Akuyaku Reijo Ni Koi Wo Shite

Rion ordered Cassis, the castle scholar, to gather the information he needed to see the territory, but as expected, the information he wanted was not immediately available. There was no one in Band ド ゥ who could be called a civilian.

All Band ド ゥ civilians were carried out by centrally dispatched officials. All of these officers took the opportunity to become Lion's ruler, some expired, and some wrote resignations and returned to the center. If you can't make money, you don't need to use it.

The government office in Kamark is a dead shell, and Band ド ゥ 's territory is not functioning at all. It didn't work because nobody worked right from the start.

No matter how much Rion tries to do in such a situation, there is little that can be done. Thinking, listening, and finally finding something that could be done, Rion is now trying to do it.

Soldiers wearing familiar armor are moving around to change formations. Looking at the situation, Rion was impressed for the first time in Band 来.

Despite the harsh life, the bandu six-party party, who is said to have never stepped back against the kingdom, is still alive, or the soldiers are doing a good and violent movement as military amateur Rion can see. Is showing.

"The formation is ready soon."

It's much more dignified to be outside now, wearing armor than when Cassis Roth was acting as a castle.

Now Cassis is out of the castle. He returned to his former captain of Bandu, saying that there was no lord and no castle was needed.

"Can I ask one?"

"what?"

"Why is the thief's hideout so good?"

Bandit's army is trying to attack the bandit's hideout, but what he sees in front of Rion is far too good to be a bandit hideout.

It is old-fashioned, but fairly large, with a fence made of thick logs surrounding it. It was dug into the moat, and it looked like a very strong fort.

"The fort used during the war of the past. This land is located on the border with other countries, and often leaves the old fort as it is."

"In other words, what else?"

"Yes, some."

"Well, don't you say it's all a bandit hideout?"

"……We now have"

Rion was almost dazzling in return for a question of intention of dislike.

"... so couldn't you defeat it?"

"... the damage here is going to be bigger. In the presence of several groups of bandits, if the army is weakened, it can't be held down."

"……Really"

Cassis is lying. Rion knew that. I understand why. The poor people who have trouble eating end up on the road to villains. Rion who knows the favela knows it.

Many bandits are ex-lords. Probably the Cassis who has long been rooted in this land knows well.

"Are you really going to attack?"

Asks Cassis to support Rion's thoughts.

"Attack. I came here for that."

"I see ..."

"Oh, good."

"Huh?"

"I don't need a soldier"

"What!?"

As he was determined, Leon defeated Cassis, who attempted to command the unit. I don't know Cassis, but Leon is obsessive. If you decide not to rely, do not rely.

"Aeriel, let's go"

"Yes"

Rion goes forward with Eriel and her companion. Cassis was amazed and watched, but remembered her position and rushed after him.

However, his feet soon stopped.

"What ?!"

A huge fireball and tornado fly toward the fort. Eventually, the tornado caught fire and united, and when it reached the fort's fence, a burst of noise rang.

A little later, a small piece of wood is falling from the sky.

"... Is it stupid?"

One corner of the defense fence of the fort was blowing cleanly.

"Drop down calmly! I'll drive into the building next!"

I hear Lion shout. No doubt, but I knew it was definitely what the Lions did.

"Who are you?"

Nobles can use magic. And it is common sense in this world that the power is proportional to the rank. But the magic I just saw isn't very baron's magic. On the contrary, this magic can be used and I wonder why it is a baron. Cassis slightly changed his view of Leon.

The bandits were also surprised by the magic of Lions. If you use such magic, you will only be killed unilaterally. Those who have become bandits because they want to live cannot afford this fear.

Rion and Eriel came out of the fence magically blew off and dropped out of the fence.

The defeat of the bandits ended without any fear and without a fight.

◇◇◇

Thieves are arrested and lined up one after another. There are quite a few elderly and girls and children. It's like one village turned into a thief.

"... What are you going to do with them?"

Cassis has heard of the treatment of bandits. It is clear that she wants to protect her while she looks worried. The kind of bargaining seems to be weak.

"What is the punishment for bandits?"

"It's ... various"

"Isn't it a death penalty?"

"In some cases ..."

Often, but the right answer. There is no factor in the punishment of kingdom sinners. The basic idea is that severe punishment controls crime.

"Who has the right to decide?"

"It's a territory."

"I mean, what should I do?"

Rion puts his finger on his forehead and begins to worry seriously. But from the point of view of the bandits, it looks like they are playing with themselves.

"……Do not be silly"

One of the bandits who could not stand anger shouted. This is the prime.

"That's right! We didn't like to bandit!"

"That's right! I just couldn't eat it and just lived!"

With such a feeling, we hear one after another. Rion stares at the situation with cold eyes. Airiel is apparently frustrated. Neither of them is convinced of the thieves.

"Be quiet! Be quiet! Be sinful! Be quiet!"

Cassis notices the attitude of the two and is calming the thieves. However, the bandits do not try to silence without noticing Cassis's feelings.

