Hakai No Miko Chapter 27 (1/2)
After she left the feudal lord's office, Michena returned to the roo officials with an unsteady stride The place was croithuneasy expressions Michena, who's surprised by that, gets surrounded by the on?”
“Just when I wondered where the top staff had gone, they alked off by zoan…”
Michena tries to cal to extract any information from her with their faces darkened in worry
“Uive you a proper explanation”
After Michena took a deep breath to calm herself down first, she suddenly called out the na around her
“The people whose names I listed just noill be finance stewards from today The others will be finance bureaucrats”
The finance clerks looked at each other with surprised expressions, but shortly afterwards a dry laughter is raised by soood joke…”
“No, that's no joke, it's the truth”
After that, Michena explained the chain of events on how this came to be Once Michena finishes the broad run-down, the finance clerks start tohalf in doubt
Michena gave those
“B-U-T! From now on it's prohibited to take a portion of the taxes for yourself as has been happening until now If you violate this rule, you will be punished severely!”
Several people raised dissatisfied voices in response Even all of those who stayed silent look sullen The people present can'tunless they take a bit off the top as side benefits
“Please be quiet As a result of our rise in status, our wages will increase as well! And it's not just that It's been decided that the salary of government officials will be raised as a whole!”
When Michena concretely tells theht However, a the with the extra inco a portion of the taxes Michena simply tells them,
“Please consider it veeery carefully We, who have been low-ranking officials until now, only pilfered small aoing to receive from noill be several times that We will be able to live decently off it even if without e a s the account book with difficulty, or receiving ahonestly; if it's all of you, you should knohich of those two is the s statements of “That's true as well” are audible here and there
In front of her colleagues who are exhilarated with joy, Michena now finally felt that she was not only pro to receive a salary, which is several tiuess ht, let's celebrate today I will splurge a bit and buy freshly baked bread, a big fish and ht be fine to drink so like wine instead of cheap ale
Once she pondered over these things, her stomach rumbled
Michena held her stomach while her cheeks flushed out of sha colleagues Stroking her chest in relief, Michena reveals a faint smile
'Yeah, his new Lordshi+p truly conquered ht pops up in her
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Dvalin, who es the dwarven craftsmen, arrived at Michena's new office as the new Chief of Financial Affairs, with loud footsteps
“Howdy, ot a request”
The loud voice of the insolent Dvalin talking about a request reverberates inside the office
Having processed the docuishly lifted her face due to Dvalin's appeal
“You again, Mr Dvalin…?”
If someone, who knew her previously, saw her now, they would probably be startled
Co to her face Her freckled cheeks have become hollow and her eyes are fallen in with dark circles around theether with her soul
However, without paying any attention to her state, Dvalin handed her the paper in his hand
“Aye! We want to create new tools and furnaces again I want you to provideat the paper as Dvalin says so, she spurts out a very unwomanly sound of “Buho!”
“W-W-W-Wh-What's this!? What's this amount of money and materials about!?”
“Mmh? Is it possibly too little?”
Dvalin replies indifferently, in contrast to Michena, who stood up while kicking her chair away in a flurry
“It's not too little, but too much! Besides, why is a cask of ale included in the materials!?”
“Yeah, for us dwarves ale serves as fuel and lubricant to function There's no way that we can lack this”
Michena feels lightheaded due to Dvalin saying that so casually, and she staggers and slumps back down on the chair
At that point the red-furred zoan Kraga Bigana Zurgu suddenly turned up
“Yo! Missy, ill soon hold a banquet that will also serve as an occasion to recognize the warriors' services I'd like to get sou stands there with his ar, ”Hand it over now”
“A banquet, you say!? You just had awarrior or such the other day, didn't you!?”
“Was there so for a little while while tilting his head to the side, Zurgu claps his hands once
“—Right! They young warrior, who married the other day, had his first matrimonial quarrel, but he was utterly beaten up by his wife It's a banquet for the sake of recognizing that guy's services”
Obviously it's a reason he came up with on the spot
Michena places both her hands on the desk while looking down Bit-by-bit her whole body begins to tremble
Certainly, thanks to his new Lordshi+p,And ere also able to move from that terrible shack with its roof leaks and drafts to a rented house with a sturdy build Because of that, the cos ilance
My family and I are very thankful for that My ht towards the feudal lord's residence without fail
But, Michena wonders, isn't this work too brutal, no matter how you look at it?
A mountain of documents that doesn't diminish no matter how much she processes, petitions that are sent one after the other by her subordinates and the city's influential people, and negotiations with s like these, she's so busy it'd make one dizzy even at the best of tile tier bubbles forth fro concerned about Michena's state, Dvalin and Zurgu de over of the materials
“Come on, I need the money and materials!” Dvalin says
“Cou says
At last the two start to get carried away,in a chorus
Due to that Michena finally snapped
“Geeze, give it a rest already, please!”