When I went to work that day at the town hall, I was greeted by Biblina in the lord's office.

　Huh?
　As I recall, Biblina had just left for the defeat of the bandits...
　That's what I was thinking, and then Biblina
What are you talking about? I'm done with my work.
　I snickered as I said that.

　To be honest, I thought he was joking at first.
　Just then, the deputy captain of the guard station came rushing into the lord's office with a change in his blood.

''Lady Biblina's strike force has returned after capturing that group of thieves.
　That's what the Vice Captain of the Guard said.
　As I listened to it.
You see? That's what I'm talking about.
　And then, a smug Biblina.

　I am.
　On their feet, they moved to the guard station along with Vibrina, the deputy captain of the guard, to the guard station.

　Then they saw a group of what looked like a large number of bandits tied up there.
　The guards were in the process of bringing them in.

　According to Biblina.
I ran into these guys on my way there, and I ran into them early on.
　Well, I got rid of them in a hurry.
　And that was that.

　The last time we had one incident where Googs was seriously injured.
　To be honest, I thought it would take a lot of work this time, so I just had to keep thanking Biblina incessantly.

　Biblina is.
No need to thank me so much.
　They may not have much of a history with us, either.
　That's what he told me.
Well, I'll see you later.
　Well, if you insist on thanking me I'd be happy to buy you dinner.
　He said so, and I agreed to it.
So, tonight is fine then?　Absolutely not.
　With that said, Biblina went back to her room in a good mood.

　I went to visit Unja on my way to her room.
Unja, I'm sorry, but can you set up a dinner for us tonight?
　I spoke to him.
'Yes sir?　How many people do you want to see and how many do you want to see?
　That's what I'm trying to do.
Well, that's everyone who was with the capture team from Batcombe, so I'd say there were about 12 of us, including Vibrina and I.
　I told him.

　....Huh?
　I don't know, Unya is looking very reluctant...
Hey, little girl was that a request from Lady Biblina?
Hmm?　Yes, but?
　So I said to him.
　Unja's face grew even more reluctant and
'Botchan I won't say anything bad.
　I'll leave tonight's dinner alone with Biblina-sama.
　If you want to have the whole squad together for dinner, I recommend you to come back later.
　And he's advancing so hard...

　Well, if Unja says so much.
　I asked him to make some adjustments in that direction, but as he was leaving, Unja
You really don't know much about that sort of thing, do you, little girl?
　He sighed as he said..........what?　Did I miss something?

　I'll check again on that one.
　I once again moved to the guard station.

　All the bandits had already finished moving to the jail in the stuffing station and　
　Now the arrangements for that interrogation had begun to be made.

　By the way.
　Normally, Googus is the one who takes care of these tasks.
　The other day, he was recuperating from an injury he sustained during a battle with this bandit group. I've been sent to visit a summer festival in a local city.
　If they were to be in the city and have them recuperate at home, etc.
　It's a Googs thing, so the measure was taken because he might show up at the guard station immediately and perform his job even though it was his day off.

　By the way.
　I'd like to thank you for this visit.
　Now, I live with Googs, or rather, I live with... or rather, I live with Lil Pop, who lives with us, anyway.
　As a matter of course, they're accompanied by two Goopop, a child of the ancient monster race's humanoid species, who is being taken care of by the two of them.

　Since they don't seem to be interested in getting married officially.
　So I thought it would be a good idea to take a honeymoon, and that's why I asked for this job.

　I thought it was a good idea.
If only I could get this kind of attention against Eldena.
　And then Foldente said that and sighed very loudly....

　Although Foldente gave me a strange, snarky remark.
　We have to interrogate these people and deal with them appropriately.
　I asked a swallow man working at the town hall to deliver an urgent letter to the Lord of Batcombe, Gelter, informing him of the capture of the bandit group as soon as possible.

　A message was entrusted to the swallow man by word of mouth from Gelter.
　From the swallow man who came back.
Mr. Gelter has asked me to speak to you there, as he will be on his way to Liberty soon.
　So I was told.

　I thanked the swallow man for carrying the letter and bringing back the message.
　As he sat in his chair in the lord's office, he began to think about this and that.

　
　The fact that Gelter would be heading here.
　There is speculation that they are trying to do something against this supposedly captured band of thieves.

　Especially Batcombe.
　I've heard that he's constantly skirmishing with the gang of dark charmers who are said to be the lords behind this bandit gang, so I wondered if he might do something about that entanglement.


　Oh, and.
　Thanks to Biblina's squad, we were able to capture the bandits, but
　Our other goal, the search for the ancient monster race is still in limbo.

　I've contacted the guard's office to see if they can spare some manpower for this matter as well.
　I didn't get a very colorful reply.
''Right now, we have quite a bit of time devoted to monitoring and interrogating the people we captured to make sure they don't escape, so if you ask me to go on top of that to explore the ancient monster race... it's a bit difficult.
　That was the reply of the vice captain of the guard.

　I don't want to be embarrassed.
　However, it's only natural that the bandits have to be dealt with first and foremost.
I need you to take care of your business first.
　I've contacted them.

　It would be
　We'll have to send a replacement unit to...
　Well, what to do...

　When I think about this and that.
Isn't it about time, Safate?
　While saying that, Biblina came into the lord's room, looking quite dressed up.

　''Hm?
　I'm sure it's already past my work hours but I think it's time to....
　and
　Having thought this far, I finally remembered that Biblina had told me to set up a dinner party.

　Then
　Unya came into the lord's room at such an exquisite time that it was as if she had been watching me.

　Unja said in my ear
I'm making a reservation at the Decora Pot restaurant.
　and
　He told me the name of a store I wasn't familiar with.
　...Huh?　I don't know where I could find a place like this.
　I twisted my head around as I thought about it.
　Una continued handing me a card-sized piece of paper with a map to the store.

　Oh, right across the street from Siyaka's.

　And thus, I took Biblina with me to dinner, just the two of us.
　On the way.
Were the other members of the strike force good?
　Yes, I've just asked Biblina about it.
"Well, I think that would be a formal dinner... in the first place, if you had invited them to today's dinner, I'd be very angry, too... even though you said it was a reward for her.
　Biblina laughed at that.

　........yeah.
　I guess I'm not the only one who's wise.
　I've been so insensitive...

　Anyway, this was me having dinner with Biblina on this night, yes.