Seeing the guard captain crossing his arms and address her in such an informal way was enough to amplify her ire ten-fold. Her electrical aura surging along with her heightened emotional state that as she neared, the same hand that pointed a sharp finger at the mustached man opened wide as she viciously swiped her palm across the man's face with a resounding
SLAP!. The force of which was empowered by her electrical mana, making the action sting and hurt just that much more. A small part of Marianne's mind worried when her open-palm slap of the man drew the attention of the other guards and nobles, but his crimes were far too serious and egregious to ignore. To go unpunished and unaddressed would be madness. Right now, Marianne was more focused on embarrassing the man and to chew his ass out. And chew him out she would. Only the Princess herself, Captain Fanily, and the Holy Immortal wherever she was, could reign her in and stop her.
"How dare you!"She was inches away from his own face, her's quickly reddening as her blood pressure rose.
"You will uncross your arms when speaking to one of higher station and rank than yourself!"Even if Marianne was shorter, she somehow appeared to tower over the guard as she placed her fists on her hips.
"You will stand at attention and you will address a lady by 'ma'am' or 'miss'!"Now that she got that out of the way..
"What were you and your guards doing at this event to allow such an attempt on the Princess' life!?"With each rise in her voice, her mana surged more and more. She dared the guard captain talk back to her and do anything other than speak in the affirmative. She challenged him to by her body language.
"Were you checking and screening the guests!?"Her aura loudly crackled and snapped, kissing and biting at the mustached guard captain as they stung him.
"Were your guards roaming the grounds properly as they should have to keep eyes on matters?!"Her hair of course levitated and floated in the air behind her, again only adding to her intimidating stance.
"Had we, the Iron Roses, not been here what would have happened then? On whose head would the executioner's axe fall for such a potential disaster? For such a failure had the Princess sustained a wound or even worse?!"She and most everyone else should already know the answer to that.
"YOURS!"Her voice boomed especially loud, to punctuate the message she was trying to get across with emphasis.
"Thank the Goddesses that the Iron Roses were present and took action swiftly to prevent injury and loss of life!"Her eyes were locked on to the guard captain's as she focused on him, giving him her full attention as she blasted him.
"If it were up to me, if you were a Knight of the Delacroix, I would have you stripped of your position and rank for your obvious display of incompetence!"Marianne stamped her heel as for the next minute or so she spewed a string of profanities in her native tongue in the guard captain's face. Veiling her nastier words and curses with her foreign language.
"What excuses do you have to say for yourself? Whatever it is, save it as you would be wasting your breath and our time. Leave our presence as you disgrace us all by merely standing here! Complete the tasks you were assigned if you could manage that and begone with you!"Pointing a sharp finger in his face, she finished with one last line.
"Remember this for future reference and do better next time. For if you do not, there will not BE a 'next time'. Fix yourself, sir! And your men!"
