you introduce yourself is correct, then does that mean that you have a kingdom that is hidden in everyone's plain sight?"

"Well yes!" Replied Asagi

"If that is the case then does that mean that your kingdom is up beyond the clouds up in the sky?" Asked Pope Michael

"Indeed" answered Asagi

"Then isn't that perhaps the paradise that the god almighty had promised us?" Asked Pope Michael, as this time he had sparkles on him due to excitement

Seeing his enthusiasm Asagi calmly answered

"I guess... if that is how you interpret it, but there is no souls in their, after all my kingdom is something provided for myself to rule"

Hearing that kind of vague answer Pope Michael then calmed down for a moment as he clarified something

"Then you're indicating that the paradise is somewhere else, and your kingdom is just something that is provided to you... am I correct?"

"Well yes..."

"I see... well it's quite saddening that your kingdom isn't the promised paradise, but perhaps such kingdom was provided to you by the God almighty... but let me confirm one thing... you do have angels in you kingdom right?"

"Well yeah! We do have them, in fact I plan to coexist with humans who might want to migrate their" said Asagi

"What!!! So your saying that your accepting humans in a holy land like that!?!?!"

"Um yes! Well we do have humans already living in my kingdom after all"

With that Pope Michael was stunned for a bit as he fell back down on his seat and somehow started pondering about something

Following his silence Queen Celestia the spoke up after him

"Then it is certain that you are truly a queen, after all you got a castle, kingdom, economy, and people"

"Yes! But as for the economy... I'm still quite a newbie on that field, I still have a long way to go till the economy in my kingdom prosper into something equivalent into an empire in this surface, meanwhile as for my people..."

"....?"

"Well you could just say that I have a meager amount of them, of course the angels inside my territory aren't included but the people such as humans living within my capital only numbers to be about not more than 50" added Asagi

"So despite the huge land, you have a meager population..."

"Sadly yes" answered Asagi dejectedly

"Such number can most likely equivalent to small village somewhere... if I may ask when did you start accepting humans or other races into your kingdom as citizens?"

Hearing her question Asagi then pondered that thought for a bit as she answered

"About 4 weeks ago I think, no 3? 2? I'm sorry! Its just that I can't seem to track the time right"

Upon hearing her answer both Pope Michael and Queen Celestia understood the problem immediately

"No wonder! With that short amount of time, it is understandable to have such low population" exclaimed by the Pope

"Well everything starts somewhere right? That's how every kingdom, empire, and cities had started after all" added Queen Celestia

"No need to fret! Such occurrence is normal" assured Pope Michael

With that Asagi simply nodded as she oversaw some of the maids bringing over a cup of tea towards them in a tray

Following it the maids then served all three of them some tea as the Pope and the Queen of Celeste Kingdom drank it to their delight

Seeing them drinking such tea, Asagi then simply calmed her nerves as she drank her own drink before continuing the talk between the three of them

Naturally such talk lengthens about half an hour due to the numerous topic they had discussed, but with Queen Celestia's acute sense of time, she then put the talk into a halt with her hand and said to both Asagi and Pope Michael

"The talk has been going on for awhile, how about lets meet with the others in the reception room? After all we can't just hogged the Queen of angels all on our own right?" Suggested Queen Celestia

Hearing her suggestion Pope Michael simply nodded in agreement

"Sure thing! Let's go your majesty!"

"Y-yes" answered Asagi

With that all three of the. Then headed straight towards the reception where everyone was gathered

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