Chapter 21. Laying the paving stones for the future. (One)
“That’s literally it. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the ones who organized this auction or the nobles who are running away in a hurry. I’ll kill whoever I want first.”
“I’m serious?”
“Of course. But it would be better to kill the nobles first.”
With a shrug, he pointed to the VIP section far away.
“There are a lot of people running away for their lives.”
“…….”
“The guys who organized this auction are going to be delayed getting the goods, so they have relative time to spare.”
Ekarot seemed speechless at the sight of me leisurely discussing murder.
“Make a decision quickly. The sooner the better.”
I closed my eyes slightly and opened them to kill myself. Ekarot’s expression was disgusted by my sudden change in mood.
“who are you?”
He stuttered and took a step back. I felt like I could feel life rippling and spreading around me.
“Me? A person passing by.”
He grinned and clapped his hands.
“And someone who can help you.”
It wasn’t a lie.
It would have been enough to pick up Requiem right now and start running. Because it wasn’t difficult to hide one’s identity.
“ah…….”
Only then did Ekarot realize that what I said was not a lie, and that I was a person who could put my words into practice at any time.
“I am…….”
Unlike his energetic shout at first, there was hesitation in Ekarot’s voice.
‘I knew it would be like this.’
It was as expected. It seems that Ekarot still had a weak mentality before he went on a rampage at the auction house.
‘It’s those bastards who made me like this! ‘Those bastards!’
Because he was the one who shouted with a tear-filled face in the original.
“Have you decided yet? Why are you hesitating so much?”
As he spoke in a harsh tone, Ekarot began to get very embarrassed.
“No, that’s….”
“Hurry up. We’ll all run away.”
Eckhart hesitated and looked at me. I laughed to myself while looking at him like that.
‘He’s still a kid.’
Roasting and boiling a kid like this was nothing to me.
“Would you like me to tell you something?”
“……What?”
“Do you think the people who kidnapped you and enslaved you are the only ones here?”
Ekarot’s face became cold. I continued speaking in a smooth tone.
“I’ve already killed the guys who did this several times. But they’re still here.”
“…….”
“Will this cycle end if I kill these guys? I don’t think so.”
When I presented the facts in a somewhat believable way, it sounded like an apostle of justice speaking.
“…Then how do I end it?”
Ekarot asked, his lips quivering.
“curious?”
He smiled and stretched out his hand towards Ekarot.
“-!”
Ekarot closed his eyes tightly and flinched. It was a typical reaction of someone who had been exposed to a lot of violence.
Bye!
My hand broke the handcuffs that were restraining Ekarot.
“ah…….”
A sound, whether a sigh or a moan, was released from Ekarot’s lips.
Fighting, fighting.
Ekarot stared at the handcuffs falling at his feet.
“This thick thing all at once….”
“Didn’t you tell me I could kill them all?”
Ekarot’s face slowly lifted towards me.
“…….”
When we met again, our eyes had a different color than before. I could see faint hopes and expectations blooming in the midst of what had been distorted by hatred.
“let’s go.”
I spoke again and stretched out my hand.
Unlike the first time, Ekarot did not avoid the hand coming toward me.
widely.
I hugged him with one arm.
Ekarot fidgeted for a moment, but soon settled down stably.
“……Where are we going?”
I smiled at the polite gesture that flowed out obediently.
In the original work, Ekarot was an arrogant character who did not use honorifics to anyone except Cain.
The fact that a guy like that used an honorific towards me meant that he did an excellent job of taking on the role of savior that Cain had played.
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I feel like I’m really good at flirting with people.
“First, I have to go to where I live.”
Ekarot’s eyes wavered once at the confident answer. He said in a quiet voice.
“Can you do me a favor?”
“What?”
“Please release the others.”
Ekarot added in a much gentler voice.
“I want people to get their freedom back.”
Fortunately, there was still a ray of warmth left in his heart. Very easy to exploit, such a soft feeling.
“okay.”
I answered willingly and took a step forward.
“Block it off! Don’t let them out!”
“Can’t you let this go?! Do you know who I am and do this?!”
Leaving behind the chaos of the imperial army and nobles. In that gap, he lost me and left Princess Violet behind.
Crash!
Holding Ekarot in my arms, I ran towards the space inside the stage. Feeling Ekarot’s small hand firmly grasping my shoulder.
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“……Tell me again.”
The man bit his lip in an old, gray voice.
When I asked you to say it again, it wasn’t because I really didn’t understand what you meant.
It was a reprimand to ask me if what I had just heard was true, and if so, to tell me why my life should be spared.
“……I’m sorry, Lowell.”
The man had no choice but to say that.
thud.
After hitting his forehead on the ground once, he cried out desperately.
“I’m so sorry! I’ll do my best to resolve the situation!”
“It’s a repair.”
Lowell turned his chair around and looked at the man.
“Is the current situation manageable?”
“…….”
“What about this situation where the secret auction house I was running was robbed by the imperial army, and the instigator was First Princess Violet, and high-value products were lost?”
The cold voice seemed to pierce my body like a knife. The man placed his head on the ground and clenched his teeth.
“……sorry.”
Lowell glared at the man and then closed his eyes. He was so angry that the color returned to his pale face.
“her…….”
