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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 42: Drintor’s Four-Party Talks
Volume 2 Chapter 42: Drintor’s Four-Party Talks
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Cain transferred to his office in Drintor.
It was already dinner time, because he’d been caught up in stopping by the slave trading company. He sat down in his chair in his office, still in his school uniform. The lord’s office was quite the splendid room.
The chair he was sitting in was a luxury item as well, made out of some kind of tanned leather. A couple minutes after he’d arrived in the room, someone knocked on the door.
As soon as he transferred, Darmeshia always noticed him immediately. Cain wondered exactly how he did it.
“Cain-sama, dinner is ready. Everyone’s waiting for you.”
He thanked to Darmeshia, then headed down to the dining room, where everyone else was already present.
“Sorry, I made you wait.”
Cain sat down, and they all started eating.
With Dash, Himika and Enaku there, he couldn’t really talk about matters relating to the territory, so they all continued eating while chatting with each other.
“Cain-sama, the inn will be repaired by this weekend.”
Darmeshia whispered from behind him.
“Is that so… Dash-san, it seems like the inn will be fully repaired by the weekend. Sorry for causing you all this trouble.”
Cain lightly bowed towards them. Because Cain had stayed there overnight, the town’s Dark Guild had attacked the place. Moreover, if he had been late in finding them, their lives could have been lost. And as for Enaku, she had been kidnapped and gravely injured.
“Cain-sama, please raise your head. Our family is safe. You went as far as to have our inn repaired, and, during that time, you let us stay here in the lord’s residence and took care of us, so we are extremely grateful.”
“Cain-onii-chan, come play at the inn again sometime, okay?”
As Enaku seemed lonely, Cain tried to cheer her up with a smile.
“Of course. I want to eat more of Dash-san’s meals, so I’ll definitely take you up on that.”
After finishing their meal, Cain, Alec, Letia, and Darmeshia went up to the office.
Alec explained all the things that had happened while Cain was absent.
“Knights arrived from the royal capital today. They’re currently taking a one-day-long break, and tomorrow, they’ll be taking Eribe and co. to the royal capital.”
Cain nodded at Alec’s explanation. Prime Minister Magna must have ordered them to move soon after everything had been explained to him. He’d sent around twenty knights to transport four people, as the Dark Guild’s guild master was being held captive. He must’ve taken into consideration that there was a chance that the remaining members of the Dark Guild would attack.
“Also, I investigated the account books and documents, and it seems like we’ll be able to get this town back on its feet even without years of subsidies from the government, although we’ll have to do various things if we go down that route. We can harvest materials from the monsters in the forest and dungeon west of the town. Distributing those materials and products made from them would do quite a lot for the town, I think, although as the town is too small, we’d need to enlarge it. Also, regarding the slums, the capture of the Dark Guild’s guild master had quite the impact, so they won’t be able to move openly, I think.”
Those were the results of Alec’s investigation of the town. As there were a lot of adventurers in the town from the start, they could have the guild pay those adventurers handsomely for collecting monsters’ materials, and then have the guild resell those materials to companies to make a profit and simultaneously enrich the city’s coffers through sales tax, which could then be used for things such as maintaining the highway, which would lead to more merchants visiting. They could also dismantle the slums and reorganize the people living there, increasing the number of normal residents.
“Understood. Alec-nii-sama, please keep up the good work.”
“Then, next would be me, if I’m not mistaken. I did some snooping around, and found that two staff members under Betty were breaking the law, so I had them imprisoned. Those two will be taken to the royal capital tomorrow too. They’ll have plenty of time to explain themselves to the guild in the royal capital. Then, the training ground that you destroyed, Cain-sama, has been restored, even if only temporarily. Since there was no need for those stands in the first place, we left them out. Thanks to the guild master partly paying for it from his own pockets, it wasn’t too much of a burden on the guild. But still, Cain-sama, destroying it that much, you were pretty flashy…”
Listening to Letia, an image of the destroyed training ground came to Cain’s mind. He’d heard that after the entrance examination for the academy, the repair costs had amounted to ten platinum coins. Cain broke out in a cold sweat, wondering just how much more the training ground’s repairs had cost, as he’d wrecked the place way more than the school.
“Then, I’m last. People from the slums came to scout out the mansion’s surroundings, but it doesn’t seem like they have plans of attacking the transport tomorrow; they haven’t made any suspicious moves. Also, I’ll occasionally check on Dash-sama, who will be returning to his inn next week, so please rest assured on that front.”
