The day of the new lord's arrival ceremony in Greencombe.
　In addition to Erdena, I also took Unya, Aura's two secretaries, plus Korok and Tiree with me.
　Tiree is humanoid with Dorn's medicine.

　We were heading to the Greencombe in a temporary stagecoach.
Long time no see, long time no see.
　Korok was staring at the walls of the Greencombe as he said this.

　Nearly a year ago, we had snuck into the Greencombe once.
　When the epidemic was going around, I had come to deliver a potion I had created, but at that time Greencombe was at a time when my ex-father's harassment of me made him look at me as an enemy.
　That's why I went with Korok to quietly leave the potion by the castle gate.
　As I suspected, the guards guarding the gates found the potion, administered it to the sick, and brought the Greencomb epidemic to an end.

　When I was remembering that, Korok came looking at me with a smile.
I'm sure you're not the only one who's wondering what Greencombe was doing there.
　Saying that, Korok smiles bitterly.
　........It seems that the only thing that remains of Korok is his memory of coming here.

　Well, both Korok and Tiree are still children, so I hope that they will grow up while they are still experiencing this and that.
　That's one of the reasons why I brought them here this time.
　
　By the way, Lil' Pop is guarding us this time, and along with him are her three children, Gou Pop, Guina and Rilna.
　Although they are children, their adopted daughter Goo-Pop has grown up reasonably well to begin with, and Guina and Rilna, who are growing very fast because they have inherited the blood of Rillpop, a witch, are already in their mid-teens, and all three have grown up to be in their mid-teens.
　Moreover, since they are trained by Rilpop every day, they already have the ability to compete with even the lowly guardsmen.
I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this in the future. I am grateful for your permission.
　Lil Pop, who was running alongside the stagecoach, which was running at a fair speed, said that to me in the stagecoach.
　Not only Lil Pop, but all of her children, including Goopop, are running around the stagecoach as well.
　The four of them have been running around the stagecoach in this fashion ever since we left the Liberty Combe town hall, running around the stagecoach and guarding it.
'Lil Pop, why don't you let the kids ride in the stagecoach at least? If you're a guard, you could do it in a stagecoach, couldn't you?
　As I said this, Goopop rushed to my side.
''My lord, don't worry, this is no big deal to us.
　Goop smiles as he says that.
　Around me, Guina and Rilna are also smiling and nodding.

　I heard later that the three of them are running with Lilpop to patrol the territory in Liberty Combe as well.
　The Liberty Convey is a large area, since it's made up of two outlying small cities, but the fact that they're running around the perimeter of it every day, that's why I'm so afraid of them...

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　Soon after, the stagecoach carrying us entered the walls of Greencombe and stopped in front of the town hall.
　It was Erdena's father who greeted us.
　Erdena's father, one of the lords of Greencombe, greeted us as soon as Erdena and I got off the stagecoach.
I'm really glad you're here.
　He was happy to see me, with tears in his eyes.
　Afterwards, we were sent to the reception room, where Erdena's father kept us company.
　Erdena's father seemed to be in a good mood and kept talking to me and Erdena with a smile all the time.
　On the way.
...By the way, are the bear girl and the dinosaur girl your two adopted daughters?
　I tried to smile and deny it, because that's what he asked.
That's what Koroks are for.
Tiremo.
　And since we both said that, we were almost made to recognize her as our adopted daughter.

　To tell the truth, I had been secretly discussing with Erdena about whether to adopt Korok, who has no relatives, as my adopted daughter.
　Although Tiree has an ancient monster tribe of his own people who dote on Tiree, Korok has no such existence at all.
　However, in order to move forward with this story, I have to take care of me and Erdena's marriage story first.......

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　Shortly after, we received word that the ceremony was ready and Eldena and I headed to the stage.
　Lil Pop was moving with us as our escort.
　Korok and Tiree, who were in attendance, moved with Goopop Guina Lil'Luna to the general guests' table.

　The ceremony was held in the convention hall attached to the Greencombe Town Hall.
　The hall was almost full with many ordinary city residents in attendance.
　On the stage, besides me and Erdena, representatives from neighboring cities including Gelter, the lord of Batcombe, as well as other famous people from Greencombe were lined up in a row.

　The ceremony, which began shortly afterwards, proceeded without a hitch.

　The three new lords who had been dispatched from the royal capital were introduced, and the three of them gave their greetings.
　The three of them were
"I have the utmost respect for the wishes of the Elven Lords.
　I received a generally positive response from the audience, perhaps because of my greeting to them.

　After the meeting was over, we were led directly to the dining room, where we were to participate in the dinner party.
　We also met up with Korok and his friends, who had moved to the general guests' table.
　Korok had started dozing off at the beginning of the greeting by the new lord, and it was in full view from the stage.
Korok, did you listen to me, okay?
　She asked me with a smile.
　I couldn't do anything but smile while thinking about how I should answer.

　At the dinner party, Gelter came up to my side.
'So now Greencomb is back to what it should be as a frontier city.
　Gelter laughs as he says that.

　As Gelter said, Greencomb, when the bishop lords were in control of the real power of the city, Greencomb had become a floating presence in the region because it had ended up running the city so biased that it would be better to say it was under the direct control of the Greed family rather than a frontier city.

''From now on, you and the younger generation will have to pull it together and say. Hurry up and make it easy on me.
　Walter laughed at that and patted me on the shoulder.
　I was at this point.
I'll do my best to make it worth your while.
　That's all I could say.
'In the meantime, I'm going to give Biblina a grandchild...'
　In front of Geltor, who tried to continue like that, Erdena smiled at him, but the smile was so cold that even Geltor, as expected, was unable to say any more words.
　After a while.
Don't you dare fall on your ass.
　When Walter whispered that in my ear, I couldn't help but laugh.

　Inside the dinner hall, Korok and Tiree continued to innocently munch on their food, and all of the participants were staring at them with smiles on their faces.
'Lords eat bears too, very delicious bears.
　Korok smiled and beckoned me over to him.
　I walked towards Korok like that with Erdena.

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　When I returned from Greencomb, Foldente, who had returned from King's Landing, walked up to me.
　Foldente held out a piece of paper to me.
I heard that the land abandoned by the Greed family will be recognized as a frontier small city and will begin to rebuild.
　So says Foldente, and on the piece of paper he offers.

A Proposal to Establish a New Frontier Small City, Libidocombe

　and the title of the book was written, and underneath it was a list of names of people involved in the rebuilding process.
　One of those names was Gabozh.
　It was that Gabozh who had received training in the frontier city with him.
　Gaboz was said to be working as an assistant to the lord, working under the Central Frontier Bureau officials who would become the lord.
　Gaboz said that he didn't have a job yet when he finished his training, but I sincerely hope that he will do well.
　I would like to visit him if I get a chance.