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...
He doesn't seem like a bad 
person... Merely a pain.
Er scheint kein schlechter Mensch
zu sein, nur eine Nervensäge.
No parece una mala persona. 
Solo una molestia.
Il a l’air plutôt gentil,
mais ça m’ennuie…
Non sembra una cattiva persona... 
solo un gran grattacapo.
Ele não parece ser mau. Que enfadonho.
На плохого человека он не похож…
Но явно зануда.