After I left my grandfather, I had come to Nanao's guild. The purpose of the visit was to find out information about the surrounding demons and the level of danger, and to walk with Shiroumaru and the others, because I wanted to talk them through beforehand, not to receive a request.
　When I told the guild staff about the purpose of the project, they had already heard about Shiroumaru and his men through Hana-san, and they only needed to know that they were their family members and that the responsibility of the family members was the responsibility of the Lord. As for the surrounding demons, the bear-shaped demons of the forest, wolf-shaped demons of the grassland and the wyverns that sometimes appear in the mountains are said to be the most dangerous, while other demons of that high rank do not appear. However, every few years or so there is a sighting of a ground dragon or a running dragon (lower class dragons with less defense and attack power than ground dragons, but with greater speed and endurance), so you can't be completely caught off guard.
　Also, the guild's receptionist told me a disturbing story. It seems that other adventurer's guilds have seen fakes of me.
　The imposters were nothing more than people who spoke my name and didn't look anything like me, but I heard that some of them had fallen victim to a scam. The guild and the victims soon found out that they were fakes, so most of them are just laughing at the fact that they were victims of the scam. However, there are some who have been swindled out of large sums of money, and wanted letters and cautions have begun to circulate in cities and guilds around the country.
　And as I was leaving, several receptionists asked me to shake their hands. Apparently, my name is spreading due to the King's Capital's tournament win and this fake fiasco. When I asked them if they didn't think I was a fake when I shook their hands, they said they had heard about me this time through Viscount Lobo (Sana-san, to be precise), and they knew I was real. Moreover, one of Lobo's subordinates went out of his way to give me a detailed description of my likeness, stature and features, so he knew it was me the moment he entered the guild.
　I'm a little embarrassed, but I had expected this to happen when I won the tournament in addition to having Solomon as my subordinate, so I wasn't that surprised.
　I left the guild and decided to wander around the city of Nanao in earnest, but I asked Solomon to stay in the bag while I was in town. Solomon seemed unhappy, but I didn't want him to be surrounded by people who were looking for Solomon with no idea where or what was in Nanao's city, so I convinced him to let him fly as far as he could when he got out of the city and buy him some delicious-looking things he saw in the city.

　The bustle of the streets of Nanao was a bit different from what we had seen in the past. Until now the town was only food stalls, but in Nanao there were many stalls that sold the fun like a fair. Many of them were only for children, and the contents of these stalls were also familiar to me in my previous life, such as "target practice", "ring toss", "lottery", "fish scooping" and "coloured chick", but the latter two were not exactly like pets. At any rate.

Mom, when he's big enough, you'll cook him up nicely.
"Mom. I'll make this guy big, I promise, and you'll cook him up good!

　By the way, the fish scoop was a baby fish similar to a crucian carp about the size of a tatami mat, and the chick was a bird chick like a chicken. By the way, the fish scoop was a baby fish like crucian carp as big as half a tatami mat, and the chick was a bird chick that looked a little bigger than a chicken. Both of them may be samples or they were grown up. The colored chick was painted with various patterns on its whitish feathers in red, blue, yellow, black or pink. All the colors are extracted from natural materials and are said to be harmless to the chick and human body.
　There were crowds of people, mostly with children, at those stalls, and I didn't want to walk around with Shiroumaru out, so I decided to let him stay in the bag with Solomon.

　As we lounged around the stall, chilling out, a nostalgic smell tickled my nose and a sound came from my stomach.

'You're coming from over here,'

　My feet naturally went to the source of the scent, gradually picking up speed.

'Hey, come on!'

　We arrived at a stall selling grilled onigiri (rice balls). And they were not just grilled onigiri, but grilled onigiri with real soy sauce. There were also grilled onigiri with miso paste on them.

"Please give me seven of these, seven of this and seven of that.

　I bought two types of grilled onigiri, one with regular soy sauce flavoring and the other with miso and chopped scallions mixed with negi miso. I gave Shiroumaru and Solomon each one of the grilled onigiri I bought, and then I ate one of the grilled onigiri. The grilled onigiri were quite tasty, and we ate all three of them before we knew it. Shilomaru and Solomon wanted to eat the rest of the grilled onigiri, but I made them give up because they were a gift for the rest of the grandfathers at the inn.

''I'll definitely have to buy some soy sauce and miso,''

　I decided to make it my number one goal of the day to definitely buy some soy sauce and miso, and decided to look for them as soon as possible.
　I asked a few people on the street for recommendations and they told me

The Jay Company....

