By dusk, Honnier Gallop had finally made it through the long tunnel and arrived at the castle in Iowa. After washing off the traces of saliva and changing into a suitable robe, she finally met the first familiar face.
In the castle lord's room, Honnier immediately spotted her cousin, Jenny Gallop. She was standing beneath a map of Xingduker alongside several girls of different heights and even different races.
"Cousin Honnier!"
Jenny was delighted to see Honnier. She stepped forward and gave her a gentle hug. "I knew we'd meet on the Gallop Plains sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to happen this soon."
Honnier hugged her cousin and smiled. "Yes, I'm glad to see you so soon too. This must be Marquis Landen's room, right?"
Seeing that her cousin from the Marquis Fiat's family could come and go from the castle lord's room with a group of women, and that she usually acted as Landen's representative, maneuvering between factions in the Basin, Honnier naturally assumed the Fiat Family had truly joined forces with Night-Kirin City and become one family. Without thinking, she blurted out, "So you really have become the lady of Night-Kirin City?"
"Huh?" The two of them caught the startling cry at once.
"Uh..." Jenny felt a shiver run through her. Anger struck her in the back, and the room seemed to turn colder.
Behind Jenny stood not only Gleia, Wendy, Redbird, Sophia, Jonny, Lily, and Firefly, but also the centaur girl Kaiyi, the mermaid girl Eithris, the fox woman Fanil, and the barbarian girl Qiu Cao.
After Jenny and Eithris had spent this time laying the groundwork, the girls had reached a consensus: the territory really needed a woman who was eloquent, familiar with aristocratic affairs, and of a status befitting Landen. She could