The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

Returning to the ship, the news came that the meeting had come to a halt at the Grand Council, and I went to Palazzo Parune again.

Line up the Howe soldiers in the same way, and sit in the same way.

Unlike before, the view outside peeking through the window is at night and the chandelier is lit with lights.

And next to the Speaker of the Grand Council was another, a man named Ovelin Octal, who first came to the ship, sitting in his seat.

"On behalf of Master Bruno, let me tell you a story. May I?"

Seen, Speaker Bruno looked exhausted.

From the morning meeting, until sundown, I guess I've been deliberating, so that would be tiring.

"At that age, it is up to you to organize meetings for so long. We're in a hurry too, so I can't say tomorrow, but if there's nothing wrong with you, I don't mind if you take your body and withdraw. I'm not particularly rude."

"... it pains me to care," Speaker Bruno said. "But we've already decided on the policy of the meeting, so I'll stay here."

"Well...... of course, still nothing wrong with this one"

That's what I said, I looked back at Ovelin Octal.

I'm just young, and this one is hazy.

"One question has arisen with regard to the content of the Treaty. It's about Shan slaves."

"Uhm."

"Article 14 The Republic of Albio prohibits the trafficking and possession of Shan slaves, but there are many people in this country who own Shan slaves at present."

"I guess so. But if you're going for a long-term and friendly national deal, it's better to keep it that way"

It was something we talked about in the morning as well.

"But there is no slave of this race in the kingdom of Siyalta...... Klu? Reports say one black girl got into the lodging you're renting out today."

Oh, that's what you want to take to the stream.

Still, ears are fast.

"You mean this?

I took a piece of paper out of my nose and cut it into two pieces.

Ha, I'm glad I tore it.

"I was the one who bought her. But I don't own it as a slave. I freed her from slavery. She will come to the kingdom of Siyarta by free will and will do paid labor"

"... I see"

I guess I didn't think it had been broken beforehand.

Ovelin Octal looked like a bum.

"Of course, I don't mind bringing in an interpreter who understands the language of her country and having her confirm her will. If you put up a favorable condition, for example, that we take care of ourselves and send you home, she might choose your life in a flirtatious manner. I'll never mind."

"I see, I understand your thoughts"

Ideas?

"But not all prisoners can pay the ransom as we guide the redemption of fifty-three thousand prisoners, including your species. Nor is it possible for all countries to pay comprehensive compensation to regain their prisoners. Aren't the remaining prisoners going to serve slave labor after all?

Do you want to see it?

"That's different, too. They will pay the ransom by labor. In other words, the ransom becomes debt as it is, and the mechanism is to pay that debt in labor. Of course, if the ransom is paid, I'll set you free. In the case of ordinary soldiers below the rank of civilian without any identity, they are to be freed if they work for 25 years, even if they have served the easiest simple labour. Even if the ransom is paid and released, I intend to release the wages for my work after I have given them properly. Otherwise, you'll be working without pay."

"Hmmm...... thanks for your answer. The kingdom of Siyalta means you will not have slaves."

"Exactly. Well, we can decide what we're talking about as slave labor."

I put up a line of prevention.

"But we believe that compensation is needed for those who currently possess Shan slavery in our country"

"That's understandable. They can't take it without compensation because they didn't offend anything and gain slavery. That would mean"

"It's an honor to have you understand."

"Then the cost of compensation will be borne in half in your country and our country."

When I said that, Ovelin Octal frowned.

"Half the time, this is different"

"So how do we determine the amount of compensation? You want me to keep paying the owner when he bought it? You want me to buy back an old man who worked as a slave for fifty years at the price he bought it."

"That's not what I said."

Slaves are of different value individually, so we should have to negotiate individually.

Full price. This way, they'll pluck the extrajudicial price.

Over here, Terrorist speakers are rare, even with more, so it's impossible to negotiate individually with the owner.

"I guess you'll be negotiating that price. If our country is going to pay in full, we can negotiate a decent price. If you pay for it in half, it will also reduce your country's losses. We can expect legitimate negotiations."

"We'll do that around, even without this burden. We just need you to trust us."

"To my country, which has signed up for dialogue, the country that has been trying to hunt us down with a ship? That would be something different."