　It was a familiar trade association in Seigen. If they dealt with it here, I should have talked to them when I was in Seigen...
　Well, I convinced myself that it would still be cheaper to buy it in the real world, forcing me to find the advantages. Incidentally, the manager was a pig-eared beast and not a relative of Jayman's.
　When I bought up to the barest amount I could sell to an individual at Jay Trading Company, it was roughly two hundred liters of soy sauce and a hundred kilograms of miso. If it was more than that, they wouldn't be able to sell it to other customers.
　So I had no choice but to look around at other stores, and in the end I was able to buy more than 500 kg of soy sauce and miso. I also found some sake, mirin, and grain vinegar, so I bought all of them as well. Now that we have a complete set of "sushi nesters", we will be able to make our own food that is closer to Japanese food.
　We also found some spices and herbs that we hadn't seen so far, so we bought them while listening to their effects and how to use them.
　After shopping, we wandered around the city again, and headed out of Nanao after buying food from the stalls.
　We walked through the grasslands and moved a short distance away from Nanao before letting Shiroumaru and Solomon out, and they ran (and flew) around the area, stretching themselves as much as they could. Occasionally they would catch a horn rabbit or something, so we decided to pass the time by bleeding them out.

　As the sun began to set, we returned to the inn before the sky darkened, but before we had time to take a bath, we were on our way to Viscount Lobo's house. We've been told by Blanca, who has come to pick us up, that Viscount Lobo is throwing a welcome party for us.
　When we arrived at the mansion, we were led to a room where a meal was prepared and seated next to Viscount Lobo.
　There were four seats set up in the room's upper section, from left to right, Grandpa, me, Viscount and Hana-san.
　The others were seated near us, with Amur, Blanca, and Sana-san seated near us, with the other men sitting in a row behind them.

'Let the feast begin to welcome the messengers from the royal family. All of you, drink well, eat well, and make some noise!
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　With these words, the welcome party began. The meal that was served was.....

Natto and grass and raw fish and insect food boiled down in soy sauce, Tenma.

　They were all quite habitual. As expected of Amur, he also has a worried look on his face. While Hana-san, Blanca, and Sana-san also had worried faces, only the Viscount had a grin on his face.

''No, what, I thought I'd have Temma eat something typical of Nanao.

　Hearing those words, I knew that this banquet was planned in order to humiliate me. And that the four people who are looking at the viscount in such a reproachful way had nothing to do with it.

''Honey, would you like to have a word with them?''
My brother you're pathetic.
f*ck you....

　While Hannah and her friends are about to get into a tussle with Viscount Lobo, me and Grandpa....

More rice, please.

　We were enjoying our meal. Sanna was the one who accepted me and my grandfather's bowl.

'Is it good?'

Yes, very much.
It's a bit of a habit, but I don't mind it too much.

　Since we're adventurers, we've experienced food that is more habitual than this, and since this meal is the same kind of food I was craving in the first place, I was nevertheless grateful for it.
　The four who had been staring at each other looked dumbfounded, but all of a sudden, the three of them, except for the Viscount, started laughing. The subordinates were making a lot of noise without paying attention to the four men's actions, but they were caught up in the three men's laughter and started to make more noise.
　The Viscount, who was not amused by such a state of affairs, looked bored, but Hana-san looked relieved. And.

''Now, since Temma says it's good and you're eating it, you have to eat it too.......oh?

All right, sister.

Wait, wait! d*mn it, let go of me, Blanca!　

Brother, I don't like it.

　At Hana's words, Sanna quickly sat up, and Blanca held the Viscount down with a quick feathering as he tried to flee in danger.

''Brother-in-law, wait and see. Sister, please.''

Thank you, Sanna. Now, your favorite food has arrived.

Ugh!

"Conceive.

Who's that?

　Hana-san brought a bowl of a large amount of kusaya and natto mixture close to the motionless Viscount's mouth, but the robo Viscount put pressure on his jaw and closed his mouth to a straight line. However, Amur appeared beside him and pinched the viscount's nose, and the moment his mouth opened slightly, he inserted an iron rod into his mouth to prevent it from closing.
　The viscount turned to his subordinates and called for help, but they pretended not to see him and continued to make a scene. Apparently, they don't want to make an enemy of Hana-san.
　Hana-san took aim at the moment the viscount opened his mouth wide to call for help and poured the contents of the vessel into his mouth. What's more, after pouring a mouth full of it, Hana-san, Amour and Blanca held down the viscount's mouth, jaw and other parts of his body and forced him to swallow it. It was like a goose being poured food for foie gras.

'Mr. Temma, Lady Merlin, please try this one as well. Also, I have prepared a hot cup of sake for you, Merlin-sama.

　Sanna was the only one who didn't join the commotion and kept us company. She said the dish she just recommended was salted fish from the river.

Oh, it's good.
This stuff is good.

