The next morning, the large meeting room of the City Hall was cleaned cleanly by people since early.
The seven village chiefs were invited entering to sit, everyone wore the most intact clothes outfit that they had, hair and ears groomed neatly, hands and feet were just scrubbed with soap to the point of flushing completely red. However although having been invited by the City Hall's people arriving to the third time, the seven people still resolutely refused to sit down onto the cushioned chairs arranged ready around the table. They just stood huddling together into a corner of the room like a flock of chicks meeting rain.
Only when Elric had to yield explaining meticulously that chairs left empty then the two Lords would also not sit, and the two Lords not sitting then the meeting could absolutely not begin, did the seven old men finally tiptoe approaching. Every single person only dared to sit perching on exactly one-third of the chair.
