[Later]
They reached Lady's Village, from the point of view of someone who was new at this place they would think it is a really nice village, but Marco and Alice knew the truth, especially Marco, since Alice had some doubts.
Around there were some normal medieval-style small houses, weed and flowers grew there randomly, giving the atmosphere a relaxing aura. Refined and beautiful women were all over, calmly talking with each other.
...However, each one of the women here is a different monster, everyone under the Lord's control, named Cassandra. She is a monster girl that wanted to become the 15th Monster Lord, but Alice's mother won against her, she is one of those monsters that live in the Jungle Law.
In short, a wall in Marco's path to the coexistence.
Marco wanted to start a small talk with Alice, but she was nowhere to be seen. Marco sighed and started to get informations about the village around.
He walked towards a black haired lady with a white long dress and a small white umbrella.
Lady: Oh my… A traveler? This is a wonderful village for just relaxing. Please enjoy your stay here, and may the fatigue from your travels melt away.
Marco: Excuse me, I'd like to ask you something… Have any other male travelers visited this village recently?
Lady: Of course… This is an open village after all. Though most of them seem to leave right away. Is there something wrong?
Marco: Just searching for someone, we should have met nearby but I didn't found him yet…
Marco tried to lie on his way, hoping to not raise any suspicion, fortunately the lady took him seriously.
Lady: I'm sorry but I can't help you on this, the last male that came here was a week ago, maybe others might know about him, good luck.
Marco: Thanks.
Marco left and asked another lady, she had long blonde hair, a mature body, she was wearing a black hat and black dress with crimson outlines, and over her head she had an umbrella similar to the previous lady's one.
Lady 2: Oh my, how rare. A traveler? Even more, such a young boy, too!
The lady carefully sizes me up, head to toe, this made Marco a bit uncomfortable, especially when she said a certain number…
Lady 2: 6 inches...
Marco: ...Oi…
The lady realized that Marco heard her and put an hand over her mouth embarrassedly.
Lady 2: Please forgive me, I was trying to remember the size of a brick, my house had a hole in the wall so I need to buy a brick with 6 inches of length…
Marco just shook his head, already knowing what she was talking about.
Marco: ...I'd like to ask you something, have any other male travelers visited this village recently?
Lady 2: My, not that I've seen. Not many travelers would choose to come to such a remote region as this.
Marco: Alright, have a nice day.
Lady 2: You too, youngster.
Marco left and walked towards a maid, she was really tall, almost 3/2 of Marco, she had blue hair and was dressed as a normal maid, long black dress with a white apron that reaches her legs, she noticed him coming towards her and introduced herself.
Maid: My name is Ran. I'm a maid that serves the Lord here, Cassandra. I'm currently shopping in preparation for tonight's meal… Did you need something from me?
Marco: I'd like to ask you something…
Ran: I'm sorry, but I must be going. I can't neglect my Master's order.
Then she walked away, Marco shrugged and walked to the next person. She was a girl around 17 years old, she had blonde hair that were tied up with blue ribbons in two really long twintails, she wore a white long-sleeved shirt and a black long skirt.
Girl: How rude. Introduce yourself before approaching me out of nowhere!
Marco: …
He didn't even said a word... And she just call him rude, he sighed and introduced himself.
Marco: I'm a traveler, Marco…. And you, lady?
When he called her "Lady", his eyebrow twitched a bit, he didn't liked this sort of girl.
Girl: I'm Emily, Lord Cassandra's only daughter. Did you come to meet my mother as well?
Marco: Before that, I'd like to ask you something. It's about the rumors going around about this village…e
Emily: Ah, that stupid rumor? Something about male travelers never returning, or something?
Marco: ...Yes?
Emily Wahaha! You believed it, and came all the way here!?
Marco: That is half of the reason, I lost a friend of mine in this area and I wanted to have more informations.
Emily stopped laughing and covered her mouth with her hand, before saying with an apologizing expression while bowing.
Emily: I apologize for my behavior, almost everyone comes here for the rumor and I thought you would be the same, I didn't knew that you lost a friend nearby.
Marco: It's alright. 'You aren't the only one who can lie, damn Scylla.'
Emily: Since you came all this way, do you want to meet my mother? Maybe she has some informations regarding that friend of yours.
Marco: Yes, that would be nice.
Emily: Alright then, follow Emily!
Marco nodded and followed her to the mansion of her mother, it was really big, it was made with pure white stones, the roof was dark green and at the big door there was the maid he met earlier, Ran.
She bowed down when Emily and Marco walked nearby.
Ran: Welcome, Young Mistress
Emily: Hello Ran, I wanted to invite our new guest Marco, can you call mother for us?
Ran glanced at Marco and nodded before following the two of them inside, when they reached the living room, which looked like it came out from a grandmother's house of the modern era, Ran walked away, obeying at Emily's order.
Marco and Emily sat at the sofa, and Emily with a bit of excitement asked.
Emily: Hey, hey… You're a traveler, right? Where have you been to so far?
Marco: I came from Illias Village, and I visited the entire Illias Continent, even the Harpy Village, then I came at Sentora and traveled in all three regions, even in the Kitsune Village, when I leave from Lady's Village I would travel to the Gold Volcano for some sightseeing.
And when I visited Gold Port too, I will enter Hellgondo someway. My objective is visiting every place in all three the continents, no exceptions.
Emily: Fantastic, can you tell me a story of yours?
Right now she looked like the carefree young miss of a rich household, her smile was a bit contagious and appeared on Marco's face too, it was a shame that someone like her would be killed from her own mother…
Marco: Let me think… Oh yeah, the King of Sabasa asked me to find a certain someone…
Then Marco started to talk about the mission to rescue Sara, and when Emily heard that everything was just a misunderstanding, she started laughing, which followed a bit Marco.
10 minutes passed, and a woman with a really bountiful shape came in, she was really thick, not fat, but her boobs, ass, and the rest looked like they were hard to put in her dark red dress.
Marco: 'Holy mother of god… If I didn't loved Alice, my mother's dead and she was a good monster I would call her mom and grab those big pieces of meat…' (AN: Seriously, go search on the fandom wiki of Monster Girl Quest and tell me in my face you are a straight man and don't want to grab those boobs if she was not evil)
Cassandra: It seems as though I've kept you waiting for a while.
Marco: N-No, don't worry about it, I had a bit of fun while I was telling Emily about my adventures.
Cassandra: That's good, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am Cassandra, the Lord of this village. My maid Ran told me about you.
Marco: It's nice to meet you, I'm Marco, just a traveler.
Cassandra: Now then Emily, please excuse yourself. I would like to discuss something with our visitor.
Emily: Right-o! See ya!
Emily excitedly jumps up and runs out of the door.
Marco: 'And then she calls me "Rude", is she bipolar or what?'
Then Cassandra gracefully takes a seat in front of me, replacing her daughter.
[SPECIAL QUESTS]
1st. Kick Gabriel's ass
2nd. Achieve coexistence between Monsters and Humans
3rd. Kill Illias
4th. Return to Lucifina's grave
5th. Visit every places in Illias Continent, Sentora and Hellgondo
6th. Turn back to Sabasa Kingdom