Published at 5th of August 2021 10:36 pm

Volume 2 Chapter 49: Drintor’s Internal Affairs 1/2

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Darmeshia guided the two of them to the room that had been prepared for them.

Laura wanted to be in the same room as her older sister, so they were given a two-person room.

As for their clothes, Darmeshia had already told the other maids to go buy them.

Cain smiled, thinking just what an excellent butler he had.

Left alone in the office, Cain looked through the documents he hadn’t signed yet.

He had been surprised by Lula’s unexpected confession earlier, but he still wanted her to do her best for Drintor together with Alec. However, Lula was a slave, which might turn out to be an obstacle when she started doing domestic affairs.

So, Cain intended to free her from slavery as soon as possible.

Slaves were, most of the time, branded with a magic symbol indicating they were a slave on the back of their necks, and they were then obligated to always make it visible.

He continued settling the documents, and then, Alec, Darmeshia, Lula and Laura all entered the office.

Cain sat down on the sofa in the center of the room, Alec next to him, and Lula and Laura opposite them.

Darmeshia once again started preparing tea in a corner of the room.

“Alec-nii-sama, these two will be living here in the mansion from now on. The older sister, Lula, will be helping you out as an internal affairs officer. The younger sister, Laura, will be a maid here in the mansion, so I’m leaving her to Darmeshia.”

“I’m Lula. Alec-sama, it is a pleasure to meet you.”

“I’m Laura. It is a pleasure to meet you.”

Standing up, the two bowed to Alex while greeting him.

“I’m Alec von Silford, Cain’s older brother, but as I’m the second son, I don’t mind if you’re more casual with me. Nice to meet you two.”

The greetings having ended, Darmeshia filled teacups with black tea and set them down in front of them all.

“First off, I’m going to be freeing you two from slavery. Lula, I’d like you to help out Alec-nii-sama, but you being a slave might cause some complications, so I’ll free you from slavery, and then hire you to work for the Silford family. Alec-nii-sama, Lula knows about architecture, so I’m sure she’ll be able to help you.”

Alec nodded.

Then, Cain went and stood behind the sofa Lula and Laura were sitting on.

“Could you stay still for a second please?”

Saying so, Cain put his hand on the back of Lula’s neck.

[Release From Slavery]

When Cain chanted that, the slave crest on the back of Lula’s neck disappeared as if it hadn’t even been there in the first place.

“Wha-!”

Slave traders had a monopoly on ways to remove slave crests, as it was magic that the companies that were registered as slave traders kept strictly confidential, so it was no surprise that Alec was shocked at seeing Cain use that magic to free Lula.

“Just as I thought. Your turn, Laura.”

He freed Laura from being a slave in the same fashion. Cain hadn’t tested it before, but he knew the spell had the same underlying principles as [Dispel].

Seeing that the slave crests on each other’s necks had disappeared, the two of them once again burst out in tears of happiness. Living as slaves for years and years must have been unpleasant after all. Moreover, when they had met, they had been resigned to their loss of limbs.

The two of them stood up and bowed to Cain.

“Cain-sama, thank you very much for freeing us from slavery. We sisters will continue doing our best for you from now on.”

“Cain-sama, I too, will do my best with work. Thank you very much.”

Cain nodded at their words.

“Jeez, now I really do get what Prime Minister Magna meant with ‘not normal’.”

Alec sighed, sipping his tea.

Darmeshia, standing behind him, also showed a hint of a smile while looking at the two sisters.

Cain, Alec and Lula were now in a carriage, driven by Darmeshia, rolling through the town.

They had left Laura behind in the safekeeping of the mansion’s maids, so she could learn the trade.

The population of Drintor was no more than three-thousand people, however, only around a thousand of them were actual citizens, the rest were adventurers. And so, due to the large number of adventurers, the town was also called the ‘Town of Adventurers’.

The vicinity of the west gate, which led to a forest full of monsters and dungeons, was full of inns, weapon shops and tool shops aimed at adventurers. Bars and brothels could also mainly be found in this area.

Passing through all that, the carriage headed towards the west gate.

“It really feels like a town made for adventurers.”

Lula muttered while looking out of the carriage’s window.

“Yeah. That’s true, isn’t it. However, if you go into the back alleys south of here, it’s basically all just slums. The place is full of adventurers who retired from injuries, orphans, and so on. There was a Dark Guild too, but I’ve already crushed them, so I think it’s probably quietened down a bit. I really want to do something about that place.”

Cain told Lula while also looking out the window.

Arriving near the west gate, the carriage turned and followed the outer wall southwards.

Completely different from the main road, the buildings here were all run-down, and the people looked like vagabonds, were one-legged people, or were orphans.

“… it really is a slum, isn’t it.”

Lula said with a sad face.

It was rare for a noble’s carriage to go through the slums. The orphans, seeing the luxurious carriage, all started talking to each other. But the carriage just kept on going towards the south gate.

They passed by the south gate in that fashion, the carriage now heading towards the east gate. The area between the south and east gates was where the blacksmiths could be found, and also where most of the normal citizens lived, so the streets were clean to some extent, and mainly orderly. However, hemmed in by the outer wall, it was quite cramped.

“Cain and I were thinking about expanding the town’s outer wall, making a bit more space inside. And also maybe expanding the citizens’ living space. And at the same time, building a school and orphanage. Then the orphans can be taught, meaning they’ll have all sorts of future prospects.”

Cain confirmed Alec’s words. Looking outside, the three of them went around the town in the carriage, then returned to the lord’s residence.

Afterwards, they pooled together their thoughts on Drintor.

“As I thought, nothing will come out of it if this place stays like this. There’s no space to build new buildings. If we were to destroy the slums, the people living there would overflow into other districts. And so, the expansion of the outer wall definitely comes first. Then, we build the academy, the orphanage, and a lot of housing there, have the slum’s residents move there, and then level the current slums.”

