episode_0009

Palmyra was one of those villages that hated nobles just like any other village. However, the reason was somewhat unusual.

The reason was that when the war against the demons was in full swing, the noble lord abandoned his subjects and ran away.

In the process, the lord fled with all his soldiers, and because of that, residents and adventurers had to take up arms on their behalf.

“But there is a new lord in this village that we protected with our own hands! There are levels of fucking!”

Marco, the merchant association president, was slamming the table ungracefully and screaming loudly.

“I went all the way to the capital to protest because of that, but they didn’t even listen. In the first place, I couldn’t even see His Majesty’s handsome face.”

Cecilia, who was also the head of the adventurer’s guild branch and the temporary village chief, sighed and lamented the current situation. She also had the same thing she didn’t like about the new lord.

“From what I heard, the newly appointed lord is said to have committed some crime and is coming here.”

Finally, Father Camille, the village priest and in charge of military affairs, spoke.

“Fuck, this isn’t some kind of punishment room! Then what sin have we committed who live there?”

“Nothing will change if you get angry like that, so lower your voice a little. If you get angry, you’ll just lose your voice.”

“Okay. In times like these, you can put your heads together calmly and come up with a sharp solution.”

These three were natives of the village and actually ruled the village. Those who were trapped with these three could not even set foot in the village, let alone do anything. The witness was the former lord who was beaten and kicked out while trying to secretly return.

“… Even so, if you give away this lord like that, big trouble will happen.”

“But I feel like my stomach will explode when I see that bastard proudly crawling up to me and acting arrogantly like he’s my lord!”

“The story does not progress. I need a sharp method other than anger.”

Meanwhile, Cecilia, the head of the Adventurer’s Guild, came up with a clever idea.

“Okay. If you can’t do anything in the first place, you don’t have to do anything.”

“Well then, let’s just watch that noble bastard fuss?”

“No, I’m saying don’t respond and just ignore it. If we all treat ourselves as invisible, what can that bastard do? Even if a guy who has already committed a crime kills the citizens, only his head will run away.”

“Ho, that’s okay.”

Father Camille did not like the method very much, but he had no choice but to follow it based on the majority vote.

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A few days later, when the new lord’s carriage finally arrived at the entrance of the village, the residents greeted it with indifference, as they had practiced.

Let alone greeting him, he didn’t even look at the carriage, and when the coachman noticed what was happening, he got angry and tried to whip him, but was soon stopped by the new lord.

Eventually, the carriage arrived at the Yeongjugwan, and the Lord’s pet crow, seeing the Yeongjugwan’s crow inside the carriage, burst out laughing.

“Ha! Why kill a mother like this…!”

People began to secretly look forward to seeing how the lord would react. If he got off the carriage and got angry, I planned to ignore him and humiliate him as if nothing had happened.

“… Raoul. Is this really the permanent residence where Raoul will be staying?”

In the coachman’s opinion, this was too shabby a building to be called a permanent residence. Although it was luxurious compared to ordinary mansions, it was too old and small to be called a permanent residence.

The two-story wooden building felt old even at first glance, and there were not even common flowers to be seen in the garden visible beyond the iron bars.

The former manor’s mansion was currently being used as a warehouse, so he gave it as a gift the best of the remaining mansions in the village. Of course, even if it were okay, it would look like a pigsty to a precious person from the capital.

“… Isn’t it written as Yeongju-gwan? ”

Just like that, the carriage door opened, and the eyes of the people who had been indifferent turned towards the carriage for just a moment.

“Then this must be Yeongjugwan.”

He got off the carriage without any complaints.

And what people saw was not the pot-bellied old man they had expected, but a young man who looked like he needed nursing care right away.

From a distance, she seemed both beautiful and handsome. However, in either case, the lines were too thin, and there was no trace of life in that beautiful face.

“Just as I became a lord, this building also became a lord’s residence. If you were to call this village the Yeongjugwan, it would be a very nice place. Look at the essence, not the name.”

Then, a large arrow was struck in the conscience of the residents who were ignoring him.

“My lord…”

“And the place where I will stay is not just this building, but this village. If you look at it that way, isn’t it a better place to live than anything else?”

