It's the beginning of the year, and the streets of the frontier city of Liberty Combe are full of people today, too.
　Most of these people came to the Bunn Church for the first prayer of the new year, I think.

　This Bun Bun religion, which has the doctrine of harmony and coexistence and co-prosperity between races and sub-humans, used to be active in the capital, but they were persecuted by the Boble Bambs, and as a result they came to this Liberty Combe.
　At that time Libertycombe was looking for an alternative religion to Bobblebum, and as a result they decided to protect and promote the Bunn religion.
　Probably in the royal capital, there was again persecution by the boble bum religion.
　In fact, the mere endorsement of Bunnism in this Liberty Combe was enough to cause the frontier city of Green Combe, at a time when bobblebum priests were the mainstream of the lord group, to express its dislike for Liberty Combe and to remain unfriendly for quite some time.

　However, the influence of Bobblebum religion is also fragmented in this frontier area.
　After all, the sub-humans were far more numerous than the races that worshipped Bobblebum religion, and there was no soil for Bobblebum religion to grow in power in the first place.
　As the lord of Liberty Combe, I myself did not have a good impression of Bobblebum's bigoted doctrine.

　The reason I didn't accept Bobblebum's doctrine was due to my childhood experience.
　I was born the second son of a noble family, the Greeds, in King's Landing.
　I was not an heir to the family, nor could I marry into another family, so I continued to be treated as somewhat of a nuisance in the family.
　While my brother Prideaux, sister Tamar, and sister Causey were assigned a maid of their race, I was assigned only a subhuman maid.
　I'm not sure I've ever seen such a thing.
　I'm not sure I've ever seen such a thing before in my life.
　I was rarely allowed to have meals with my family, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were my real family in a sense.
　As a result of my childhood, I didn't have any prejudice against sub-humans.
　Rather, I wondered why they were persecuting sub-humans, who were not so different from our race, at all.

　It was that experience that led me to protect and promote Bunnism in Liberty Combe, but I never imagined that it had become so widespread in such a short period of time.
　
　The site of the former Tersulian church that is currently used by the Bunn religion as its head temple is the former site of the former Tersulian church.
　In the present church of the Bunn religion, a great number of people have gathered.
　The majority of them are sub-humans, but there are also some racial figures scattered among them.
　I sincerely hope that Bunnism will continue to be recognized at this rate, and that the world will become a place where races and sub-humans can become equals, but...

　Now I have to get Liberty Combe, which was just promoted to a frontier city, back on track, and as vice president of the newly formed Frontier Cities Coalition, I have to get this coalition back on track as well....
　As I looked at the line of people leading to the Bunn Church, yes, my resolve was renewed.

　The line to the Bunn Church is escorted and guided by guards.
　Many of these guards were mercenary groups who had lost their jobs in the royal capital due to the decree of virtual banishment of the sub-human mercenary groups that had been enforced in the royal capital not long ago.
　In the past, many sub-human mercenary groups had gathered in the royal capital.
　They were mediated to work as guards for the nobility and guards of the direct lands run by the nobility.
　Although the fees were kept low, there was no need for any of the mercenary corps to have trouble finding work because of the large number of them.
　However, the Bobblebum sect was not happy about it, and they lobbied the King's Council to expel the sub-mercenaries, and finally they enforced it.
　As a result, the sub-human mercenary group was expelled from the capital and the capital's guards took over their duties.
　However, I heard that this system change is beginning to fall apart as soon as possible.
　According to Foldente, who has been regularly probing me about the state of the King's Capital.
The work done by the sub-human mercenaries was pretty bad stuff. The guards of the territory under their jurisdiction were in a land where there were many bandits and hexenbiests... There were many incidents of the guards being sent to such a land, and they would abandon their missions and run away.... I'm hearing that we're getting a lot of complaints against the Congress for enacting this bill.
'It's a complaint about your immediate jurisdiction, so the nobleman is talking about it, isn't it?
Yes. But this bill was enacted at the urging of Bobblebum's religion, and the Congress has been struggling to cope with it. I feel like I'm doing it.
　Foldente laughed with a chuckle when he said that.

　However, if the decree to expel the sub-human mercenary group enforced in the royal capital was lifted, would the sub-humans employed as guards in the frontier city of Liberty Combe return to the royal capital.......
　I was a little curious, so I asked the Captain of the Guard, Googus, about it.
Oh, they'll definitely stay. I've heard that the remuneration for the guards at Liberty Conveyance is better than what they were paid for the work they did at King's Landing. Moreover, as long as you're working here as a guard, you won't be deprived of any food. It's a good thing that you are a mercenary in the capital, because you have to constantly work with the nobility to get jobs, and even then you may not be able to get jobs.
　I was relieved to hear that, too.
　After all, everyone of the former sub-human mercenary corps is now an indispensable part of the Liberty Combe's guard corps.
　Especially since the territory that had to be guarded was quite large now that it had become a frontier city, the guards would be in real trouble if they were reduced now.
　As for the guards, Googus has been running them well while staffing them.
　His wife, Lil Pop, is also commanding the elite troops while at the same time taking care of the guards at the same time.
　The two of them work in tandem to keep the guards of Liberty Combe well organized.
　Thanks to hiring Elanetta and starting to take on the Guard Bureau's paperwork, Googs has been able to focus more on his field work.
　I've heard that Elanetta herself is constantly complaining about how she has too much work to do, so I think I should go and listen to her complaints again next time.

　In addition to the commotion over the fake dragon scale armor from the capital, I have also received a request from Green Conv'e to investigate the abandoned land.
　I've been working on the fakes of the dragon scale armor for a while now, and we are currently evaluating the effects of the fakes, but as for the investigation of the abandoned land, I think I need to go to the Green Convoy to hear the details.

　It's early in the year, but I am already swamped with work.
　Anyway, I have to do it one by one.
　I picked up the documents in the unprocessed box on the lord's desk while thinking about that.
''.......But this.......doesn't feel like it's reduced at all......''
　I kept staring at the unprocessed box as I said those words.