[ Well, if Claude is going to twist his arm... he'd never pass up an opportunity to eat. He sits down cross-legged across from Claude, setting the basket down in between them while grabbing his extra canteen of water. The salted fish will likely make Claude thirsty, and he's suffered enough already waking up naked and covered in goo.

Thoma unwraps one of his rice balls first to start munching on it while he tries to pick where to start... probably at the most important point. ]

Alright, so apparently we regularly arrive in batches to this world to help the locals. I don't know how or who is really picking us. Might be the Regent himself who brought us here. That was probably your first question, right?

[ The rebels certainly don't have the power to ordain it nor control it. ]

I was a housekeeper for the Kamisato Clan back in my own world, so it's not even really strong or important figures, I think.