Rafael still does not understand why everyone else decided to put him in charge.

The other Guild Masters and Leaders each ruled over their areas the best they could, but none of them wanted to have anything to do with deciding how everyone did things.

That may sound confusing to anyone who heard him say that, but the western part of Aincrad was a mixture of different cultures that didn't agree on a lot of things.

And someone had to tell everyone to stop arguing because what they were arguing about didn't matter. After all, Aincrad wasn't a part of their kingdoms.

Despite him having to say that over and over again, everyone always seemed to forget it and he was forced to listen to people complain about even more pointless things.

Rafael watched as a pair of knights opened the doors to the meeting room where the representatives of each religion waited for him.

As he followed Asuna into the room he expected the men to either be standing or sitting down, but what he didn't expect was to find himself standing in a room filled with people who were all waiting for him to hear their complaints.

He turned to look at Asuna who shrugged, and with no other options he walked to the largest chair in the room.

The chair wasn't a throne, it was just a big chair but the room filled with gasps, and the people in the room all smiled and murmured with each other the moment that he sat down.

'Okay let's begin." he says before pointing at a man who walked up to him, but kept his distance so that he didn't look like a threat.

the man told him that he had come when he heard that he had returned and was now putting things back in order again and that he was among the farmers whose land had been taken when Aincrad had been invaded.

The man then knelt and swore loyalty to him after happily telling him about how his family was now living comfortably again, after he and his managed to drive the invaders out of the mountain.

As the man walked away a woman walked up to him and she too kept her distance, the woman complained that she had tried to send her daughter to one of the brothels, but the knights had stopped her from doing so.

She argued that this kind of thing was common in Japanese culture as children needed to help their parents when they became older.

Rafael agreed to let the woman do this but she could only do so if she sent the girl to one of the tea houses that were under the female samurai's control.

From the corner of his eye, Rafael could see Asuna glaring daggers at him because he had just allowed the woman to sell their daughter as a prostitute and that meant that there would soon be other people doing the same thing.

Those people would use this one incident as an excuse.

he wished that it wasn't true but even if he hadn't allowed the woman to do so, she would have found another way to sell the girl off, at least this way she would be safe behind the protection of the samurai who he had heard were extremely protective of eachother.

The day went on like this, if it wasn't someone who was asking for help because their village was attacked it was someone trying to open trade with Aincrad.

A group of people who had come to him asking for his help in dealing with an invading army, to a group of men from said army threatening him to join their side or else.

Rafael simply told both groups to go away as he was in no hurry to get involved in another war.

The hours passed until finally the group that he should have met at the beginning of all of this was standing before him, the men were all respectful, and while they were irritated because they had to wait they nonetheless poked softly at him.

They agreed that women should cover themselves and that was all that they agreed on.

Rafael watched as the men began to argue with each other.

One man said that women should be covered from head to toe, while another said that it was too much for them to cover their faces.

Another man argued that women should be allowed to show their ankles because their clothes would get filthy and they would carry the filth with them.

He couldn't help but find the men's actions as funny and he soon began to laugh, The room fell silent as everyone looked at him with wide eyes as they wondered if he had finally gone mad from the stress he had been feeling.

"How about a compromise, each of you has your own belief, why not only have the women from your beliefs dress how they are taught." he says to the men who immediately say that those women would be tempted by how the people around them were dressed.

"Temptation is always going to be there, it doesn't mean that you are going to do it." he says to the men who reluctantly agree to do what he says.

the next thing that the men talked to him about was that they wanted the brothels and other places like them to be shut down and that all of the women that worked in them to be punished.

Rafael reminded the men, that those same women paid for several of their houses of worship to be built and that it was they who begged him to let their people into Aincrad.

The truth was a lot more complicated than that, but he didn't lie about what the women had done.

The men argued that a person could find a prostitute wherever they went and that the kingdom was rotting because of them

"Kingdom what kingdom?" Rafael quietly asked himself, he turned to look at Asuna who didn't react to the men's words and just kept her eyes on the people watching the meeting.

"Okay from now on prostitution is illegal if it's outside of a certain area.

People are going to be people and they have needs, no one can stop them from having those needs met but they can't do that in places where children are." he says to the men who glare at him.

He knows that this won't be the end of this but for the moment it's enough and so the men and the rest of the people in the room leave.