My farewell party that started at noon ended up continuing until the next morning.
　Everyone was taking a nap in between, but Jeanvalea, who hadn't participated in a drinking party in a while, seemed to be enjoying herself from start to finish.
　When more and more people started coming to pour drinks around me, Gianbarea started to move closer to Erdena, Biblina and Nirmana, but eventually she was talking to Sarah, who was drinking in silence, pouring drinks and talking to her.
　I'm not sure if that's all the people Jambalea went around with, though, as I myself had fallen asleep sitting down a few times in between...

　It's kind of like this at every Liberty party, I chuckled to myself as I thought about it.

　I was told that there were several private rooms in the inn for napping, and I thought I'd be allowed to lie down in one of them before dawn, but the men's room was already occupied by all the mercenaries, so there was no room left for me to get in.

　I had no choice but to return to the great hall to find Korok asleep in the back of the room, leaning against the sleeping Tiree's stomach.
　I decided to come in next to Korok and let him sleep for a bit.
　Tiree's belly was more comfortable than I thought it would be, and I fell asleep in no time at all.

　When I woke up a short time later, I was surprised to find Eldena, Biblina, Nirmana, and Unja snuggled up to me.

◇ ◇.

　We left the hot spring inn before noon and took a temporary stagecoach back to the town hall.
　Even on the way back, Tille and Korok ran back behind the stagecoach.
　It was funny to see them in good spirits, but the sunlight was a little hard on my sleep-deprived eyes.

　I got out of the stagecoach that arrived in front of the town hall and quickly returned to the mansion.
　As expected, it was too hard to just take a nap, so I took a shower to lightly sweat off and then tried to lie in bed for a bit, but when I finished showering, I
Hey, little man.......uh, someone's here to see you....
　Unna approached me with an apologetic expression on her face.

　I'm sure you've heard that the representative of the subhuman villages around Liberty who heard that I had returned from training has come to say hello.
　I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to get to the point where I'll be able to get to the point where I can't just return the favor, so I decided to meet him in the mansion's parlor.

　The person who came to greet me was the head of the falconry settlement who lives in the nearby mountains.

　There are falconer fathers and daughters living in Liberty as well, and they do this and that work for the air transport service at the town hall, and the people of this settlement sometimes help me with this work.

　Most of my conversations with the head of this hawker's village were of the sort that I'm talking about in response to the training and chatting with him.
"When this Liberty becomes a frontier city, we would like to have our settlement here as part of it, so please do us all a favor.
　This seemed to be the most important thing he had to do.

　When you are in a frontier city, you are even given the task of managing the area around the city.
　To be more specific, if people who don't live in the city, but live near the city and want to belong to it, they will have to take care of that as well.
　Specifically, I will be making patrols and taking care of people to avoid being attacked by monsters and brigands, and taking the lead in constructing public works such as the city streets and walls.
　Although the expenses will be paid by the king's city at a later date, the work of the king's city is very slow, so they will have to pay for a long time.
　For this reason, there are some cities that reject all applications for affiliation from the residents in the vicinity, even if they are promoted to a frontier city, and several instructors at this training course said, "We would like to ask you to accept the affiliation as much as possible.

　However, I had no intention of refusing the training because I have been working in the Takanin community for a number of times.
In that case, it's my pleasure to be here.
　As I replied, the head of the Hawkman settlement smiled happily and asked me to shake his hand.

　I was about to return to my room when the chief of the Hawkman community left after about an hour.
Hey, little guy there's still a person waiting to see you.
　Unja said that apologetically.

　After listening carefully, I heard that besides the head of the Hawkman settlement, representatives of the six settlements are present at this point in time...

　Moreover, all of the villages had worked together several times before, so it was hard to refuse the meeting with the head of the Takanin community now that I met with him.

　Later that day, I met with the representatives of 6 villages, but 3 more villages' representatives arrived during the meeting, so I finally met with 9 villages' representatives.
　By the time everything was over, the sun had already set, and in the end I wasn't able to do anything for myself today.
　I wanted to do this and that because I knew I'd be busy returning to the town hall tomorrow, but I decided to give up meekly, saying that what had passed was inevitable.

　Since I had been helping Unya deal with her hospitality role.
I'm sorry, little one, but we're not ready for dinner tonight.
　And of course, that's what happened...
　I had no choice, so I was getting ready to go out for dinner today with Wunya and I thought I'd go out for dinner.
I'll go with you, and I won't let you refuse.
　As she said this, Vibrina came in with great speed.
　She was probably waiting somewhere in the mansion for me to finish my visit.
　So, as the three of us, Unja and I, plus Vibrina, were about to go out to eat
I'll come with you.
　And now Erdena came running in with great speed.
　Apparently, Erdena was also waiting for my visit to end somewhere in the mansion....
　So the four of us, me and Una, plus Biblina and Erdena, were about to go out to dinner.
Um, can we join you?
　And now Aura and Aela come in and....

　Eventually, after this, we were finally able to go out for a meal when Foldente joined Nirmana....

◇ ◇.

　We finished our meal at a newly opened diner, which was pretty good.
　We headed back to the mansion, thinking that we could go back to eat there again soon.

　When I arrived at the front of the mansion, I told everyone that
I'll see you tomorrow.
　Then I was about to say goodbye but then Aura and Aela raised their hands in a horrible way.
'Well, if you don't mind, I was wondering if you could tell me what happened in King's Landing...'
　That's what he said.
　Then it was up to Biblina.
Well, mistress, I want to hear about the past month.
　As he said this, he joined the conversation.

　In the end, I ended up inviting everyone who went to dinner to the mansion to talk about the events that took place in the royal capital.

　I left out the details of the training, as expected.

　A new friend I met out there.
　Everyone at Quinn Trading Co.
　The Sanryu-Tei, which I hadn't been to in a while

　I talked about it vainly.
　Everyone seemed to enjoy listening to me, and I became happy to remember everyone I met during my training.

　I was in the capital just a few days ago, but now that I'm safely back here in Liberty, I feel like I'm already in the past.
　This city of Liberty may be a kind of home for me.