On the day Zich returned, his companions held a welcome party for him. Joachim and Evelyn also attended the party. Although they had gathered and drank like this a couple of times before, the mood today was more festive than usual.

“Thank you so much, Sir Zich!” Joachim bowed deeply to Zich a few times; Joachim usually paid overt respect to Zich. Today, he was worse than usual. However, Joachim thought it was only natural for him to act this way. “Thanks to you, it seems that the Dracul family will receive much better treatment than before.”

Even though Joachim had requested Zich to help with the bandit investigation for Marquess Campbell in hopes of bettering the Dracul family’s reputation, he didn’t have many expectations. He thought Zich would find the bandits’ home base with his special abilities and gain Marquess Campbell’s affection, but nothing more. Of course, that would have been a huge help to the Dracul family, but what Zich did was much more than finding the base of a bothersome group of bandits. Zich had prevented Bambis, the center of the Marquess Campbell’s commerce center, from suffering huge losses.

Considering the situation Campbell had been in at the time of the bandits’ attacks, it was difficult to imagine...