Lilpop and Gugs had visited the lord's office to report on the results of the sweeping operation in the area of the old settlement village.
　According to the captain Lilpop, there was nothing unusual except for the appearance of an unidentified giant creature, and the magical beasts that inhabited the area could be swept away as planned.
　Currently, there is a squad led by Sarah that is still there, and they are cleaning up the surrounding area, building the city walls, and repairing buildings such as residential areas.
'Thank you, that was really helpful,'
No, sir, it's nothing serious.
　At my words, Lilpop bobbed his head with his usual expressionless face.
''So, my lord, is that enough for today?''
'Oh, yes. I'll take a look at this report for the rest.
So, that's that.
　Googus bowed his head and lightly patted Lil Pop's shoulder before the two of them left the lord's room.
　After this, Googus said he was going to go to the hot spring village with the whole family to consolation for Lil Pop.
　It's the first time in a month that the family has been together in the water, so I hope they'll go and relax.

　In contrast to the old pioneer village project, which is progressing smoothly, work on my end has not been going well.
　With regard to the matter of setting up a sales association for the sale of dragon scale armor, Foldente met with Dontakosuco, the chairman of the Dontakosuco Trading Association, who is bringing dragon scale armor to the frontier city of Batcombe, and when he approached him about this, he did not receive a good response.
　According to Don Tacosuco, the reply was that they only sell dragon scale armor wholesale to Batcombe, so they didn't feel the need for such a sales association.

　When he came back from the negotiations that ended in parting, Foldente sighed loudly in front of me.
You know what, he said he wouldn't mind joining the sales association if the Dontakosuco business association would write a letter of recommendation so that he could sell them directly in the capital.
　
　If you want to do business in King's Landing, there are two main ways to do business.
　Direct sales and indirect sales.

　Direct sales is literally a method in which a trade association that wants to do business in the royal capital directly buys and sells within the royal capital.
　However, to do this, they need to get the permission from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the capital and then join the Royal Capital Merchants Association.
　But this is surprisingly difficult to do.
　The number of business associations and merchants who want to sell directly in the capital is as numerous as the stars.
　In the middle of it all, there are many people of questionable background, but the Ministry of Commerce and Industry can't afford to give permission to such people, so when they receive an application for permission, they will closely inspect it.
　Therefore, it usually takes quite a long time to get the results of the application, often two or three years.

　On the other hand, the indirect sale is the act of selling goods to the merchant associations that do business in the capital.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a good deal more information on the subject.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a great deal more information on the subject.
　
　As for the earlier direct sales, there is a subterfuge to this.
　If they had letters of recommendation from the lords of three or more frontier cities, they would be given priority for examination.
　According to Foldente, Dontacosuco has implicitly asked me to write the last one, since he already has two references for the lords who will write letters of recommendation for him during the negotiations.
Do you know who these two people Dontakosuco is talking about?
I've heard of two lords, Gelter of Batcombe and Takla of Gatacombe.
　Although I would think that if the Gelter of Batcombe, let alone Gatacombe, were to issue a letter of recommendation, there would be no problem, but you have to be careful about these things...
　With that in mind, I decided to ask Dontacosuco to come to Liberty Combe once.
It looks like he comes to Butchcombe every month, so it should be fine.
　As Foldente said this, he left again to meet with Dontacosuco with the letter I had written.

　As for the Dragon Scales Armament Sales Association, we are now finally making progress here.

　I was reviewing the report that Googus and the others had brought with them.
　In the meantime, Aura brought me tea, and I asked her to call the deputy lord, Eldena, while I was at it.

　Not long after, Erdena appeared in the lord's office.
　I sat Eldena down on the reception set and sat down in front of her.
''This is the report on the cleanup operation of the entire Old Frontier Village. Thanks to Lilpop and the others, things seem to be going as planned.
''Well then, we'll have to organize the cultivation unit now.
　The deputy lord, Erdena, has also been put in charge of the cultivation area spread out in the southern part of Liberty Combe.
　The young buffalo couple who were doing the central crafting work in that area were also supposed to be Erdena's subordinates based on their arrangement.
''........Well then, I'll go set up a meeting in the cultivation area after this.''
Yeah, nice to meet you...
　After saying that, I pondered for a moment.
''...Safate, what's wrong?''
Hmm? ...Yeah, I hope I'm overthinking it, but...
　I twisted my head a little as I said this.

　What I was concerned about was the matter of the mysterious giant magical beast that was in the report.
　Right now, that monster beast is being analyzed by Jambalea, but Lilpop and the others had encountered only one of them.
　Before the cleanup team left, Tiree, who used to live in that area, told me that
"Big, big, fat, wicked, wicked.
　That's what he said...

''Well if you ask me, that's certainly true...''
　Erdena, who heard my story, also pondered for a while.
''Although, there's Sarah in the old frontier village now.......and I'm sure she'll take care of it if anything happens.
''Well you're right I'll certainly do that but I'll also discuss it with Biblina just in case.
　Erdena said that and left the lord's office.
　Biblina was in a position to manage the guard station in this frontier city of Liberty Combe, and Erdena was probably planning to get its cooperation as well.
　
　With this, it looks like the plan to rebuild the entire area of the old frontier village will somehow be able to enter the second phase.

　I began to prepare the paperwork to report the situation up to this point to the King's Capital and Green Convoy.
　The plan to rebuild the whole area of the old settlement village is a project that Green Convoy asked Liberty Convoy to do in response to the King's capital's offer.
　It was agreed that Green Convoy would bear the cost of the project, but in order to get them to pay, we needed to submit a report including a detailed statement of the cost.
　Although the report to be submitted to the capital is basically the same content as the report to be submitted to the Green Convoy, there is a special form for the capital report, and it is necessary to use this form when submitting a report to the capital.
　If the style of the report to Greencombe is very similar to that of the capital, you can use transcription magic, so you only need to make one report, but the style presented by Greencombe was very different from the style of the capital's report.
　Since each city is allowed to decide on the format of the report to the frontier cities, we can't complain about it.......
　I sighed and got to work on the paperwork.
　It's already well past my working hours, but I need to finish up to a point...

Daddy, are you finished with your work?
　I had just run a few lines of the pen when Korok appeared in the lord's office.

　

'Sorry, sorry, come on, let's go.'
　I said, and as I stood up, Korok smiled and hugged me.
I'll be back soon. I have to go now.
　Korok said happily, and tugged on my hand.
　The report is still mostly untouched, but right now I thought it was more important to keep Korok's smile on my face, and so...