Chapter 89 – Development of Mountain Village Territory (2)
Development of mountain village territory (2)
“I hope you are well. Your Royal Highness! I say that I am Baron Kimberly, who serves Your Highness the Third Prince! I am in charge of administrative affairs on behalf of Your Highness Yuno.”
“Nice to meet you. My name is Mayer, and I also work under His Highness the Third Prince. I am responsible for the military authority within the territory and the security forces within the castle.”
Diane, Hyria, and Rachel smiled awkwardly after being greeted by Baron Kimberly and Meyer.
“Phew~ I guess Lord Cordelia told you that we were here?”
Haha… Well… That’s true… But wouldn’t it be better for you three to stay at the official residence that His Highness Yuno used rather than at an inn like this?”
“I even made an appointment to meet Baron Kimberly… Anyway, let’s do that. By the way, did you say Myer?”
“Yes. That’s right… Only?”
“It seemed like the guards at the official residence were not properly trained. They tried to cut off the meeting with the administrator just by looking at Young Ji-min’s outfit, and they even started belittling me. Do you know what I mean?”
At Diane’s words, Mayer’s face turned red.
“… I apologize. Since the last monster invasion, we have recruited a lot of new soldiers… So it seems that training was insufficient. We will provide more thorough training.”
“I understand. I will keep an eye on you. I will often go out in secret, so I will see you again sometime.”
“We will take measures to prevent something like this from happening again.”
“We’ll have to wait and see. The gate was opened right away when I presented my forged ID… It was really deplorable what the level of security was like.”
From their first meeting, Baroness Kimberley looked at Maier with a repugnance as she watched him get angry with Diane.
‘Giggles, giggles, that guy… I’ve recognized him since he was always the same size as me. Oh, it’s refreshing~ The fatigue from working overtime yesterday is completely washed away~’
“Let’s stop here… Let’s go to the official residence. Baroness Kimberley?”
“Yes! Her Royal Highness”
“Please report the territory’s budget status, usage details, current project status, future development direction, population composition and occupation status of villages within the territory, crop status, etc. By tomorrow morning.”
The smile disappeared from Baroness Kimberly’s face at Diane’s sudden command.
“Yes… Yes? Why are you suddenly saying that?”
“Did you know that Princess Rachel here was the Minister of Finance in charge of the finances of the Kingdom of Leon? How good of an opportunity is it that such a person would look at the financial status of the County of Tesidanicana and offer to help?”
“Eh… Yes?”
Rachel continued speaking to Baron Kimberley, who was crying.
“Hohoho, if you’ve prepared well, it won’t be a big deal. However… If a false report is discovered…”
Hahathat will never happen!! … Maybe…”
“Is that so? Since Baroness Kimberly has integrity, there will be no hole in her finances… She wouldn’t even register a false report just because she suddenly made one… Because if she did that, Diane would have her head blown off. Ho ho ho ho”
She even joined in, asking Hyria, who was still there, to report to her in detail the status of her crops, and Baron Kimberly’s face became more and more rotten.
‘Aaaaah Yuno, I wasn’t following this bastard!! Ahhh~~!! What kind of glory am I going to endure in this countryside where no one recognizes me!!!’
In the end, Baroness Kimberly worked all night long and was finally able to prepare a report for Diane, Rachel, and Hyria.
But her ordeal did not end with her report.
The next morning. In Juno’s office, the three women read the report and began to argue with Baron Kimberly and Mayer like crazy.
“What? You hired a troll and agreed to give him 9 tons of food? Are you crazy? Baron?”
“No… I didn’t decide… This damn bastard, Mayer…”
As the three women’s eyes turned to her, Kimberly was looking at her with a sweet smile, but then quickly turned her gaze to the side and looked the other way.
“Mayer Garrison Commander. Please explain what happened.”
However, under pressure from Diane who asked directly, Meyer had to explain in detail what happened.
“Aha~ 20% of the mountain rangers and guards were killed and the rate of injured exceeded 50%, so while I was recovering my troops, a troll at the level of a master who could speak human language asked me to use him as a mercenary, so I had no choice but to leave him in charge of guarding the mountain range. “Baron Kimberly, are you telling me to believe this?”
“Whew~ If you tell me honestly right now where those 9 tons of food went and spit it out, I will spare you from being burned at the stake. I will hang you mercifully, so tell me honestly.”
