When Maria smashed open the doors leading into the ice chamber and walked out, Ash, Carmilla, and a few other subordinates of theirs quickly raised their shields and waited for her. “...Your Majesty?” Ash cautiously called out. “...” The cold fog gushing out of the ice chamber was obscuring their vision of Maria but they could tell that she was standing there at the doorway since her wings were poking out of the roiling fog. “Your Majesty!” Ash called out once again. Maria had been stretching her aching neck and muscles so she didn’t respond. When she opened her eyes, a flash of dark red pupils glared directly back at him and soon Ash heard, “...Shut up you i***t. I heard you the first time.” Since his Queen was still able to converse normally, this meant that she wasn’t going berser