While leaning back on the sofa with my legs crossed like Dazar, I asked haughtily:
“Are you saying you didn’t believe me when I said that I’ve visited the Eastern Continent?”
“No, before that, online identity authentication…. What’s that?”
“There is something like that. A relic of the old era. First, we need to talk about the important thing. Eastern Continent.”
Then Dazar narrowed his eyes and gazed at me.
“Yes. You said the Eastern Continent. I can’t believe it, of course.”
I thoroughly went through the memories woven into this body, but it was an indisputable fact that I had visited the Eastern Continent.
However, Dazar’s words are right too.
It doesn’t make sense that I’ve traveled to the Eastern Continent with this body’s abilities alone.
It’s a region where even the transcendental beings can’t penetrate the barrier.
‘Hmmmm.’
The various problems that occur here on the Quizen continent are contradictory…
They used to happen because of the huge barrier that was placed to protect our lives.
Including not being able to go outside the continent.
Dazar’s search for food was also related to this. Because, in the midst of a food shortage, we are unable to trade with other continents.
‘But really, how did I get there?’
Although, at first glance, I remember the unfamiliar attire, the people’s exotic appearance, and the time I spent there.
Actually, my memories of going to the Eastern Continent are cloudy as if fog had piled up. I just remember the fact that I have gone there.
Hearing Dazar’s words, naturally there were no grounds to mention the argument that what I said was true.
So I shrugged my shoulders and said:
“Then let me revise that. I haven’t gone to the Eastern Continent. I have foodstuffs.”
“What?”
“Having gone to the Eastern Continent is a problem right? Then let’s pretend I haven’t gone. What’s important is that I have crops to use as a new food.”
“Ha!”
Dazar let out a fake laugh.
He put his arm on the armrest and propped his chin on it.
His tilted face was cold and arrogant. It was a face that had thrown away all manners.
“You are a really mind-boggling woman.”
“No, your acting is really mind-boggling. Everyone should know that Duke Shiaster is such a rude person.”
“I thought you were unusual from when you thrust the rattle at me yesterday.”
“I don’t think that’s something someone who thrust a sword at me for no reason should say.”
Dazar grinned.
He was looking at me as if he had discovered something very interesting.
He switched his crossed leg and said:
“Well, it is much more effective than your rattle at stopping the child from crying.”
“You must be happy. Since you have a sword that is good for comforting babies. Where did you get it made? I guess I should also buy one.”
“Since it is a sacred artifact passed down for generations. I’m sorry, but I don’t know where it was made.”
Useless jabs were sent back and forth.
As I watched his smile getting deeper, for some reason, I felt like I was losing.
I bent my upper body and lightly hit the table.
Bang.
“That’s enough. You said you need new foodstuffs. I have it, so what more is there to say?”
Then, just like me, Dazar bent his upper body close.
The two bodies over the table grew even closer.
He came so close to me that I wanted to draw back, and he closed and opened his eyes.
The eye contact was a little strange.
That’s because his eyes were too deep for an aggressive and annoying man to have.
He raised one eyebrow slightly and quietly said:
“Then bring that food.”
“And if I bring it?”
“I’ll grant you what you want.”
I looked straight into his golden eyes and smiled.
“Call.”
It was only a moment, but it seemed like those eyes were sparkling.
* * *
“It is likely an order passed down from the Emperor, no, Her Majesty.”
Riding the carriage on the way back to the Evanror Viscounty, Elston, who was sitting facing me, spoke.
I looked at the plants quickly passing by outside the window and tilted my head.
“Her Majesty?”
“Yes.”
I had just asked him why Duke Shiaster was looking for new foodstuffs.
Elston seemed like he was slightly agonizing over it, but after taking out and looking at the coupon with the words “The right to hug the cute Axion for 30 seconds” written on it, he made a face that said eh whatever, and answered.
“Emperor Scarlet, the current emperor of the Quizen Empire, is a benevolent ruler. Of all the emperors in history, she is probably the monarch who loves the people the most.”
“Mmm. That’s right.”
Even if I pull out and watch all the information in this body’s memory, Scarlet, the current emperor of the Quizen Empire, loves her subjects very much. If I was trying to compare him to a person in Korea from before I transmigrated, it would be King Sejong.
They brought together talented individuals to create inventions for the people and solved their problems by understanding the hardships that they faced in detail.
“As much as he is a benevolent ruler, the voices of discontent are rising amongst the nobles.”
“…..”
Elston turned his head and looked out the window.
His eyes looked a little tired.
“Well, the food issue is probably related to those things. Miar is the staple food in this isolated continent, but the distribution is monopolized by the nobles.”
