Sailor: “Altair? You need help there? Haha, you’re carrying so much paper, I can’t see your head.”

Altair: “What? Oh! Lady Sailor! No, no, I’m fine! I can take care of it!”

Rolling her eyes and grinning to herself, Sailor swooped down and snagged half of the pile from Altair’s hands.

Altair: “Ah-! Lady Sailor!”

She chuckles at his pouting whines. Sailor reaches down and ruffles his hair.

Sailor: “I’ll take care of delivering this stack, you can take care of that half.”

Altair: “Y-You don’t have to! You and Lady Kitari work too much as it is…”

Sailor: “Nah, you guys have been working longer than me and Kitari, so you guys are the harder workers.”

Altair: “...I don’t know about that. Considering how much you two do a day…”

Sailor: “Haha, don’t be so sure, you little Latvian. We’ll have these taken care of.”

And with that she glances at the first name on the list, which appears to be Krioff’s, and turns away. Altair had looked at his boss’ back wondering how she does it. Then wondered another thing...what’s a Latvian? Whatever the case he needs to deliver these documents. Who’s this one for? Oh, this one is for Krioff, too.

*****

Altair: “Lord Krioff!”

Krioff: “Huh? What’re you here for? Is that more work?”

After looking around, he found Krioff reading something at the gazebo in the palace garden. There was another family that watched Altair run up to him. He ran up with an exhausted and happy look on his face. Like a child greeting his father just when he came home from work.

Altair: “Only a couple sheets, Lord Krioff!”

Krioff: “Yeah, thanks-”

Noble: “Oh, look over there…”

Goddess: “It’s that out-of-control flame hazard and his messenger…”

Child: “Mommy! He’s scary!”

Goddess: “Don’t worry, we’ll protect you.”

Krioff: “...Urgh…”

Altair: “D-Don’t listen to them!”

He sputtered a tad too loud. The family on the other side chuckled airily like his attempts were absolutely futile. Krioff wordlessly pushes him away, stood up and glared at the insulting family.

Krioff: “Dang it, can’t you people leave me alone for one day?”

Noble: “When your existence continues to haunt us? I think not. You are a threat to our children.”

Krioff: “Grr…”

A small fire started rippling from his face causing the family to backup a little bit.

Goddess: “S-See?! He’s dangerous! Dangerous!”

Pretty soon, a small mob of nobles and their children had started watching poking snag comments at Krioff and soon at Altair. The fire nearly exploded until one voice worriedly sounded through the garden.

Sailor: “What’s going on here?! Why do I smell smoke?!”

Altair: “...A-Ah! Lady Sailor!”

(all): *collective gasp*

Sailor: “Heck, all I did was come here to deliver some paperwork and I see a bunch of adults start some kiddish bullying? What the heck is wrong with you people these days? Especially when you know you could be put your lives and these kids’ lives in danger by doing so?”

Noble: “...Y-You don’t know what he’s done! He’s...he’s…”

Goddess: “D-Dangerous…!”

Sailor: “Yeah? Aren’t we all technically dangerous? Was he doing anything to you guys? Did he hurt anyone NOW? It looks like to me that he was trying to suppress his anger.”

Noble: “W-Well…”

Sailor: “For goodness’ sake, everyone clear out! I don’t wanna have to see anymore of this bullying nonsense outta you nobility! Or else you guys won’t be worthy of your status if you’re just gonna use it abusively!”

Child: “...Oh…”

The children looked on with a determined expression as they heard Sailor’s words. One child smiled to the next which made Sailor make this confused expression.

“I wanna join Punishments when I grow up!”

“Me too!”

Noble: “A-And be with that creature…?!”

“As long as we don’t make him angry he can be our friend!”

And so all the children had pretty much decided to join Punishments or Wishes at Sailor’s reminder. There had been a passing comment that if the adults and parents thought that Krioff’s fire was bad, they needed to be at a head to head battle against Kitari in order to make that statement.

Sailor: “...I dunno if I just caused a revolution or more paperwork.”

Krioff: “Whatever you did, you saved our butts.”

Altair: “Yeah!”