There's no way I can trust you.

I was a little strong with the Howe soldiers in.

"I'm sorry about that. But it would be odd to say to give half the price, even though there is no fault in our country."

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do"

That's what I said, I put down a beat.

"My country spends up to 80%. Instead, let the slaves, more than thirty years after the purchase, be opened up without compensation"

"Ha...?

Didn't you think of that condition, Ovelin Octal flaunted his face?

"On what basis?

"I've been a slave laborer for thirty years. The buyer should have enough. Besides, even though Shan people should go beyond fifty, their appearance fades. Value conversion should drastically diminish the value"

It was a little compulsive theory, but there's nothing you won't get through.

In fact, slave labor is not any hope of liberation, and slaves are also unmotivated.

So I hear that if you work twenty to thirty years, it is often a mechanism to be liberated.

In the case of the Shans, it is just a custom that there is no emancipation because there is no destination to go where it is opened.

"It doesn't mean taking away the twenty years old or those slaves I bought yesterday, today. The owner lets go after he's profitable enough. This would not be unreasonable."

"… the proposed concession, do you mean"

"It is not for your country to seek any further concessions"

It's time for a compromise.

I'm getting tired of sounding like a king.

"... In fact, some of the great councillors here have Shan slaves."

Well, I guess so.

"According to their opinions, some of the slaves were to assume heavy positions for a long period of time. For example, a servant who knows every inch of the house."

"So what? Why don't you let him go and let him go? If it were an attractive workplace, it would stay. If you are abusing, you will leave. It's that person's freedom."

"Are you sure it's possible to stay?

Is that what you wanted to hear?

"I don't want slaves. We don't want to buy slaves, we want to free them. To be honest, I don't expect the national interest from a thousand or any of your slaves in your country. However, if Shan slaves remain in your country, there will be a layer in our country that will not tolerate friendship with your country. This is not about possibilities. Be sure to come out. Those men will resent your country and attack me to continue my national relations with you. I anticipated the distress of that hindsight and am now bound by the liberation of slaves. I trust my politically savvy brothers will understand the importance of this."

Please, I don't know if you understand.

Even when it comes to republicanism, I guess it's impossible because it's an aristocratic republic.

"Twenty percent of what I said earlier, I would ask you to consider it a burden to remove obstacles to friendship together. The answer to an earlier question is that if freed slaves are given the same rights as free citizens, of course there is no difference in staying here"

"I see... and one last thing"

Do you still have it?

"It's a restraining order, but it's not like we're going to enforce a restraining order now, including penalties. A year to declare and inform, a year to liberate enough. We will not apply the penalty until two years later."

"That seems practically unattainable. There's no difference."

That won't help.

You can do it tomorrow. I can't even talk about it.

"Then, after thirty minutes of discussion, as stipulated, we shall take a vote. Please forgive me for taking about an hour to finish voting and opening the ballot."

Will we adopt the vote in thirty minutes?

Well, Congress is everywhere, but it doesn't make sense to waste time.

"Okay. Let's just say I take my seat off. We expect our wings to help us grip the Albion."

I pushed again, and then I took my seat.

An hour later, back at the Grand Council,

"The proposal has been passed. Congratulations on the signing of the Convention. And thank you."

That's what Ovelin Octal said, and Speaker Bruno has been reaching out loosely.

It would be a handshake.

When I shake hands with the old man, the applause rolls from nowhere.

Nearly 370 applause was loud enough to sound the room.

When I let go of my hand, the applause stopped after a while.

"Okay, take this one."

The parchment instrument of ratification of the Convention is on my desk.

Only a few pages or so, but it was tailored to a thin book.

When I make sure of the pepper, it looks like it's layered with two pages of parchment, sewn and spelled on the middle page.

That's a booklet.

"Let me check the contents"

After I said that, I turned the page around to see if I could make a mistake.

Both books were identical in content.

"I don't care if it's my signature. If your country wants something official, I will return it to you after my young emperor takes office."

There is no national seal here, and my position now is subtle, so it was subtle whether the signature had effect as a representative of national sovereignty.

"I'm going to ask you to do that. In the form of me being on the same path, participating in a reign ceremony and bringing home one of the instruments of ratification?

