I walked into town. This is a rare end-of-life town where travelers will pass by because they go a little further to the sea. So you can see Jiriro, a traveler is unusual.
Pia, is that because the child in a dress appeared alone?
Because I became hungry, I had a meal at a restaurant, or rather, at a restaurant. There is also information gathering.
So I didn't eat at home. Order a set meal appropriately. When I heard the name of the town at that time, it was called "town". Is that the naming of the Mitsuha formula? Wasn't it a village, right?
There is only a sea nearby and the main set meal is fish. Yeah, it's like a fish set meal. Impression, over.
There is no other customer because there is a small food shop in a small town and it is out of the meal time. I listened to the talks and heard about the reputation of the former lord, but the wolf's mouth was heavy. Well, it's a stigma of overthrow, and I don't know who the next lord is. It is unlikely that a good lord will come to an unnamed territory. Anyway, it's not something you want to talk to strangers, if you're a bit of a cheap guy. I gave up not to hear any more, and asked the location of the lord house and left the store.
The lord house seems to be a mansion on the outer edge of the town. Because it was small and the buildings were sparse, it was immediately visible. Yeah, let's not call it the lord. Well, lord's house.
There are sad things like lord's house or lord's tenement. Go to the entrance with your luggage. I knocked on a very good door knocker.
"Hello, who are you?"
A maid about 16-17 years old appeared.
Yeah, the former lord has forfeited the aristocracy due to the confiscation of the aristocracy, but the servants are not separately responsible. The next lord needs a servant, and if he is a vassal, he cannot bring the servant from his former territory. The servants of the former territory must leave their families there because they live there.
However, even if you recruit from scratch without knowing it, neither the lord nor the servant knows their own way. For this reason, those other than those who wish to leave will remain in the lord's house and serve the next lord.
Of course, after seeing the next lord, if you do not like or like yourself, quit at that time. Conversely, a new lord may fire a servant who does not like it.
Generally, those who say too "this was the time of the previous lord" are likely to be kicked out. Well, that's why most of the servants still remain and welcome Mitsuha.
There are no vassals or nobles in charge of the stakes.
Anyway, this is my servant. At least at the moment.
"Oh, Mitsuha."
"Huh? Mitsuha?"
A maid who doesn't seem to know.
"I'm Mitsuha von Yamano, the lord here."
"Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah, usually, lords don't usually walk on their own. Apart from whether it's a girl who looks 12 years old.
"Gather all the servants right away. I'll give you a welcome greeting."
"Ha ha ha!"
The maid flew away.
"Dear servants, I am the new lord, Viscount Mitsuha von Yamano. The size of the territory remains the same, but from today it will be the Viscount, not the Baron."
The servants are surprised. Baronists and Viscounts have literally different personalities. You can expect better treatment, such as an increase in salaries, and even if you are the same employee in "Baron's servant" and "Valentine's servant", the case is still different. Whether you're changing jobs or looking for a marriage partner, the power of the name is as different as a table knife and a new short sword.
The other day, I was informed by the government that a new lord was going to be assigned soon, but I had not heard of the title or any person. The title, gender, age, appearance, etc. of the new lord.
It is intentional. We will not teach new lords in advance so that employees do not prejudice or be stereotyped. This is because it is only necessary to look at the person himself after he arrives.
Therefore, some employees floated. Upgrade to Viscount. A gentle girl lord. If you instigate it well, you can suck in sweet juice. If you can inspire and manipulate convenient things ...
"That's why, thank you. I don't know anything about the first territory management, so please tell me variously. As I mentioned earlier, I will interview you one by one at a later date. Please go back to work "
Mitsuha finished his greeting. Gentle and polite language. A person who rejoices to the kind new lord. A person who looks sweet and smiles. A person frowning on the future of the territory. Various thoughts swirl around the chests of the 18 servants.
Dinner. Mitsuha sits alone at the dining table and eats without being seated with the servant. It is a seaside town, but only meat dishes are lined up. Mitsuha ate it without leaving it, praising it as delicious. It is usually served too much, so it is obviously overeating.
After taking a bath, Mitsuha locked her bedroom from the inside and moved to her home. She returned to her bedroom with a small cardboard box that she had prepared. Then, after leaving the bedroom with the key open, he walks around the mansion, sees the employment status of the servant, encourages him, and returns to the bedroom. Unexpectedly, various security devices were taken out of the cardboard box, whose contents were considerably reduced, and installed at doors and windowsills.
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Mitsuha woke up to a small electronic sound. This is an alarm sound when something blocks the laser beam of the security device installed in front of the door. He grasped Walther on his right thigh in a blanket and looked at the door, and saw a maid who met Mitsuha yesterday.
"Good morning. Are you awake?"
