The air was thick
The tension was palpable
But one thing was for sure that if this continued an all out fight would happen and as much as I would love to have a go at the young King it would be better to mold him if at all possible.
(**) "Tell me Ant King, what makes beings such as ourselves stand above others?" I say as a reappear in another location and stand upon the edge looking out upon the greater known world before me.
*Fwish*(**) without looking I felt him swipe his tail at me for an attack which I quickly and easily dodged by reappearing once again behind him.
"Tsk, Tsk, so impulsive, I thought you would be smarter than this even if you were just born, I see no point in attacking you, but final warning Ant King, attack me unprovoked again and I'll rip off your tail along with one of your arms and legs to get my point across." I said as our auras clashed even more intensely than before as we stared each other down.
"Hmph, your lucky that I'm not in the mood for a real fight as my hunger has yet to be satiated, I'll hunt my food myself to see if it tastes better fresh." The Ant King says before hopping on the ledge and leaping off the nest with his three royal guards in tow.
"… Can I ask why you're being antagonistic to the newly born Ant King?" Ainz said as he looked over at me as I look back at him.
"To teach him his place for one, and another to maybe to mold him to fit our ideologies, but if that fails after his battle with Netero and you curing him I'll deal with him personally, hell killing him after the fact is probably a hidden objective in of itself." I basically tell him my thought process of the near future.
"So he's not the next member of the chat?" Ainz asked, though he also didn't much like or care for the Ant King either and also saw in this worlds story that his mentality was way to easily influenced by his emotions where as his and Dio's emotions had been deadened or reduced to the bare minimum that the Kings aspirations would in the end be a pipe dream of his.
"If he is stubborn with his ways I doubt he will join us, though I have a few options to choose from, will deal with them after we're done, all you must do is make sure he doesn't die from after the fight with Netero from the poison and we can do whatever we want after this before finishing this and going home." That is the main point why Ainz is here with his many magics that he can cast and large supply of potions and antidotes on his person that he's the perfect choice to keep the Ant King from dying.
"Well I guess we should go see how this king likes humans…" I say hopping on the ledge before plummeting to the earth below.
"…. These people man…. God why do I have to keep up this persona all the time…. Man I'm feeling the mental fatigue when I was overworking myself back at my black company before I was pulled into the game and sent to the New World with this body…. When I'm going to take a nice relaxing Onsen bath with those cute slimes to help clean me off…." Ainz mumbled tiredly to himself before straightening himself out and making a portal to where Dio and the Ant King are located.
By the time he has arrived three humans, two parents and their child were eaten, or more specifically partly eaten, Pitou on the ground grabbing her face while the Ant King was wiping off his hands.
"I don't need you to tell me how I find my food, I rather discover it on my own than go out of my way searching for it, or farm for it myself." He said as he didn't look at her directly.
"But I am surprised, you are strong enough to survive my attack when I was going for the kill Neferpitou." He also says in recognition for her strength and durability.
I didn't interfere as she is the Kings Royal Guard, for now, but I sensed something as soon as Ainz joined us, I'd was a very minor fluctuation in Ainz's emotions, I turned to look and saw Ainz's eyes glowing brighter and him clenching his scepter harder but soon a light enveloped him and those fluctuations in his emotions vanished.
Anger
For some reason something he saw pissed the Skeleton off but quickly was suppressed later on by what appeared to be an skill of his, but it only seemed I realized as none of the others noticed.
"My hunger is satisfied, now I require a palace of my own." The king said as he looked towards the east.
"As you wish my King, let us find you a castle that you can rule your Kingdom from." Pouf said as he and Youpi opened their wings, who the king soon after stood on top of Youpi's back while Pitou climbed upon Poufs back before the King looked back us and smirked.
"Do keep up, I'd be rather disappointed if you were slower than us, 'High Born King'" he said before they took off and flew East at high speeds.
"Hmph….. Ainz, speak, what angered you so? Was it the dead humans before us?" I say as I look at the silent and brooding skeleton.
"No, I don't care for those who I know nothing about whether they live or die, it just means they weren't lucky and thus perished as a result….." he said shaking his head before going silent and gripping his scepter harder as a result.
"No, what angers me is that he quickly abuses his subordinates before anything else, what King is he if he cares not for his subjects and only for himself, I maybe a undead skeleton, but i at least care my close subordinates of mine and look at them as the children of my…. Fallen friends…. That I won't ever be able to see again…." He says at first with anger before it turns to melancholy at the remembrance of his old friends who are long since gone and to him will never come back.
Though he has made new 'friends' through the chat where he doesn't have to constantly be his overlord self but calling the chat members 'friends' is a big stretch as he interacts and speaks with Junko the most with Dio and AFO after that with him barely being acquaintances with Medusa and Muzan and he doesn't get close to Muzan as he finds the demon to be a prick who thinks he's better than everyone and knows that Dio and him will have a confrontation at some point that will lead to one dying, though he is leaning towards Muzan dying but he has no affection for him so it would effect him the least of all.
Hearing this I can understand his view points, "He has the pride and arrogance of a King, but none of the wisdom or charisma to make one follow his lead, they only follow him through instincts and what was written in their DNA to follow his every wish, and it shows as almost none of the remaining Chimera Ants willingly want to follow such a king, he is and always will be a King in name only and never truly a King that one wishes to follow till their dying breath." I say back in response.
"Whether he learns or not doesn't matter, in the end he will die, just not by Netero, all we have to do is deal with him for the time being." I say as I look East as Ainz nods back in response and steps up beside me.
"Well then let's go, we already know where their going anyway." I say as Ainz nods and opens a portal as we step through and arrive in East Gorteau.
"Hoooo? Would you look it that, seems we got here first, let's give these humans a warm welcome." I say with a smirk as I begin to walk towards the Royal Palace.
And soon enough the Halls of the Royal Palace the ground will run red with blood.