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...
So why is it this hard?
Warum haben wir dann
so große Probleme gegen sie?
¿Por qué es tan difícil?
Alors pourquoi c’est si dur ?
Come fa a essere così difficile?!
Por que está tão difícil?
Так отчего мы с ними 
столько мучаемся?!