The following morning, the potato salad was displayed. Celine and Esther, who were absent from breakfast yesterday, also came to the cafeteria this morning. Well, they both came out of their rooms after noon yesterday, and Estelle was happy enough to challenge Mia again.

And the potato salad just appeared on the breakfast menu. The chef (who was really the chef) himself arranged the plates at the table, and when he gazed at me, he punched and winked. I thought you said, "Enjoy my potato salad." Apparently, it has been quite finished over the night, and if you look closely, there are bears under your eyes.

So breakfast started, and I just put it in my mouth from the potato salad - heh, I see. It tastes more elegant and delicate than what I made. Even though it's supposed to accumulate in the stomach just by using potatoes, I feel like I can eat as much as I want.

That's a cook for the aristocrats. Honestly, I thought it would be a mistake for a nobleman to eat a potato salad like I made, but wouldn't it be strange to be lined up at a nobleman's table? I've only eaten a few noble meals yet.... all right, well, I shouldn't have given you a free pass on potato salad!

When I sent my gaze to the chef, my thumb stunned. This gesture works in this world. The chef smiled at me and gave me my thumb back. Just like okonomiyaki, I'm very happy that the dishes of the previous life have been recognized and sublimated in this world.

Afterwards, everyone banged on the noble-style potato salad, and Trian sent me and the chef a cliché. The chef was so impressed and tearful that I was relieved that I could now pay back the Silver Eagle's talisman. I can't help the temperature difference around here.

And after breakfast, Trian opens his mouth again, thinking it's time to take a seat.

"Well, how about a little? Let me explain what I found out about the thugs who attacked Marc and the others yesterday.... Mia, please say hello."

Mia, who was standing by the wall, approached the table as Trian called. It seems to be a well-behaved mode now. When Mia thanked her gently, she began explaining indifferently.

"The thug who attacked Marc yesterday turned out to be in the hands of the Dalkan Chamber of Commerce. Dalkan distributed a sketch of Marc to some of the city's outlaws and asked them to kidnap him."

It seems to be as Mia saw it yesterday. But I don't know what to do with it.

"Um, why did you kidnap me...?

"They appear to have committed a crime for a reward and have not been informed of Dalkan's intentions. But... we suspect that Dalkan tried to take Marc hostage and gain the identity of Celine."

Oh, really? While it was true that Dalkan's desire to see Celine at that time seemed dangerous to his eyes, planning an immediate kidnapping was an outrageous toad.

But Celine frowned at Mia's words.

"Is that true? He was a really uncomfortable man and a little villain, but...."

"Apparently, in the past few years, I've been working with (...) or (...) you guys (...) all the time (...) to make rough money. You must have gotten accustomed to using coercive methods while doing bad things. That's how I've seen a fallen merchant over and over again.... and the previous investigation by the guards revealed that..."

Mia once separated the words and pushed up her glasses with her fingers.

"You must be the Phantom Mist you captured on your journey. They handed over the abductees to the Dalkan Chamber of Commerce, which seems to be using illegally crafted slave magic equipment to enslave the victims and sell them on the back market."

― ― Magic equipment of a slave. I also received the monster slave collar as a souvenir in Surtoria, but I have heard that the magic equipment of slaves used in criminal slaves is severely restricted. That's right, if you get something like that with a whiskey, the world will be in trouble.

"So for the future, it's likely that the guards will step into the dungeon in a few days, hiding in the Dalkan Mansion, and grasp the immobile evidence. If that happens, your surveillance will be released, so please wait a little longer."

That would be the end of the explanation, Mia slowly and politely lowered her head.

A few more days. In that case, I would like to go sightseeing in the Territory today - and Celine cuts out the sightseeing spots that I heard from Maia yesterday.

"Mia, can I ask you a question?

"Yes, what is it?

"Looks like you've been investigating a lot, and you're pretty sure about the Dalkan Chamber of Commerce charges? I wonder why you're not going in there right now."

If you ask me, so is that. We may not have any solid evidence yet, but we know that the shops have dungeons for slaves. In the meantime, I feel like the evidence will follow later.

More importantly, the guards have even the lord on their backs, so if you rush them with power, they'll be able to handle it. What an overwhelming idea!

"I want to do that in the mountains... It is believed that the victims caught in the dungeon are already equipped with enslaved magic equipment. Originally, the pain inflicted as punishment from the collar of a slave used as a criminal slave is somewhat suppressed so that the owner's unreasonable orders cannot be followed, but it is illegally made -"

"That's not the case. If you force yourself into it, you could even take the victim's life to destroy the evidence."

"That's what it is. Trian has ordered us not to take out as many victims as we can. Fortunately, the Phantom Mist Group doesn't seem to be in regular contact, and the thugs of yesterday also seem to have no family to worry about when they disappeared. All I have to do now is adjust the undercover personnel...."

So Mia exhaled lightly, and Trian took over the conversation with her arms on the table.

"As you may have heard, the Phantom Mist have targeted and abducted beautiful people. I'm planning to infiltrate the dungeon disguised as a kidnapped traveler, but I'm having a little difficulty securing some beautiful men and women to keep Dalkan and his men from getting suspicious... I want you to wait a little longer."

Speaking of which, it was because of Celine, Thio, Esther, Nicolas and the beautiful girls that the Phantom Fog assaulted Celine even though they knew she was an adventurer.

... my head Lumon didn't hit me with a deadly wound, but cut me in the leg, and I might have been in the head. If he's been abducted...

I shook my head in disgust and threw him out. Anyway, it looks like we're just going to have to gather undercover men and women. There's nothing wrong with staying in the Territory for a few days.

The air that relaxed in the venue began to be good, and this was the moment when I thought I would open my breakfast seat. Liane suddenly takes a seat and declares with a high voice.

"Then I will run for that role!

What are you talking about? This lady!?