I stared at the young man and thought for a moment.

"... All right, that story is precious, don't tell anyone else."

“Of course! No one can.”

"You have to go back to Oscar's mansion and work as usual."

Got it! Carefully do a lot of things ─

"No, that's fine."

I interrupted the young man. [M]

Huh?

You don't have to be conscious and try to find something.

But then...

"Listen to me."

"-Yes, yes..."

To my strongest, the young man retreated reluctantly. [M]

Even though I wanted to be more useful, why didn't you let me?... I was clearly dissatisfied.

"Look at this."

I summoned a flower from the ring and made my original sigil into the air between the young man and me.

"Is this...?"

"Look and remember."

"Huh? Yes..."

The young man stared at it.

It is a sigil, but it is partially replaced with the one I usually use.

I made a pattern that I was only showing to this young man.

"Do you remember?"

Yes, yes.

All right.

I nodded and pulled Fuwa back.

"When I need you, I'm going to make contact with someone with something with the same pattern." If you see that, you'll think it's on my behalf. "

Yes!

The young man's eyebrows opened.

I understood that I was in need, and the tension rose suddenly.

"Over and over, don't act consciously. Oscar is smart."

I stared straight at the young man with a real face.

"If I try to search consciously, I will definitely be exposed." So don't be aware. It's most useful to me to be serious at Oscar's Mansion. "

I see! I'll work hard!

All right.

I nodded and got my hands on my pocket.

Stop thinking and do nothing. I put my hand out and went back to the street.

"That's it for today. I don't want you to know I'm seeing you."

Got it!

The young man said that and left the store with his posture lowered.

I saw him off behind me.

There were more than expected.

No, it might be the same from the beginning.

I did what I could to help Zoe with Dosso.

I bought the land of Dodo to protect it from traders like locusts after the flood.

Even then, Dylan was grateful.

Dylan, an elderly man who gave me orders when he was thirteen years old.

That Dylan was also from around Dosso.

It can't be said that something similar just happened again.

"I'm going to do a good thing."

I laughed and reached for the dish on the table.

Noah-sama

A moist voice called my name.

Alice came to the table with a look on her face, wondering when the song was over.

"When... well, sit down"

Yes, excuse me.

Alice sat beside me.

Can I ask you a question, Master Noah?

Because it's inside the store, Alice uses her mind and calls me "Noah-sama".

That care, however, does not actually make sense.

Almost everyone in this shop knows that I am Alice's patron and emperor of the Empire.

The name "Noah-sama" doesn't really make sense at this store.

I don't know, but it's also innocent of pointing out that kindness, so I left it as it is.

"What, I want to ask you something?"

Isn't Lord Noah trying to reward that man just now?

"Oh, that's right."

I didn't realize I was obsessed with talking, but Alice, who was wearing it near me when the song ended, looked good.

Yes, at the end of my interaction with the young man, I got my hands on him.

It's what I always do to give you a thousand Lean places and beat them up.

Alice, a long-time friend, knew it well and seemed to wonder why she hadn't given it anything.

"If that's a servant of my mansion, or someone with a distant relationship, that's fine, but it's a servant of Oscar's mansion."

Breathe for one breath and keep going.

"Looking at that outfit, he's a servant who only does junior chores." And the monthly paycheck -- yes, Oscar's Mansion would have 15 to 20 lean. "

I know Oscar well.

He is known for his gentle character and is a kind prince to his servants.

In the Imperial Capital, the average monthly income of an adult male is about ten liens.

Oscar would have given it about twice as many.

That said, it's still 20 Lien a month.

If I were to reward such a person with 1,000 liens...

"Humans, if you suddenly have a lot of money, it will be a rumor, right? No matter how much you hide it."

That's right.

Alice nodded with a smile.

She remembers herself.

Cinderella Girl was a rumor circulating throughout the Imperial City when I found her.

"I can give you as much as I want as a reward, but if I can keep an eye on it, it won't be for the man."

”That's right... amazing, there are so many things I have to think about to reward you”

I smiled. [M]

"Oh, I've been thinking a lot about it all the time."

“Is there anything else you're thinking about?”

Yeah. The worse the opponent is, the better the reward.

Is that so?

"For example... Alice, if you were to receive a 10 Lien chip now, how would you use it?"

