Sougen no Okite ~Shii Yatsu ga Moteru, Ii Buzoku ni Umarekawatta zo~

A subtle air flows between me and Astra.

"Why do you think Noel's alive?

Astra smiled softly at my words.

"You haven't heard about her neck being hoisted. She is beautiful. I didn't think you guys could let it go. I am someone's wife, for example. That's why I thought the greatest man in the meadow would marry me. Well, half the time."

"I see, well, I'm fine. She's already had a baby."

"Really, she always said she wanted to quit the army quickly, immerse herself in research, or grab a woman's happiness, so I don't think she's treated that badly the way you talk, the way you behave to her men. She must have made her dream come true."

Astra laughed with real happiness. But I immediately put my face back on and got a serious look.

The muscles were not very good, but the face was neat and the serious face had a medium hegemony.

"This outfit is also a little cold, so succinctly, we have something for you. So I want you to rule this place and go back to the meadows."

Soraki.

"A tribute... if I take everything away from you guys, isn't that the same thing?

"I thought you'd say that. So I'm also thinking about this one. First of all, I'm going to give you half of the grain we have in storage, half of it, and 80% of the grain we've captured in our territory for three years from next year."

I see. Not only this year, but next year.

"But how much coverage do you guys have to deliver food to us for three years from next year?

"Then you can say you missed your promise and come back here and attack me. And leave each other's names on paper as a sign of your commitment. Can anyone write that one?

"I can write."

"Then it's just fine. Let's sign with Kiru, the ruler of this place, in your ranks."

"Oh, okay. But not just a guy like Kilu. Why don't you write your autograph?"

Astra looked pompous in one of my words.

"My signature won't mean anything, if you want."

This guy is being modest.

"It's obvious that you're not just a man, given the courage to come and talk about this and the full powers that you have."

"It's too much to buy"

Me and Astra are sitting in a grin with Niyaniya.

"And one more thing, I don't know if it's collateral or hostage, but I want you and every sheik to marry the children of the stately in this country."

"Woman."

"Yeah, was the treatment a slave wife? I want you to treat me as a wife, not a wife."

I see, will you take the woman as your daughter-in-law to provide food security after next year as a hostage and security?

"Okay. I'll leave the treatment to the chief, but let's make it as good as possible."

"Thank you"

Ah! Right, you're going to give me the most discerning woman if I keep this up. Then maybe there will be a problem with Temsy.

"I don't want a woman. I'm not a sheik. It would be unfair to give anything but a sheik."

"No... What shall we do...... Yeah, how about me?

"Bu!"

What are you talking about, this guy?

"You were a very cute boy, a boy on the lookout outside. I'm old and a little manly, but I still look like a woman."

"Oh, I don't have that hobby."

Astra immediately bowed her head to my anger.

"Also, I'm sorry. I can kill you, please, just this decision."

Uh-huh. What should I do? Killing this guy here and now might not get you anything. Nobody's heard this story. Well, okay.

"Okay. Then stretch it to five years instead of three. So let's forgive it. What do you say?"

"That's fine. Thank you."

Oh, good. Try blowing it.

This is how my meeting with Astra ended and Astra rode home on a roba.

I had the council of Chiefs wake up to Temsy and talk about today's results.

The elders rejoiced when they got souvenir cereals and women just to go home.

The next day, the castle gate opened up again, and now two men dressed up, supposedly in the authentic clothes of this country, came out on horseback with Roba.

One would be Astra and the other would be a guy named Kilu who said yesterday.

Astra is coming this way with dignity, but a man named Kilu is freaking out and heading this way. You don't know which one is up there.

Astra placed two sheets of paper where the simple table was placed.

Go ahead, Lord Jumka.

Astra tells me to read the letters written on the paper.

It did indeed say that it would be given here for five years against the transfer of food.

"All right, let's start with me"

I put the paper down, took the brush, wrote down the names of both of them, cut just a few thumbs off, and put them next to the names.

Astra and Kilu look like pokans in my actions.

Oh, maybe there's no blood judgment or culture? What should I do? How can I make an excuse?

"Ko, this is a sign that I wrote. When I went to the kingdom, I asked the sage of the kingdom, but it seems that none of these thumb wrinkles are the same guy as one. That's what I bled. It's a piece of paper with such important promises."

In one breath, the more the chiefs around him nodded. Good. You got an excuse.

"I see, indeed, this is something with important promises, and so are we, Master Kilu."

"Huh? Ah, oh."