　While my grandfather and I were eating the salted fish, the viscount was entering his second forced feeding time. The Viscount's subordinates were making a lot of noise as if they didn't see the Viscount like that. Maybe it's the usual thing for the viscount to meet with a look like that.

　The party continued until late, and it was finally dismissed when the sun was changing. In the room where the banquet was held, a number of people were asleep in a crumpled heap. Most of them are just drunk from drinking too much alcohol, but some of them seem to have fallen ill from eating too much... well, the first of them is the viscount and his daughter, whose belly is swollen up big time.

　By the way, Blanca left with Sana-san a step ahead of him and is not here. After Blanca disappeared, Amour secretly told me that the reason why Sana said she was stronger than Blanca was not because of her prowess, but simply because she has a higher power relationship with her husband and wife. Blanca is goofy on Sanna-san, and she's not so much in love with her as she's not at all in love with him.
　On his way back from the Viscount's mansion, he carried his unusually drunken grandfather on his back and was led back to the inn by his safe men. Originally, I heard that the Ryusai Ken was closed at midnight, but thanks to Hana-san's advance notice, she opened the front door for me even though it was midnight.
　Amur had encouraged me to stay at the mansion, but I politely declined, as there was a chance that Amur would be drunk (or pretend to be) and attack the sleeper.
　When I returned to my room, I crawled under the futon that had been laid out without changing clothes and went straight to sleep. Grandpa was also sleeping on the futon next to me, snoring, but I let Shiroumaru sleep between us, so I didn't mind the snoring too much.

'Hahhhh, nice hot water,'

　The next morning, I was starting my day with a morning bath. My grandfather had come to take a morning bath as well. He had drunk so much yesterday that he was completely drunk, but he seemed to have sobered up nicely, woke up as if nothing had happened, and followed me straight to the bath.
　In the bath, a few guests were enjoying their morning bath, but there was plenty of room for the two of us to join them.
　When I returned to the room after enjoying the bath, it was just about time for breakfast, and I asked the hostess to bring me a meal.
　I'm not going to be able to get to the bottom of it.

'Sorry, Temma. It's going to get a little messy.''

What's going on?

That's what my stupid father did!

　According to Amur, I told the representatives of a nearby village that happened to be there that I was in Nanao. Then the representatives of the village said, "If he's so strong, we want him to fight with the guys from our village.
　Hana-san said she thought it was just a social call, but after she left her seat, she heard that they had talked about it, and this morning, she received a number of letters asking when they would let her fight.
　Because those letters were delivered before the sun came up, Hana asked, "Has something strange happened in the surrounding villages? When he jumped up, he found out what happened and is in a very bad mood. Incidentally, it seems that Viscount Lobo was lynched by Hana-san in the name of chastisement, and is now being held in a dungeon. I've heard that Amur was frightened of such a Hanna-san, so he and Blanca took refuge in my place.

I'd like you to come to the mansion as soon as possible. I can't say no to her when she comes here, and she wants to discuss it and apologize. It's a good idea to have your brother and sister-in-law come, but my brother is not in a position to use it, and my sister-in-law is also busy dealing with various things, so it's difficult for her to leave the house.

So you have no choice...?

Temma, I think you owe my father a debt of gratitude for being so dumb but he's still very useful around here.
'Your sister-in-law also said, "I don't care how you use that idiot, just help me out. I'll pay him properly and he's going to add to the commission depending on what it is, so I'll ask for one here.

　They both bowed their heads together. After talking with Grandpa, they decided to take this matter as a request from the Viscount family and officially receive it through the guild. Rather than receiving the request directly from the Viscount's family, going through the guild would leave behind official documents, so they could have the guild on their side in case something happened.
　It seems that Blanca, who heard me and Grandpa's reply, had expected that to happen beforehand, so she went straight to the guild and signed the contract before heading to the mansion.
　It seems that the guild had been told in advance, and the contract was easily completed. Well, even though it's called a contract, it's only a simple one, so all I had to do was write my name on the contract signed by Viscount Lobo (written on behalf of Hana-san) and it was done. However, the last sentence of the contract stated, 'If we cannot come to an agreement after discussion, Temma may unilaterally break the contract, and in that case, the commission fee will be given as it is, without regard to the penalty. It was too unreasonable. Early on, in this case, they handed the entire initiative to me, and if I refused, they would give me the commission, and if I accepted, they would give me the commission plus additional fees.

　When I arrived at the Viscount's mansion after signing the contract, I could hear the clattering sound so that I could hear it outside the front door, and I felt that it was even more hectic than I had heard.
　With the people of my subordinates running around by my side, I was led to the room I used for the banquet yesterday, where Hana-san was giving instructions to her subordinates, who I assumed to be civil servants, at the top seat.

