Once the alchemist had the bottle, I was led back to the main room. As I exited the room, my eyes went to the windowsill for a moment but I quickly diverted them and instead made idle chitchat with Lord Vandeer.

As we returned to the main room, I noticed Lady Seeired was looking our way. However, as soon as our eyes met, she looked away as if nothing had happened. She was likely wondering what the other side was doing with me, and ultimately whether I was tempted to throw away her offer and follow them. In truth, Lord Vandeer hadn't offered me anything other than what he had already provided.

He wanted a vial of waters of life for a sick fairy queen. Such a thing was quite valuable, but that value didn't come close to the value of a day of shopping with my girls. As far as trades went, it was exceedingly fair on my side. That vial cost me almost nothing, but it saved one of their hives. I didn't necessarily like the idea of them using fairies like that but did I have the right to say anything.

Fairies were good at collecting and concentrating mana, and that was extremely useful for growing a dungeon. Most of my success could be laid at the feet of the combination of the fairies and my dungeon. It was the only reason I had a god dungeon, and it was the only reason that dungeon had become Eliza. If the choice came between using fairies or allowing my daughter to starve, I wouldn't hesitate to continue to use the fairies.

In other parts of Aberis, fairies were taken and used as servants. They called them house fairies, and although their capacity to do chores was as limited as their intelligence, they existed as a novelty and a good luck charge among nobles there. It was said that house fairies could bring health and prosperity to any household they inhabited. This likely had to do with their natural mana gathering ability. Any household that had a fairy would likely have just a tinge more mana in the air than one that didn't. Compared to Aberis which captured fairies and treated them as pets or worse, slaves, Jespain's treatment could be considered downright respectful. It wasn't like I was looking to overthrow Aberis and fix the fairy situation there, so how could I even say a thing in Jespain?

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"To my understanding, one of your subordinates found a weapon in a dungeon known as a gun, and is looking for more information on them, correct?" I snapped out of my retrospection as Lord Vandeer asked me a question just as we returned to the VIP section and he sat back down in his chair.

I looked to the side and took a seat on the couch. "Yes, I wasn't aware that this world… I mean, I have never seen guns before Bernice got them."

That was technically true. Even in my world, how often did someone lay their eyes on a gun? I had seen them on television and stuff, but I was far too introverted to have ever seen one in real life. Getting a gun for Bernice had been the first thing I had ever done. As for how I had managed to get the gun in such a short time, my Merchant skills seemed to come into play, and I was able to purchase them from an enthusiast who was wowed by the pretty women I was with.

He nodded in acceptance. "We also came across our first guns from dungeons. There is a dungeon in southwest Jespain that has shaped a great deal of our culture. Guns, horseless carriages, airships, and even our food all came from this dungeon. Even the word Jespain was a play on the name of the dungeon of Japan!"

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