Huh? Chip, 10 Lien, is that it?

Yeah.

I nod.

Alice was puzzled and made up her mind.

A very troubling result.

"Maybe... maybe I won't use it." There's nothing I need to change right now. ”

So, what if you get ten liens on a temporary basis, for example, when you meet me?

“About the time we met? That's... for your mother's medicine."

"That's what I'm talking about."

I nodded again, this time clearly.

Alice was relieved.

I don't really understand what I mean by "that kind of thing."

“If you have some money, you can't spend it right away, even if you have some income. But the poorer you are, the sooner you will spend the money. Moreover, it is used closely to the life of Ichii. Once upon a time, you used to pay for medicine, and poor large families used to eat well and stock up on winter clothes. Isn't that right?"

Yes.

“Doing so will turn the money around. If you give 10 phosphorus to a poor human, you will use it as it is, and if you receive 10 phosphorus, you will also use 10 phosphorus. In addition, the people who received it will also use the reward money to go about their business and create more effects than I have given them."

"Ah......"

That's why.

"It's amazing, Master Noah... I've heard that story for the first time, but it's amazing."

I smiled. [M]

This is what history has taught us.

I don't bother to tell Alice, but at the end of the Perwar Empire, there was a trend that the national treasury had to be turned into a national balance of payments.

There are a number of reasons, but the biggest is that the state does wasteful public works and spreads money to the private sector.

History, however, would later disconnect if it was wrong.

At that time, the public and private sectors were united in wasting public work, and it was wasted.

However, even though it is said to be a waste, the money has not disappeared into the void.

Money spent on utilities is paid to the person who used it.

Unlike the rich who have no choice but to make more money than they need, the commoner - the man - is 90%, and the race that uses it as soon as the money comes in.

They are first used for eating, drinking and entertainment.

Drink as much as you drink and chew on women.

And the money used in restaurants and the like flows to farmers through merchants as the purchase price.

Farmers are a race to use if they have more money.

There is no time to enumerate the story of getting a wife because she has made a lot of money.

Even if it is not, there are many uses such as repairing the house and arranging clothes made of plenty of cotton for winter.

It's gone.

The flow of money has clearly diminished due to the breakdown of the public utility.

As a result, ordinary people become poor and tax revenues fall.

Here, the Perwar Empire stepped into tax hikes as a further evil -- well, that's a different story.

Even if the country's finances are strict, I thought it was necessary to spread it to "the layers who will use it as soon as they have the money".

Yes, I learned from history.

Well, that's not what Alice said.

More than that, I'd like you to enter the palace at the same time.

Yes.

Alice nodded quietly.

"Audrey, my wife wants to see you."

Your Majesty--no, uh, your wife?

Alice was surprised and puzzled.

After a long relationship with me, it was smooth to separate "Lord Noah" from "Your Majesty", but it seemed like I hadn't been there since I was mostly new to the "Empress".

”Puuu”

What's the matter?

No way, you're more nervous and scared of my wife than I am.

"Ah......"

Alice nodded embarrassedly.

And with a grudge, she throws her upper hand's gaze at me.

"I'm sorry, did you make too much fun of me?"

"Um, no. Um, when... should I go?"

"When it's convenient for you."

Okay, I'll ask Master.

Alice stood up and walked to the shopkeeper, who was waiting a short distance away.

It was about that time.

"Hey, get out of the way!"

"You're telling me to get in the way!"

Right beside me, a threesome came in through the store's entrance that looked like a bad coward.

One of them walks forward and takes the two remaining.

All three of them are walking with their shoulders shaken.

It's a classic threat to make yourself look big physically.

What, are you full?

I think we should get out of the way.

Isn't that a good seat over there?

That's what the men said, and they came to the table where we were.

And instead of the leading leader-like man, the man with the underlings in the back stood in front of me.

"Oh, give me a seat over there."

If you give it to me quietly, I won't be too rough either

……

I was a little stunned.

Outside the palace, you can say you're here with a lot of cruelty, but everyone in this shop knows me, from the shopkeeper to the customer.

What I don't know is just customers at first sight.

At first glance, I was able to do classic and clichéd intimidation in the land of Away, where I first set foot.

"You guys..."

"Wait, Master."

"Alice? Why are you stopping? If it's like that..."

What are you going to do if you take that person's activity and deprive them of the opportunity to do it?

