Welcome to the Netherworld!

[lazyvassals]

[It is difficult to define what a normal afternoon is by Netherworld standards. In the dark, torch-lit halls of the Overlord's Castle, penguin-suited prinnies totter about pretending to do work, while most other vassals make no effort at all to pretend. No fights have broken out yet, but it is questionable how long that will last with the Overlord being awake. It is just the sort of calm that comes before something unexpected happens, or someone makes it happen out of boredom.

And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.

It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.

Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]

Comments

[makainoou]

What are you talking about? You're the one that just waltzed into my throne room, and I don't see any "us."

[trademark_skull]

They're probably still asking the Gatekeeper I think, there was quite a crowd before I left.

Either way, you better do something.

[makainoou]

Crowd?

[Okay, he's starting to take this a little more seriously. Just a bit. He still hasn't put down the game controller.]

You mean there's a whole bunch of you bumpkins milling around my castle?

[trademark_skull]

I didn't count, but there definitely seems to be more.

[And, he is not a bumpkin :|]

[makainoou]

[Only a bumpkin would not recognize his Overlord's greatness.

aka Laharl still doesn't know they're all from other worlds.]

Well, go tell them all to get lost and go home. I didn't summon any of you, and this isn't some kind of tourist attraction.

[trademark_skull]

[Twitches.]

If I could go home, I wouldn't be here telling you about it!

[makainoou]

What, do you need someone to hold your hand and show you out the gate? You're lucky I'm giving you the opportunity to just leave.

[trademark_skull]

I know how to use them. Your gate isn't working.

[makainoou]

So how did you all get here if it isn't working?

[trademark_skull]

I don't know!

[makainoou]

Look, if the gate's actually not working right, I'll have her take a look at it, but it's not like anyone's keeping you here. You wanna get home that badly, then hoof it.

[trademark_skull]

[Honestly he's a little bit afraid of where he was right now entirely. But let's hold thought for now.]

Do you have any idea how long that will take?

[makainoou]

Depends on how fast you tire out.

Though you do look like you wouldn't last that long.

[trademark_skull]

[Glaaaaare Actually he's probably right.]

Look if you don't do something soon, you're gonna have others at your door too.

[makainoou]

[Your persistence is annoying.]

If you don't start walking soon, I might have to send you home in pieces.

[trademark_skull]

[Well I know who to blame for that.]

[...Maaaaybe getting a little intimidated though. Still refuses to back down, but doesn't really want to fight either.]

[makainoou]

Or maybe you'd prefer it that way.

[He's putting aside the controller now. Yes, be intimidated. He is intimidating!]

[trademark_skull]

[Super intimidating! Wait, no. Maybe. Not sure anymore.]

No way! [Going home is just that important, alright?]

[makainoou]

[Laharl stands up and folds his arms, because surely that will help. He's so... tall.]

You're really trying my patience, brat. I told you to leave.

[trademark_skull]

[I think those antennae might give you a few inch advantage. Good enough.]

Not until you do something. [Hard to sound like a threat when he was backing down slightly, still not giving up quite yet though.]

What kind of Overlord are you?

[Unless he does go back to his original assumption and this kid really wasn't the Overlord at all.]

[makainoou]

One who doesn't appreciate his decisions being questioned.

You can't stay in my castle while I have the gate fixed; you shouldn't have been here in the first place. So what you do with yourself in the meantime isn't my problem.