Oh, is this guy coming?

Well, that's fine.

We have to set it apart from the ship where the sailors are.

I don't want to be seen with a chronometer or anything.

"I don't mind. If I were to invite the honorable Grand Council member to the crowning ceremony. It will also be a compliment to our country. Let's just say we will."

I got up and shook hands with Ovelin Octal again.

"I'll leave the port tomorrow. I'm sorry for the rush."

"Yes. For a while, you'll be in trouble. Greetings."

After my farewell to Ovelin, I was in the embassy of the Entark Dragon King.

"Sire Yuri Howe! Welcome aboard!

Ambassador Hakim Khalsaweek welcomes him exaggerated.

"Your Majesty is fine. As a matter of fact, I am nothing but a lord of the border."

The only thing I'm sure of in my current position is the part about being the owner of the Howe family.

It was going to be a bit of a hassle the day I was even sent a gift as king.

"Oh? So should I say Your Excellency?

"These days, that's what they call it."

"Well, my lord! Please, I want you to come here! And the escorts, please!

Your Majesty, I know, but I hear it doesn't matter.

Is there a definite realization that being a substantial ruler is certain?

Follow Hakim into the embassy.

Passing through exotic interior corridors, also different from the common format of the Republic of Albio, there was a slightly mismatched combination of a chair knitted with reeds or something in a fireplace on fire.

Is that the kind of culture?

There are two sofas, not in the form of a table between them, but side tables next to each other so that they are easily reachable to the table even if they are half asleep.

"Go ahead, sit down"

"Thanks"

Depositing his back on his relaxed back, Tsuru's net took his body with elasticity.

I feel comfortable sleeping outside.

I've tried to ignore it and come to see if I have a diplomatic problem returning, but I don't want to stay very long.

"How about a meal?

"No, it's done"

"So, what about alcohol?

I took out my pocket watch and checked the time.

Seven o'clock is past.

"Let's have a little."

It has become a doctrine that drinking is not forbidden in Kokolu, but should only be done after 7pm.

Don't drink in the daytime. That seems to be the case.

When Hakim raised his hand lightly, someone like the butler who had refrained approached him.

"What does booze look like?

"Something from your country that's hard to come by in this country."

"Oh, then... I have the Qur 'an's rare liquor. How about that? Is the liquor ok?

"I'm fine. Let's have it."

In words, do you mean distilled liquor?

"It tastes pretty habitual..."

"I'm also happy to try the habitual liquor. Because of this opportunity, drinking grape wine is boring."

"Accepted."

Hakim struck a deacon with something.

The butler lowered his head gently and went to get a drink.

"... by the way, I'm a dragon rider your Excellency has repelled"

"Yeah."

"His name was Meharam Kruik, and he was the one who tore in the politics of our country and fled to the papal territory to spare his life. I apologize for the inconvenience caused to your country."

Was he a haggler after all?

"I don't think it's annoying or anything. If you are as big as your country, let one or two of them leave. I have no choice."

"It would be helpful if you could say that"

"But it's interesting to know that there are countries where such creatures live"

"Nor is the Qur 'an home to so many wild dragons anymore. Because the spread of artillery has made it very easy to hunt"

Really?

A book called Dragon King, written by Ananta I, said that wild dragons often attack people.

Dragons grow endlessly as they grow, and dragons over the age of one hundred will be the size of a bakemon, so it was a routine tea meal such as the destruction of one village at their whim, he said.

Well, Ananta I is more than a thousand years old, so I guess that means times have changed.

"I see. But it was a beautiful animal. Don't even feel a little spared to disappear from the wild, even though it strikes people"

"Let's be."

After all, Hakim was smiling happily when she was proud to be complimented on the dragon.

"Our country has the phrase," Dragon hunting is the honor of brave men. "It was the pride of our ruling nobility to jump into the wilderness and slaughter evil dragons that attack the people. That's the beginning and end of the business now spreading: if the city makes a request, the vendor comes and hits the sleeping area with a big gun and takes it away. I'm sure it's a good thing for the people, but from our nobility, it's true that it's been a lonely time."

There's a lot going on.