A man called Kilu wrote his name on two pieces of paper and gently chopped his thumb off with a knife he borrowed from us.

Astra also signed and signed it.

Blood judgment is a testament to the heaviest promise that must be kept if promises are to be written and recorded on paper in the meadows from this time on. It was unexpected of Jumka that it spread to the countries of the south as well.

Comparing the paper to each other alternately, they convinced each other that I had one and Kilu broke up with one.

A few hours later, the dressed woman came out of the fortress and joined us, finishing the cleanup and returning.

Oops, I have to pick up salt by the village of rock salt on my way home.

Ha, even if I said I didn't want it, the entertainment lady would come and I'd have to hold her...... Well, should I call Yui and ask her to do it? Ha, I don't need it......

What's the excuse for Noel?

~ Astra ~

Watching the meadow men pull up from the fortress Noel's walls.

Around is a noise of joy from the bottom of my heart that the people of the meadows return.

"Doctor, I did it. Thank you."

Master Kilu is happy to hold my hand and weep.

Reminds me of the sight I just had.

The priest's daughter who was coming to my lecture. I came to report that I had decided to go to the meadows.

She was prettier than usual dressed.

I can't even forget the feeling I felt on my lips when I broke up.

Not yet, Master Kilu.

"Dr. Astra?

"We have to think about the future."

"Yes, that's right. We need to rebuild the villages and cities they screwed up."

"No. It's not."

"Huh?"

"Maybe the current pope will retire after they leave with an unexplained illness. And the Konjoyaki will wake up and the Pope of the Kobans will be born. And here, Noel will be taken in by the Kobans."

What I said will convince everyone, if you ask me.

"And the Kobans will not keep the promises we made to the people of the meadows. Then they'll break in here again in anger."

I see the hearts of those around me with Master Kiru freezing in my words.

"At the teacher, what do I do?

Take a deep breath and speak slowly to respond to the words of Master Kilu.

"Our battle is not over yet. The bet is still going on. And the minute's still so bad."

"What's your next hand?

"I'm going to the kingdom. And I will make this place my kingdom."

Those around me were going to make a scene.

From then on it was just a busy day.

We first met with the Marquis to the east of the kingdom and applied for a return order to the kingdom.

Homecoming after many discussions. Of course the kingdom is after this fortress Noel.

I didn't let it end with a meeting with the eastern Marquis.

Normally it would be incorporated under the eastern marquis or it would be the direct jurisdiction of the kingdom.

However, I made the best use of the letter of promise I had with Lord Jumka.

If we don't have food for the tribute for five years, they will come to take it.

It is the Marquis of the North who will have to fight if the meadows attack me in the pro-grass. And he sided them by involving the Marquis west of the pro-grass.

And I reported this to the king.

"This letter of commitment clearly states that after next year, 80% of the grain caught will be given as a contribution. If Fortress Noel were to be part of the kingdom, or the Marquis to the east, they might demand 80% of the grain captured by the royal family, the Marquis to the east."

Obviously it was excessive, but the more I say it, the more Lord Jumka can see when he turns his head. I couldn't say enough about it.

The king was also worried there and got on with my proposal.

Master Kilu was welcomed as Count. All the sons of Lady Kilu were transferred to their families and made dwellings in the King's capital; they welcomed the king's son as their adopted son and married the last daughter (three years old) of Lady Kilu.

This is how it was taken over, but it was welcomed as an independent aristocrat in the kingdom ruling the Far North of the former Church.

That's not the only way to get the job done.

Negotiations dawned on the cereal, but I didn't even give the gold a single piece of bronze coin.

The gold stored in the fortress Noel was spared no effort to work on and rebuild the kingdom.

The villages that survived the specialty were connected on the road to Noel.

Even though it had been developed to serve as a transportation hub, the merchants were to gather even more because it had become a safe route further west.

And reconstruction funding in respect of agriculture was kept to a minimum. In other words, if you want to make a contribution, you took the path of buying food after five years of minimal production.

Six months after the meadows left, they went through remarkable reconstruction.

The season passed and the harvest was over.

I am negotiating discussions with the union chief in the city of Burleigh.

Use the money you get from the deal to buy food in Burley and deliver it to the meadows.

The legend has already been passed on to the meadows.

I can make good money and give the meadows more than double the food I gave them last time.

That concludes my job. I can turn everything around without me anymore. And then go back to your old residence and spend the rest of your life slowly.

That's what I thought, but they wouldn't let me around.