Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"Sir Malcolm, I'd like you to look up. I don't think you're responsible."

Malcolm had his head down for a while, but eventually looked up hesitantly.

"The rest. You can't ask me to blame you."

"Ha... ha"

A schematic of a frightened Malcolm and a bitter King Melvin.

... As for Malcolm, he must have heard what the Marquis did to me and found out... but he didn't have contacts with me. There's a relationship that's been spreading false information, and you didn't get to hear much about me being a person.

I'm not going to use my position to tell you what to do... but that's what I saw.

If someone in an unfamiliar position asks me if my family has worked disrespectfully, etc., there will be some anxiety about how I might get tired. Not to mention if that's the demon killer or the king's direct minister, I don't even know how to react like this.

"As far as I'm concerned... do you know how you feel?"

and jokingly put out his right hand, Malcolm also smiled small and bitterly, holding my right hand with both hands as he lay his eyes down and bowed his head.

Still. Though it doesn't seem like King Melvin had me hooked up for the purpose of making Malcolm apologize.

"Shall we talk about the Marquis' house?"

King Melvin says, a servant brings my share of tea.

I decided to sit back in the chair and listen.

"Theodore, how far do you know about Malcolm and the others?

"I don't know much about it. Is it about your brother's relationship with the Marquis?

"Mm-hmm. Malcolm had a disagreement with the Marquis quite a while ago on the policy of territorial management."

"No... it's not just territorial management. It's also about my father's wasteful habits. I've argued over and over."

Malcolm says sorry.

"Mm-hmm. So Malcolm was left in the center, and his second son, Norman, followed Marquis' policy and was in command of the Territorial Administration."

"Do you mean you are gaining practical experience…"

"I'll see what I can do."

I suppose the actual reason is... is because if you are questioned by an unfriendly heir, you will be in a worse position after retirement. If we were to put aside Malcolm, who has no particular fallacy, and let his second son Norman succeed him, we would need a reason that was quite directed at the public.

For example... My oldest son doesn't have any practical experience in territorial management?

"I have told the Marquis before to gradually change his policy on the future of territorial management... was Malcolm already in the centre at that time?

"... Yes"

Is it a natural flow that Malcolm, who knows the inside, is ahead of King Melvin? In anticipation of the deadlock in territorial management, he had previously made an offer to the Marquis.

"I should have given you plenty of time from then on... but what about the truth? Malcolm."

"... because I can't let you get involved. By the time I last found out, I had been able to develop agricultural land, but the harvest didn't go up… so I was wasting my money relying on mine revenues to sustain my life in the middle."

From the last time I saw it, the situation wouldn't have improved that much. You asked me for debt, more than anything else.

If funds for agricultural land development had been channelled to the territorial side without wastage in the centre, the current situation might have been very different. Or do you think the Marquis himself isn't playing around in the center, returning to the territory and waving his own extraction?

Alternatively, the Marquis should have had the hand of asking his father to cooperate in the development of agricultural land... In the end, the Marquis didn't do any good to bow his head to the lower nobility.

On the contrary, it would be convenient if he replaced his father and then had influence over the Count's territory, which is the end of targeting internal affairs interference through Kathleen.

"Well, that's why I brought you to Malcolm..."

"Yes."

King Melvin turns to me and says:

"I wish I could tell Count Henry what I felt today, but what about it? In order to do so... I will introduce Malcolm to you and convince you that you will not be able to get through."

"... ok. I'll keep in touch with my father."

When I answered, Malcolm bowed his head deep again.... I can see that you look kind of very tired, and some parts of you don't seem very HR.

I was also convinced why they called me. You want me to tell your father about today, I guess, in the future.

As King Melvin, if the Marquis tells Norman to inherit the governor, etc., I guess he's going to hold Malcolm back as his successor on account of the Marquis' and Norman's lapse to this day.

If Malcolm succeeds and then his relationship with his father improves, he will get technical guidance and other help on farmland management. That would make the territorial management of the Marquis easier to get on track.

"Speaking of which, I heard about the Marquis' dragon cage coming and going with the territory."

"Mm-hmm. I'm getting reports that Norman went into Termwilds in a dragon cage."

Access to Term Wills by Dragon Cage is to be checked and booked.

Okay, well. What did you call it for?

It's to get Norman to report the current situation in detail and so on... I can think of a lot of things, but I don't think I'm fundamentally fit with the Marquis.

"... might be a golden measure."

Malcolm says.

"But how? If you had that kind of money, you wouldn't be talking to me or anything from the beginning, would you?

I'll work on some money that wasn't supposed to be there. Norman brought it on purpose, when...

"… extraordinary provocations from the inhabitants at the direction of the Marquis. Norman has been misleading in reporting tax revenues so far, or can you think about it?"

King Melvin gets a headache look on his face, elbows on the table and holds him around his temples. Malcolm opened his eyes to King Melvin's words.

Extraordinary provocation. Sure, a lord can do that if he needs to.

There is nothing good or good about just starving the inhabitants. Talking about leaving out emotional theories and ethical aspects does not result in a locus, even from the point of view of profitability, because it depletes productivity and is insecure. It's no better than on the spot.

"Also, if it's a provocation, isn't it a big deal? Shouldn't we check on the territory now?

Oh, Malcolm doesn't know about the comms, so you think we should hit him early. Really genuine sensibility, reassurance.

"We'll make arrangements as soon as possible."

"Please..."

King Melvin sent his gaze at me for a moment, so I nod back with just my eyes. As a precaution, it would be the fastest way to get in touch with your father on a telecom.

My father has made a request so that I can get a report on Marquis Territory through the branch of the Adventurer's Guild. If so, you must have a pretty good grasp of every corner of Marquis territory. Extraordinary conspiracy is what my father had envisaged, as well as the stockpiling of food on the Count's territory.

However, if a charge is made, the reason will be pursued later. Thank you for doing that at the Marquis's behest.

Because I wanted to keep it a secret without taking care of it, I think it's more likely that you brought a story about debt and so on against me, and that as far as I'm concerned, you were misleading the tax.

"If the Marquis overtakes the steeple and the state of the territory is as usual..."

King Melvin nodded quietly when I asked.

"In that case, it would be necessary to put in an audit at the hands of the official"

The fact that Norman brought money later, even though he had enough to bring me a debt story, meant that Norman was reluctant to give money to the Marquis until the end of the day.

In other words, it is conceivable that the Marquis did not know Norman could afford it either. In that case, it would be assumed that Norman was manipulating the books and making money that would free him.

In this case, even as Norman, he might be pursued from the Marquis, so he didn't want to give out as much money as possible.

"If the Marquis solves the immediate problem, we'll soon find out."

Malcolm says as he holds the area around his stomach and floats the tannic surface.

"Hmm?"

"If you go past your throat... no, if you take them out of the crisis, they'll lose their minds and start having dinner and prom."

Malcolm's standpoint - maybe it fits. Because you know more about the Marquis and Norman than I do.

But I accidentally meet King Melvin in the face. There was always a place where I could not forbid my sympathy for Malcolm.