Those who thought that the lord would definitely ignore their village were once again struck by an arrow.

“So don’t be too angry…”

Is it because of the accumulated fatigue? Yeongju, caught on a stone, lost his balance and fell.

Marco, the merchant president who was worse off, approached him and tried to help him up, but Cecilia, who had masterminded this plan, kicked him in the shin and he fell in the same position as the lord.

When the owner saw that he had fallen, maid Betty, who was checking his luggage, ran over and helped him up.

“Raul!”

“Don’t worry too much. I simply fell.”

After casually dusting himself off, he stood up and walked into the residence.

As he entered the residence, the residents who had been acting like they were ignoring him gathered together and began discussing it.

“I don’t think he’s that bad of a person…?”

“No, you don’t know that yet. It could all be an act. They might be deceiving us.”

“But isn’t that something that we who ignore this should say?”

“Shut up. Noble brats, you didn’t care when our village was at its most dangerous, but isn’t it annoying that you’re doing that now?”

Before I knew it, the story had degenerated into a story about the lord’s impressions.

“Anyway, did you see that human face? It looked like not a single drop of blood would come out even if I pricked it.”

“You look good?”

“No, he’s handsome and looks like he’ll pick you up and throw you away if you tap him!”

Then Cecilia, who was the planner of the plan, got angry and kicked their butts.

“They’re just talking nonsense about how important the lord’s appearance is.”

“But if a man with a pot-bellied mustache comes, our Cecilia will be 100% harassed.”

“… Wouldn’t even a perverted aristocrat reject a woman who pulls up an old tree with her bare hands?”

“Hey!!!”

Of course, the new lord was sipping coffee made by the maid while watching the funny scene through the second floor window of the lord’s residence.

“The elegant disregard operation has been in vain, so we must carry out the next operation.”

The new lord, Raoul, was a man with sharp ears who could even hear the sound of water flowing 300 meters away.

Of course, when he saw that attitude, he didn’t particularly get angry or think of causing trouble.

“I’ll give that young master a punch to the lord and come back, so take a good look.”

Cecilia knocked on the door of the residence hall with both hands full of documents that were not particularly important.

“I’m sorry from the first day, but my lord, there is some business that needs to be taken care of urgently.”

Then, the person who opened the door and welcomed her was the new lord himself.

“Come in.”

“Why… lord…?”

“My maid is unpacking and the coachman is cleaning the stables for the horses. Of course, shouldn’t the person with the most leisure be the one to greet the guests?”

She was momentarily taken aback by his attitude, which was very different from the nobleman she knew, but soon regained her composure and thrust a bundle of documents at him.

“These are documents accumulated while the lord was absent from this village.”

It was an amount of work that could not normally be handled in two nights, but she confidently forced the new lord to give it a one-day deadline.

“I see.”

“Because this is a fairly urgent task, can I ask you to handle it by tomorrow morning?”

“No.”

Then Cecilia raised one corner of her mouth, saying she knew that would happen.

Just as I was thinking that I was incompetent as a human who committed a crime and was kicked out to the outskirts, the new lord Raoul spoke calmly.

“With this amount, I can finish it in three hours. Didn’t you say it was urgent work? We’ll have to deal with it as quickly as possible.”

“Yes…?”

“It’s not something that can usually be handled within three hours.”

“Based on common sense, isn’t this something that can be handled in one day?”

He stood there, placed the documents on a nearby table, and began to work.

Cecilia was astonished at how smoothly everything was done, but Raoul did not even glance at her and focused all his attention on the documents in front of him.

“Here it is.”

After completing all the work in 2 hours and 40 minutes, he handed Cecilia a stack of documents with no errors or mistakes.

“If there is still work left, leave it to tomorrow.”

“Yes, yes…”

Cecilia gritted her teeth and left the residence, while Raoul sipped his cooled coffee again without saying a word and prepared dinner.

And Raoul’s pet crow, who was watching the whole situation, opened the cage and started flapping its wings in the direction that Cecilia had run away from.

“… Things I don’t know anything about.”

There was a cold anger in the crow’s eyes that even its owner Raoul had never seen before.