"Good morning. I slept well last night. Is breakfast ready?"
Mitsuha lifted his hand from the gun and smiled with a smile.
After breakfast, Mitsuha looked around the mansion again. When he returned to the room, he locked it, wrapped the door handle with a cloth, covered the keyhole, and took several electronic devices out of his pockets.
A very small recorder purchased in Akihabara. Recording starts when sound is detected, and stops after a certain period of time from the last time sound is detected. It had been set up last night and was collected in exchange for another one.
"Well, what's in here ..."
Mitsuha smiled with a smile.
Mitsuha was a kind and kind lord. He kept his smile, worked his servants, and traveled to fishing villages, mountain villages, and rural villages in the territory alone to reach out to the people. He was often sick, and often went to bed in the daytime.
Some employees were relieved of Mitsuha's situation, increased expenses, and resumed dealings with merchants. What he had temporarily refrained from seeing the new lord was resumed dignifiedly. There are those who push their subordinates and juniors out of their workplaces, get out of the workplace, hang out on the village girls, sneak out their homesteads, and so on.
Even if the butler who had a sense of crisis complained to Mitsuha, Mitsuha was just smiling.
The serious and sincere butler has been deterred. In this state, the territory is disturbed by some inexplicable people. I have to make it ...
One day, Mitsuha muttered.
"Is it okay?"
And Mitsuha reconvened a servant again.
"... and these six will be disciplined and fired today."
The six people named after Mitsuha's sudden declaration of dismissal of employees were excited.
"Such an idiot! Why me!"
"What a joke! How much is a Viscount and a one-sided layoff for no reason!"
To the shouting servant, Mitsuha looked at the six people with a calm expression.
"Is it stupid? Who is stupid?"
"e……"
"I know who is stupid!"
The man shouts at Mitsuha who thought he was kind and loses his words.
"Hans. I've always praised the dishes you serve."
"Eh ... yeah"
Hans, the chef, replied as if he was stumped.
"Every day I said that it was delicious. Then the taste gradually fell. Wouldn't it be more motivating and more delicious if praised usually?"
Hans, the chef who is silent.
"Why ?? Do you understand why?"
Hans's complexion gradually worsens.
"That's because I thought you couldn't understand the taste of the dishes with your child's tongue anyway, because the quality of the ingredients was reduced. Materials that became cheaper and cheaper. I don't know why, it's strange, Hans. "
Hans becomes pale and silent.
Mitsuha then talked to the man next to him.
"Well, Gunter. Wheat count, isn't that strange?"
"e…"
"The last tax payment of wheat, the amount delivered from the village and the amount sold to the merchant, and the numbers have changed. Someone is rewriting it. Someone will do that. Did not anyone notice? Who is it? "
"Ah………"
"So, Tilde, on the afternoon of the afternoon, forced his work to the choir maid, where did he go? Have lots of spices in my home? Also, in that town, that tailor with his wife and children?"
The choreographed maid head sitting down.
"Do you want to ask why?"
No one can return Mitsuha's words to the remaining three.
Mitsuha, who thought he was kind, gentle and timid, was intensely pursued with a completely different attitude and language.
"Don't you know why I'm a Viscount? I didn't mean that the parent of the Virtue died prematurely. I did it myself.
The inside of the room calms down as Mitsuha glares.
"It's a disciplinary dismissal. You'll have a hard time finding the next job. Would you like to go out within an hour? If you're still in the house after an hour, you'll be arrested and executed for trespassing the Viscount. Yes, go! "
Six men and women who run away from the room with the lid. Mitsuha spoke to the elder butler who was standing aside.
"I'm sorry, I'm worried, Anton. I don't do any paperwork at night either. I'll sleep fine at night, so I won't be in bed any more during the day."
And give some documents taken out of the pocket.
"I'm a bribery merchant, get out of the deal. Also, vicious folks who are blocking other people, and those who are bothering me. Watch and respond."
"Mitsumi-sama ..."
Butler, Anton's eyes cry in tears.
"And the choir maid head is Kete from today.
Mitsuha bites the yawn.
"Bad, Anton. I said I wouldn't sleep anymore in the daytime, but that's a lie! I'm going to sleep a little. Oh, and tomorrow we'll finally start full-scale development of our Viscount, because we'll be busy. Everyone was struggling today. Dissolution! "
Twelve servants stood astoundingly left.
I was surprised like Mitsuha changed, but this gradually rose to my heart ...
….
Akira? Smiling? Excitement? Interest? Exciting?
Oh, I see. Are you excited now?
I think something interesting is going to happen.
I feel something is going to happen.
At least, tomorrow is going to be a more entertaining day.
"Kati, what are you laughing at?"
"You're not laughing either."
e? Pia, right?