Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

It goes back about a day.

"--The influx of refugees was smaller than expected, but there was still an undeniable shortage of relief supplies."

After completing their visit to the refugee camp, the group was on their way back to the capital, Tris, shaken by a carriage. Dressed in discreet Knight Cavalier clothes, Edvard nodded as did Olivier, who was disguised as a Knight Cavalier. Much lower than expected inflows, but still small towns.

"The tents and fireplaces support the Knights' old equipment, but fuel and food are still not enough."

Christopher, sitting in the opposite seat, creates a traffic surface. The refugee camp on the Kristal Plains is the most environmentally challenging place in the country. Coldness is severe compared to camps in the south-east and southern border areas. Yet refugees were thankful for the fact that refugee camps were much more humane than living in the Empire. I know exactly how miserable life was in the Empire. But if the refugees live longer, grievances will erupt. The situation in the Empire is expected to calm down for a few months.

"The rice in the south was fortunately still abundant last year. I'll send it along with the old rice. I don't know if it suits the Empire people."

Wheat and potatoes are the staple foods of the Empire people, but they are not luxurious. The people at the end said that potatoes and grains were still better if they were available, and they were overflowing with wild grass and tree nuts. Since the precious food collected can be consumed in turn by the workers of the house and those who are likely to survive, they inevitably starve and die from small children and women. Death comes from the man in charge of the future, and the one who begets and breeds it. It's an unimaginable world for Olivier, who's never been hungry.

The decline in national power is not due solely to the fact that military spending to protect the territory that has been spread too far has been massive. Does the Empire's royal aristocracy not realize that yields are decreasing year by year? This is the result of repeated repressive efforts to cover the shortfall in annual earnings. The history of the glorious Empire ends here, with the vast area formerly known as the entire northern Alphandis.

It is also said that the increase in the number of imperial adventurers entering and leaving the border zone over the past decades is due to the search for relics from ancestors who once lived in the territory of the Empire. Are you trying to retrieve the artifacts stored in the labyrinth or in the ruins and add them to them?

"... thankfully, some homes offer donations, and others collect unused blankets, used clothes, and more from their residents. I'll arrange for you to send them in order from what you've gathered."

Compared to the aristocracy of the Empire, how is the charity of the aristocracy of his country? Of course, not all homes have political ambitions, and it is true that many have problems. But now I want to thank them all for their goodwill.

While discussing future policies, I was unexpectedly disturbed. The horse's running hoof approached, and someone raised their voice. Christopher and Edvard put their hands on the handle of the sword, but when they saw the knight outside the window they knew, they resolved the tension. The knight I saw at the Relay Point fort.

"--Thank you!

"What is it?"

When Christopher answers, the Knight of the Message answers with a slightly nervous look.

"Emergency contact by telex and bird communication in the territorial capital. There was a swarm of snowwolves raiding the village of Brovito, and there were many casualties."

"What do you mean?

Christopher glanced at the unexpected report and Olivier looked at Edvard.

"Is it a mistake? That will seldom come down. Is that what attacked the herd?

Unless you dare to step into the depths of the forest, you will not see the beast unless you stray a few times a year and the wolf gets lost near you. Reports of assaulting people in a flock in Japan will not come back to my grandfather's age. At least I don't remember Olivier.

"No, I think so. A caravan entering for the purpose of overfishing used smuggled hypnotic gas in the depths of the forest to buy the wrath of the herd. He took a herd of snowwolves after him and ran into the village."

"Smuggled goods? Hypnotic gas?

Edvard roared. There is a dazzling light in his eyes. I guess it's because I have to give up being a knight in defense.

"It seems like a fainting substitute at the moment of inhalation, quite powerful. It must have been developed for military purposes."

"It will be difficult to obtain such things from a single merchant."

"It's possible the aristocrats guided you."

"We need to find out more. I'll be there for the interview."

I nodded at Christopher's words. The import of military weapons is not calm as the situation in the neighboring countries is also destabilized by the civil unrest in the empire. Everyone seemed to have the same doubt that the only purpose was to capture the snow wolf.

"So, what about the Snow Wolf herd?

"The number of herds is about seventy. Approximately two-thirds of them were crushed by the Adventurers who were with the garrison, and the rest retreated with the liberation of the captured snow wolf."

"Ooh...."

A voice of exclamation leaks from the surroundings. On its own, it is a beast classified as B or A. It is close to a miracle that we were able to crush those dozens of people, perhaps not so many. I wonder if the desperate resistance of the Knights and Adventurers was successful. Perhaps the adventurer who stayed together was also skilled.

