Shiroe, Crusty, and Michitaka are invited to the palace by the Free Cities of Eastel.  The nobles of the land invite the three of them to various meetings and seem to be trying to find out more about Akihabara and the Round Table.  Crusty is attracted to the daughter of Duke Cowen, who is noble, beautiful, but seems somehow lazy...
The Academic's Guild is a little much for me.
Die Akademiegilde wäre
etwas zu viel für mich.
Je ne suis pas à l’aise
avec les scientifiques.
Non vado particolarmente matto 
per la Gilda degli eruditi.
O Clã Academia já é demais para mim.
Вот эти вот «учёные гильдии»…
я точно не переварю.