Ivita brought over the tea, realizing that asking someone to find a fairy-tale character seemed like a tall order.
But as the Wind Bone Old Lady claimed, the origin of the Frog Lord tale lay around the lands near the Valji family's territory. Hence, he wanted to hire people of all kinds to gather as much related information as possible.
Recently, Ivita had collected a lot of such information, but all of it ultimately concluded—that the fictional character of the Frog Princess did not exist.
There were private underground information agencies that had collaborations with some scholars. To curry favor with the lords, they'd written several interpretations of the Frog Princess' fairy tale, the lessons it teaches children, and some conjectures about its origin.
Ivita was interested in the origin of this fairy tale, but apparently, the level of these scholars working with private information agencies was quite limited. None could give him a satisfactory analysis.
