After having a good meal the night before, Erwin woke up in the morning and immediately remembered that he still had a job to do. Thus, he quickly got out of bed and got dressed. Before he had even made it out of his own bedroom, the butler came knocking on his door, informing him that there was a guest who had been waiting in the hall for quite some time already.

Erwin headed directly to the guest hall upon hearing this, and once he arrived, he discovered that Lanyon was already waiting for him.

"Why are you here so early?" Erwin asked.

"You were the one who asked me to come here first thing in the morning, Master Erwin. Have you forgotten?" Lanyon asked with a resigned smile.

Erwin could only nod in response. He had said that as part of his drunken ramblings, but he wasn't going to tell Lanyon that. In any case, there really was something that they had to do together anyway, so he didn't speak any further on the matter.

On the previous night, Larwood and the others had complained that Erwin's load was too light, so they had reassigned him many new jobs, including purchasing supplies for the 500 people that were going to be recruited...