It was exactly as he said.
As it was set up that the nobles had the monopoly on Miar divided by each piece of land.
The amount the imperial family holds does not reach 5% of that. This was because the imperial authority collapsed in the generation before Emperor Scarlet, who is called a benevolent ruler.
The imperial authority that collapsed at that time ruined not only the imperial family but also the empire.
It was Emperor Scarlet who narrowly grasped the imperial authority that had been torn to pieces and brought it up to this point.
Thanks to that, unlike in the past, the present-day nobles have no choice but to follow the imperial orders.
“Anyway, if a new foodstuff is invented and the imperial family directly manages it, the people will not have to pay exorbitant prices for Miar or go hungry because they don’t have money, and the nation will become rich and strong. Well, isn’t that so?”
Elston, who discussed the situation in an unusually serious voice, looked a little bit like a Wizardry Tower Lord.
However, Elston’s words were a little bit off as an interpretation. The reason they are trying to develop a new food now is clearly because Miar’s harvest has been disrupted.
Just like in the original novel.
I just cursorily nodded my head.
“I see. He’s a cool person.”
While echoing his words humbly.
Then Elston sized me up and asked:
“By the way, how did you visit the Eastern Continent?”
“Eastern Continent? Me?”
“Yes. Earlier you said you went there.”
Elston tilted his head.
I looked at him blankly with a ‘what are you saying?’ expression on my face.
“Are you sick? When did I say that I went to the Eastern Continent? When you go to the Wizardry Tower, first check if you have a fever.”
“……?”
Ignoring the confusion in Elston’s eyes, I again turned my head back towards the window.”
‘Well, anyway. It must be true that the food problem is serious.’
Actually, I brought a few grains of rice earlier.
But the reason I brought it back without showing it to Dazar, was partially because he was that crazy guy from yesterday, but more importantly because he was full of suspicion of me.
I felt that a crazy guy like him would only believe me if I fed him directly.
The corners of my mouth curled up evilly.
* * *
“Safe travels, Elston! See you again soon!”
“Ahem, that, it’s not that I must see him. But since I’m here I should at least greet the kid….”
Whoosh.
Elston scratched the back of his head while looking at Celia’s back which disappeared after she quickly ran, as if she teleported, out of the carriage.
“…..Has she gone?”
As Elston took a deep breath and drew symbols, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed.
A teleportation spell was cast.
“Wizardry Tower Lord! We’re so busy, why do you keep leaving these days?”
“Wizardry Tower Lord! You said you would look into the errors in the last Golem Operation study, when will you look into them?”
“Wizardry Tower Lord! Wizardry Tower Lord!”
That d*mned Wizardry Tower Lord.
Elston’s eyes dulled as he saw the wizards noisily looking for him as soon as he arrived.
As he is the continent’s one and only Wizardry Tower’s Wizardry Tower Lord, he is busy in public and personal matters.
In short, he is a person so terribly busy that he doesn’t have time to blink.”
A person like that has lately had his weakness held by one woman, so he gave up his personal time and acts as the attending physician of some child who doesn’t have a destiny.
“Now now, everyone stand in line.”
Elston lined up the wizards who had business with him in a row and began quickly processing their work reports.
To him who had been the leader of the Wizardry Tower for a long time, this type of leftover work can be done in a snap.
‘Celia Evanror.’
As Elston dealt with his work mechanically, he recalled the woman he often encountered these days.
‘She’s a much more unique person than the rumors say.’
Having a strength that can’t be imagined in a noble lady….
‘Take away the d*mned Dragon Heart you put in this child’s heart immediately!’
And her personality that is rougher and more courageous than your average knight,
‘As well as readily adopting a child she’s never seen before.’
It definitely seems like she is experiencing difficulties because of him. Elston recalled the words that she had been muttering recently.
‘Money, money, money….’
It’s a secret that I was a little scared by her appearance which seemed as if she was reciting a curse spell.
‘She’s really scary sometimes.’
As I scribbled away at my work, eventually no wizard was standing in front of me.
He headed to his room.
“New foodstuff you say. Dazar is working quite hard.”
Contrary to Celia’s thoughts, Elston had perceived that the famine had already started.
Elston, who arrived at his spacious room, scratched his cheeks and began drawing symbols.
White light emanated from his hand, and a messenger in the appearance of a small pigeon appeared.
“I guess you have to go and tell the news. Since that is my role now.”
The pigeon cooed and flew up as if he understood those words.
Não seria melhor ela fazer negócio com o imperador então? 🤔
Thanks for the update 😊🇧🇷
ugh I really dislike that Dazar guy, he needs to get off his high horse…