The Three Days of the One.
　I left for the frontier city of Greencombe with my deputy lord, Eldena.
　Today, we got a good flight on a regular mage ship, so we traveled with it.
　As an escort, the usual three people, Cornes of the bird people race, Chias of the leopard people race, and Dodona of the golem race, are accompanying us.
''The magic ship is nice, not having to fly by yourself is going to be a lot of fun.
　Cornes had a glint in his eye when he said that.
Are you sure about this, Des?　Apparently, a boat made of wood flying through the air is something I can't get used to.
　Thias was shaking his body with a firm grip on the railing, shaking his body in small increments.
　Dodona seemed to be interested in the inner workings of the grimoire, and she kept looking here and there throughout while guarding my surroundings.

　We arrived at the Green Convoy in about an hour.
　If it were a carriage, it would take more than half a day to get there.
This magician ship is really amazing.
　Cornelius was repeatedly impressed as they disembarked, but Chias pushed him aside and disembarked first, and then landed on the ground.
We'd rather be on the ground.
　We couldn't help but chuckle as Chias exhaled heavily as he said that.

　Since we had announced our arrival beforehand, Erdena's father greeted us at the entrance and exit of the magic ship's embarkation and disembarkation tower with a few entourage members.
　Erdena's father, one of the lords of this Green Convection, which has a multiple lordship system, was
I'm really sorry that I have to ask you to go to the trouble of dealing with a problem that should have been handled by me and my team at Green Convoy.
　So many times he apologized.

　The reason why I visited the Greencombe this time is because, as Erdena's father said earlier, it was at the request of the Greencombe.

　It's a vast area of jungle in the area northwest of Greencombe and southwest of Liberty Combe.
　This place was not originally a jungle.
　In the past, a certain trading company in the King's Capital had taken the initiative in trying to build a frontier village here.
　The King's Capital's Central Frontier Bureau had also cooperated in this project.
　At the request of the Central Frontier Agency, Green Convoy was appointed to oversee the area and act as a consultant.
　However, the frontier village project was quickly abandoned.
　It seems that the vein that the Chamber of Commerce had relied on in the area was not what it should be, and they were unable to extract much fruit from it.
　The Chamber of Commerce, which had hoped to lure pioneers to the region to mine the ore and sell it exclusively in the capital, quickly ran out of money.
　It seems that the promise of a living wage guarantee to the pioneers became a burden, and the company fled in the night.
　The village was abandoned as soon as the settlers returned to their original land.
　Therefore, Greencombe, who had been asked to watch over the land, was nominally managing the land, but the current Greencombe didn't have enough guards to investigate the frontier village.
　Greencombe, which had a closure policy up until now, had only hired enough guards to maintain the city's security at all times.
　It was also influenced by the fact that all of the racial lords in the lord group at that time were bobblebum bishops.
　The bishops continued to donate most of the budget that should have been spent on the increase of the guards to the Boblebam Church Book Society in the capital.
　Now that these bishop lords have been effectively exiled, Greencombe is also working hard to increase the guard, but it's still a halfway house.

　Recently, the royal capital has embarked on an inspection of the lands under direct control of the nobles, which they had previously monopolized.
　This is due to the fact that the Greed family has been exposed for their sloppy management of their lands, but it seems that there have been more than a few cases of other nobles managing their lands as badly as the Greed family, and the House of Lords is in an uproar because of these revelations.
　It seems that the capital has begun investigating the issue of abandoned land in the frontier, and the Central Frontier Bureau has issued a notice to Greencombe, the current watchdog, to report on the current situation and future prospects of the former frontier village.

"It seems that the royal capital is aware that that area has been abandoned.
　Eldena's father sighed at that.

　But I can understand why Erdena's father would sigh.

　After all, the area around the settlement was a dense, densely wooded area, and quite a lot of vermin lived there.
　I heard that this is said to be the reason why the people of the pioneer village disappeared so quickly.
　The land seems to be reasonably fertile, so it's possible to cultivate the land and turn it into a cultivated area, but that means we need to get rid of all the vermin that live in this area.
　However, the current Green Convoy doesn't have enough guards to handle such a task.
　That's why we've asked Liberty Combe to help us.
　So today, I came to Green Convoy for the purpose of replying to that request and to have a meeting in the future.

　I was shown into the conference room and discussed with the lords of Greencombe while organizing the information I had drummed into my head beforehand.

　As a result, we came to a consensus that we would use the abandoned frontier village to build a farming area around it.
　It was decided that Liberty Convoy would be responsible for the reconstruction of the village and the extermination of the vermin that were nesting in the surrounding area.
　It was decided that all expenses would be held by Green Convoy, and if the King's Central Frontier Bureau formally approved the development of the area as a cultivation zone, they would also transfer management rights to that area to Liberty Combe, and from then on, it was expected that Liberty Combe would be allowed to proceed with the cultivation and farming as it pleased.

　I've been discussing the matter with Eldena in a whisper.
　Eldena had been reviewing the documents many times.
'Well I don't think that's a problem under these conditions.
　So he gave me an earful.

　In response, I decided to accept the offer.
As soon as I return to Liberty Combe, I'll start preparing to send a strike force to the frontier village.
　I said that and got up from my seat.
　All the lords of the Green Convex took turns holding my hand as they thanked me for my service.

　The meeting ended a little before noon.
　Erdena's father had invited me to have lunch with him, but since it was just the time for the regular magic ship to leave, we decided to have it another time.

''You've suddenly got a big job early in the New Year, haven't you?
　At my words, Eldena nodded at my words.
　Anyway, that area is the den of demonic beasts, and more importantly, it's also the area that the dark charmers used to use as a stronghold.
　I tightened my mind once again as I remembered that.

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　When I returned to Liberty Combe, I went out to the guard station on my feet.
　Unfortunately, the Chief of the Guard, Googs, wasn't home, but his wife, Lil Pop, was just in the room.
　So I
Tell him I'll need his help with the vermin around the old settlement.　I'll come back to you later to tell you.
　So I told Lil Pop.
　Then Lil Pop.
You don't need to organize the guards to take them away, sir.
　He was puffing out his chest as he said that.

　I don't know what Googs will say to me later if I allow such a thing.
　So, I asked Lilpop to make sure to follow Gugs' instructions.

　I left the guard station and went back to the lord's office.
　The wooden box on my desk that holds the outstanding documents was full again.
　I chuckled as I checked the contents of the stack of papers, knowing that I had to get rid of them first.