After having reported, Darmeshia gave an elegant bow.
“Darmeshia, you can watch over such a large area…”
“It’s my special ability. As for the details– –”
Darmeshia’s feet were suddenly dyed black. A pitch black vortex resembling a black hole appeared, and from within it, a sound emanated.
‘Kasakasakasakasakasakasakasakasakasakasakasakasa’, rattling, scratching sounds, ‘Bzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzz’, buzzing sounds of thousands of little wings, and ‘gosogosogoso’ rustling sounds were getting steadily louder. Among them, the loudest one was quite familiar to Cain.
It was the sound of “that”, something that would occasionally appear when living in a detached house. Cain quickly realized that “that” was better off left unseen, especially by Letia. He immediately stopped Darmeshia.
“Darmeshia, I get it. Don’t let it come out, please.”
“Understood, Cain-sama.”
The black vortex surrounding Darmeshia faded out of existence, leaving only silence behind. Alec and Letia were making strange faces.
When the sound had completely subsided, Cain took a deep breath and continued talking.
“So that’s what’s going on. I guess everything’s fine then. I have plans to come on the weekend, but I think I’ll stay in the royal capital after school a bit longer. It’s only fair to Teles and Silk, seeing as I turned down their invitation.”
As his engagements with Teles and Silk hadn’t been officially declared yet, and he wanted to use all his time after school for the town, he had refused their invitation to go to Malbeek. They knew Cain was busy, but he thought he should at least spend some time with them; they were his fiancées after all.
“That’s true. Her Highness Princess Telestia and Lady Silk do get to see you at school, but you still should go on dates after school sometimes, y’know. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it. Let me handle things on the weekdays. Although if you don’t come on the weekend, it’ll be quite the bother.”
Due to Alec’s concern, Cain was exempted from going to Drintor on weekdays. Alec and Cain had reached an agreement, but Letia suddenly interrupted.
“Say Cain-sama, you’re engaged to the commander of the royal knights, Lady Tifana, right? When you met in the guild, she called you ‘My husband’, so why are Her Highness Princess Telestia and Duke Santana’s daughter, Lady Silk coming up in this conversation?”
Alec had been briefed by Garm when Cain got engaged, so there was no problem on his end, but the two had completely forgotten that Letia didn’t know.
““Ah…””
Alec and Cain looked at each other, as they had begun speaking at the same time.
Then, Alec shook his head as if to prompt Cain to continue what he had wanted to say.
“– – the truth is, it hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s already been decided that I’ll be engaged to Her Highness Princess Telestia and Lady Silk. It’ll probably be announced once things have calmed down here.”
“Eh. Eh!? Eeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Letia’s voice echoed inside the office.
“Wait just a minute!? You’re going to marry Her Highness the Princess and the Duke’s daughter!?”
Letia shouted at Cain.
“Yeah, well, things happened… I don’t want to tell you the details though.”
Letia regained her composure and sank back down on the sofa, robbed of all her power.
“And as for me… I’m already past twenty, and haven’t done anything with anyone, while Cain-sama is only ten, yet has three fiancées… Moreover they’re a princess and a duke’s daughter…”
Letia murmured, staring off into the distance.
Leaving Letia wandering in some other world of her own, Alec and Cain continued talking.
“Eribe and co. are going to be transferred to the royal capital tomorrow, so I think I’ll skip school and come along personally. I have to greet the knights too.”
Even though he was a student, he was still the lord of the place, so not even greeting the knights who had come all the way from the royal capital just to pick up a couple people would have been rude.
“Yeah, I’d be grateful if you could do that. Let’s go to the guards’ station together tomorrow.”
The meeting having finished, Alec headed back to the deputy governor’s residence, while Letia, still muttering something under her breath, returned to the guest room.
Cain sat down on the sofa, and drank some black tea Darmeshia had brewed.
“Please leave the town’s surveillance to me. I have eyes and ears everywhere, after all.”
Darmeshia was excellent, but the thought that “that” was doing the surveillance sent a shiver down Cain’s spine.
“… Yeah, gotcha. Please continue helping out. So that’s what your special ability was after all…”
“My special ability is [Insect Master]. I rule over any and all insects.”
“I thought it was just “that”, but it was actually all types of insect. How many do you have?”
“You ask how many there are, but in the underworld where I’m from, there are billions upon billions of them. I’m terribly sorry, but I can’t really grasp their exact amount. Should I summon them?”
“Nooo… please stop.”
As Cain was a little tired out by Darmeshia’s words, the night stretched on.