"Huh? No, but..."

"Those guys, they can't even touch a finger."

"That's... I guess so..."

A short distance away, Alice and the shopkeeper were arguing over something.

What are you talking about? And I'm looking at you.

"Hey! Are you listening to me?"

Nh, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.

"--Oh! This!"

I thought I'd ignored you, so one of the men backed up raised his fist.

At that moment, I assumed various developments in my brain.

I chose one of several assumptions.

I'm slightly self-conscious.

Then the man's fist scratched my cheek.

― ―!

At that moment, the inside of the store became rough.

From regular customers to the people in the store, all of them turned pale.

It wasn't just me and the three dicks who didn't know what was going on.

Even if he didn't know the circumstances, he seemed to have the ability to read the air.

The three of them noticed that the air around them had changed and they looked as if they were looking at something terrible.

"W-what the hell..."

It would have felt more terrifying than a clear rebellion.

They all looked like they were at the end of the world.

As expected, the three of them noticed that they were acting strange, and burst into that strange air.

I touched my cheek.

There was slight bleeding.

To put it in perspective, it is a scratch about the size of a cut on the edge of the paper, but it still scratches my face and bleeds.

Your Majesty! Are you alright?!

Alice changed her blood and rushed over to me.

"" "Want to go?" "

In response to Alice's words, the three of them fell apart.

I don't even know what the words mean yet.

Let's just-- let's just stop.

"It's okay."

I told Alice that and got up.

Then he turned to the three of them.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Don't let this justify you."

I pointed to my cheek and uttered it.

"--Oh! Make a fool out of me!"

One of the men, a punk who slashed ahead and hit me, raised his fist again.

It seems that anger has swept through the mystery.

I didn't have a second chance.

I quickly dodged his fist and touched his wrist.

And--and I took it off.

Along with the sound of goki!, the joint of the man's wrist was dismounted.

”Giaaaaaaaa!”

"What the hell!"

Fuck you!

The man who was disjointed grabbed his wrist and elbow, screaming and falling from his knee.

I got close to the two of them.

They fought back.

He clenched his fist just like the man before him, and beat me up.

I learned a body technique from Rutier, and I took off both of their wrists.

Exactly the same movement, all three of them did exactly the same thing and removed the joint of the right wrist.

The three people whose wrists were removed by the movement of the lightning stone groaned and moaned.

Then, while the leader-like man was tingling, he stared at me with a sweat on his forehead.

"I... I just want to do this."

I'm just going to do it.

"What are you doing!?"

"Under the Imperial Law, those who are attacked first are allowed to counterattack appropriately." I got hit by you guys, I got bleeding, and I lost my joints so I couldn't use my fists. Ninety-nine percent is legal. "

"It doesn't matter!" I'll never do this to you-- "

……

After I finished saying what I had to say, I decided to leave the words out of my mouth.

I shut my mouth, unleashed my strength, and put my sigil behind my back.

Hah, hahah!

At that moment, all the people in the shop knelt down to me.

It is a technique that adjusts the way Leviathan uses his power and intimidates his opponents, and makes them feel directly that they are "the Emperor", not "fear".

Doing that, everyone knelt down at once.

That was all the customers had.

However, the men who came to me with a beating began to tremble as they knelt.

I've been a little less intimidating.

Then the men said, "Hee hee!" and crawled away as if the golden bondage had been lifted.

After the men were gone, the scene became a scene.

"--Oh, Your Majesty!!"

The first thing to return to me from the intimidation was a long and deep relationship with Alice.

I asked her if there was any intimidation left, but she was called differently.

Alice called me and reached for my cheek, but stopped and swapped hands along the way.

”Wait, wait a minute, what are you wiping right now?”

"No, I don't need it."

I stopped Alice and took the vial out of my pocket.

The liquid in the bottle - potion was put on my finger and applied to the wound on my cheek.

And then...

"I-It's a scratch..."

Alice was amazed.

Was it your first time seeing the potions in action?

"This is..."

"If the scratches made by Yu (,) are about the same, it will heal as you can see"

"Your Majesty!? Awesome..."

I laughed and poured a bottle of potion into my pocket.

The sight of the use of the potion, and the explanation reached the eyes and ears of all the guests who were there, and all the guests cheered while lying flat on the ground.