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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 39: Some Excellent People
Volume 2 Chapter 39: Some Excellent People
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Cain and Alec left the royal castle.
Because Cain had gone to the royal castle in Teles’ carriage, he was also taken back to his mansion by carriage.
Obviously, a carriage belonging to the royal knights.
“As always, thanks for all your help.”
Cain thanked the royal knights and got off the carriage with Alec.
The knights waved to them, then went home.
“Cain, are you always taken home by the royal knights?”
“Whenever I don’t come by carriage, they take me home, yes. Or when I’ve got a date at the training ground.”
“Cain, normally, nobles aren’t ferried around by the royal knights. They’re usually in charge of policing the royal castle and escorting the royal family and such. To just have them ferry you around is a bit…”
Alec facepalmed, sighing.
Right after returning to the mansion, the two began a meeting in the reception room.
Cain wanted to make a family register for the residents of Drintor, dismantle the slums, and give the people living there jobs. He explained to Alec that he wanted to have an orphanage built as well. Because even with his previous life’s knowledge, he couldn’t manage a territory, he asked Alec to do that.
“Because there aren’t that many residents in Drintor, I suppose it’s possible. When it was first explained to me, I heard there were three thousand residents there. I’ll figure out the rest once I’ve gone to Drintor. Could we go today?”
Cain nodded at Alec’s question.
“You can use the deputy governor’s residence as it is now, I don’t mind. I have to go to school on weekdays though, but I’ll try come to the territory every day once it’s over for the day.”
“Yeah. That’s fine. I’ll take care of stuff that pops up during the day.”
After their meeting was over, they told Koran that they were going to Drintor, and then transferred.
Their field of vision changed in an instant. They had arrived in Drintor’s lord’s residence’s office in a slip second.
“We really did get here instantaneously, huh. Like this, going between from the royal capital and Drintor really is no problem.”
“I’ll introduce you to the people here.”
As Cain said that, there was a knock on the door.
Darmeshia entered the room.
“Cain-sama, I felt your return.”
As expected of a former general of the Demon King’s army, he had excellent senses.
“Ah, Darmeshia. I just got back. I’ll introduce you. This is Alec-nii-sama, the new deputy governor here.”
Introduced by Cain, Alec took a step forward.
“Cain’s older brother, Alec von Silford. Darmeshia, nice to meet you. But still, you’re quite the excellent butler.”
“I’m just a retired old man. Alec-sama, I’m Darmeshia, the butler here in this mansion. I’ll start preparing dinner soon, so how about you all eat together? Letia-sama just returned from the guild a little while ago too.”
“Thank you, we’ll eat dinner with everyone. I want to introduce Alec-nii-sama to everyone too.”
“Well then, I shall come tell you once everything is ready.”
Darmeshia left the room after giving a bow.
Then, when Darmeshia came to tell them that dinner was ready, Cain and Alec headed downstairs to the dining table.
Dash, Himika, Enaku and Letia were already sitting at the table.
Enaku was happy that Cain had appeared even though he hadn’t had any plans of coming back until the weekend.
“He’s Alec, who’s going to serve as this town’s deputy governor. He’ll be living in the neighbouring deputy governor’s residence from now on.”
First off Cain introduced Alec to everyone. It would be necessary for him to inspect the city alongside Letia afterwards.
“I’m Alec von Silford. I’m the town’s new deputy governor. Previously, I worked as an internal affairs officer in the Gracia territory, and now I’d like to improve this city with the help of Viscount Cain. Nice to meet you, everyone.”
After that, everyone introduced themselves and then they began eating.
“After we’ve finished eating, I’d like to report on what I found while inspecting the guild today. It’s only been a day, but a lot of things came up already.”
Letia had been investigating the previous sub guild master, Betty’s crimes in the adventurers’ guild as the General Inspector that day.
“Yeah, let’s discuss this in the office once we’ve finished eating.”
Cain and Alec nodded.
