When I thought that our usual everyday life has returned after the guest left, another guest arrived .

Similarly to what happened earlier, the citizens of my village has gathered at the entrance of the village .

「My name is Doraim . I am a n.o.ble dragon . 」

The guest was a dragon .

He’s a western dragon that you usually see in fantasy manga and anime .

He’s about 30 meters in length, far bigger than the wyvern before .

He looks very powerful .

If he properly stands .

The dragon who introduced himself as Doraim is in a bowing posture .

「Here is our present . Please accept it . 」

Is this Doraim’s follower? A man wearing a butler suit presented me a big box respectfully .

「Thank you very much . 」

Anyway, when I was about to receive it… . . Daga stepped forward and receive but he showed it to Ann instead of me .

Afterwards, Ann checked the content and brought the box in front of me .

It is a beautifully decorated sword and its sheath .

「Wh-what a marvelous present . 」

「No no」

This present, is it a token of friends.h.i.+p?

I can only give him foodstuff in return .

「By the way, what is your business here?」

「Right, my lord, Doraim-sama, has a nest on that mountain

south of here . 」

「Is that so?」

「Though it is a bit distant… . . you can consider us as your neighbor . We might have been slow but we want to greet our neighbors . 」

「You are very polite… . but what is the reason your lord looks like he’s apologizing?」

「Ah, excuse me . Master, please raise your head . 」

「Y-yeah . 」

If they didn’t introduce themselves earlier, I would probably think that the butler is the master .

「My master is not good at talking with people he met for the first time so I apologize on his behalf . If we have offended you in any way, I sincerely apologize . 」

「No, I don’t mind . Ah… . since you have come, I would like to welcome you but… . it is a bit troublesome with your size . 」

「I understand . Master, please get smaller . 」

「Umu」

After the dragon replied, smoke popped out and a weak looking, tall, middle-aged man showed up .

He looks like a n.o.ble .

「Please excuse us . Master, please introduce yourself again . 」

「My name is Doraim . I am a n.o.ble dragon . 」

… . . could he possibly practice that line to avoid making mistake?

In any case, though he’s tall, he’s at a human size now .

I invited

invited him to our house for a banquet .

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「This wine is delicious . This food is also delicious . I will not go home . I’ll live here . 」

「That’s not good . If you don’t get back to the nest to protect it, I’ll get yelled at by various people . 」

「It will be fine . I can intercept even if I’m here . 」

「Yes, you can but you’ll be an inconvenience here . 」

「Mou mou… . inconvenience?」

「Yes, inconvenience . If battle starts here, you basically can’t do anything . 」

「How rude . I’m a n.o.ble dragon . 」

「I was impolite . I’ll rephrase . You can’t do anything productive here . 」

「Mou」

「Let’s return while you are still being treated as a guest . They also wrapped various souvenirs for us . 」

「Apple! Is apple included?」

「Please be relieved . I received large quant.i.ty of it . 」

「I understand . Let’s return . 」

「Yes . Ah, please go back to your original size . 」

And the dragon left .

Though they left with a large quant.i.ty of crops, I think it’s still insufficient compared to the value of the sword .

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In any case, I reflected

I reflected on many things .

This village is not prepared to entertain guests .

I never considered welcoming guest before so it can’t be helped since I’m too unsociable .

I think that’s not good .

It’s not really good, right?

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First of all, even if we need some time to prepare to receive the guest, I can’t leave them standing on the ground outside .

However, I can’t invite them in the house immediately since they’ll exactly know what we’ve been doing .

I should make a fine waiting room for guests .

Okay, let’s build a house for guests use .

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Next, the welcoming ceremony .

It is not good for having almost everyone to gather every time there is a guest .

Though it is important to receive guests, each one has their own respective job .

Our current system: once Gran Maria, Kuudel, or Corone discovers a guest, she will guide that person around…

Since she will directly guide them, we won’t receive any report of their initial contact .

After that, Zabuton will notice that someone unknown is approaching the village and will sound the alarm .

Because of Zabuton’s alarm, everyone will gather .

Therefore, I decided to have a new signaling system for Zabuton

system for Zabuton .

Danger alarms will be the same as before .

The new signal for visitor is ringing a bell .

That bell is personally crafted by the elves .

Though I thought that hitting an iron is already a good idea but that seems not to be the case .

The sound of hitting an iron is awful so the bell was made .

That became the standard now .

The role of greeting guests will be taken by only three people, me, Loo, and Tier .

However, Ann, Ria, and Daga opposed my suggestion .

So, in addition to the three of us, several high elves, oni, and lizardmen will accompany us .

Flora wanted to take part in it so I asked her to look out at the guests during the night if they will stay overnight .

Like Loo and Tier, Ria and Ann are also fine doing an all-night-vigil if there is a guest but I want them to sleep properly so I asked Flora to do it .

This arrangement is probably all right now .

Well, we might fail in some things later but let’s take that an opportunity to learn and improve .

I don’t think that we’ll have guests that often .

I just raised a flag .

And a guest showed up .