Survival in Another World With My Master

"Well, I've heard enough of the good stuff. Next, I'd like you to tell me a story that hurts your ears or your head."

Kirilovich's expression came to me for a moment. [M] You underestimate me a little. As we act with all our might for our national interests and ideals, the Holy King is determined to act with all his might for our national interests and ideals. If the Holy King doesn't do anything like this, it will be like the situation we were talking about, but the other party will do something to break the situation.

"Hmm... that's right."

Kirilovich leaves his body behind the seated sofa and looks up at the ceiling for a moment.

"First of all, I would like to say that the Holy King already knows the cause of the Melinard Kingdom's leap forward. In other words, Koske, to your presence."

Well, yeah.

I was perfectly ahead of the war and negotiations with the two northern countries, and the prisoners in the prisoner camp in Merynesburg knew I existed in the first place. If there is a prisoner exchange, they will report my presence to the Holy King, and there is a high probability that a spy from the Holy King's Landing will be mistaken in Merinesburg in the first place. The kingdom of Merinard does not have a system of capturing and interrogating just humans. Maybe I don't know, but there's a chance that a spy unit using subhuman abilities is operating in secret.

"If so, removing the cause would be an effective way to cut the power of the Kingdom of Merinard."

"If it's a direct means of kidnapping, assassination, or killing... do you want to lead the people and work to repel me?

"That's where it is. Hopefully, you will want to make that power mine, but if you judge it impossible, it will come to an end. What about information technology...? They are good at information manipulation in Japan, but I don't think they are very good at information manipulation abroad. The impression is that direct assassinations and abductions are better. They're quite a mess. I don't care about my life in the name of God, and I don't have any doubts about it."

"A fanatic, eh? Well, in tactical units. As a strategic unit... the east and west are sealed with the Empire, so are we heading north or northwest? To the south is the sea."

"Well, what do you think? Whether or not to expand our territory any further... we may approach the kingdom of Merinard."

"Huh? No, I see. The land with the Empire was a fertile plain. Is the Holy King out of food?

"To put it in perspective, yes. By the way, to what extent does Koske know about the lifestyle of the Holy King's people?

"Yeah? No, I don't know."

I know it's made up of all the pious followers, but that's all. I don't know how they work and how they spend their days.

"Basically, the people of the Holy King do not work physically."

"Why don't you do manual labor?

"Yes, all manual labor, such as plowing fields and carrying heavy baggage, is done by slaves. And that slave is basically a subhuman. Some sinners of the Holy King are driven out by manual labor, but they are basically subhuman."

"Haha, I've been able to read it. In the doctrine claimed by the Adolese bishop school, it was true that the subhuman was born with sin, and it was a duty to serve the human being, a pure sin, and so on."

Oh, you know it well.

"I have studied the doctrine of Adolphy. Is that the only thing that makes up the country...? No, I see. Does the Holy King mean that slavery relies on subhuman slavery for the majority of the workforce? Is the enlargement policy being adopted to secure the sub-population, which is the workforce? But as a state system, it seems quite dangerous."

There is an image that societies that rely on the labor force of slavery tend to become unstable. Once there is a slave rebellion in the country, it will take a heavy toll on domestic food production and economic activity.

"I don't think so. Because somehow the history of the Holy King is old. However, it was only in the last 200 or 300 years that the response to subhuman exclusion, contempt for subhuman beings, and so on became stricter."

"Really? Ah, if you think about it, there's a slave collar, and wounds and plagues can be cured by miracles."

"Yes, it seems that slaves rarely die of injury or illness. Well, there are still many slaves who die because of harsh living conditions."

"I see. I understand the life of the Holy King's people, but what does it have to do with the future of the Holy King's kingdom?

"In other words, what is the purpose of the Holy King? Why did you invade the kingdom of Merinard, why you fought the Empire, and why you are pursuing an enlargement policy?

Kirilovich is serious today. It's like a teacher or something. Hmm, the Holy King's philosophy of action.

"The reason for invading and nationalizing the Kingdom of Merinard is to secure subordinate slaves to earn labor and to secure elves for increased magician yields. The enlargement policy is also to ensure subhuman slavery. The reason for fighting the Empire is to get a fertile plain that is essential for food production, and at the same time, it's probably an ideological problem."

"Ideology. You know a lot of noble words. If you're not a philosopher or a political scientist, you don't use that word."

"Well, that's not a very common term. The subject is too big. But in that case, it's going to be pretty hard for the kingdom of Merinard to regain its subhuman slaves."

"That's right. For them, subhuman slavery is a must. It can be described as the same infrastructure as the earliest roads and waterways. As an empire subordinate, there's a story of caries running."

Kirilovich tells me to throw up. The Vallag Empire is a multi-ethnic state. It seems fundamentally incomprehensible as the Holy King. The same goes for the kingdom of Merinard.

"I thought we were going north to get slaves. No, slaves themselves are in the country, so if you want to increase your labor force, do you even recommend child rearing to slaves...?

"It's a long story, but there's plenty of potential for that. This will temporarily reduce the country's workforce and exacerbate food shortages. But there's a way we can fix that, right?

"I see. Hmm, I see. So we're talking about a possible approach to the kingdom of Merinard."

"Yes, that's it."

In other words, Kirilovich says the Holy King will look at the food produced in large quantities by my abilities. Hmm, I see. To that end, they came together, meditated at a small loss, rubbed against the Kingdom of Merinard, and cut out the story of wanting to buy a large amount of food. For the kingdom of Merinard, it would be a huge deal. Selling to the Principality of Dihart, the Kingdom of Tigris, and small Western states is a different deal.

"Will Sylphie and the others respond?

"It will frustrate the return of the subhuman slaves taken from the Kingdom of Merinard, the Holy King. I don't think it's bad for the Kingdom of Merinard to be able to control the supply of strategic supplies called food, and I don't think it's unlikely that we'll be able to respond if we conclude a truce for the next 10 or 20 years. In ten or twenty years, we'll be ready to deal with the Holy King."

"It's going to be a political rush."

"That's right. In ten or twenty years, the Empire may destroy the Holy King."

"I appreciate that, but as an empire, the kingdom of Merinard is a troublesome place to feed its enemies, right?

"Yeah, absolutely. It's troublesome. If that happens, we'll talk a lot about it."

That's what Kirilovich looked like with his shoulders up.

Enemy enemies can be a complicated situation that cannot be easily described as allies. Oh, what a mess, man.