The one who came as a messenger from Greencombe was an elf under Eldena's father's command.
　Eldena's father is one of the lords of the frontier city of Greencombe.
　
　Unlike Liberty Combe, Greencombe has a more complicated system of lordship than Liberty Combe.

　The frontier city of Greencombe was ruled by an elf family as lords during the frontier small city era, but it was upgraded to a frontier city by annexing several surrounding villages.
　The lords of the frontier cities are considered to be either racial or a pluralistic system of racial and sub-human lordship, which is absolute.　
　This is a measure due to the fact that the King's City encourages Boblebamism, a doctrine of racial supremacy, as its metropolitan religion.
　When a city that was sub-human in the days of the frontier cities is elevated to a frontier city, the city must either abolish the sub-human lords and appoint racial lords, or appoint lords of a race equal to or greater than the number of sub-human lords and have a plurality of lords in council.
　Greencomb also appointed lords of more than the same number of racial lords as the subhuman elven lords when it was elevated to a frontier city, but they were all bishops of the Bobblebum religion.
　The rules of the King's Landing do not require them to be boblebamists, although they have race as an absolute.
　Because of this, there was no need to forcibly appoint bishops, but because there were almost no races living in the Greencombe, the Elf lords were in trouble and consulted the Central Frontier Bureau of the King's Capital, and these bishops were dispatched as lords.
　Incidentally, one of this group of Greencombe lords, one of the lords from the time of the frontier small city, was Eldena's own father, and the other elven lords were all her relatives.

　The messenger elf from Greencombe met me in the reception room and first congratulated me on my promotion to the frontier city, and then quickly got down to business.
''The races currently serving as lords of Greencombe are in turmoil...''
　All of the bishops dispatched to Greencombe are said to be the ones who receive large donations from a certain noble family in the capital.
　It seems that in return for their donations, the bishops were overpromising the noble families with rare fruits that are the specialties of Green Convoy on a priority basis.

　And it is said that the nobleman who donated a lot of money to the bishops of Greencombe is Greedo family.

　Their backer, the Greed family was demoted, and the bishop lords suddenly lost their financial backing.

　It is said that the bishop lords are in a panic and can no longer manage the city, so they are desperate to return to King's Landing to find a new backer.

　The elven messenger continued his words.
　
　The current lords of Greencomb are five bishop lords and three elven lords.
　Even though it was a collegial system, there were more bishop lords of the race than bishop lords, so no matter what was decided, a structure had been created that could only make decisions according to the wishes of the bishop lords.
　Therefore, it seems that the procedure for the reappointment of the lords was to be carried out while the bishops' lords returned to King's Landing and were busy looking for new backers.

　The procedure for the reappointment of lords is a system that can only be carried out for lords who have been dispatched by the King's Capital in a multi-lord system city.

　It is a system that only allows for the dispatch of a new lord if there is a lord dispatched by the King's Capital.

　Normally, a letter of opinion from the bishop lords should be submitted along with it, but in the first place, the bishop lords would not agree to the submission of documents related to the reappointment procedure, which would mean their removal from office.

　But there is an exception to this system.
"If a lord who should submit a written opinion has been absent from the city for personal reasons for more than half a month, he may be replaced by a written opinion from two or more racial lords from neighboring frontier cities.
　This is the case.
　
　It seems that the Bishop Lords of Greencombe have already been away from Greencombe for nearly a month.
　Therefore, the Elven Lords of Greencombe decided to proceed with the reappointment of the lords and asked me, a racial lord from a neighboring frontier city, to write a letter of opinion.
　The other one seems to have sent a separate messenger to Geltor in the frontier city of Batcombe with the request.

　I have no objection to this matter, and I'd rather not have to hope that the relationship with Greencombe will be good because those bishop lords are gone.

　I immediately prepared a written opinion on the spot according to the form that was handed to me.
　I listed the many acts that I had seen that interfered with good urban relations and that I believed their actions were causing a great deal of disadvantage to the Green Convoy's shopping district association.
　When I was reviewing the documents, Eldena, who was out on an inspection of Liberty Convey, seemed to have returned and walked into the reception room.
　The elf messenger seemed to be acquainted with Erdena, and as soon as he saw Erdena's face, he began to smile.
''........You worked at my father's mansion, I believe.......''
Yes, that is correct, Miss Eldena.
　While the two of them were smiling and chatting, I finished the paperwork.
　I signed the end and handed the sealed envelope to the messenger elf, who handed it to me.
'Please give my regards to the elven lords.
　I said with a smile.
　The elf messenger left the town hall, thanking me and Eldena repeatedly.

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　Less than half a month later, the procedures for reappointing the Greencomb lords were approved by the Central Frontier Bureau in the royal capital.
　Apparently, the bishop lords who were eager to find a new backer were in a panic because they hadn't heard of it before.
　It was said that the former bishop lords tried to protest through their church organization to the Central Frontier Bureau and Green Convoy to have the punishment reversed.
You've left the whole lordship in limbo for more than half a month, and now what?
　After being reprimanded, all of the former bishop lords were disqualified from being bishops, it was said.

　Incidentally, there were three racial lords who were newly sent to the Green Convalescent as replacements for the bishop lords, but they were all former employees of the Central Frontier Agency.
　This would not be the same as before, as no church officials were included.

　It seems that a new lord's arrival ceremony was to be held around the time of the new lord's arrival, and I received an invitation to attend the ceremony.
　This invitation was sent not only to me, but also to Erdena.
　There was also a private letter from her father attached to Eldena and me, but inside my letter was

　He wrote to thank me for my help and to ask me to take care of his daughter.

　It was written on Erdena's side that she wished her and I to live happily together for a long time, and that she wanted to see her grandchildren's faces soon.


　Eldena snuggled up to me as she said that.
　Her face looked so happy.