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

"I've caught a thief."

……

The party venue suddenly came back to me. I squeal by whoever I had.

Place it at the center of the crowd.

It was one of the thieves who was put down.

"That's the thief...?

"Isn't that some kind of mistake?

What they saw was a bizarre attire thief looking like a bat.

By contrast, the thief I put down dressed like a plain villager.

I was too far from the image of a thief.

"Oh, um..."

That's fine if you show the evidence, too.

"There's no doubt about the stolen items here."

"Oh! It's definitely the ring I stole"

They stole the ring. Mr. Garland approached me anxiously, so I return the ring.

"Ooh!!

Seeing the sight of the rings that were supposed to have been stolen coming back, the people at the party venue also finally admitted that the person I had caught was the thief.

"Thanks! Thank you so much!

I can't stop apologizing to Mr. Garland, who is in front of me more than such an ambient reaction.

I was trying to get some gems out on the reward, but I was in a position to take on the request from Rio, so I got everything dismissed.

"Was the thief a pair?"

"Then what about the other thief we saw?

One of the pair was captured.

Then it would be the other one who cares.

If you try them, the other one that Sylvia followed was the real thief.

"Here."

A maid with a burglar appears on the balcony.

Sylvia comes up close and smiles at me and puts the thief to sleep next to the thief who was sleeping on the floor.

"Why are you looking like a maid?

"It was hard to chase in a dress."

If that's all, there shouldn't be a problem with the usual adventurer clothes.

Looks like there was a reason in her that she had to be a maid of honor.

A thief in a burglar bat costume.

The two thieves have solved the case and relieved the nobleman who was at the party venue.

"Now you can sleep in peace."

"Yeah, they were the ones who were bound to give the notice, but I don't trust the word of the thief or anything. You won't have to hire more security to protect the mansion."

The nobles seemed frightened by the presence of the thieves.

"Ugh, yeah......!

The [Transformation] skilled thief who annoyed his surroundings by making noise about the capture of the thief reminds me of his eyes.

Soon those in burglar costumes who slept next door will also be reminded of their eyes.

They both seemed unswallowed and confused at first, but when they perceived that their place was a party venue as they chirped into the sight they received from around them, they confirmed that they had a partner next door and recognized that they had both been caught.

"You got caught..."

"Yeah......"

I'm not restrained by rope.

But there's no way we can escape safely in a situation surrounded by so many people.

And when the two of them are in line, they look like brothers.

They're both going to blend easily into the darkness of the night with black eyes in their dark hair.

He's my brother because the burglar of the executor who stole the ring from his appearance seems older, and the Yang Dynasty looks more like my brother.

"If you're the only one in, you can get away with it, right?

"Give it up. I can't just put you down and run away. Besides, the rest of them can't do it while there's an adventurer who's got us anyway."

If you transform, you may escape even in surrounded situations, depending on how you do it.

But only the user - my brother - could use [Transformation] skills.

My brother refused to let me leave him.

"How did you guys steal Count Ament's ring?

Rio, who put two guard knights on his left and right, approached him and asked.

Not much as an emperor's escort, but he didn't need that much escort because the commotion is also a situation already on its way to convergence.

Strong enough that Rio himself was a former adventurer in the first place that he didn't need an escort, and beside him we caught a thief and showed strength to refrain.

There was no need to place excessive escorts.

"It is decided. Because Count Ament is a bad nobleman!

"Bad?"

Most people at the party venue tilt their necks.

Mr. Garland has been known to be an honest man, and even though he has just inherited the status of lord, you can say that he has excellent skill and good territorial management. I don't think I'm a very virtuous aristocrat, either, because my thoughts about actually talking to you are like people's likes.

A thief who doesn't like that reaction.

"Ha, I know. Count Ament is famous for his nobility, which is forcing the people to work."

"Is that what they say?

"… probably talking about pioneering"

Asked by Rio, Mr. Garland answers with his head in his arms.

"If that's the story, I'm listening, too. I hear you've already sacrificed a lot of people and money for pioneering."

"... Yes"

"That's the basis for being a bad aristocrat."

Did you ever see that? A thief who looks like a doorman.

I think you can agree with your words. The aristocratic reaction of what looks around is scarce.

"Oh, that...?

It's not just the nobility.

The knights and soldiers serving the castle are also laughing bitterly.

We couldn't react without knowing what was going on in the empire.

"Did you know there was a war with the kingdom of Metis earlier in the spring?

Mr. Garland asks tenderly to teach his children.

"I didn't learn, and I know about it."

"In the war, the army suffered a painful defeat at the hands of several adventurers who succeeded in the ambush. I guess that seemed to weaken the empire in other countries. The kingdom is not the only country where the empire borders. In the summer there were skirmishes on the eastern side of the empire, where there was also the territory of Amento. Fortunately, only a small battle ended thanks to the national army dispatched by Imperial Capital in time."

But by the time the battle was rallied, some villages and cities that were within the empire had apparently been sacrificed.

In the war against the kingdom, it has devastated some villages and launched an ambush on the city.

The Empire has made similar sacrifices.

"Those who lost their homeland as a result of the war came to Ament territory where they were safe as refugees. I wanted to do something for you as a nobleman too, but I'm in the best of circumstances just to feed the people who were originally in the territory, too. So I welcomed them to Ament territory on the condition that they 'welcome me if you have pioneered an unexplored land'."

At that time, he had made me promise that there would be no responsibility whatsoever on the part of the Amento territory merely to compensate the representatives of the refugees and the victims even if they came out.

So even with the victims, they were convinced.

Mr. Garland regretted that he could only help in that way.

But civilians who only see the results from the outside don't know that.

As a result, it had appeared to be a breeze among the civilian population that 'Count Ament continues to develop impossible while taking victims'.

Of course knights and soldiers who serve Imperial Castle, where nobility and information that they know about various circumstances gather rumours, know the truth.

"Ugh, it's a lie...!

My brother the thief is surprised to find out that the person he attacked because he thinks he is a bad nobleman is a person who is struggling with a lot. My brother didn't even know he had such a situation or anything. His open mouth couldn't be blocked.

I'm not lying.

Rio, who had heard the report as emperor, knew that the Amento realm would have such problems.

That the reason for being attacked in the first place was weakened by the light loss of the war against the kingdom. Even though Rio was a necessary defeat in becoming an emperor, there are people who are being harmed because of it.

They were running to compensate whenever possible.

I was familiar with the circumstances, although I did not know Mr. Garland personally because of this.

"Besides, I hear you're after all the bad nobles, but some of them aren't bad nobles, just like Count Ament."

"That can't be right! We've been digging into it, and then we're stealing it."

That's an investigation full of holes, too.

I didn't even know the circumstances Mr. Garland currently had.