''Sister-in-law, I've brought Temma with me. Also, I've finished the contract with the guild.

Thank you, Blanca. Everyone, please leave the table for a moment.
Ha!

　My subordinates left the room with only the necessary documents. I was very impressed by the apologetic looks on everyone's faces as they passed my subordinates.


I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

　As soon as they sat down in front of Hana-san, Hana-san, Blanca and Amour all got down on their knees and uttered words of apology.

''This matter is completely our family's fault, and all the blame lies with the Viscount family's master, Lobo, and me here. On that basis, we hope that you will accept this request.

　Hana-san was talking with her head still attached to the tatami mat. I decided to ask Hana-san and the others to return to their original posture for now and hear the details. According to his story, the Southern Autonomous Region is not a monolithic entity, and there are many people who would rather unseat Viscount Lobo at the drop of a hat and put themselves in his place.
　 It's quite possible to fight it out.
　However, if you unilaterally contradict the story brought to you by Viscount Lobo, as you did this time, you may lose the trust of your friendly city.
　I've been told that it's no shame to get down on my knees and ask for help, rather than getting into a fight over such trivial matters.

If that's the case, I don't mind participating in a power contest. And if you are going to have a power comparison, what kind of format do you plan to use?

　Hana-san and Blanca looked relieved that I agreed to it. Amur looks happy for some reason.

''What we're planning to do now is to hold a tournament with only those who want to fight Temma, and have Temma fight the winner of that tournament...''

''Then let's make it a free entry just like the martial arts tournament in King's Landing, and we'll play the finals in a tournament format, with only the ones who win the preliminary round of the group competition.

'No, we can't just let Temma fight in the qualifying round. If Tenma loses in the preliminaries, I'm sure someone will say that they're going to make an excuse that they lost because it was a wild fight, or that they're going to round up players from the village they don't like and defeat them so that they won't be able to advance to the finals... yeah, that's right. ...Let's seed the Temma from the finals, and let's make the qualifiers a way to draw groups by lot in front of everyone.

　We don't know at this point how many people will show up for the tournament, but after the number of participants is determined, we will decide how many will advance to the final tournament.

Let's inform the villages that have sent us the letter and let them know about it right away. At the same time, we will send out notices to the villages and towns to gather participants. If we're going to have to do this, let's make it a big event so that there's no excuse for it.

　Hana-san said and started laughing quietly. The eeriness of it was so eerie that everyone in attendance, except me and Hana-san, felt a certain amount of fear. The way Amur was frightened was especially bad, and he instantly hid behind me.

'Then it's Nanao's representative........................Branca, Amour, please.

　Nanao's representatives will be the only two who will be representing Nanao. The reason for this was that these two would almost certainly be able to get through the qualifiers, and as long as they did not become part of the same qualifying group, both Enao's would get a slot in the final. Another reason for this was to prevent EIZO players from losing to players from other villages and towns in the preliminaries.

Well then, why don't I join you?
Oh, no, you can't have Mr. Merlin.
Oh, yeah?

　Grandpa, who was instantly refused to participate by Hannah, why? I had a look on my face that said.

''If even Merlin-sama participates, there is a possibility that the number of participants will be drastically reduced, and if you are matched with Blanca and Amur in the qualifying round, you will certainly lose two of them. I'm sorry for this inconvenience, but please, please.

''Mmmm.......this time we have a request from the viscounty family, so it can't be helped.......''

　Grandpa convinced himself that it was a request, but he was clearly not happy.

'I'm really sorry,'

Good, because the star of this show is Tenma. I'll take a back seat.

　Hana-san was on her knees again. Seeing this, Grandpa changed his mind and proceeded to talk.

'For the time being, we'll decide on the rules of the tournament based on what we've just decided. It won't take less than a month for the tournament to start, but until then, I'll arrange for Tenma and Merlin-sama to stay at the Ryushaiken Inn. And you, Temma, Blanca and Amur, take care to make sure that you are prepared for the tournament.

I understand.
Oh!
Okay.

Okay, dismissed!

　With Hana's announcement of dismissal, the civilian officials who had been outside the room returned en masse. They are going to prepare a letter to be sent to various places now.

''But isn't Viscount Lobo supposed to take the initiative?
'If that idiot does it, you won't be able to do what he can do. People have their roles to play, Temma. All she can do is decorate herself as a viscount. Nanao will be fine with his mother!

'There's no denying it... my brother is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to warfare and festivities, but when it comes to domestic and foreign affairs, he often drags his feet... though for some reason he's adored by the residents of Nanao.

　Viscount Lobo is not incompetent, but he doesn't seem to be so useful in politics either. However, for some reason, he has charisma and is said to be a difficult person to deal with.....