Going off the translations I read of the LN. the father-in-law is a bit of lost in translation stuff. MC calls his Dad "Tou-san" which is a casual, familial way to refer to your own Dad. She uses "Otou-san" (with quite a bit of force behind it, MC notes) which is the common form to be used when...
Source: the postscript for volume 1 of this manga. And I do believe she is being drawn purposefully bad to show how nervous she is that her crush is coming to visit.
My guess is some kind of strawberry crepe flavor cracker/treat of some kind. I have seen a bowl of some kind of pre-packaged food being pulled out when guests are over in other manga/anime.
I don't think it's empty ones. I think it's leftover ones, as in milk that people are not going to drink because some Japanese schoolkids do not drink the milk that comes with their school lunch. She is super poor so she wants them, but in the spirit of ojou fairness she wants to jan-ken-pon for...
We have not yet hit the part of the summary that says "until I saved them from a potential assault and they became intensely fond of me" so I'm guessing the asshole guy group is gonna try and pull something horrid in the near future.
So it is confusing since their dragon designs are basically the same, but the dragon lord in this chapter is the lady one. Two horns forward is the lady one that lives with the elves, Four horns swept back is the male one that was chilling near the hot springs.
So they are probably referring to This article on ANN that says: "When we were deciding on direction with this series with the director, in the original source material, the harem aspect with the girls was strongly pushed in the manga. In the anime, we decided that we should try to pull back...
I believe the pages leading up to them all in one cell implies she charmed the guards to get them all in one room, then call Allen and Ana down to speak with them.