Lowell’s eyes trembled with fatigue.
I couldn’t understand how all of this could happen at once.
In his haste, he stayed up all night just to erase any traces so as not to be followed by the imperial army.
The problem didn’t end there.
It was because Princess Violet went crazy after obtaining the list of nobles who attended the secret auction. The nobles were literally being swept away like corn during harvest season.
Some even whispered that this was a harvest festival in the true sense of the word.
How much time and money would have to be spent on securing trade routes with nobles again and instilling trust.
Just thinking about it made my bones hurt.
“…Why is Ethan so quiet these days?”
Lowell was able to speak again after a while. The man who had been lying face down for a while slowly raised his head.
“Well, actually, that’s….”
The eyes shaking anxiously here and there were unusual.
“Tell me now.”
When Lowell urged him, the man closed his eyes tightly and spoke.
“Ethan’s whereabouts have been unknown for the past few days.”
“……what?”
“I found out that you had to rush to hire personnel, but I haven’t been able to contact you since.”
While Lowell’s eerie silence continued, the man continued to report, breaking into a cold sweat.
“We are looking for someone, but there is no news yet.”
“…….”
“Instead, we discovered suspicious bodies in a warehouse that was being used as a base on the outskirts of the capital.”
The man spoke in a reluctant tone.
“It was clearly a place that had been used until a few days ago, but there were corpses that looked like they were decades old. We are trying to determine the circumstances.”
“-!”
Lowell’s eyes flashed fiercely.
“What did the bodies look like?”
“Well, that is.”
The man stuttered, being weighed down by Lowell’s force.
“Most of them had one or two parts of their bodies mutilated, and they were charred black as if they had been pickled in the desert. Some of them were already showing their bones.”
bang!
Lowell slammed his fist down on the desk.
“Ethan, you stupid bastard….”
He could infer the circumstances just by hearing a few situations.
The fact that Ethan discovered the whereabouts of the person using the black sword, went to attack him, and was defeated.
‘That guy even killed Ethan?’
I knew his skills would be great, but I had no idea he would even beat Ethan.
Ethan was one of Lowell’s strongest men, and he was also a disciple he personally raised.
“Why didn’t you report it….”
Lowell swallowed a sigh rising from deep in his heart.
Because I was able to fully guess what Ethan was thinking as he rushed over. Although it ended up hastening his fate.
“her…….”
Lowell continued to sigh. His mind was also busy with other things.
‘I have to report it to my master quickly.’
Finding out about Abel Kindreal was taking longer than expected.
I saw his face reflected here and there, but I failed every time to track him down.
‘It’s like they know and are bullying you… … .’
This was my first time seeing someone like this. The lack of a known residence further slowed down the investigation.
“Damn it.”
Lowell ended up chewing on an expletive that he hadn’t said in a long time.
His eyes turned to other documents on the desk.
‘Supply and supply of blue pearls and red corals.’
The point of the long document that started with a title like this was simple.
The supply and demand of Sud territory’s representative specialties has plummeted to a bizarre degree.
This meant that the Mare Guild and, by extension, the Ardante family could be shaken.
‘Are the mining personnel trying to steal money? Or is there a problem with the distribution process?’
I had a bad feeling. Dark clouds were gathering around the sun, which I admired.
‘The blow has already been huge due to the changed tax law.’
In the ear of Lowell, who was glaring at the documents with his brows drawn together,
smart.
There was a knock on the door.
“Lord Lowell, this is an urgent report from the Sud territory.”
“Come in.”
A member of the organization opened the door and handed out a letter. Lowell sighed as he opened it and read it.
“this is…….”
He jumped up from his chair.
“I have to meet the master.”
Lowell’s face was grave as he grabbed the doorknob.
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A few days ago, Obest territory.
“Huh, really.”
Diego sat in his office and read the official letter sent to the estate.
“Have your eyes become blurred with age?”
But no matter how many times I read it again and again, the letters in the official document remained the same.
[…] … Therefore, future taxes will be calculated on a percentage basis. The income and expenditure items of each territory are as follows. The income is the total amount of the territory… … .]
Diego blinked and entered the numbers into the ratio formula on the official document.
Every time I made a mistake in my calculations or miscontrolled my power and the ink splattered, I used the same curse words I used when killing a monster.
“……Unbelievable.”
After finally finishing the calculation, Diego couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Is this all you have to pay in taxes?”
I thought I might have made a mistake in my calculations, so I tried it again, and I was still skeptical, so I tried it again. However, there was only a slight difference in amount, but the feeling was the same.
“Oh my god… how did this happen?”
Diego let out a helpless laugh and leaned back on his chair.
I’ve been struggling with tax issues for the past few days, but I didn’t think it would be resolved so easily. It seemed like the management of the territory, which had been shaky so far, would be able to breathe again.
“No, who suggested this innovative solution?”
First of all, it didn’t seem like it was the stubborn Emperor or Carlo. Lord Bennifer wasn’t that great of a person either.
“Then… surely it’s Mikel Concellare?”
Diego took out the next document with a heavy hand. These were the full minutes of the meeting attached to the official document.
“-?!”
Diego’s eyes popped out as he read the meeting minutes.
“No, Abel, what did this guy do?”
fantasy,
