Grant looked at the pair of mother and daughter as he drank tea from his cup.
"Is it to your liking?", Queen of Gritonia Empire Maria siad with a smile on her face.
"It has a unique taste."
The tea was golden in colour, giving off a strong sense of magic power hidden in it, it was definitely not some ordinary tea which can be bought from the market.
Meanwhile the girl sitting beside, Maria kept sneaking glances at Grant's face from time to time while blushing.
"I'm glad you liked it."
The smile on Maria's face brightened as she suddenly raised her hand and patted the head of the girl beside her.
"This is my daughter Lily, she really wanted to meet you, I hope that you would be able to spend some time with her."
"Mother!!"
Lily shouted with puffed cheeks as she hurriedly got rid on Maria's hand from her head.
Maria only giggled when she saw her daughter's embarrassed face.
Grant's attention was also drawn to Lily as he thought in his mind.
'Lily Front Gritonia...one of the crazy character in the series who was willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of eliminating the demons, I heard that she is about 11 this year, which means that there are still 7 or more years before the start of the story, actually Makoto and the others might not even be summoned to this world this time as I am already here...'
Grant was lost in his own thoughts while Lily who was being stared at by Grant didn't know what to do, her face kept turning more and more red as she kept avoiding Grant's gaze.
Maria kept muttering "Oh my" as she covered her mouth with her hand and looked at the two of them.
"I-I am Lily Front Gritonia!"
Lily who was unable to take it anymore suddenly said in an almost shouting voice.
Grant blinked his eyes as he came out of his reverie, he was a bit too immersed in thinking about the plot that he forgot to pay attention to the conversation.
"Grant Ashdown, it is a pleasure to meet you princess."
"L-like wise!."
Lily said in a hurry as she did a noble greeting by lifting her skirt from bothe sides and bowing a little.
"It looks like the two of you are getting along quite well."
Maria laughed a little making Lily glare at her with teary eyes.
"Your Majesty about the request I asked for in the letter....."
Grant interjected in a serious voice as he looked at Maria, he has more important things to do then to waste his time sitting here and watching the drama unfold.
Maria's eyes narrowed a little, just this morning she received a letter from Grant stating a request which was out of her expectations.
"You want to meet the superior dragon of sand wave, Grount?"
Maria said in a serious voice, her playful attitude from before was long gone.
After all this wasn't some random lizard.
It was a superior dragon and the one guarding the Empire at that!!!.
The matters regarding superior dragons need to be handled very delicately, it was no joke if one of them started going on a rampage due to being provoked.
Especially an ally on the Empire.
Grant nodded his head when he heard the Queen's confirmation.
There was only one reason as to why he was looking for the superior dragon.
'Lancer and Sofia.....'
These two will be his biggest obstacle in defeating the demon kind.
'Especially that Lancer who is able to absorb other superior dragons....'
This crazy dragon created by Root was going around killing other superior dragons and taking their cores.
If it was only upto that then it wouldn't have been his problem, but the thing is that these two were also on the demon's side.
And Grant was not going to give his soon to be enemies any time to become powerful.
He would contact Grount and directly tell her about Lancer and Sofia so that the superior dragon will be able to contact others of its kind and warn them as well.
'I just hope those useless Night Clad, Doma and Crimson Lapis, Azuma aren't done in yet by Lancer and Sofia...'
These two Superior dragons were already dead by the start of the story.
Well dead wouldn't be an appropriate word as superior dragons are able to revive after dying at the loss of their memories but still.
"Since it is the request of the Hero then I will personally contact the guardian dragon Grount and ask for her permission."
"Thank you for listening to my request.....'
"Hoho you don't need to worry, it is the least I can do for the hope of our Empire and we are soon going to be family anyway..."
Maria's words trailed off as she said with a knowing smile on her face.
"But if you do feel grateful then why don't you spend some time with my daughter right here, she is also going to be your fiance soon."
"Mother!!"
Lily shouted in an angry voice but her ears perked up with expectations to hear Grant's reply.
"Maybe some other time your Majesty, I still have some important things to do today.", Grant said as he calmly declined her invitation to stay.
"That's regretful."
Maria said as she looked at the sad look on Lily's face.
"Then I shall not disrupt the two of you any longer."
Saying his farewell, Grant left the place.