Trouble understanding this introduction


From ふらいんぐうぃっち chapter 1 p38, this is how Makoto introduced herself

> はじめまして
>
> この度…こちらの方【ほう】で
>
> 魔女をやらせていただく
>
> 木綿 真琴です

I have difficulty understanding how the second and third sentence of the
introduction works.

In the second sentence, what does「こちらの方で」refers to? A way of doing something
or a place? According to the 方's furigana reading, I believed that it must
refer to some physical direction. But, I can't see the direction.

In the third sentence, what「やらせていただく」means? All I know is that it has a
similar meaning to「させていただく」. It means "to do (introduce with permission)," am
I right?




  * This こちらの方 just means "here" or "this place". で is a plain location marker. It's roughly the same as just saying こちら, but のほう has been added to make the phrase politer. See: [〜ほうを as in 準備のほうを](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/72923/5010)
  * やらせていただく is basically the same as させていただく, which is a humble version of させてもらう. Here, no explicit permission is related, so she is just trying to be humble. See: [what does させてもらう really mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/84039/5010)




  * This こちらの方 just means "here" or "this place". で is a plain location marker. It's roughly the same as just saying こちら, but のほう has been added to make the phrase politer. See: [〜ほうを as in 準備のほうを](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/72923/5010)
  * やらせていただく is basically the same as させていただく, which is a humble version of させてもらう. Here, no explicit permission is related, so she is just trying to be humble. See: [what does させてもらう really mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/84039/5010)

