DISCLAIMER: Excel Saga belongs to Koshi Rikdo.

~ Title ~

"Lord Ilpalazzo, Your Majesty!" Excel greeted her master.

"I'm not a king... yet," Ilpalazzo replied in a bored and slightly offended tone.

"Your... Grace?" his bumbling blonde servant put forth uncertainly instead.

"I'm not a duke, either."

And clearly Excel had no clear idea of how regency aristocratic titles and their assorted ways of address truly worked.

"Your... your..." the dimwit stuttered, struggling to come up with the proper answer of how to call him. "Your Il-ness!"

Ilpalazzo sighed heavily and pressed a hand to his forehead, reaching for the cord to the trapdoor with his other hand.

~end~