Iron Blood Earl Riccianne

Chapter 4. The Art of Death (3)

“If that's how you feel. ”

“Well, what? So you really ignored me?! ”

“Would you believe me if I said no? ”

“Profit!”

“Never mind. Don't worry about it. Just follow me wherever I go." ”

Eventually, Wolf's right hand flashes up. And with his mouth he vomits nervously.

“Ahhhh!”

Kwa-ang! Kwajang Chang!

A loud rumbling sound echoes through the cafeteria. At the same time, the noisy restaurant quiets down with cold water, and everyone in the hall looks back at Wolf.

When Wolf hit the table, all the dishes on the table fell to the floor.

“Damn, I can't even grab a woman……. ”

Elisha frowns and grimaces, her words muttering as she shakes her fists at the table.

“You shouldn't hit the food. ”

Meanwhile, the shopkeeper and owner rushed in, and the people in the restaurant were again focused on eating.

“Sorry, I'll make up for all the broken dishes. ”

Elisha apologizes and talks to the owner before he can say anything.

The storekeeper rushes back after clearing out the broken dishes and scattered food, Elisha seems to have made a big decision.

“Good. I use my big toebox today. ”

Wolf grumbles in a ballmen voice and asks.

“What?”

“Just listen. Why are you trying to recruit Earl Jeron? ”

“That's right…. I think I'll be okay looking at the data. ”

Lycaen has taken measures to ensure that Elisha has the information she needs, whenever and wherever she wants it. Of course, the information was given to the Artroom Guild, specifically the lower slime organizations of the Artroom Guild, and it was Joel who authorized it.

However, after deleting all evaluations inside the Artroom Guild, only information about incidents related to objective facts was provided. This was a separate part of Elisha's request because subjective assessments were likely to cloud her judgment.

The material Wolf was referring to was the information on the Artroom Guild.

“So what part of that data? ”

“Huh? First of all, he's an outsider with good judgment. Praise be to the people of the land. The territory is financially solid and the troops are quite strong. Being cautious, it takes a lot of thought to make a decision, but once a decision is made, there is no turning back. At this rate, he decided that he would not take our words lightly, and that if he heard the stories about those filthy bastards, he would come and give them to the colonists. ”

After a long Wolf explanation, Elisha looks at him with a blank expression. When Wolf sees that, he squirms with his arms closed.

“Huh, you didn't think I'd make it this far, did you? ”

Finally, a hollow smile bursts out of Elisha's mouth.

“Huh, huh, that's it? ”

“What? That's enough. What else do you need? ”

“Tsk. You still don't understand what we're doing, do you? ”

“Are you treating me like an idiot? Why don't you know that? ”

“By the way, is it Earl Jeron you're choosing? ”

Wolf asked with a stuffy expression on Elisha's repeated bruises.

“Oh, what's the problem? ”

Elisha lets out a long sigh, choking with water, and opens her mouth.

“The first thing you need to see is not what's obvious! ”

“So I told you. You have good ratings and praise from the colonists! ”

“That's their assessment, not yours. And to see that you are a person, you have to see it with your own eyes, not with someone else's. ”

“That's why I have to see him first. You're gonna erase it if you don't want to. ”

“I know it's not. Why go to all this trouble? ”

The resolute Elisha says, and Wolf tilts his head and asks.

“How can you not meet her? ”

“Becoming a person is something that you can tell just by the way he behaves. ”

“Actions?”

“Yes, action. ”

“What behavior? ”

Elisha looks very tired when she asks a question she doesn't understand.

“You said you saw the report. ”

“You saw it.”

“And you don't know? The political actions or decisions that the person has made so far, the consequences of them. The route he chose in the surrounding or related incidents. Well, that's what it's all about. ”

“Hmm, could it be? ”

Wolf nods with a reasonable expression.

“So Erl Jeron can't. ”

“Well, what did he do? ”

“Actions are actions, but there's something I need to see before I do them. Earl Jeron doesn't have a grainy area or a mine, and that doesn't mean he's developed commercially, and he doesn't run a merchant guild. Apparently, the territory pays less taxes. However, the Earl Jeron lives a rich life, has an excellent army, and the Earl's own life is quite luxurious. Something doesn't add up, does it? ”

“There could be a lot of wealth inherited from our ancestors... Oh, no. Earl Jeron's bannermen were quite poor, but I hear he got rich as he became lord. Where did you get the money? Did you get the treasure? Hmm... Do you even know what that is? ”

Elisha shakes her head at Wolf's question.

“What? But? ”

“If you are quite rich and wealthy, even though there is no income that looks particularly exotic, there is only one reason. It means making dirty money somewhere. ”

“Well, shouldn't that be what we're looking at? ”

“No. The Information Guild doesn't have to have all the information back and forth. We keep the basics, then we collect the information when we need it. Circumstances change, but it's inefficient to record and compile data that changes in time. ”

“Well, that, too. Anyway, even so, there's a lot of praise amongst the colonists. It's money. I mean, don't you just want people to be okay making a shitty living? ”

“I bless with dirty money and use it to care for the colonists. Moreover, I have a good reputation with the same nobles and regimes. What does this mean? ”

There was no way Wolf could have thought of it that way. I just shake my head.

“It means you're a man obsessed with honor. Even if you collect dirty money, pretending to be an unfaithful lord means you care more about your appearance on the outside. In a very simple way, it means a wicked man who is different from his inner self. ”

“Oh, that's what I heard, too? ”

“So the other thing is not to mention excluded from the recruitment target. Do you understand?”

“Well, okay. Next time, let's take a closer look at the data and think deeply. ”

Elisha grimaces and grimaces at Wolf's words. Now, what Wolf said was that he was going to continue talking about recruitment targets. It also means that Elisha should continue to add all these explanations.

But I already knew it wouldn't be stopping me. It was only more painful if I told him not to do it.

“Ha, yes. Suit yourself. ”

At that time, a man with a deep hood pressed into the restaurant quietly sat next to Wolf.

When the recruitment failed, it was Byron Mage Obeld, who was accompanying us to temporarily erase the memory of the recruitment target.

“You finished early today? ”

Elisha gives you a nod.

“Yes, Birch Rayson was quite careless and finished easily. ”

We failed to recruit the Reyson bird that we met this morning, and Obeld left alone and came back to erase his memory.

Up until now, there have been three times when Obeld wanted to be left alone to deal with it. He said he would stay with us because it could be dangerous, but he insisted that we should never do it alone, so he had to come back late by himself.

“Well done.”

Elisha nods and reaches out to the food she started to put back on the table.

“It's time to move on to the Delos Kingdom. The Ruo Kingdom area is one of the biggest casualties of the last war, so few are to be met. ”

“I understand.”

The Wolf, who had eaten and put away the food, grunts in their conversation.

“Why would you say that except for me? ”

However, Elisha and Obed are only passionate about eating food.

“Well, aren't you going to leave any of them behind? ”

It's almost dawn now, not just dawn. Rudy mutters nervously in the fog.

Today is no different than the day of Count Frost. It was the day I finished my life at Earl Frost and returned to Earl Poldenbine as long as I could and short as I could. It was also the day I promised my assistant.

In the last ten days, Rudy's mind was all he could think about. The story of your marriage to Senna was not something to worry about. She's the reason she's here. What's there to think about?

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