The wedding, the reception, everything's over. Me and Dorothy.

Hmm? Dorothy called me out and said I looked great?

That's okay, because I'm Dorothy's husband!

And my title is the Duke.

The Brute Ease region and the island of Brut are the only direct rulers I have, but becoming Duke yields tax revenues from the Crown Direct Territory, the Marquis of Clevers.

This may be considered a complement to the Duke because of the small population of the Earl Territory of Brute Ease.

This treatment of the Marquis de Clevers is gratifying to me in a way, and it's hard for me to tell you to govern as far as the Marquis de Clevers with fewer men, and the fact that you earn tax revenues from the Marquis de Clevers increases your budget for the development of the Count of Brute Ease.

Oh, I hope you don't get me wrong, but even though you get tax revenues for the Marquis of Clevers, what you get is less the expenses necessary to govern the Marquis of Clevers, not the full amount.

If you get the full amount, I'd appreciate it, but then tax revenues with minimal expenses will come into the Brute Ease family because the Marquis of Clevers will no longer be able to stand.

Newlyweds?

Well, I'm an old man, too, and I've never been married, but you've had a lot more experience at night.

Thanks to you, Dorothy suspected there might be other women, but that would be a good memory.

So, it's time to tell Dorothy who I am, and now I'm sitting face to face with Dorothy.

"I mean, could Christoph be the Magician?

"Right."

What do you say after you blah blah blah blah, but even if they say your husband is the magic god Magicine, that's - I don't believe you.

Oh, and I'm letting Dorothy get rid of me, too.

I'm sorry that couples call each other "Dear" or "Uncle".

"Wonderful!

"Huh?"

"It's a god that Christoph is like the magic god Magicine! Oh, how happy my husband is God. Ugh!

That? You accepted me easier than I thought, didn't you?

Well, instead of accepting it, you're happy that I'm the magic god Magicine, right?

"So, Mr. Feelia is a family member of Christoph, right?

"Right."

"Then let me be a family member too!

"Yes?"

"'Cause you regret something about Mr. Feelia being closer to Christoph than I am, your wife?

Oh, that's the way you think?

But my family means that if I die, Dorothy dies, too, and I want to avoid that, but with this momentum, it feels like you don't mind that.

Though, I tried to explain that thoroughly and avoid being as dependent as possible, but...

"If Christoph is going to die, I'm going to die too!

Did this happen after all?

A few attempts at persuasion didn't change the answer, and I had no choice but to take Dorothy as my family.

"Ahhh! Looks like you're getting some strength! Ugh, I got the power to stand next to Christoph with this too. Hey!

There's something about Dorothy.

Besides, you won't have to be a family member to stand beside me.

"Dorothy is my wife, you didn't have to be a family member to stand beside me..."

"No! Christoph doesn't understand. Huh! To Carla and Peron, and to Clara, Mr. Pritz, they were more filled with magical talent than I was always beside Christoph! I was so jealous of them! Yours, I want to stand next to Christoph too, so soo!

That's why Dorothy is my family, and when Dorothy asks me to do her a favor, me and Firia, four of us in Lillia, are coming east of the Great Forest, near the mouth of the Eastwood River.

Dorothy became my family and wanted to test her strength, so she came to this big forest where she was just planning to do a field trip.

Demons are essential because the Great Forest is home to many beastly and insect-based demons.

As soon as we arrived, we encountered a sheep demon named Lambchop.

Ram Chop's method of attack is a punch in the forefoot after he storms and punches his head and stood up on his hind leg.

Because the punch on the forefoot also seems to be chopping from that movement, so they say lamb chop or something... it never represents food.

More than thirty lamb chops still flock in front of us, lamb chops that are also famous for acting collectively in Rank E demons.

It seems to be the Lambchop Herd's code that the Herd bosses decide to fight, not to.

So, it seems the boss has decided to fight us.

More than thirty lamb chops have tried to kick the ground many times with their forelegs and their eyes are running bloody.

"I heard that lamb chop meat is so delicious!

Phyllia and Lillia serve as avant-garde guards, spears and swords to prevent ram chops from advancing, while Dorothy shoots the magic and destroys it.

I watch Dorothy move carefully from the rear.

Dorothy's magic power has bounced several times with her becoming my family member, and even more physically capable, so if it's about a Rank E demon, she won't take the back, but just because there are so many, Phyllia and Lillia are buying time for Dorothy to shoot magic as an avant-garde.

"What's wrong with you?

Dorothy, who slaughtered more than thirty lamb chops, pushes silence.

"Something's different!

Hmm, apparently you noticed.

"And?

"The sensation of magic that springs from the core of the body is still present. But something's different! It's not even at Carla's feet!