As a country, you can't ban dragons because they're more traditional than they are when they attack a city and die.

"That's why in this day and age, even a single spear became a dragonslayer. Your Excellency is great."

He's lifting me up.

How dare you.

"It doesn't fall to me to say great, etc..."

"If you don't have extraordinary courage, it's true that you can't do it."

Well, it would be odd in the diplomatic arena to dare to despise something that praises you.

Let's embrace respect here.

And so an earlier butler brought a basin with booze.

Go through Hakim and bring it to me.

"Choose one of the cups. I'll use the cup for the rest of you."

Hakim said.

There are similar customs in every country.

I took the left cup.

The butler pointed the side table with his hand, so when he placed the cup there, he was poured liquid out of a bottle of liquor.

The liquor bottle was dark colored glass, but the liquid that came out of it was clear green.

"It's called dragon liquor. It's a strong drink."

"Is this nigga yomogi liquor"

"Oh, my God, I'm an expert."

Absinthe or this.

I just said it because I only knew Absinthe about green liquor, but it still seems Nigayo Mogi is the ingredient.

Always visible from me, but alcohol will also be available at Hakim's side table.

Hakim carried the liquor to his mouth and took a sip.

"It's odd to say that it's a dragon liquor. The shades resemble the scales that shine in the green."

"Let's be. I don't know, the color is thin, not that color..."

I guess so.

I can still remember that smooth green scaly skin.

I was wondering if it was even a specialty in the South, and I had Leelika look it up and import the trinkets, but when it arrived it was like a different color.

Thanks, the glossy green seemed to disappear as soon as I turned it into leather, which was a disappointment.

"Okay, let's have it"

Tilt the glass and try to put a little liquor through your throat.

It tasted terrible.

It's not enough to cough up, but even the mucous membrane of my nose hurts a twinge.

Too strong.

I think it's about 70% alcohol.

"I thought you might like to divide it with water and drink it."

With that said, Hakim added water from a small water drain, on his own side table.

There's a drain on my desk, too.

I guess it's a dedicated tool.

I learned to do that and added water to the glass and the green liquid clouded white.

It seems cloudy when you add water.

Whiskey and the like are usually hydrogenated with named water and the alcohol content drops up to about 40%, but if I do that, it will become cloudy, so I guess I still sell it in high degrees.

When I tried it, the taste seemed a little mellow.

"Do you like it?

"... well, that's a liquor that feels good to know while you're drinking"

Yomogi's liquor couldn't have been delicious in the first place.

"Rather than taste, it is assumed that there is a distinctive colour in the way you get drunk."

Is that so after all?

Speaking of Absinthe, I remember drinking too much was a booze that was banned from selling because I hallucinated or didn't.

"If you don't mind, I'll give you a box of souvenirs"

Hmm.

Well, it would be a rare drink, and I'll take it.

I wouldn't say no.

"Thank you. I don't know what to say instead, but I have a gift for you here too"

I signaled my escort to get me a box.

"Not a big deal, but I want you to confirm"

"So..."

Hakim opened the box.

"Oh, this is... that big eagle feather"

"In our country, it is considered the best as arrow feathers. I was wondering if such a gift would be a good idea for a country that values martial arts."

"This is -! Thank you, let me send you under our king! I'm sure you'll be delighted!

Seems overwhelming.

I just pulled out the eagle feathers I brought in and put them beautifully in a fine box.

Well, as far as the twelve tail blades are concerned, it's also a fairly valuable item in Siyalta.

"Now it's time for you to excuse me."

I got up from the chair.

This makes me diplomatic rude.

"Oh, are you home...? It's a corner, so I was hoping you could stay."

"No, I'd like to refrain from that. I'm leaving tomorrow."

"... then it would also be rude to force you to stop. Let me at least drop you off at the front door."

Hakim also stood up in the chair and took the lead and started walking.

Return to the way you came and reach the entrance gate of the embassy.

"Well, here's to you"

A box with a bottle was given to the soldiers of the escort.

It would be Absinthe.

"Thanks, it was a good time"

"Welcome. It has been a pleasure to invite Your Excellency."

Give me your hand and shake hands with Hakim.

"Bye."

I broke up with Hakim and walked towards the wharf.