Dungeon Master Makeup Money (formerly known as Dungeon Master Funding)

A treasure chest that suddenly appeared beside me.

The villagers are stunned without following the situation.

Ignoring such villagers was checking the contents of the crate.

"Thirty-nine gold coins. And silver coins and copper coins in hundreds, but not enough for a thousand gold coins at all."

Close the crate lid.

"What's in it now... it's got a lot of coins in it"

The nearest village chief sees the contents of the crate.

Ma, there's nothing the village chief can do about it from what I see.

"Hey, you don't have my money"

Finally I realized that one of the villagers was missing the money he had in his own pocket.

And there's not just one person missing money.

It's gone from my purse, too.

"Me, too."

"What do you mean?"

When one noticed, everyone started checking their wallets.

As a result, money was missing from the wallets of all the villagers.

"No way......"

Everyone's gaze is poured into a suddenly appearing chest.

"Well, no way. All the gold in this chest was collected from everyone."

"Or give it back! It's mine."

The village chief jumps to the crate to get his money back.

However, the moment he touches the crate, he is bounced as if even by an unseen impact of the village chief's body and falls apart.

"Hey, what happened?

The village chief was unexplained.

That's the same for the villagers.

I don't see why they bounced me off touching the chest.

"Village chief, do you remember the contents of the contract?

"The one where you pay ten gold coins if you exorcise the demons?

"There, too, but what matters now is the part called 'If you unilaterally break a contract, you pay 100 times as much gold as your reward'. Why, you know why I wrote those words?

"That's... to clarify the compensation for your failure to take the request"

With a thousand gold coins, it's easy to rebuild the village. However, it is also conceivable that he lived in a leisurely and comfortable manner by running away with the deposit on his own because it is about the village chief.

"And that's one of the reasons. But nothing in that language applies only when I fail to make a request. It applies to you, too, village chief."

When I give in to the fallen village chief to gaze at me, he gets up and looks down on me.

"What do you mean!?

"Village chief. If I couldn't pay ten gold coins, I could have negotiated and decided to pay them in installments. But the village chief didn't do anything like that, 'he broke the contract and threw it away'. That's what the pledge (Gearslol) saw as a 'unilateral breach of contract'."

Yes, I'm not the only one to whom that fourth sentence applies. Because I didn't write a word about paying when I failed.

The mayor of the village fulfilled the conditions by breaking and discarding the contract.

"In other words, the village head of Dayton has unilaterally broken his contract, and Dayton Village has had to pay me 1,000 gold coins, the contract partner. And the execution of the contract by pledge is absolute."

I forced him to exploit from the villagers with powers similar to the curse, and to appear beside me.

Not only did they take it away, but the money they already gave me made it impossible for them to take it back. That was manifesting itself with the result that it was bounced the moment it was touched.

They were no longer even able to touch the gold coins they had originally.

"You mean you forcibly took money from us! You have no blood, no tears?

"So if the village chief had honestly given me the reward, there would have been nothing wrong with it. Even if we didn't have the village savings, if we scratched from all over the village, there were 39 gold coins. Tell me what's going on, keep your head down, and you might have given me some money."

Yes, the amount in the chest was scratched from all over the village.

"No way, that box contains not only the gold coins we have now, but also the gold coins we keep at home?

"Of course."

Tans deposits, I haven't told anyone where the stash is Hesocri...... that stuff doesn't matter. All the money owned by the villagers was forced to be collected.

"And I'll tell you because you seem to be mistaken, but what I'm entitled to is a thousand pieces of gold coins. There are still more than 900 pieces missing. I'll force you to collect the missing pieces from the coins you earn in the future."

"Become!?

Surprised voices rise from the villagers.

It forces me to exploit them whenever they earn money and get a coin. It meant that if I told them the polar theory, they wouldn't even be able to touch the coins in the future.

"You can't live if they do that!?

"Well, I'll ask the Count to provide me with as much food and daily necessities as I can live. Oh, I'll deduct the cost from the repayment, I'll take care of it."

Smiling, saying so, the villagers' faces were filled with anger.

"Oh no... you're no different than a slave!

You will only be given the minimum amount of things you need to live, and you will only be put to work to pay off your debts every day.

It's not a slavery contract, but it's not much different treatment from slavery.

And it's worse than slavery.

And when will I get back 1,000 gold coins if we all work together?

Time to liberate.

You should have four gold coins, many and as many as five, throughout the village, such as the amount you can save each month even if you drop it to the minimum level where you can live.

In other words, it will take nearly 20 years to return 1,000 gold coins.

You can't get used to more than twenty years of slavery or anything. There is hope because there is an end, and there is no getting used to despair and not giving up on slave life.

"So? Because this wouldn't have happened if the village chief hadn't done the shitty thing of breaking and throwing away that contract while keeping a contract with people in the first place. 'Cause, by the way, you can't decide I didn't have a contract either."

"Kisama......!

I couldn't keep my mouth shut. Lew was grabbing my chest.

In the younger generation, I would have been frightened when I lived in the village if Lew, who had the most power and ruled our generation with power, had grabbed my chest barn and stared at me.

But now I can feel it just from looking at it.

Even if he was strong at the villager level, he's weak at the adventurer level. At best, it's the same level of strength as a rushing E-rank adventurer.

"Do you sue violence? You don't lose your contract where you did that, and you seriously think you can beat me for defeating all those demons that were there in the first place? If you care, you can easily destroy a village like this."

Simply create a big hole in the center of the village and roll the iron sphere, just like when you defeat the army of demons, literally crushing the village, etc. can be easy.

I guess I imagined the sight. The villager's expression was blue.

"How is the Alliance going to take responsibility for such a tyrannical contract?"

When he let go of his hand from me, he asked Mr. Routie, who was nearby, to scream.

"Nothing, nothing"

"What?"

"This request was contracted in the first place without going through the guild. I don't do anything with the guild. Besides, the Adventurer Guild is only an intermediary organization between clients and adventurers. Even if you call attention before accepting a request, you will not say anything about the content of the contract that was once exchanged."

Mr. Routie was also present at the venue where the contract was exchanged because he knew the guild's stance.

"Besides, I gave the village chief a good explanation of the validity of the pledge. It was your village chief who signed the contract."

Regardless if they were fooling me, the village chief made such a deal because they couldn't even think about themselves.

"You're not going to defend the kind of people who break and throw away the contracts they made in the first place."

The Adventurer Guild pushed Dayton Village aside.

Lew now turns his gaze to the knights. The knights were shaking their heads beside each other. That means I'm not going to help the villagers in the same way as the Adventurer Guild.

Well, is it time to decide to help?