Seventy-three were wounded, of whom sixty-eight were seriously wounded. Half of the garrison's personnel are included in this. The captain and a few others said it would be difficult to return to the scene even if they were fully healed..... "

"... I see. All right. We'll talk about it when we get back to the Territory. By then, there will be more detailed reports."

The journey of the carriage resumed after finishing a report of the street and dropping off the knights to return.

"... would you like to make an on-site inspection?

Edvard said beside Christopher, who seems to have begun to shape his future policy.

"No, I want to do it in the mountains, but I'm just going to get in the way. More than that, we need village and casualty support now. Maybe we should get some therapists back from the border zone."

"I'll arrange it as soon as possible. Considering the transportation of the seriously injured to the territorial capital, we should also consider arranging a carriage."

Christopher raised his face and sandwiched his mouth. We plan to allocate part of the disaster preparedness costs to treat the wounded and rebuild the village.

The Knight's report indicated that the rescue team and supplies had been transported through the day. The first thing we need to think about is healing the seriously wounded and rearranging the cavalry. If half of the village's garrisons are seriously wounded, and if they need to be alert to the blue woods, they will need personnel there. It's a headache now that we're splitting most of the Knights in the border zone.

Besides...

"The Bjorklund Chamber of Commerce in King's City is a large shop that has grown rapidly in recent years due to the fur trade. It is a somewhat aggressive business and there is a lot of criticism, but there are many leading nobles who are gracious because they handle a lot of unusual fur products. We need to investigate the house that ordered the smuggling and capture of the beast. We can't overlook the fact that we're strengthening our military power privately."

Smuggling of military weapons and plotting mass capture of snow wolves. All the snow wolves that had been captured were said to have been female. The Snow Wolf fur will be equipped to the Magus. A child born or raised from a baby can be a biological weapon that is obedient to the owner. According to the merchant's testimony, it's not just about picking furs and playing games.

"It may be evaded to say that it was unintentional just to draw a herd of beasts into the village, but the mere importation and domestic use of weapons is sufficient."

"Was it an obstacle to the crusade and an injury to the woman in the rescue operation? It's very malicious."

Even if there is a part of the law that cannot be judged, is it possible that the world is not silent? The damage is too great, and rabbit criticism tends to be concentrated on big businessmen and aristocrats.

As Olivier and Edvard predicted, the Bjorklund Chamber of Commerce and the Earls of Isfeld involved in the incident were charged only with the importation and domestic use of military weapons, the use of illegal toxic gases and obstruction of public service, and injury to the merchants of the executioners, and questioned as not punishable under current law for the attraction of the beast into their homes.

However, malicious incidents involving smuggled weapons in the midst of civil unrest in neighbouring countries and poor domestic policing in response to refugees were largely reported by domestic press outlets and became a major topic of discussion among the population. Among other things, there is much sympathy for the many wounded, the knights who were wounded and desperate to return to the scene in preparation for a fatal battle with a dangerous beast, the village of Blovite, which was devastated by tourism in the major industries, and the women adventurers who were injured by violence during the rescue operation, and criticism of the Chamber of Commerce and the Earl.

As a result, many donations were made to the village, while the Bjorklund Chamber of Commerce, which caused the incident, suffered a significant decline in sales due to customer segregation due to poor publicity. The founding family tried to extinguish the situation by allocating some of the sales and personal property of the Chamber of Commerce as compensation to the wounded and the village, but did not calm the growing criticism, management deteriorated and went bankrupt within two years.

Count Isfeld, who initially claimed to have been involved in the smuggling of military weapons and commissioned the mass capture of snow wolves, initially claimed to be irrelevant, but the situation changed when his close associates implicated him in the incident. As a result of suspected plots of rebellion and civil unrest, the house was searched by the Royal Knights in the name of the King and evidence seized one after the other, which established the guilt of the owner and his close associates. Although it was an old famous house in history, the Count family, which had been weakened by the departure of the political center from its predecessors, would follow the course of its decline.

The fact that the Lord of the Earl of Isfeld had participated in the struggle for succession to the throne twenty years earlier, that he was the leader of a faction that planned to establish the third prince of the unsupported bastard son and approach the center of politics, that he was therefore intimate with the third prince - the fourth prince - and that he was convicted of buying the fierce wrath of Olivier Felsen Stridia, who took office a few years later, after a fierce debate was regarded as a public secret among those familiar with the circumstances at the time.

Olivier, who cared about his only biological half-brother, had no intention of forgiving the desperate Count who had spiritually chased him out of the castle.