The next morning.

Back in the hall, we fell asleep in each room.

Because my mother and Sophie are here, and Carmilla never joked about it, either.

I slept well in shame.

So, at dawn of the night, I changed from bedtime to clothes, and breakfast was there, and I headed to the office.

To talk to Lishmond about what Gaius told me yesterday.

I'm not going to get a good answer for thinking alone, so I'm going to be my loyal minister here and ask for Wisdom Bag's opinion.

"In the meantime, help me, if you call me Richmond, fly me from somewhere."

"I came to see you."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. ⁉"

I was joking, and the person I was talking to showed up, and I was surprised and screamed weird.

"What's wrong?

"Yes, no, it's nothing."

"I knocked, but I didn't hear back, so I let myself in"

"Oh well."

I was just thinking, didn't I hear you?

"Well, more than that, I was assigned an important case yesterday by the team's deputy leader."

"Hmm. What's that?

"Actually..."

I tell Gaius what he tells me. [M]

"Really? In other words, are you looking for an alliance with a team in the East End or a root castle for that team, as well as an internal investigation within the team?"

"It is. That said, the three of us can't do it with a boulder."

"Right. So, what do you do?

I was just going to tell you where it is.

"Is it Master Left? If so, how about doing both at the same time?

"Concurrent?

I wonder how to do it.

"First, we need to get the information on 'Bianco Pipistrello' in the East End and tell the provisional members just a little bit of that information"

"The spies will tell their team when they get that information."

"Exactly. If you move with that information, you don't have to move to do something."

"Indeed."

"And the master uses the information he gets to form an alliance with that 'Bianco Pipistrello'. Then my lord can officially join the membership."

"Yeah. You're right."

Not bad. Shall we do the policy?

"But there's only one problem with this method"

"Heh, that's a problem. What's that?"

"We don't have enough hands for the three of us"

"Really?

I think we can do something about it.

"Collect information on the team members of" Bianco Pipistrello ", Negijo, etc., and pass on the information obtained to the provisional members, and further find out where the provisional members are connected to the team. Besides, I don't care what you think, like forming an alliance. I don't think the three of us have enough hands?

"Uh-huh.... Really?

Something, I'm listening to you and I'm starting to feel that way.

"So here is one suggestion from me"

"Proposal?"

"Yes. Why don't you give the other side room candidates a hand?

"Buuuuuuuuuu ⁉"

I accidentally blew it out.

"Oh, you, you know what you're talking about? ⁉"

"Yes, but if you don't have enough, I think you should take a hand from somewhere"

"Uh-huh. But..."

Amartya, Arneb, Altria.

Would you give me a hand if I called out that it was another tribe?

"Everyone seems to be working hard to get your lord's favor. If my lord tells me to give you a hand here, I don't know if it's pleasant, but he'll give me a hand."

"Uh-huh. Am I?

"That's right. And."

"And?"

"Apparently, the master is beginning to be known to be secretly leaving the hall at night."

"Ha ⁉"

That's crazy. I was out there taking great care so no one could find me.

"Thank you. It seems that someone saw your master entering the store, and it seems to have come from him."

Speaking of which, yesterday, Amartya and the others saw me in the store, and I accidentally told them that I was on the team.

But it was yesterday. You're passing on information too fast. Ugh.

"Even if you're reborn, your husband will be a hottie."

"Disgusting?"

"No, I mean it"

"Hmm. Well, let's do that. than that."

"Yeah, of which all the people in the hall will know. And it may be known from their mouths to those who come and go in and out of the hall, and to those who go to work."

"What else do you think I should do to keep that information from leaking?

"It's easy. You just have to crush that source."

"It sure is. Then bring whoever is the source of that information."

Well, it'll take a boulder a while.

"I've already got eyes on who it is. And I've already called you."

"Be early ⁉"

Instead, there's only one person who says that.

"Alone?

I wonder who. I met two of them yesterday, Amartya and Arneb, so I guess those two.

Concon.

The door was knocked.

"Go ahead."

Excuse me.

Saying so, he opened the door ramblingly, and it was Mr. Baia, the daughter of the chief of the 'Isimeon' clan, who came in.

"Good morning."

If you want to enter the room, Baia will greet you in the morning.

"Good morning. Mr. Baia."

I'm older, so I'll talk to you.

From a standpoint, I'm better, but I can't get rid of the habit of talking to older people.

"Whoa, so. What can I do for you to call me in early this morning?

Lishmond opened his mouth before I could answer.

"I called because I wanted to ask you something."

"What do you want to ask?

"Two days ago, he said he saw Master Lewie enter a store in what could be called a late night, is that true?

