Chapter 138 – The Rapidly Changing Situation
After a splendid weekend, Monday morning came again.
And the peaceful Oz started to burn with one theme.
‘The Governor finally drew his sword! A large number of royalists arrested!’
Morning newspapers plastered with provocative headlines were scattered all over the capital.
“Oh, you made it quite fancy. Kaldrash.”
Dorothea, who was the first to occupy the newspaper today, said so.
“It’s time to clean it up, so I just cleaned it up.”
I answered that and put the tomato spaghetti rolled up with a fork into my mouth.
Seeing that, Ozma, who was sitting across from him, asked.
“Do you need cheese powder?”
“It’s good to sprinkle.”
As I said that, I held out the bowl, and Ozma personally sprinkled cheese powder on it.
After mixing the spaghetti with the yellow cheese powder neatly piled up, take a bite.
I liked the crunchiness of the cheese powder.
Posting words of deep gratitude to Camilla and Vanessa for their active work today, I asked Dorothea, who was reading the newspaper.
“Do you have time this week, Dorothea?”
Then Dorothea answered by flipping through the newspaper.
“It’s me, what’s left is time. Why?”
“It’s a special audit period from today, but I think I’ll need a bodyguard for the staff. I have one body, but I can’t keep up with all of them.”
“Oh, you know that my ransom is high, right?”
“I’ll buy you the alcohol you want for a month.”
“Can we do that from today?”
Befitting a well-known judang in the Demon King’s Army, Dorothea accepted my proposal without asking or questioning.
“You can go to work with me in a little while.”
“Jooh!”
I said to the back of Dorothea’s head, who was excitedly getting ready.
“Oh, and since you shouldn’t kill people, wear a blindfold to absorb mana.”
Then Dorothea stopped going up the stairs and gave a gurgling sound.
“It’s uncomfortable to wear because it obstructs your vision.”
“If you accidentally kill someone and want to be taken away by the police, do it yourself.”
“Because I know…”
Dorothea listened to me, answered sullenly, and went up to her room.
I’m 28 this year, but I’m still immature.
As I sighed and tried to start eating again, Ozma in front of me giggled.
“What’s the matter?”
“No, because you and Dorothea look like her father-daughter relationship.”
“…If you tell Dorothea about that, she’ll be 100% angry.”
“That’s why I’m only talking in front of you.”
“Thank you to tears.”
After answering that, I gulped down the remaining spaghetti.
It was because the time to go to work was approaching.
***
When I went to work at the Government General Office with Dorothea and Ozma, protesters who had not been seen recently occupied the front of the government building again.
One of them, apparently the leader, was holding a loudspeaker and squealing towards the government building.
“Release the nobles who were caught unfairly! Release!”
“Release! Release!”
“Devil Ozma, step back! Step back!”
“Back off! Back off!”
Rather, at this point, I was the first to get off the carriage, admiring the joyful protest.
Then, as Dorothea and Ozma got out of the wagon, the demonstrators who saw them threw something at us.
“Well.”
When I quickly snatched one up and checked it, it was a raw egg.
My throat was sore at the time, so I cracked open the shell and drank one. I saw Dorothea and Ozma looking at each other with frightened expressions and asked.
“Do demons not eat raw eggs?”
“No, it’s not that I don’t eat it at all, but I usually eat it fresh.”
“Ah.”
I heard that it really is.
I threw the empty shell on the floor, hoping that my evolved stomach would be stronger than others.
The cleaning ladies will take care of it later.
Anyway, the protesters started throwing eggs and stones more ferociously, as if they were embarrassed to see me reacting casually.
Of course, I wasn’t a nice enough person to accept it quietly, and since what was happening right in front of my eyes was an illegal protest, I decided to suppress it mercilessly.
Right!
When we snap our fingers, the eggs flying towards us instantly return to their original direction.
Seeing this, the protesters were frightened and tried to avoid it, but the speed at which the eggs hit was much faster.
“Kyaaaaa
Demonstrators scattered screaming at the disaster they brought on themselves.
The guy holding the loudspeaker panicked and tried to do something, but Dorothea moved much faster than that.
Right! Tadak!
As Dorothea rolled the heels of her boots to the ground, a towering column of fire enveloped the protesters.