It seemed like Enaku often played with Darmeshia, and she had become quite attached to him. Dash and Himika watched that sight, smiling.
After the meal, Cain, Alec, Letia, and Darmeshia gathered in the office.
Letia began her report on what she’d found out during the day.
“First of all, the guild here is supposedly paying its taxes. The documents that were signed and kept had been stamped with Eribe’s personal seal. However, plenty of unclear requests came from the deputy governor. They were nominated requests for investigating the forest, however they had an abnormally high reward. Also, the nominated party were the A-Rank adventurers currently in captivity, and the request was simply surveying the entrance to the forest, something even a newbie adventurer could do. They were definitely just moving money around.”
“You say they were paying their taxes, huh. I’m pretty sure Eribe kept his stamp in his private purse. Also, when I came, he said that the taxes weren’t being paid. As for the subsidies from the country, he said that the adventurers’ guild was using its adventurers to give them to an unknown party and then receive them back.”
Cain was deep in thought, his arms crossed. The taxes received and the subsidies from the country seemed to equal each other out, more or less.
“Sorry for interrupting, but the truth is, today, as I was cleaning up in the deputy governor’s residence, in a corner of the office, I just happened to come across a secret room. These are the kind of things that were in there…”
Darmeshia produced an account book and bags of platinum and gold coins from out of nowhere. It was divided into bags, but when thought about closer, it turned out it was quite the sum of money.
Alec looked through the accounting book.
Having finished reading it, he put it down on the table and sighed.
“The flow of the money is written in this book, although I’ve yet to actually go through the details. Some of the savings were used to hire the Dark Guild, while the rest was divided between Eribe, Betty, Stagg and Rick. The amount they’ve managed to embezzle exceeds five hundred platinum coins.”
500 platinum coins was 5 billion yen (~46 820 000$). The subsidy from the country was 20 platinum coins a year, while the tax paid by the guild amounted to 10 platinum coins a year. A truly huge amount of money was embezzled.
Cain and Letia were surprised to hear the amount, but Alec continued.
“It’s a truly large amount of money, so in order to hide it, the lord had to be chased away, and both the Dark Guild and the adventurers’ guild had to apply considerable pressure behind the scenes.”
Cain nodded at Alec’s explanation.
“Alec-nii-sama, could I ask you to investigate the more problematic points of the town tomorrow? I’ll come to the town every day after I’m done with school, but otherwise I’d like to leave the place to you. If you leave the town, please take bodyguards with you, as I suspect the Dark Guild might still be around. Letia-san, you should be fine inside the guild, be please take care when commuting to or from there.”
They both nodded at hearing Cain’s opinion.
“Gotcha, Cain. I’ll compare this accounting book and the town’s income and expenditures records. I’ll have found some things out by the weekend, so let’s discuss things again then.”
“I’ll also investigate the documents the guild master left to Betty to do up until now. I’m sure a lot of other things will come to light.”
“If you’re concerned about them, Cain-sama, I could attach my familiars to them. Of course, they’ll just lay in wait, invisible, so no-one else will know about them. If anything were to happen, they’d immediately tell me via telepathy, so it’ll be okay. Although they have enough power as they are already.”
“Thank you, Darmeshia. Then, I’ll leave that to you. Those two are important to the city.”
Darmeshia bowed to Cain.
“First of all, I will prepare to transfer the four of them to the royal capital tomorrow. The ringleaders will probably become criminal slaves. Cain, will you talk to the slave traders? If they’re not prepared for some fifty new slaves, it’d be quite the bother.”
“Understood, Alec-nii-sama. I’ll stop by there after school on my way home tomorrow. Anyway, it’s about time for me to be going back to the royal capital now.”
“Alec-sama, preparing the deputy governor’s residence has finished, so you may go stay the night there.”
Everyone was shown back to their rooms by the excellent butler.
“But still, Alec-nii-sama and Letia-san are both excellent. It seems like we can actually improve the town like this.”
Cain muttered, before transferring back to his mansion in the royal capital.
