Log Horizon - ep24

Now that Shiroe has an idea what is going on, he is going about collecting as much information that he can to figure at their goal. This will allow him to see how it is organized and this will allow for him to calculate their next move to counter the enemies attempts at ruining Akiharaba's festival. This is imports because the goal of Lord Marves is to discredit the Round Table by ruining their festival. However it takes Shiroe awhile to figure out their method of attack. It seems that the People of the Land are making things up as they go along, and since there is no real plan other than causing chaos the is no command structure or organization to the attack. This means there really is no way to make a plan to deal with the threat.

It isn't until he meets up with Soujirou and hears about how his group date went, that he comes up with an idea to fight Lord Marves forces. That by using Soujirou his able to increase the amount of patrols without increasing the military presence in response to Lord Marves attack using the people of the land. That by having patrols going around here under the guise of group dates, and to keep the woman interested in helping out Shiroe has Soujirou switch between groups so that he can keep them interested by using his appeal. This also leads Shiroe becoming aware of one of Lord Marves true target, and that being Lady Lenessia. This is the beginning of Shiroe's counter-attack. It appears that since it is Lord Marves goal to make the Round Table seems incompetent by destroying the festival. Then it is Shiroe goal to make the festival as lively as possible to counter-act any negative image that Lord Marves creates.