The lions were cut down like the bandits,

"Cassis!"

"I, now, be quiet"

"It's good! I can shut it up!"

Rion's words were more effective than Cassis's desperate persuasion. The bandits, who knew exactly what to silence, quickly shut themselves and shook downward.

"……Hey"

“…………”

The bandits called by Rion crawled and became smaller. You are killed if your eyes meet. It seems like that.

"... Well, anyone is fine. Have you ever eaten bread with blue-purple mold?"

No one will reply to this. No one is usually scary.

"Anyone who has eaten meat that is so sloppy that he doesn't know what it was, but still feels like it's barely possible?"

This is the same. No such bandit is among the bandits.

"... What are you doing, Lord?"

Cassis asks him because he doesn't understand Rion's question. But Leon's gaze remains on the bandits.

"What, you lived a lot better than me."

"eh……?"

"I've eaten. I thought it was better than eating the soil, but now I think that eating a little bit of the soil doesn't break my belly, and I didn't know because I was a kid at that time "

“…………”

Both Cassis and the bandits are listening to Leon with a stunned face.

"I grew up in the shantytown of the royal city. The food is garbage falling in the garbage dump near the shantytown. Even the garbage scrambled, so I couldn't get a little. What I'm going to enter is the garbage that I couldn't call garbage.

“…………”

"I don't want to brag about it. I just don't like your bragging. All the orphans in the royal favela are the same, and I'm the only one who lives."

In fact. If there is a parent, even a young orphan cannot live in the favela. Lion was alive thanks to a great deal of luck and the whimsical and blessed food of the perverts that swarmed Rion's beauty.

"I won't hear your excuses. I'm going to get you punishable for the crime. Wait for that."

Nobody could complain anymore. There are people who live a more terrible life than they thought they were unhappy, and who cannot even live. The bandits knew it. And those who seemed like this are proof that they still have a human heart.

◇◇◇

There is no single casualty, and the bandits are exhausted. The mission is definitely a great success.

However, Cassis's face is dark after returning to the castle. It is the same for others. Everyone who works at the castle in Bandhu is now from this area. As Rion imagined, he knew the circumstances of the bandits, and even some were relatives.

I didn't feel happy about the mission.

Moreover, I saw the amazing magical powers of Rion and Eriel. With that power, you can drop all the bandits of other bandits. More will be convicted in the future. Not surprisingly, because they have committed the crime of bandit, they will never lose their consciousness of being a fellow who has experienced the same hardship in this land.

"After all, let's ask the Lord."

Riding on this Cassis proposal, they all headed to Leon's office, albeit a bit scared.

In the office, Rion had some difficult face and was thinking. Aeriel looks at the lion happily on the front sofa.

For Cassis, these Airiels are something that makes them feel unknown. Aeriel just follows Rion and moves as he wants. It just imitates what Rion was doing before. It wasn't just about thinking about anything, I just wanted to play a wife who would serve her husband a little. I don't think anything, so I can't see what I'm doing, but it's not what Cassis and others know.

"That lord"

"……what?"

Rion suddenly greets Cassis with a grumpy face. I don't like getting in the way of thinking. If this is an ein in the favela, wait for a signal that your finger is down, a sign of your thoughts, and then call out, but Cassis and others cannot understand this habit.

"It's a punishment for bandits."

"Oh, it's almost fixed. I'm almost ready to think through to the end, but it will get in the way."

"Sorry, so what's the punishment?"

"Destroy the bandits. They are the one who killed the person, the one who did not kill the person but committed the thieves, and the one who was not involved in the thieves. Anyone who violently commits the woman is considered a thief. ''

"... Yes, so what's the punishment?"

"People who commit thieves have to work hard, first build the road leading to the royal capital. The deadline is two months, and if it does not end within two months, it will give additional punishment. By the way, those who fled are immediate death sentences, serious Those who don't work at the same time are also executed. ''

"that is"

"I refuse to refute. Next, those who are not involved in the thieves. Let's use the abandoned land for farming. Because they are forced labor, all harvests will be collected. The period is undecided.

"Yes……"

"The punishment of those who killed people is, in principle, the death penalty. It's just a precious labor. I don't want to kill them easily. If there is any hard work that is so painful that I'm going to die, I want to make it happen."

"I'll think about it"

Cassis looks painful and is trying to think of work that will never die. That is what Rion expects.

"Don't you think of the family of the killed, the feelings of an acquaintance?"

"that is……"

"If you don't feel like it's harder than dying, don't hire.

"……Yes"

There is no room to cover. It was Cassis who felt the harshness of the new lord.

"Just a problem"

"what?"

"No money"

"... what is it?"

"You can work hard without eating rice? No, can you live in the first place?"

It was Rion who had a bad taste for Cassis.

"No, I can't."

"Then we have to prepare a meal, which obviously costs money."

"... meal the bandits?"