Dorothy has a lot of magic.

As a matter of fact, Dorothy now has more magic than Peron or Carla because she's my family.

However, it should have been a fairly superior amount of magic in mankind because it was slightly inferior to Pritz even before he became a family member.

But magic has attributes, and even more so, the attributes it owns have aptitudes and ranks.

Originally Dorothy's talent had wind attributes, water attributes, and no attributes at the head of the light attribute superiority.

Light attributes with the highest rank are not well suited to attack because the magic of the healing system is predominant.

I have the knowledge of previous life. I can perform high-powered attack magic with various improvements and light attributes, but not in Dorothy.

For that reason Dorothy was attacking demons with wind attributes.

Dorothy's abundance of magic can push forces even in attributes with lower ranks, but that's inefficient and, more importantly, wasteful.

"I... what the hell..."

"Dorothy, I want you to listen to me"

"... yes"

Look at Dorothy's hand. I'll start talking slowly.

"I'm half in public, but I'm God. There is good and evil in the world of God, and there is God of fire, and there is God of water. I'm not good or evil. I'm good at building magic tools with Magicine, the magic god, and there's something else I can do..."

So far, Dorothy seems to have realized what I was trying to say, and she can help herself into the hands she was connected to.

"... I mean... what Christoph can and can't do..."

"Yes."

"So what can I do... the hell..."

It's easy to teach that, but I think you can grow more when you realize that for yourself.

Dorothy looks like she's going to bite her lips and regret it.

After all, Dorothy hasn't come to understand her traits.

That's good. I want you to struggle and find out what you can do.

I don't remember struggling very hard, so I guess it's embarrassing for me to say this.

It's not a mistake, though, to think that if you're my family, you'll be good at magic, but it's not everything.

You just have to make sure you recognize that.

Eastwood has a population of 148,463.

This is a demographic at the end of last month, but this statistic does not include slaves.

Including slaves in this makes 157,384.

There are 8,921 slaves, but there are 5,947 combat slaves in this inner St. Orion nation and the rest are other slaves.

The system I built manages the registration of residents, etc. (...), so that the population can know exactly.

And whoever it is, it obliges me to register with this system when I enter Eastwood, but the biggest feature will be having this system register magic.

Magic is very convenient to discern individuals because they are individual like fingerprints and have nothing the same.

This automatically records the entry and exit of anyone who registers with the system into or out of Eastwood.

This means that as long as you register with the system, you are free to enter and exit Eastwood, so the waiting time for your introduction can be greatly reduced.

"The vegetable harvest is jumping thanks to the input of combat slaves"

"It's possible that the price of cabbage will collapse during the harvest season."

"Then why don't we just adjust the yield and keep the price?

Nikita, Wood's man and pioneer, is an elf woman.

The Nikita has reported that the pioneering business of putting in large quantities of war slaves works well and large quantities of cabbage can be harvested.

In contrast, when Deriman, the bear beast man in charge of supplies, was concerned about the price crash, Bedmouth, a human and treasurer, threw in adjusting the yield to maintain the price.

It was Wood who settled for such interaction.

"The surplus of cabbage harvested is put to sleep in an underground warehouse. The underground warehouse doesn't run out of time. And get it out of the warehouse over a time when vegetables tend to be scarce!

That would sell it for a higher price than the cabbage in the harvest, Wood says.

That's right, the preciousness of out-of-season vegetables is too much to say than a bad gem, but if you can supply vegetables steadily in the winter, the Earls of Brute Ease, now the Dukes or... the revenues will be immeasurable.

Think Wood is good too.

"So here's the next agenda. Crime within Eastwood is on the rise. It's a growing population, so even if you can't help it to some extent, you should hit it somehow."

"We need more security personnel on that. Exactly because there are limitations in personnel today."

Everybody looks at me.

It's not stingy to increase personnel, but you can't increase them if you want more than you don't have them.

"Turn the personnel to the security department as a matter of priority. Levis, the head of the security department, will take care of the terminal. Talk to Wood about the expenses of recruiting the necessary personnel and you two will decide. And whoever has no personality problems among the war slaves of St. Orion can use it to assist the security department."

I'll throw a round at Levis and Wood on this!

I would be able to handle this extent now that Wood is largely calm compared to when he worked too much and his eyes were running bloody.

Work more when it comes to Levis! I'd say so.

Besides, I don't have to judge everything to the end.

This is how we make a lot of decisions about Brute Ease territory that is remarkably developed.

And the larger the size of the territory, the larger the organization that manages it, and the greater the authority of each.

So I can make it easier by distributing good and trustworthy people and giving them the right materials to do their job.