"Oh, no doubt about it."

Hmm. Were you dressed that prominently?

"I didn't see your face because I was behind you. He had the same back length, the same hair color, next to it. I saw the face of a woman with two horse tails."

Did you make two horse tails? Is that about twin tails?

So you figured it was me.

"The journey. Really? So, Lord Baia."

"What?"

"Who did you tell that story to?

"Uh, Altria, Denebola, Bonobibi, Lanshye, Hada, Coral."

Except for Denebola, you're from the twelve clans.

Altria is the daughter of Deiomedes, and Bonobibi is the sister of the chief of the 'Taciel' clan.

They say Lanshye is the cousin of the 'Tazeble' clan chief, and Hada is heard to be a relative of the current clan chief of the 'Jaminin' clan.

Coral is the sister of the 'Cassacal' chief.

"Seems to have spoken to a good number of people."

"Well. I told the guy I was close to. Was there a problem, too?

That's what Mr. Baia asks, but we didn't answer.

"Because Amartya and Arneb will also be added to this"

"Eight of us."

"If this is all we have, we'll have no problem with manpower."

"? What are you talking about?

"Oh, actually."

I briefly taught Mr. Baia the truth. [M]

"Complete. So, you want me to give you a hand?

"Oh, can you do me a favor"

"... Hey, prince. You know there's a saying that you can have everything?

You mean Gibb and Take?

Hmm. In this case, speaking of what Mr. Baia wants.

"The aim is to reduce tariffs on traded goods?

"You talk fast."

Were you right, Mr. Baia gives you a mouth angle.

There is a certain amount of tax on the ornaments made by the twelve clans and the tribes who live in the tree sea.

That said, I'm not taking that much money.

They vary by size, but on average they multiply the tax by 20% to 20% and a half.

I also thought about the Rakuma Rakuza method, but that one has quite a flaw, so you can't use it if it's territory here.

That's because it looks like a free-trade market that has excluded unions, but in fact, it makes merchants convenient to its lords your merchants, so that they can be controlled under that merchant.

Even seemingly autonomous, it was actually ruled by deputies and so on.

Some people say it was a control policy for commerce.

In other words, if we are to do this in this territory, we need a merchant to supervise the merchants, but we have come to the conclusion that we cannot have Rakuma Rakuza because there is no such merchant.

"Tariffs can't be lowered any more."

Initially, I tried to leave it free of customs duties, but the cost of transporting each tribe from its territory is quite high.

So I have no choice but to impose tariffs.

At a time like this, I don't have a problem with it being in circulation, but unfortunately, it's not even ready for the road yet.

I'm trying to build a road within it, but I'm in the process of considering which road to build.

"Then don't tax me depending on the size and weight of the item, make it all even. Then I won't complain."

"I don't think I can do that either."

It's all because you might not make any money if you put it at an even price.

Either way, it eliminates tariffs, but not now.

I guess it's impossible to tell you to understand where it is.

Uh-huh. What's the matter?

"Master Lewie. I have a plan."

Oh, boulders are my wisdom bags.

"Ho, what are the measures?

"I think it would be nice if Mr. Lewie had the Rakuma Rakuza you mentioned before"

"But then, after all the bureaucrats discussed it, we talked about the impossibility of it without your merchant?

"I know your merchant."

"Do you know where it is?

"Isn't there a 'Phoenix Chamber of Commerce' in the East End?"

"Oh, oh."

With that said, that's what we talked about.

"So, how about we figure out if that chamber of commerce is going to be your merchant?

"How?

"Why don't you give me your hand?"

"Gentlemen?"

"Earlier, we were asked to lend a hand to those whom Baia had named, and to those whom Lewie had named."

"Ugh. Do you need help with those people?"

Earlier, the people whose names were given were characters or characters.

Do you hold their hand?

With that in mind, Lishmond came looking at me.

"We're going to call in a pause, and let them help. That would prevent any further spills of information, I think.

"Sure, you are"

"Instead, Mr. Lewie won't deal with the side room candidates, which will be a hassle."

"Ugh. Even if they say so"

The twelve clans and most of the tribes living in the Tree Sea have sideroom candidates in this hall, but I have never had any experience of marriage or romance in my previous life, so I don't know how to deal with them.

"Take this opportunity for one or both of you to better relate to each tribe"

"Wow, okay."

Yeah, that's going to be a hassle.

"That's why, Lord Baia"

"Oh, wow."

"Right. … I want those who spoke earlier in three hours to come to this room."

"Wow, okay."

That's what Lishmond told me, and Mr. Baia replied and left the room.