episode_0216

“As expected, the rumors don’t seem to have much to do with it, do they?”

“Sure. Unlike the 4th week of evaluation taking a rest week, you don’t receive any criticism because your abilities are outstanding.”

“Ability is an ability, but recently something else has caught my eye… Hmm.”

“Hmm~ That’s also true. Should I say that my appearance has changed more noticeably?”

The ladies’ hahahoho laughing voices echo.

It’s annoying.

Sometimes I feel bad for no reason.

no. What kind of place is this?

There is no need to scrape and make a mess in the meeting room.

Let’s bear with it and move on. Because it would be better not to get caught by Marquis Theresia.

Harnier tries to put on a poker face again.

However, one lady’s voice, like a scratch, irritated her again.

“You don’t have a fiancee anyway, right? So then whoever takes it first will be the owner?”

what? Why don’t you have a fiancee?

Harnier immediately turned his head and tried to shout.

however. At that moment, my body was suddenly pulled. To none other than Karssein.

“I wouldn’t be satisfied with someone like you.”

what…

What what what what, what are you talking about, this man!!!

Such a sudden remark in front of everyone…!

My heart was pounding because I was surprised.

And because his heart was pounding so hard, Harnier was able to come to his senses.

“Uh… Huh?”

She slowly opens her eyes and rubs them.

This was not a conference hall, but a carriage.

okay. The 5th week reporting meeting was already over.

Both I and Karssein finished it without any problems.

That means…

It’s a dream.

“Ugh… really.”

I can’t believe I had such strange dreams.

Shame rushed through my entire body along with heat.

“Carcein is…”

You’re sleeping. I was a little worried that my squirming might have disturbed my sleep.

It was fortunate. He was still asleep, leaning against my body.

As I watch Karssein sleeping, I vaguely remember what happened as soon as I entered the carriage.

“I fell asleep too.”

Harnier brings out sighs.

I was already tired in many ways because of the 5th week of reporting. Since I went to the Onov Bridge with Karssein as the night suddenly deepened, it wasn’t all that strange that I suddenly fell asleep.

“But it’s no big deal. It wasn’t me who fell asleep first, but Karssein.”

Karsein is usually holding something in his carriage.

He was always carrying documents, including calculations of the territory’s profits, crop production costs, food material costs, and subsidies. If not, I was calculating something in my notebook.

That means there’s always work to do. Spending time even in the carriage.

Every time I saw Carcein like that, I couldn’t help but sigh. At times like this, I thought it would be good to get some rest.

But surprisingly, there was nothing in Karssein’s hand today.

Not long after getting on the carriage, he quietly closed his eyes.

The reason is… I guess he was tired too.

It may be that I closed my eyes because I was tired, both physically and mentally, from meeting my family.

“…family.”

It’s not just about other people.

Harnier is also trying to cut ties with Marquis Theresia.

Slowly, an opportunity comes.

The second step in the plan to escape from the clutches of Marquis Theresia.

If you use the crack created by hitting them properly, you will be able to completely cut off ties with Marquis Theresia by fall.

But if that happens…

-Sure.

The contract with him ends there.

As you leave the Marquis, you will naturally become distant from Karssein.

The day I separate from Karssein. The day when the contract is terminated and the oath of oath loses its effect. As I realized that that time was coming, one part of my heart felt somewhat tight.

…I didn’t want to fall. With Carcein.

Biting her lip slightly, Harnier rolled her head.

“If the contract is to continue… isn’t it possible?”

Karssein said: The reason they are reluctant to enter the upper part of Plesia is because there is a risk of returning to the Duke’s house.

Although the Plesia upper level has quite a name, the upper level strength alone cannot block the duke family’s suppression power.

But what if a family, rather than a single top, blocks him?

“…Yes. This might be possible. No, it is possible.”

Since there was no later writer, the contract was naturally extended.

This also leads to achieving Harnier’s goal. It might take a little more time, though.

“That’s right. Rather than escaping from the Marquis’s grasp, all you need to do is devour the Marquis. Then we can solve everything.”

Just wait a moment. Karsein.

Because I will help you.

“First of all, we should start by making sure you sleep comfortably.”

Harnier laid Carcein down on his thighs and smiled.

***

The night deepens.

Arina, who was trying to sleep while putting down her documents, heads to the bed.

In her head.

Suddenly, Carcein’s voice rang out.

“…”

That’s when I was about to slap him in the face. Karssein grabbed his wrist.

If it were in the past, I would have gotten hit and fallen, or the inside of my mouth would have exploded and started bleeding. This time, I stopped him by holding his wrist.

-If you thought I would stand in the same place forever, you were greatly mistaken. Arina Bagland.

And he proudly declared his sentence in front of me.

It’s different from before.

-Watch until the end. And if I fail miserably like you said, then you can go ahead and do whatever you want. It doesn’t matter whether you’re put in a solitary confinement, made to do only what you want in the mansion, or ripped off from the Duke’s family name.”

Kuguk.

My fingernails scratched my palms and turned them white.

“Insolent…!”

Watch until the end?

I can clearly see a future in which you will fail spectacularly, be criticized by the nobles, and your family’s prestige will hit rock bottom again?