When Diane and Rachel told her that they would kill her with ease if she coughed up the money, Meyer shook her head and hands and shouted that what she said was true.
“Huh… Your Highness? What Captain Mayer said is true. It is true that many troops lost their lives in the large-scale invasion of monsters, and Azin, a troll who reached the level of a master, saved my life. I know this is true. “I swear on the honor of my master, His Highness Yuno.”
“Then… I will believe you. It’s what my brother’s knight said, so it must be true.”
As Diane’s frozen face relaxed, Myer and Baroness Kimberly sighed.
“Baron Kimberly. I understand that the former administrator, Boras, created a hole in your finances and that you worked hard to make up for it. However, the Baron’s financial management does not show how to develop this territory in the future.”
But Rachel’s eyes lit up again as if this wasn’t the end, and this time her target was Baron Kimberly.
“Yes?”
“I can’t see the vision!! As a lord leading a territory, you have a duty to try to provide a better life for the people of the territory, and you have an obligation to suggest that direction! But I don’t see that in the way you do things. What I see in my eyes is that a public servant does his job as long as there are no problems every day!”
“It is…”
“And you received a lot of additional budget during the last monster invasion, right? There must have been a long time left over to buy food for the troll mercenaries and rebuild the army. What on earth did you spend it on?”
“We don’t know what else will happen in the future, so use a preliminary budget…”
“What the heck!! If you have budget leftover, you need to utilize it and invest more actively!”
“And if you fail…”
“Whether you fail or succeed! If that’s the way to help the territory move forward, then you should do it! There is no progress if you sit still and be satisfied with the present! A territory is like a small country! I heard you were His Highness Yuno’s teacher in kingship? While working like this, I’m so worried about His Highness Yuno that he taught kingship!!”
Baroness Kimberly seemed to be going out of her mind at Rachel’s criticism pouring at her.
‘No… I’m not a lord in the first place!! Youngju is stuck in that monster mountain range and can’t come out, so what can I do? If I use this budget however I want and His Majesty comes back and accuses me of running it carelessly, my head will be blown off!!’
No matter what his thoughts were, Rachel’s reprimands hit him like a wave, and he eventually lost consciousness and collapsed due to the fatigue of working all night, the stress of the reprimands, and the burden of his future work.
Craddangtang!!
“Hey!! Kimberly! Are you okay?”
“Please get out of the way for a moment!”
Meyer shook the body of Baron Kimberly, who had fallen as her colleague, but he could not get up. Diane came over and looked at him for a moment, then moved him to the corner of her office, saying that she had lost her mind for a moment.
“I have a rough understanding of how the territory has been run so far. However, now that we are here, it will be different from what we have been doing. Mayer?”
“Yes! Her Royal Highness!”
“Please report to me on future training plans for new recruits, discipline training for existing soldiers, and what to do with rangers who will retire due to injuries from the past incident.”
“Please tell me the current status of weapons and equipment in the territory. I will allocate a new budget accordingly.”
“I want to check the status of farmland in villages around my territory… Please prepare two or three soldiers and horses to escort me.”
Meyer’s complexion turned pale as he made Diane, Rachel, and even Hyria do all the work for him.
“Lord Mayer. I will take charge of the escort of Mama Hyria. And the status of weapons and equipment will be left to the knight under me, so please only worry about Her Highness Diane’s business.”
“Thank you, Cordelia!!”
Thankful that Cordelia would take care of all but the biggest tasks, Mayer quickly escaped from the residence before further orders were given.
Of course, it was a bonus that he was internally criticizing Yuno a lot.
“Whew~ The matter has been somewhat taken care of… Lord Cordelia? What should I do to meet Yuno? I’d like to go see Yuno once I’ve completed the maintenance of the territory to some extent.”
“Ah! You have to get permission from the elf queen in the elf territory…?”
“Lord Cordelia, could you please give permission for me, Hyria, and Rachel to enter? Since she has already entered the elven realm, it would be possible for her to go back in and ask for permission, right?”
“That’s true, but…”
However, Cordelia was reluctant to enter her elf realm again and unconsciously stroked her lower abdomen.
There she had a tattoo of her womb, and her womb throbbed with excitement as she naturally remembered the hell of ecstatic pleasure she had experienced in her elven realm for two days and one night.
