episode_0185

Before becoming a noble, I wasn’t very friendly with the people of Ruggeron Village.

In the span of less than a year, various things happened, and eventually, the world began to pay great attention to the fact that it was a Titan.

Clearly, a man who had lived in the forest for 20 years was now in a position to stand face to face with the emperor and stand shoulder to shoulder with the duke in just one year.

Even I, who had been through all sorts of shit in my past life, felt this way all of a sudden, so I wondered how it must have been for the ordinary villagers.

There was an impassable wall there, but it was too strong.

“Heeeek, my lord?”

“Hello. How are you all doing? Would you like to try the fish I caught recently?”

“I, I’m okay!”

I didn’t know because I wasn’t interested before I became a lord, but most of the villagers were afraid of me.

I guess there’s nothing I can do. I’m tearing apart a monster that tears people apart with my bare hands, so I guess I’m a monster in their eyes.

But not everyone is afraid of me.

“A mountain behind the village of Bailan, located in the northwest of Xi’an, has disappeared. Do you know anything about it?”

“Ah, village chief. That’s what I did. You don’t have to worry about it. ”

“You broke a mountain?”

“Yes.”

“Be careful next time. It’s one of the main sources of supply for the village coming out of the mountain.”

“…Okay.”

Perhaps because of his experience, the village chief did not take my strength seriously.

Certainly, the fact that he survived this long in the village of Ruggeron is proof of his strength.

“Poohahahaha, now you’re going to break a mountain?! That’s amazing!”

On the other hand, Khan, who was always my friend, listened to my story with a hearty laugh.

“No matter how much Ian grew up, he couldn’t have done it like you!”

“Don’t laugh. I’m serious.”

“Kekeke, you can definitely see that the villagers are afraid of you.”

Khan took my concerns seriously and gave me advice.

“But is there really a need to become close to the villagers? Sian, you are a noble. Everyone will follow you, so there seems to be no reason to become close to them.”

“As Khan said, I don’t need to be friendly with everyone, but I don’t think I should become distant from them. I can’t see, hear, and judge everything in the village. The villagers should be my eyes and ears, but that’s not the case right now.”

It is often said that the ability needed for a leader is leadership.

It’s not a wrong statement, but you have to see something to make a choice. If you can’t see or hear anything like a blind person, no matter how good your leadership is, you’re bound to fail.

“You are different from other nobles.”

“Khan, I wasn’t originally a noble.”

“Puhahaha, that’s right! I forgot about that! Then, how about this?”

“What is it?”

“You can hire someone who is friendly with the villagers to do it for you. You can see and hear things through that person.”

“Hmm… Are you talking about some kind of secret royal inspector group?”

“Secret royal inspector? What is that?”

It wasn’t a bad idea.

However, I didn’t have the talent to do that.

‘The village chief is busy, Khan has to work at the blacksmith shop, and Carlson is also having a hard time every day as the captain of the guard.’

The people I was close with were each working in their respective positions.

However, I couldn’t leave it to the maids who hadn’t adapted to the village yet.

“Ah, there’s one person.”

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“I wonder how the fields will be divided.”

“I see.”

“And the smell of blood from hunting monsters is bad. I asked if the slaughter place could be located further away from the village.”

“I hadn’t thought of that, thank you.”

Astin became my counselor, listening to the townspeople’s opinions on my behalf.

For him, who was blind, anonymity was guaranteed, and if he used the watermill naturally, there was no need to be concerned about what others thought.

“Astin, you’re doing well. Thanks to you, I was able to understand the worries of the villagers.”

“No. I will work hard until I repay the favor I received from you, Lord.”

Austin and his wife Carla, who are full of energy, have better memories than I thought.

Even though I was away for a long time, I remembered the worries of the villagers one by one.

“Huh? Carla, did I forget something? Oh! That! ”

With the help of his mute wife, Astin was able to tell his forgotten worries.

“I was thinking about re-establishing the seed-raising custom.”

“Seed? What is that?”

“I don’t know either.”

At my question, Astin scratched his head and looked embarrassed, while his wife Carla seemed to know something but couldn’t say anything and was at a loss.

‘By the way, I think I’ve heard the word ‘ssi naerim’ somewhere.’

If it was an existing custom, you could have just asked the village chief.