“Ha. What else should I do to fix it this time?”

My head is already pounding.

What will we offer and what will we provide to stabilize public sentiment?

My blood boils when I think about the loss I will suffer in this process.

When I felt a rush of regret, I felt like I should have used force to force him to give up.

The sensation of my wrist being held by Karssein slowly returned.

…It was clearly a hand filled with mana.

Because I swung it with emotion, it was full of mana without even controlling my strength.

So… is he really growing?

“Hmph. That can’t be possible.”

If we had grown, we would already have to come to the conclusion that the essential problems of the Chatren territory were not resolved and that the lives of the residents did not change.

Even though we tried our best for 5 weeks, we should have answered that the development of the territory itself was impossible.

Instead of being able to break his stubbornness, he ends up putting it off until the day of the final announcement, thinking that he will get double the points he lost.

“It worked out better. In the meantime, my mother took care of me over and over again, so I had no chance to discipline her.”

All I need to do is use this incident as an opportunity to completely fix Karsein’s messy hair with my own hands. It’s something I have to do somehow with my own hands.

Arina clicked her tongue and laid her head on the pillow.

-ah. Do you really prefer to throw things away without anyone knowing?

“…Tsk!”

In the end, it would just be a waste of time or an excuse.

Because you are that kind of person.

***

The next day came.

When I opened my eyes, I was cutting Harnier’s thigh, and I couldn’t help but sigh again… but that was it.

“Please… let us help the lord!”

That was the first thing I heard from the residents upon returning to Chattren.

If it were like before, a scene like this would never have occurred.

He shouted, “What kind of lie are you going to tell this time?”

They protest against what kind of behavior they are trying to destroy their land.

It was normal for extreme people to set traps and throw things at me by pointing fingers that all my claims were wrong or deliberately telling me to get hurt.

But their attitude has changed 180 degrees.

The resistance has long since disappeared from their attitude of kneeling and prostrating themselves on the bare ground as they earnestly ask me.

-Tiring!

▶From now on, it will be possible to give orders to Shatren residents.◀

By successfully taking control of Chatelaine, he was able to issue orders that were impossible.

However, as we have already seen several times, several options and major UI related to territory management did not appear.

This means that I have to rule this territory myself, rather than pressing buttons or keyboards.

Still, this wasn’t difficult.

“As the Lord said, we built a fence to adjust the space between the seeds, which made things easier to see visually. How could this happen…”

“The average rating has now risen a lot, not only in the lord’s land but also in our land. The number of crops dying has also decreased significantly.”

“The fertilizer you mentioned was stored in a warehouse to never be used! There is nothing we can do about the money that has already been spent… but we all promised not to use it according to the lord’s will!”

You can change it step by step based on the information you found out and the information in reality.

First, we plan to start with farming methods, tinker with soil management methods, and attempt optimization using the information obtained from these methods.

Unlike the reality side, there are a lot of fantasy elements, so this side requires research and experimentation to come up with an answer, but there was plenty of time left.

One day like that. Two days.

As time passed, Shatlaine got better.

Crops of grade C- or higher, which could only be harvested on land under my direct management, were now gradually appearing throughout Chatelaine.

however.

Not all problems were solved.

“Ugh, wow!”

“Mandrenia…!”

Chatelaine strawberries and chatelaine grapes were growing in the field as usual… but something completely different appeared.

The stem at the center of the body has grown abnormally large.

Two huge long branches extending from the body as if they were arms.

Large teeth and tongue visible between two pairs of wide open flower petals.

It… could no longer be called a crop.

-Tiring!

▶An enemy entity has appeared!◀

▶Lv. 30◀

▶Red Mandrenia◀

▶Lv. 32◀

▶Purple Mandrenia◀

“A demon appears in the middle of Shatren territory?!”

In this game, dealing with magical beasts is something that has always happened.

Mainly, in order to increase Karssein’s abilities, he had to level up by killing demonic beasts.

But in the middle of the estate.

It is also unheard of for something like this to happen in a field where crops were grown.

“…Damn, isn’t that the time to be thinking about that.”

▶The more damage the residents receive, the less developed the territory is.◀

▶Eliminate the monster as quickly as possible.◀

They say it reduces the level of development, so that should be removed first.

“Dephone!”

“Yes!”

Fortunately, the abilities of the magical beast that appears as an enemy entity are not that high. Their abilities have been raised so much that I can eliminate them on my own, and although they may seem small in number, westerners who can be said to be specialists in anti-majority warfare have entered my land as agents.

However, if the Carcein itself becomes dangerous, it may be in trouble, but since it also has Wederos Kingdom-style swordsmanship skills, even if it is a strong entity, it can be eliminated without difficulty.

The mana-laden sword organized the stems one by one, and after passing one or two simple patterns, the Mandrenias easily disappeared.

-Tuk.

In the place where Mandrenia disappeared, something quite familiar fell.

“This is…?”

It was the same piece of wood I saw in the field.

“So this is what came out when that demon named Mandrenia died?”

“Heo-eok, heo-eok. Those are known to be dead bodies dropped by mutations in the crops we grow.”

At that moment, Brem rushed over and spoke to me.

“But that’s not all the truth is. Is it okay if I change my seat?”