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Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World – the Apostle of the Gods Who Know No Self-Restraint (Web Novel) - Volume 2 Chapter 26: Drintor’s Welcome Party 5/6
Volume 2 Chapter 26: Drintor’s Welcome Party 5/6
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As Cain was sleeping in the luxurious, special room, a knock sounded.
The sun had already risen, and people were starting to move outside.
“Good morning!”
After knocking, Enaku rushed into the room. Cain got up from bed while still half-asleep.
“Good morning Enaku…”
Cain crawled out of bed, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
“Breakfast’s already ready, so come on down!”
Having said that, Enaku left the room.
“Enaku’s full of energy, even in the morning.”
Cain changed his clothes while muttering. He had to go to the lord’s house today, so he changed into plain clothes for the time being.
When he went down to the dining hall below, Himika seemed to be well and was already working.
“Good morning. Are you all right now?”
When Cain called out, she stopped working and replied with a big smile.
“I’m completely fine now. Really, thank you very much.”
“Good to hear. If something happens again, I’ll just cast healing magic again.”
“Don’t go spoiling us that much. I’ll serve you breakfast, so come this way please.”
Himika guided Cain to sit at the counter where he had eaten dinner.
He was served breakfast immediately. The menu was bacon and scrambled eggs, along with soup and bread. Seeing as he was quite hungry, he ate it all up.
“Thank you for the meal. When I finish what I’m doing today, I’ll be returning to the royal capital, but I’ll come back here soon.”
Cain told Himika after finishing his meal.
“Is that so… Enaku’s going to miss you; she’ll be quite lonely.”
Dash, too, came out from the kitchen.
“Thank you, Cain-sama. When you come to the town of Drintor again, by all means, even if it’s just for a meal, do stop by.”
“Of course. The food was delicious and I’ll definitely drop by again.”
And, peeking around the corner of the kitchen, Enaku.
She was nearly in tears.
“Enaku-chan, come here.”
Cain beckoned Enaku with a gentle voice.
“Onii-chan, come back again! Definitely come here again when you visit the town!”
Enaku hugged Cain, who stroked Enaku’s head.
“Of course. Whenever I’ll come to this town, I’ll always come to eat. Remember to help your mum properly.”
“Yeah! I’ll help her.”
Cain left the inn while being sent off by the three. Then, he headed to the lord’s mansion for the meeting.
Because the guard at the lord’s mansion’s gate was the same one as the day before, Cain was shown into the office without much fuss.
“Cain-sama, a good morning to you.”
Eribe, the deputy governor, greeted him.
“We still have some time remaining, so will you be changing into nobles’ clothes?”
“That’s true, it’s our first time meeting, formal wear would be a good idea.”
Cain entered the office, took out some nobles’ clothes from the Item Box, and changed.
He inspected himself in the mirror. Being self-conscious about looking like an innocent ten-year-old, he sat down in a chair in the office.
“How will we change this town? The guild’s no good, the church charges illegally high fees, there’s slums, the problems just keep on piling up… And before that, that pile of rocks called the outer wall is also only going to hinder the town’s development from now on. I have to return to the royal capital today, so I guess I’ll have to come again next week then…”
Cain was reading the income and expenditure documents of the town, given to him by Eribe. It was clear to see that the government was subsidising the operation with a spectacular loss.
Cain had been high school student in his previous life, so he was better at numbers than the people of this world.
As he read through it, a number of questions came up, which he summarized in bullet points. Of course, he wrote them in Japanese so that other people would not understand.
As the two of them were discussing work, lunch had been prepared.
“Due to the large number of adventurers in this town, it is difficult to collect tax revenue. We run this place solely on sales tax from inns and shops, but subsidies to the church and commission fees to the adventurers’ guild and such always leave us in the red!”
After receiving an explanation from Eribe, Cain asked some questions while looking through his bullet points.
“First, regarding the church, I heard from the locals that they charge even higher fees than in the royal capital, way too much to be a simple offering. It’s nearly ten times than what they charge in the royal capital, how did that happen? It’s so terrible, should we just call for a new priest from the royal capital?”
“We-well, that’s… Be-because there aren’t many people who receive healing magic from the church, it just becomes that expensive…”
Eribe explained, a little perturbed, with sweat on his forehead.
“That’s what they’re doing wrong. People don’t go because it’s expensive. If they were to make it cheaper, more people would go there and the amount of donations would increase too. Moreover, they’re being given subsidies, right? If you’re giving them money, you’d think to check their income and expenses, right, so what’s going on here? Naturally, they’d tell the lord, right.”
Cain asked a series of questions, thinking about his previous life in general.
“N-n-no… we haven’t ever received a list of income and expenditures from the church until now…”
Eribe, looking increasingly pale, answered the questions.
“Then, by the time I’m back next week, could you please get them to hand it over? If they won’t, then stop subsidizing them.”
Cain struck the finishing blow.
“…Yes… I’ll tell the church…”
“Then next, the slums. If we can find jobs for them, the number of people in the slums will decrease. Until now, the economy has always relied on adventurers, which I think is no good. As there’s not enough room inside the walls of the town right now, we’ll need to start planning to expand them. I’ll think about that myself. We’ll use the newly vacant land to start an industry in the town, which I will explain to you later.”
“…Cain-sama is quite knowledgeable… one wouldn’t think you’re a ten-year-old…”
Eribe wiped the sweat from his forehead and answered Cain’s questions, acting suspiciously.
“Well, first off, it’s the guild today. Will they be here soon?”
“Yes, guild master Rikisetsu-dono and sub guild master Betty-dono are coming.”
This was the first time Cain had heard that Betty was the sub guild master. The guild master looked like a muscle-brain, but Cain recognized, and kept to himself, that, like that man who owned the skewer shop had said, the sub guild master seemed to be meddling in various things.
After finishing the meal, Eribe left his seat at once, and, saying to call him once the guild master and sub guild master had arrived, went back to his own office alone.
Cain jotted the things he wanted to find out on the bullet list, before storing it in the Item Box.
A little later in the afternoon, a civil official came to call him.
“Cain-sama, the guild master, Rikisetsu-dono and the sub guild master, Betty-dono are here. Eribe-sama is currently dealing with them.”
“Got it, I’m going right away. The reception room, right?”
“Yes, they’re waiting for you in the reception room right now.”
Looking forward to seeing what faces they were going to make after remembering what had happened the day before, Cain left the office.
Eribe was talking to the two people who had come from the guild earlier.
And Rikisetsu’s loud voice could be heard even on the other side of the door.
“Like I said, yesterday, the guild’s training ground, including the spectators’ seats, was all destroyed. So I’m really busy, and yet I have to come show my face because the new lord is here!? I have no time for this!”
He realized that Rikisetsu was talking about what Cain himself had done the day before.
The civil official entered the room after knocking.
“Viscount Cain-sama has come to see you.”
The two representatives of the adventurer’s guild were sitting on the sofa with no politeness at all.
Then, Cain entered the room.
The moment they saw Cain, their faces froze.
The person who, the day before, had completely demolished the training ground and made adventurers and the sub guild master alike soil themselves and faint, was standing right before their eyes.
Cain sat down on the sofa facing them.
“Hi, I’m Cain von Silford Drintor, the lord of this town. Nice to meet you.”
Cain greeted them normally.
Rikisetsu and Betty were frozen, their mouths hanging open.