Cain and Alec nodded at Lula’s frank opinion.

“Okay, then, first off, I’ll expand the outer wall tomorrow.”

The other two were shocked at Cain’s words, as expanding the outer wall wasn’t just as simple as that. You needed a lot of money, people, and materials to do so.

Cain had spoken as if all that was basically nothing.

“It’s not that simple…”

Lula murmured, but Alec signalled her to stop with his hand.

“We’re talking about Cain here, so I’m sure he has an idea… I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”

Alec smiled at Lula, who, suddenly understanding, nodded.

“Lula, could you please take care of designing and planning all the buildings to be built. I can probably create some simple tools for you to use. Even if we have space, it won’t help anyone if we don’t use it.”

“Understood. Then, I’d like something to write with and some paper. Also, if I had something I could use as a ruler, that would be helpful…”

“Gotcha, I’ll make them right away.”

“A ruler?”

Alec tilted his head at the unfamiliar word, but as Cain couldn’t explain it simply, he just ignored him and continued talking.

He had had technology classes1 in his previous life, and even done some simple drafting, so Cain had quite a clear image of what to make. Of course, if Lula had said she wanted a computer and CAD2 software, he would have been in a bind, but if it was just hand-held tools for drawing and writing, he could make them no problem.

They went on talking about domestic affairs over lunch. Of course, Cain made the tools necessary for drafting with [Creation Magic Production] and gave them to Lula. When she had received them, Lula had made a bitter face, complaining: “These are pretty basic, aren’t they”, but as Cain only had experience up to high school from his previous life, it couldn’t really be helped.

He assigned Lula a room for her to work in, and installed a drafting machine3 there. It’s something like a stand to draw things on. Lula, her eyes glittering, took the whole set of tools and then went and holed herself up in the room.

Cain and Alec returned to the office, having already told Lula what they wanted her to design, and telling her to go show them once she’d finished drawing.

“It might only be a tiny bit, but we’re starting to get somewhere.”

Alec nodded at Cain’s words.

It was now the next morning. Cain had told all the residents not to go near the outer wall the day before, and although they had been confused, the residents had complied.

The carriage they were all in exited the west gate, and then stopped. The road continued on from the gate for a number of kilometers towards the forest. Although it hadn’t been manually flattened, a large majority of the adventurers used that road to go hunting in the forest and make a living, and the carts carrying the monsters’ parts to and fro also did so along that road, and as time passed by, it had naturally levelled itself out.

“Around here should be good, I think.”

Cain and the others were about two kilometers from the gate.

“If the outer wall is here, there should be plenty of space, right?”

Lula agreed.

“It might be a little dangerous, so could you please step back a bit.”

At Cain’s words, Alec and Lula moved away from Cain to go and stand near the carriage.

Cain confirmed that the two of them had moved far enough, then placed both his hands on the ground, and started pumping magic power into it. He then thought of the image he wanted in his head.

“I heard there was a flood of monsters in the past, so it would be nice if it had at least some height. And then, around that, a moat. If we just let water flow through it, that should be fine.”

[Creation Magic: Heaven and Earth]

Cain cast the magic, and the ground itself began to move, then rise up. It stretched onwards for hundreds of meters, and then began forming the shape of walls and ramparts, its height now around ten meters.

[Creation Magic: Durability Preservation]

The wall made out of earth gradually hardened, until eventually, seeming to now be a wall made out of stone, it finished.

Satisfied with his workmanship, Cain wiped the sweat of his brow and turned around.

“So, what’d’ya think of it?”

Turning around, it appeared like Alec and Lula had frozen, their mouths hanging open.

“… as expected, he can even do this…”

“… that’s such a cheat.”

The two of them were amazed by Cain’s not-so-normal magic. Only Darmeshia, who was tending to the horses could smile.

After that, they went to the end of the newly-built wall by carriage, and Cain once again used the same magic, before once again moving on, repeating the whole thing multiple times.

By evening, they had managed to go around Drintor once. The town was now a citadel surrounded by a ten-meter-high wall.

This was not something normal magic users would have been able to do. Even Cain before he had gone training in Fabinir would have collapsed due to being out of magical power. However, Cain was already a demigod. He was only able to do this because he had already left the realm of humans.

And, on the other side of the wall he had made, Cain made a five-meter-deep moat, which he then filled up with an enormous quantity of water he created using magic. Then, lastly, he made a bridge.

“This should be all right for the time being.”

Cain made a satisfied face, while Alec and Lula, who had been watching him use his magic all day, had given up long ago and thus had nothing to say.

They then got on the carriage and returned to the lord’s residence.

Merchants coming from the royal capital and other towns were so surprised at the newly-finished wall that their knees nearly gave out.

“The one-night castle.”4

And so, word of it spread by hearsay from the merchants who had seen the wall.

And although Drintor was a whole two days away from the royal capital by carriage, it didn’t take much longer than that for the rumours to reach there.

1I don’t know what the proper English term for this is, but you basically just learn about architecture and mechanics, how to use basic tools like saws, sandpaper, screwdrivers, etc, and later also more mechanical ones like circular saws, drills, soldering irons, and then make things (I, for example, had to make a loudspeaker). According to the 5 seconds I searched for the term, it seems like they take place during middle school (and I’m guessing high school) in Japan.

2, basically just 2D or 3D computer modelling software usually used to plan things out as blueprints

3An old-timey-drawy-board: – lol even the author had to explain that one

4There’s apparently two castles known as one-night castles in Japan, and , no idea whether this was a reference to one of the two, (or both) or not, but it sounded interesting so I put the links in

TN: yeah, that’s a lot of footnotes isn’t it

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