When I returned to the lord's office, I called for Unja.
'You wanted to see me, little one?
　Unya instantly appeared in the lord's office as usual.
　Behind her, Aura, who was serving as my secretary along with Unja, followed her.
''I'm going to go now to inspect the enclave north of the royal capital, but I need you to prepare something for me.
　Having said that, all I asked Wunya for was food and water.

　I don't know what kind of life the people left in the enclave are living right now, but it's hard to imagine that they are living an easy life.
　I thought I'd bring food and water to support them.

I'll bring food and water to help them. I'll talk to Gin at the market and get it for you.
Thank you. Put your things on the little muckety-mucks.
Roger that.
　Unja bowed and left the room quickly.
''I'll go and help you, too,''
　Aura said, too, and bowed politely before following Wunya.
　Then three sub-humans entered the room, replacing the two.
　They were Cornes of the bird race, Chias of the leopard race, and Dodona of the golem race.
''Cornes and two others from the Liberty Combe Guards Bureau's elite unit, under orders from Captain Gugus, have come on an escort mission for our lord,''
I'll pull my weight, Death.
Dodona, let's go for it this time!
　The three of them bowed towards me as they said that.

　The three of them used to belong to the sub-human mercenary group in the royal capital, but after the sub-human mercenary group was shut out of the royal capital and they got a job in the Liberty Combe's guard bureau, their abilities were discovered by Googus and Lil Pop, and they are now part of the elite unit within the guard bureau, an elite unit.
　It's a good thing that you're able to get the most out of this unit, because it's the most suitable for a small group of people to work on security.

'Good luck this time too, guys.
Yes, I'll take care of it.
　My words were answered by Cornes, the only male member of the group, with a spirited salute.
　In response, the other two smiled and saluted as well.
　I decided to ask the three of them to sit in the reception set and wait for me, since our departure would be after the food I had asked Unja and the others to prepare, but I remembered here that there was no one to prepare tea for me because the secretary, Unja, and Aura were out of the room.
　I had no choice, so I tried to prepare tea for everyone.
My lord, you can't do that to me.
Dodona, Sulyo.
　The two ladies, Chias and Dodona, got up in a hurry, stilled me and ran into the hot water room.
　Dodona, however, came back with her shoulders slumped as she was unable to enter the hot water room because of her huge body.
　Later, as we were all chatting and drinking the tea that Chias had made for us, there was a knock on the door of the room.
　I called out, "Come in," and Sarah walked into the room.
'My lord, I've been told by Lord Erdena to accompany you to the enclave.
　Sarah said, forcing her to sit down next to me, who was drinking tea, probably because all the reception sets were occupied, and
"...hmmm, tea....or do you have any alcohol?
　As he said this, he turned his gaze to Chias, but Chias was miffed.
The sun is still high, Death. I don't serve alcohol, Death.
　As he said this, he moved to the hot water room again and came back to prepare tea for Sarah.
　Sarah frowned slightly as she
Well, I guess so...
　As he said this, he brought the tea to his mouth.
　Sarah was
Lady Erdena says there may be cases where the building or other items need repairing, and she'd like me to come along for the ride.
　When he said that, he held out the empty cup to Chias and asked for a refill.

　I see, it's true if you look at it that way.
　It's an area that was heavily taxed, and even if the residence was damaged, it was quite conceivable that there was no way to fix it.
　As I was inwardly grateful for Erdena's consideration, Unja and Aura returned to the room.
'Boy, we're ready to go, Nya. The food is being loaded onto the small mage ship.
Thanks, Una. You're very helpful.
　I said that to Unia.
All right, everybody, let's move to the little muckety-mucks.
　Saying this, he moved to the cave where the small magic ship was moored.

　This cave behind the town hall is a cave where dragon scales are mined.
　Tiree's adoptive father, Deterra of the ancient monster race, also lives in this cave.
　Unlike Tiree, Deterra's body is too huge to live inconspicuously in this cave, but it is reasonably well maintained for him to live comfortably. In addition, Deterra himself sometimes walks around the cave in the middle of the night to relieve his stress, and he doesn't feel that much pain in living here.
　After exchanging a brief greeting with Deterra, we boarded a small witchcraft moored in a stone dock near the cave.
　This small mage ship was created by Dorun the Elder Rich.
　It is made from the wreckage of a magic ship, but since it is very suitable for moving a small number of people, it is used for errands like this one.
　As we were getting in, Gin, who is acting as the market's acting director, who was spearheading the food loading operation, came running up to us with a smile.
''My lord, we've just finished bringing in the food,''
Thanks, Gin.
　I shook hands with Gin, signed the receipt, and said goodbye to him.

　After confirming that everything was ready, we left without further ado.
　This time, there are a total of seven people aboard the small magic ship, including me, Chias and three others, Unja and Aura, and Sarah.

　Chias and the others are my bodyguards.
　Una and Aura will be asked to take on the role of distributing the foodstuffs in the event that we have to do so.
　Sarah is going to be asked to do her best in case the building needs repairing.

　The small mage ship I was steering rose slowly up and out of the hole at the top of the cave and up through the cave and into the sky.
　This hole is usually only visible as part of the forest due to Dorun's illusion magic.
　So if someone saw a small magic ship come out of this hole just now, it would have looked like a magic ship jumped out of the mountain.
　However, since this one unit was mining dragon scales, it was off-limits only to those who were involved, so no such people were present.

　We are planning to arrive at the northern enclave in about half a day.
　Although I'm planning to do a day trip, I have to be prepared to stay overnight depending on the conditions of the enclave.
　Although I have informed Erdena of this, I hadn't told Korok in the morning, so if I couldn't return today, Korok would miss me.
　
　Furthermore, because the permission for regular magic ships to enter the king's capital has been banned indefinitely due to the previous commotion, the regular magic ships are currently operating between the three cities of Batcombe, Liberty Convey and Green Convey.
　Although there are many users between these three cities alone, from the point of view of trade in goods, there are considerable problems.
　In particular, Green Convoy, whose main export is fruit and vegetables and which has become so popular in King's Landing, has repeatedly approached the company to resume flights to King's Landing as soon as possible.
　It's the same for Liberty Combe as well, and since they have stopped trading with the Quinn Trading Company, which sells magic stones and dragon scale armor wholesale, they are suffering a fair amount of damage.
　Therefore, as soon as the matter of the northern enclave that I am going to be dispatched to this time is settled, I have to start on the matter of the southern enclave immediately.
　While I was talking with Sarah about the southern enclave, we began to see a slightly open area in the forest ahead.
　Perhaps that should be one of the northern enclaves, our destination this time.
　I began to slowly descend the small magic ship.