“Xian, what’s going on?”

“I came here to ask you something. But what are you doing now?”

“What the heck, work.”

The village chief was always doing office work in the conference room.

At first, I wondered what there was to do in such a small village, but this person was writing down the physical information and drawings of each villager on a piece of paper, one by one, to confirm their identity.

You’re doing all this manually? In a way, you’re crazy about administration.

“Use this. It’s the camera of the Holy Kingdom. If you press this button, you can capture a person’s appearance.”

“What a strange thing… Okay. It’s something I’m not familiar with.”

“I’m feeling suffocated. Please write to me so that I can help you even a little.”

“Haa… I see. But is this what you came to me to give me?”

“Ah, do you know what that custom is?”

“The custom of giving birth? Suddenly.”

“There was a complaint asking to do it again. They said it was a custom that had been around for a long time.”

“It’s not a particularly great custom, and it’s not a custom that only exists in Ruggeron Village.”

The village chief, who knew all about the history of Rugeron Village, answered my question accurately.

“To sow seeds in place of a widow who lost her husband at a young age.”

“Oh, I see. In place of the husband who left first… Yes? ”

I was speechless at the shocking custom.

“Is there a problem?”

“Are you not remarrying, but just giving me seeds?”

“That’s right.”

“No matter what, that’s… ”

“I can’t help but feel uncomfortable with you, Hestia’s hero, but this is inevitable. There aren’t many men who want to marry a widow. But that doesn’t mean you should leave a widow alone without a husband or children to take care of her.”

“Certainly… That’s right.”

It may be difficult to understand from a modern perspective, but considering the times, it wasn’t necessarily a bad custom.

However, it was also a custom that could easily be abused.

When I expressed my concerns, the village chief gave me appropriate advice.

“Get help from the nymphs. They will find a suitable match for you. And the nymphs will choose you, so you won’t be dissatisfied. ”

“I see. Thank you, Chief.”

“Thanks, that’s enough, but what happened to what I asked for?”

“We will arrive as soon as the road is completed.”

“I see… Thank you.”

“No, they work hard, so we should treat them like this.”

The item the village chief was looking for was the fruit of a southern tree that contained caffeine.

Although the color is different, I know that it contains caffeine that helps wake you up when you eat it. Judging from the fact that he is looking for it, it seems like the village chief is crazy about the taste of caffeine.

“You have to do some work.”

I later became worried that I might collapse from overwork.

A woman came to me after I had sought the village chief’s advice.

“You were here.”

“Huh?”

It was Selnia, who worked as a tailor in the village of Lugeron. She looked very angry, and her expression was not good. And she spoke to me out of the blue as if she was questioning me.

“There are things you must take responsibility for as a permanent resident.”

“What’s going on?”

“My husband cheated on me. And he did it with a woman you were responsible for!”

“Huh?”

What does that mean?

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When three people gather, their differences of opinion cannot be narrowed.

If it was a village-sized thing, there would be all kinds of conflict. Money issues were a given, and it’s human nature to fight over petty things.

Especially, it goes without saying that it is a fight between lovers.

“One day, my husband stopped working and started wandering around outside.”

“How can a person live only by working? I guess he went for a walk to change his mood.”

Selnia frowned, perhaps feeling displeased with her surroundings.

“If that were the case, I wouldn’t have come to you myself.”

“Then?”

“I saw it. My husband was with another woman.”

“Isn’t it too early to jump to conclusions based on something like that?”

I can understand Selnia’s suspicions, but it’s a bit much to drive her into an affair based on that suspicion alone.

“You’re a Hestia warrior, right? Can you confirm whether or not it’s an affair?”

“No, I can’t do that.”

Although Hestia’s miracle could protect the family, confirming whether or not there was an affair between a man and a woman was a different story.

“Is there really no other way?”

“Hmm… I’ll tell you about our Nimfrang, but don’t expect too much.”

I answered honestly, but I wondered if it was right for me, the lord, to get involved in something like this.

‘No matter how much judicial authority lies with me, isn’t it a bit much to meddle in someone else’s love affair? It’s outrageous to think that I committed adultery in the territory where the Hero of Hestia resides.’

As a Hestia warrior, I wasn’t particularly aware of it, but it was also a matter of pride.

And it was also something that could easily become a stain on my reputation.