"It's obvious. If you don't feed, it's the death penalty. I say punishment is hard work."

"……surely"

The more you listen, the less Cassis and others know about Rion. He is worried about the sinner's diet while considering severe punishment. It's not tough or kind. It's definitely tough, you don't know if you have kindness or if you have other ideas.

"But there is no money to prepare it. I was worried about it.

"It doesn't ..."

As long as you do it. Such feeling is reflected in attitude. Cassis seems to be incompatible with Lion. It is too early to give up thinking. And Leon takes it as irresponsible, not incompetent. Rion can't afford to leave work to someone who doesn't have a sense of responsibility.

But Lyon hasn't had any clues in the matter of money. No matter how much you think, no good solution comes to mind.

A leather bag was suddenly presented before Rion.

"Aeriel?"

It was Eriel who had offered me.

"It's a bit early, but use this."

"this is?"

"I got it from my mother. I can't buy any wedding tools, so at least tell me that she's a farewell party."

"Then, it's an Eriel personal thing. I can't use it."

"But my mother told me. When the time comes when Rion is really in trouble, let me out. I'm in trouble now."

The face of Cassis and others listening to the conversation between them has turned into a slightly nervous and calm look. He considers Aeriel's actions to be the cuteness of his young wife. Yes, they are misunderstood.

The first reason is that we couldn't buy wedding tools. They received that they had no money and could not buy them. It is inevitable for them who do not know the identity of Aeriel.

But Lion is different. He knew very well the insaneness of Airiel's mother.

"... then only one"

And Rion received the words of compassion for the young wife and others.

"One ?? There's more in the bag."

"One sheet for the time being, so maybe I'm fine."

"... Yeah, then one piece"

Airiel is dissatisfied with not receiving his favor.

Aeriel does not know the monetary value. The only way to find out was through the reaction of the cassis who saw the one they took out. The cassis opened their mouths and hardened.

Aeriel took out gold coins. Moreover, the coat of arms of the Royal Grande Fram was engraved.

Gold coins are not one kind. Some gold coins are distributed not only in other countries but also in Japan. Because the size and purity of each coin differ, the value of the same gold coin changes completely. Among them, the official gold coin of the Grand Flam Kingdom was one of the most valuable gold coins.

"... Ah, is that a kingdom?"

The cassis returned to me was terrified. Cassis is the first to see official gold coins. This was the same for others.

"... It's a formal gold coin."

"No way ..."

There are still coins in the leather bag. If it were all gold coins ... It's obvious that you have such an imagination.

"I said earlier, this is Eriel's personal money. I borrowed this one."

"Rion, that's what I gave you."

Before Cassis said something, Eriel was dissatisfied.

"I would be glad to receive it as an individual. But I received it now, so I will return this money someday."

"Why is that so?"

"I have them in front of me but ... well, I don't trust those who are in front of me."

Certainly not in front of themselves. The faces of the cassis who are told are distorted by regret and anger.

"Oh? か な り Are you quite angry to speak clearly?"

"That's right. They're the same as the thieves they've caught. All they have to do is make excuses.

Rion utters a harsh word, as if the cassis in front of him were not in sight. There was someone who couldn't stand it and tried to complain, but without allowing it, Aeriel spoke first.

"Yes, I'm just complaining and not doing anything."

"Oh, I'm just putting my responsibilities on the officials from the centre. If they don't do anything, I can do it myself. But they didn't do anything. I can't do that. ''

The expression of the anger of Cassis turns pale at once with these words of Rion.

"I don't have that privilege."

Eriel, who says this, is not following. Rion uses an oversight to elicit the reasons for his anger. In that sense, it is for Cassis.

"If you say that you can't do anything, it means you're thinking only about yourself. You must have the authority. What have you done since the central official was gone? Just knowing that the lords are suffering and just waiting with a sweet expectation that the new lord will do something. "

"Yes"

The faces of the cassis, which turned pale, now turn red in shame.

"We are the strangers who improve our territory and pay our money. Is it okay to be given to others, and are we satisfied? In the place where we were born and raised, with our own hands Don't you think it's better? I can't believe it. "

The people in the favela, which Leon knew, worked diligently to improve the favela. Those who are called villains were. Leon cannot recognize Cassis.

"Why?"

"I don't thank anyone who just waits to be given. I just ask for more. I can't give my wife the feelings to them."

"That sounds like that. So what do you guys do?"

Aeriel asks Cassis with a smile. There's nothing wrong with that. Aeriel today was full of the dignity of those who stand on top of people. ,

"I bet my life on the Lord and I will serve you!"

In response to Aeriel's questions, Cassis and his knees hang down at once.

However, Rion's voice is still cold for them.

"I don't need such an oath. I'm wrong with the person who serves it. The person you serve to throw your life at is this land and the people who live here."

By the time he was surprised at Rion's words and raised his face, Rion had already stood still, immersed in thought.

They do not yet know. Rion's trust can only be obtained through actions, not words.