Volume 1 Chapter 9-2 There Is No Medicine Other Than Hitting for Idiots Who Go Crazy With Extreme Theories.
Horace sighed, and Rangella jumped out of the mansion.
"Master! I just felt the presence of the holy sword... oh!"
She stepped outside the gate and saw Guodrel in the distance, his face twisted and unconscious.
It seemed she understood everything.
"Is it a case of iron fist punishment?"
"With guys like that, you have to hit them to stop them from doing it again."
Walking through the gate on the path to the mansion, Horace looked amazed.
"W-well, Master. I think Guodrel said a lot..."
"I don't really care. When you're running the capital alone, you get hundreds of demands and complaints every day. If I worried about those kinds of accusations, I'd go crazy."
"So many come at you?"
Rangella looked surprised.
But since she had been fighting on the front lines, she didn't know about the palace's chores.
"Ah, in the Diamante Kingdom, only nobles usually work at the castle, right? So commoners don't complain. But because of the 'Demon Lord exception', now commoners are doing the jobs. Suddenly, they say things like, 'You're eating our tax money, so listen to us!' It's ridiculous... well, maybe I shouldn't say that."
"? ...I see, so the staff are commoners, and since they're in 'problem-solving positions', lots of different opinions come flooding in."
"The Diamante Kingdom has that 'antenna' and is located in a way that makes it easy to have refugees. I did it for work, though."
Horace glanced slightly towards the direction where he sent Guodrel flying.
"It's not about forgiveness or not; it's like I just don't care about the accusations. But then the other side might get carried away, right?"
"Someone seems to be getting carried away, from the look on their face, Master."
"Well, that's true. Someone even told me to 'shut down all the brōtḥels in the capital.' When I brushed it off, a huge crowd came pouring in. If I could, I would have liked to hit them."
"That's something..."
"There is a Demon Lord who uses beauty to control men. I understand why people hate the idea of 'sexual desire' in business. But humans always jump to extremes when there are social problems. It's important to understand, 'Don't get carried away by extremes.' I thought, 'Why are you spreading such extreme ideas?' I really wanted to punch them!"
"You had a hard time, didn't you?"
"Yeah. I learned that 'People who are drunk on extremes seem to enjoy life' the most in that royal capital. Giving absolute love to the beautiful Demon Lord, or the trend of abolishing businesses that deal with sexual desire... I thought they were not so different."
Horace looks really tired.
"...When I was fired from the royal palace, the Demon Lord was already gone. There was no reason for my master to keep it a secret, so I should have been able to talk about it. The reason I didn't tell anyone was..."
"Even I was fed up."
To defeat the Demon Lord, they needed to train women.
They needed that to defeat the Demon Lord's followers, who were 'extreme in their fanatical love'.
But, aside from those front lines, in the royal capital, the 'extreme of completely denying the use of sexual desire' was spreading as a trend.
Making a path to defeat the Demon Lord while being tossed between 2 extremes, it must be because he either loves humans or has a decisive reason why the Demon Lord's existence is a problem.
Horace, who was fed up with the people in the royal capital, was the latter.
He just thought the Demon Lord was a problem.
"Well, I'm sure I'm sober about Guodrel. But debt... In the chaos after defeating the Demon Lord, how could they..."
The Demon Lord's power is the absolute control of men.
Many countries have been destroyed in that invasion.
There are 7 permanent Council Members in the world conference, but 6 of them have changed.
Even though the world has changed so much, they have a debt, a 'factor that hinders reconstruction'.
"This is the result of discussions with all the executives. To put it simply, we need to control the 'people getting carried away' because of the chaos after defeating the Demon Lord. In that case, it's easiest to use money to establish dominance."
No matter how the world is, there are always those who mistakenly think, 'I have the right to indulge.'
That's why they've created a situation of 'massive debt' that can definitely establish dominance.
Still, it's true that there is a lot of 'aid money' being spread around everywhere.
As for Count Imodeth's family, they have already received a thousand times the noble budget meant for the Count's family in aid money.
In short, if they properly use the 'huge aid money' for 'capital investment' or 'public investment,' the distribution network will grow, and money will come in.
However, those who only buy meat and alcohol with this aid money will suffer from the 'debts they must pay back' in the future...
The executives of Luster Report are still young girls, but surprisingly, their minds are quite dark.
"Also, we are lending money, but for now, we don't plan to strongly push for repayment. However, it's an amount that 'is not enough even if they pay all their assets,' and they are just worrying themselves by 'imagining the worst future.'"
"So, regarding Count Imodeth's family, is Rangella just 'letting them worry'?"
"That's right. We haven't sent any reminders."
"..."
Things have become harsher than before.
Horace thinks to himself.
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