There is no such thing as an exit, and it is a curtain of fire that completely confines only the demonstrators.
If you report it to the Metropolitan Police Department, it will take quite a while to dispatch, so it was good for holding it so that it doesn’t run away.
The brown-haired guy who was leading the demonstrators trembled and then picked up a loudspeaker and shouted:
“You devil’s seed bastards! It’s not enough to imprison the patriots and persecute ordinary citizens!”
“Right! Right!”
I cleared my ears and returned an answer using the same loudspeaker magic.
“I’m sorry, but ordinary citizens don’t do protests like this.”
This is the best time to live in the history of Oz, so why would ordinary citizens come here to protest?
“That’s…!”
After hearing my words, the instigator just bit his lip with a humiliating expression on his face as if he couldn’t come up with anything to refute even after rolling a duckbill.
Even thinking about it, he seems to have admitted that it was a disjointed sound.
“There it is! Catch it!”
Just in time, the police, who seemed to have been reported by the government-general’s staff, rushed in, so the protesters trapped in the wall of fire tried to escape somehow, but unfortunately, the person who cast the magic was a 6th-tier mage.
It was a magic used by a guy who was called the No. 1 in flame magic, but there was no way he could escape by neutralizing it.
In the end, the protesters who could not escape even a single step until the police arrived were all arrested on the spot.
“Damn! Let’s see! Patrasche! As long as the Count is freed!”
The guy who was continuing his speech in front of the demonstrators shouted that with a look of resentment, but I shrugged his shoulders and replied.
“Do you know that repertoire gets boring if you listen to it too often?”
“Quaaaaagh!”
I gave the order with a wink, and the police applied an electric baton to the whole body of the guy.
‘A count rather than that.’
Among the people arrested yesterday, there weren’t that many counts, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to find where he belonged.
I looked at the demonstrators who were arrested by the police and taken to the government building prison, and then I smiled and moved on.
Come to think of it, it didn’t seem necessary to find out who was behind that guy.
Starting today, I’m going to brush all the dust off the clothes of the Royalists, because I don’t think I need to worry about even the smallest things.
When I pretended to slit his neck at the cops who were dragging him away, one of the cops dispatched to the scene, who seemed to be a big fan, cautiously nodded.
“Okay. Now that we’re done with this, let’s go in.”
“Wow! Drinks! Girls! Delicious food!”
Dorothea followed me, revealing her desire honestly.
Who would look at this and think she was a twenty-eight-year-old old virgin?
Ozma looked at me and the Dorothea combination with a slightly fed up expression, then shook his head and said,
“I sometimes wonder if wizards aren’t just geeks.”
I was able to provide an answer to that question.
“Statistically, out of 100 wizards, 70 of them say they have odd tastes.”
There was no way he could continue his low-cost magic research unless he was completely crazy about something.
It was the same even for talented people.
As if my answer sounded quite convincing, Ozma muttered, “There are things like that in the world,” And began to enter the building first.
After exchanging glances, Dorothea and I hurriedly followed and entered the building.
“Go with me!”
***
Since Monday morning, the faces of the staff in the financial management office have been hardened.
It must be because the day of the decisive battle I had predicted in advance had finally dawned.
When Dorothea accompanied her into the management office, everyone from the lowest level staff to the manager all stood up and bowed her head.
Upon seeing the figure, Dorothea blows her whistle.
“Your leadership is quite high.”
“Sometimes the fist is closer than the law.”
I said that and shrugged his shoulders, and Dorothea put her hand in his pocket and followed, saying she would watch a little longer.
As part of my morning routine, I looked around the staff at the Financial Management Office and then said.
“As I said last week, this week we are going into debt collection for long-term delinquents. There is no one who will not come out of dust by dusting it off, so feel free to rob it. More than that.”
As soon as I went to work like that, the members of the financial management office, who started preparing for an external business trip, started moving busily.
After seeing this, he went to the chief treasurer’s seat and sat down.
Dorothea, who has been chasing after me, asks.
“Then what should I do now?”
“You… Let’s play chess with me.”
As I said that, I pulled out the chessboard, and Dorothea sat down across from me with her red eyes shining.
“I told you in advance, am I strong?”
That’s a defeat flag.
