After finishing lunch, I immediately returned to the mansion.

　It's a holiday, everyone in the town hall is basically closed, and I just came back from the royal capital, so I wanted to put my things away.

''Well the meeting's already over, so I'll help you.
　Erdena said so, and she accompanied me, but it was only Korok who was walking with me.
Come on, let's go have some more fun.
　He pulled me to my feet as he said that.
　I couldn't help it, so I promised to eat dinner with him today and to play with him tomorrow.
That's a good bear!
　Korok said with a smile and went back to his room where Tille was waiting for him.

'Welcome back, Botchan, Nya.
　When I returned to my room in the lord's mansion, I found that Unja was in the middle of cleaning up this and that.
　I had asked for all the laundry at Quinn's mansion, so all the changes of clothes were in Unya's magic bag, but those seemed to have already been put away.
Let me help you get rid of your stuff, little one.
　Unya walked over to me with a smile on her face as she said that.

　I had a good amount of my stuff, but with Unja and Erdena's help, I was able to finish cleaning everything up in about two hours.
　Of all that stuff, the largest part of it was still the materials and textbooks I was given for the training.
　
　Anyway, new teaching materials were added every day, and sometimes a whole book was handed out as a material, so we ended up with nearly seven boxes of crates.
　It's very impressive to think that I've shoved all of these into my head in the past month.
　Thanks to the fact that I had already been working as a lord of a small frontier city for a few months, I knew a lot of the content, so not everything was new to me, but it's true that I went through all the materials over and over again.
　For my part, I sincerely hope that I don't have to take another training course that requires me to read and understand so much material.

　Apart from the materials, there were also two crates of paperwork required to elevate the frontier small city of Liberty to frontier city status.
　I've read through them in King's Landing, so I have a general grasp of their contents, but it seems that the only thing Liberty needs to deal with is the matters related to the organization of the town hall.
　Specifically, the frontier cities are supposed to have to appoint two deputy lords in case of an emergency.
　The current Liberty has one deputy lord, Erdena, so they have to appoint another one.

　If the current lord was a sub-lord, we would have to appoint a new racial lord and have an equal number of racial and sub-lords in council, but since I'm a racial lord, that's not necessary.

We'll discuss with everyone again who to ask for a deputy lord.
　When I said that, Eldena agreed with me.
　Eldena has two of these crates of promotion-related documents in front of her.
"I'd like to take a look at it and see if I can borrow it for a while.
　I said.
　Indeed, I also thought it would be better to have him look over it since he was the Vice Lord, so I readily agreed to lend it to him.
　When Erdena heard my reply, she packed the wooden box into her magic bag on the spot.

　Not long after that, we finished packing up our stuff and were taking a break with the tea that Unja had made for us.
　Then
Goodnight and welcome home.
　While saying that, Foldente appeared in the room.

　It's a unique appearance for her, a thought body that originally had no reality, but even that feels nostalgic now.

　Foldente is sitting across from us who are drinking tea.
It's a good thing that you're able to get the best out of it.
　He folded his arms as he said this.
　At those words, I, Erdena, and Unya all leaned forward involuntarily.

　According to what Foldente said, ten members of the Darkness Charming were thrust into the guard jambs of the royal capital.
　At any rate, it seems that the knights from a rather distant frontier garrison brought them in, but it seems that among their captors were people of a fairly high ranking position in the Dark Charming, and they are currently being interrogated in the royal capital.
''........But how could you send them back safely from such a remote garrison?
　Eldena sounded impressed when she heard the story.

　According to Erdena, at any rate, several members of the Dark Charming were once captured in a city near Liberty as well.
　However, the members who were captured at this time were taken back by other members of the Dark Charming while they were being taken by the knights of the frontier garrison near that city towards the capital.

　In the capital, we haven't heard much about the dark charmers since that incident, but they don't seem to be behaving quietly after all.
　I heard that Erdena's case has already been conveyed to Guard Captain Gugs, so I've decided to pass on the information that Foldente just brought back to Gugs.
　In the evening, I was planning to go ask Gugs about the state of everyone in the mercenary group, so I'm going to tell him while I'm there.

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　After chatting in the mansion for a while, I headed to the guard's quarters with Erdena and Foldente.

'Yo, welcome back,'
　Googus had already returned to the staging area.
　He had patrolled the Gehmose area and returned in a carriage, apparently.
'I heard from Lil Pop, I heard your training went off without a hitch.
　Googus banged me on the shoulder as he said that.
　I return the hospitality with a smile.

　In front of Gugsu, I saw Jarnase and Blorose, who I had dealt with in King's Landing, smiling at me.
　The two of them are waving at me with smiles on their faces.
　I'm sure they are all members of Jarnase and Blorose's mercenary group.
I'm sure they've listened to me and are doing their best. It's a good thing that all of the guys that the lord introduced to me from the capital were good luck, so I'm really grateful.
　Gugus smiled with a nikah as he looked around at everyone in the mercenary group.
　They were all smiling happily, as if they were happy to be praised by Gugus.
'So, my lord. Can you take some time off sometime?　I'd like to have a welcoming party for these guys, and I'm hoping the lord who introduced me to them will be able to attend.
　When Googs said that.
I owe you my life. I'm going to make sure you're okay.
　As he said this, Jarnase winked at me while brushing up his hair.
　It's a good idea to open the chest button on purpose to emphasize the ample breasts, so I was unintentionally stuck looking at them.
　When Erdena noticed this, she gently pinched my back with an unhappy expression on her face.......or rather, she pinched me pretty hard.

　I told Googus that I would be happy to participate and asked him to let me know again when the date was set.
　When I expressed my intention to participate, everyone in the Tsumesho let out a collective cheer.

''All right, we've got to make sure we connect with our benefactor!
Yeah, totally.
My lord, you should be prepared for this.

　I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it through this drinking party in one piece, but I can only smile at the people cheering in front of me.

◇ ◇ ◇.

　I heard that my farewell party will be held tomorrow afternoon at the usual hot spring village, so Eldena, Korok and I decided to have dinner in my room today.

　It's been a long time since I've had a home-cooked meal from Una, but it was still delicious and I was happy to be nostalgic for some reason.
　Come to think of it, she'd been making it for me from time to time since I was still a nobleman, and I figured that must be part of it, but beside me as I was reminiscing about that...
"Unya's food is good, bear, another bear.
　Korok didn't hesitate to give me three refills.
'Everyone eat a lot of food, please.'
　Unja also smiled at Korok as he smiled at me and Erdena as he prepared another round of drinks.


　After finishing dinner, Korok went back to his room, saying he was going to sleep with Tille.
'Well then, Una will go back to her room too.
　While saying this, Unja also went back to her room on the first floor of the mansion.

　I went back to my room with Erdena.
　I entered my room.
Thank you for all your hard work.
　As she says this, Eldena puts her hand on my shoulder and gently kisses me.
　I would take Eldena into my arms.
　We moved straight into the bedroom.

　There, we kissed each other again, and Eldena and I fell straight into bed.