"The third round of the Feast of Frenzied Fish has just been settled, Lady Dena. This is the list of all the rewards we're about to pay to the Transian heroes. Sorry for the trouble, but could you look it over and sign?"
"Don't make me look at that. It gives me a headache!
The High Priest of the Colossal Stele Temple in Great Reef Province has sent me three messages asking whether I secretly embezzled anything, or whether I made a mistake earlier and am now trying to make up for it. The worst part is, she very kindly told me to confess if I got into trouble and that she'd help me sort it out. She said I didn't need to use such a dangerous method as embezzlement.
The problem is, I didn't embezzle anything!
Not only did I not embezzle a thing, I even had to dip into my own private collection of treasures."
Lady Dena, looking troubled, complained to her adjutant, Mo'er, in the Colossal Stele Temple's outpost lighthouse in the Kato Sea:
"Do you think those Transians all suffer from some kind of illness that makes them die if they don't fight? Or do they simply have it in for the fishmen? How many fishmen have they killed in these twenty-one days?
Seriously, that pile of stinking fins scares me just to look at. I even had nightmares about them last night.
Our hired warriors have slaughtered too many fishmen. In my dream, the vengeful spirits of those fishmen filled the sea and even formed some kind of damned monster, wailing as they came to claim my life."
"Um, Lady, our sisters made a careful count. Over the past twenty-one days, we've received nearly five hundred thousand pairs of Black Fins in total. Two of