64 . Announcement dinner party in a remote frontier city, part 6



 It's been a few days since I went to King's Landing to hand out invitations.
 Responses to the attendance have been gathered one after another.

 Since I've made Quinn Commerce Association the place to submit my attendance at King's Landing, the regular mail of the magic ship is delivered when there is a Liberty flight from King's Landing.

 The deputy director of the frontier bureau told us that he would be attending the day of the ceremony.
 In response to this, we asked him to address us during the ceremony on the day, and we informed him of this and coordinated the ceremony here.

 Invitations distributed through the House of Lords to each nobleman, along with a ceremonial congratulatory message of absence, have also been received.
 Apparently, it is unlikely that these high ranking nobles who belong to the House of Lords would take the trouble to attend a ceremony in a remote city, let alone in a powerful city near the center.

 However, after a week, this trend started to feel strange.

 This is because
 A few of the noblemen began to reply that they would have their deputy present.

 ........Huh? What do you mean?

 Well, I've been struggling with that.
 Quinn of the Quinn Trading Company, who delivered a reply while I was buying.
''It's a magic ship. All of these nobles have direct control over the frontier, so we are trying to get to know them first, because we want to have the regular service of Lord Safate's magic ship operate there.
 He laughed at that.

 I see, that makes sense.

 Apart from this kind of trend, requests to operate regular services of magic ships are arriving incessantly from various frontier cities.
 As there is only one large magician ship at the moment.
 If you're going to make more stops in cities along the route we're currently operating in, you're welcome.
 The only offers we have now are those that require significant course changes across the board, and if we accept them, it will affect the quickest travel time, which is the biggest advantage of regular flights.....
 In the future, we will be forced to put it on hold until the second magic ship that Dorun is creating has a chance to be completed.

 In the meantime.
 Among the notices of noblemen's attendance was one that contained a letter of intent that was applied to me personally.
 It was from the Charles family, an aristocrat who is in a very low position in the House of Lords.

 In his letter of intent, he wrote

We look forward to seeing you after all these years.

 And the content was in the name of Riboneia, the head of the Charles family.

........Trouble is, I have no recollection of this Charles family or the name Riboneia.
Even if you say "it's been a long time since I've seen you", I'm hiding my real name, Safate, from the center, and working under the name of Gossage, and it doesn't seem strange to say that you haven't seen me in a long time, to begin with.

 When I'm troubled with something like that...

 Erdena, who was organizing the attendance, stood up with a bang as soon as she got the Charles family's attendance notice in her hand.

 .........eh? What's the matter, Eldena?

 And with that in mind.
Safate that acorn cupola is now the master of the house.
 He told me so.

 When she called me an acorn-eyed mirror, I finally thought of it.

 When I was a teacher at a university in King's Landing, there was a girl who was very enthusiastic about taking my classes.
 The girl always wore a pair of homemade glasses made from acorn tree branches that grew in her garden, and I was impressed by them.

........Oh, but that's funny....
 In the center, I'm a gossage operating as a gossage.
 How can you say "it's been a while," this girl?

 I've had a lot of trouble with it.
 I decided to force myself to accept that it is still related to the magic ship.

 I'm not sure if I'll be able to attend the event, but I've received a proposal from the Chamber of Commerce in King's Landing, which I hadn't sent out an invitation to, so I'll be coordinating that as well.
 It's not a bad thing to be on good terms with other merchant associations, although there is a decision to make the Quinn Chamber of Commerce a business partner in the King's Capital.
 And there are some deals that Quinn Chamber of Commerce is not good at.
 When you come across such a case, it's important to get involved with other business associations that you can ask for help.
 Quinn knows this too.
 It seems that the Quinn Chamber of Commerce has rejected all requests from rival merchant associations that currently deal mainly in dragon scale armor and magic stones that they deal with us, and the approaches from such merchant associations have not arrived to an unnatural degree.
 
 The attendance from the royal capital is also all over the place.
 Finally, the flow of the ceremony has been confirmed.

 With this, the number of items to be arranged for the eve of the ceremony, arrangements for the lodging for those staying the night before the ceremony, and preparations for the extra flights for the magic ship, all of which are increasing.
 All of this work related to the unveiling event is on top of my regular duties, so my workload is increasing by 50% on a daily basis.

 In.
 On this day, I was working late in the Oval Office.
 Foldente came into the room.
Okay, why don't you just relax for a change?
 And I was forcibly taken to the hot springs.
 
 We didn't go to the hot spring village.

 We've been working for a while now to run a pipe from the hot spring settlement to this Liberty Town Hall, and now it's finally taking shape.

 When I was taken by Foldente to the bathing facility under construction at a little high place of Mt.
 Erdena, Biblina, Korok and the others were already in there.

 ........I mean, it's not a mixed bath, is it?

 He said I was in a hurry.
I haven't finished the girls' bath yet.
 And Foldente.

 No, but that would be a bad idea, and when I was in trouble.
I don't care about the straw.
 And, Vibrina.

 I mean, I'm in a lot more trouble than you are, so I'm rejecting you...

 Yes, I'm confused.
"My lord is coming in, bear with me!
 And Korok, in his naked state, pulled my arm and forced me to go to the hot spring.......
 Still resisting.
 Korok tried to forcibly pull my clothes off, which almost tore them off...
 In fact, at this point, I've given up on the idea.
 He went into the whole group of women, apologizing for bathing with a towel wrapped around his waist.

 Unusually, Sarah was there as well.
 Sarah is usually supposed to be in command of the bone people she summoned at this time of day.
Yeah, lately, being able to summon a bone-human conductor has made things easier for me.
 He laughed at that.

 .........which is fine.

 Sarah could you please cover me with something to cover me up?
What are you talking about? Is it in me and my lord, never mind.
 Sarah said that and laughed it off with a big smile.
 When Eldena heard that line, she heard it.
"...Safate, what do you mean by that? Could you please elaborate on where Sarah's statement is truly intended now?
 And then he came at me with a smile that wasn't a smile at all.
 And then there's Vibrina.
You never touched a strawberry. You've been holding him captive?
 And then he came at me with a look of 120% rage on his face.

 I don't know.
 I feel like I'm supposed to have come in for a breather, but I feel like I'm only getting worse as a result.
 And Foldente was the one who forced me to bring him here, so why don't you hold them both down?
 That's what I thought.
You need to mind your own business.
 And while you're at it, you're drinking with Sarah and....

 or rather (say)
 I don't remember turning them into my girls at all, and I seriously think it would be too bad for them if they were called my girls in the first place.

It's hard to get your money's worth, isn't it, Biblina and Eldena?
 And then Foldente says that and laughs again.....

 In the end, the day didn't leave much to be desired.
 So I had to go back to my room, yes.