Knights, Let’s Smash Them

128 – Now this tithe is ours (4)

Like Power Stones, Money Stones were easy to obtain.

Merchant Marco Firenze himself was staying in Peta Ronto for his distillery construction business, so he just had to find the right time to meet him.

From the beginning, he was a sharp person in the logic of money. Without needing to explain in detail, he sighed deeply and said that he would attach treasurers from his guild.

I could see a hint of annoyance in his strong eyes.

It was a little bit like he dared to put a spoon on the food he had spit on, but it’s true that the back of San Maria is stronger than the marquis, who only acts rudely.

At least Marco Firenze wasn’t the man to cut the belly of the goose that lays golden eggs.

“But what if I do this and hold on proudly?”

“At that time, just go to the highest court. I will definitely make you win. I also have a lot of damage compensation.”

The colossus said so. It was a word full of confidence.

For a moment, I was tempted to think that I should rather scratch my nerves and go to the imperial decree, but…….

The thought of going in and out of the capital periodically for several months to deal with that made my legs tremble.

That means it takes less than 10 hours to reach the capital, and the actual time has doubled.

“Marco Firenze…… See you for the first time.”

Princess Lilia Hebron muttered as she left the brewery.

Originally, San Mariano is an influential place in the southern part of the empire, so it’s not uncommon for its leader, Marco Firenze, to wander around here in the north.

“Isn’t it nice to get to know new people like this?”

“Actually, it’s Lubern Administrator Alroy’s personal connections, right? Then shouldn’t only the administrator know?”

“That’s right too.”

I couldn’t refute it.

This is why status is important.

Her status as a princess of the Duchy of Hebron was not a title for someone’s dog, and if she wanted to meet Marco Firenze, she could do it simply by asking me.

In the first place, Marco Firenze wouldn’t mind either. She’s the daughter of the 3rd Duke of Hebron, and what’s wrong with getting to know her candidate for the next Duke personally.

“Still, I studied a lot. This…… It is not easy for me to learn.”

The princess added with a satisfied expression.

“First of all, since I am an engineer, it is not easy to see or experience such administrative or legal work.”

“Princess Lillia doesn’t have to do that. What are you worried about? I have.”

I shrugged her shoulders and joked with her.

I also got a connection with Lilia Hebron, but she also got Lubern Ailroy as the strongest administrator on earth.

He prided himself on being able to easily slap the cheeks of imperial administrators, at least when it comes to administrative work.

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“Puha, this is the first time I’ve ever seen an administrator say that with his own mouth.”

“Have you ever seen a skilled knight say that he has no skills?”

“Yes, yes, yes, I understand. Even if you don’t say that, I know very well that Magistrate Alroy of Luvern is great.”

Her gray hair was fluttering and her red eyes were twinkling. I naturally turned my gaze to that smile that would often leave me lost if I was careless hastily.

After finally getting the money stone, the last place I headed was the church in Petalonto.

In a situation where I couldn’t do this or that, it was because Saint Catherine Sisella was currently staying in Petalonto.

“Welcome, Magistrate Alroy of Luberne. And the person behind you…….”

As I entered the church, the guide priest nodded and greeted me.

Then she moved her gaze and looked at the princess who was accompanying her, and soon recognized who she was and stepped back from her in surprise.

“Hey, are you Princess Lilia of the Hebron Territory!?”

“Yes, that’s right. May the light bless you brother.”

Lilia Hebron responded by making her last name at the priest whose face was white.

“How…… Shabby in this precious place, no! No!! A precious person in a humble place…… !!”

“Because I am learning a lot from the Lubern magistrate.”

Actually, the reason Lilia Hebron was chasing after me was purely because of her will.

A guest from the neighboring estate. It is not polite to send him back just because he has finished his business at the point where he has summoned Yeongji.

At first, I planned to take a full day off, eat chicken from the main store, and serve beer from the brewery that just started production.

-If you don’t mind, may I accompany you until this case is resolved?

-Yes? You don’t have to…….

-I am also responsible for a territory in a few years. There’s no guarantee that I won’t get caught up in a fight like this after I take over my father’s place.

In short, it was a story that he wanted to see with his own eyes how to break the opponent’s goal neatly and surely in a dispute between territories.

Say it openly, no matter how well Princess Lilia of Hebron is prepared. It would be difficult to deal with the snakes that were rolling the manor several years, no, decades before that.

Look at it even now.

No matter how low Dionaos Rupel was a count, he was in trouble with the son of a marquis—and not even a real marquis.

This was purely a difference in experience and inclination.

Count Diona Osrupel must have been a strong man and a warrior, but he was not a good administrator or bureaucrat.

Similarly, if the princess of Hebron also gains experience in advance, she will be able to deal with it flexibly.

And from the point of view of the Marquis of Karahan, wouldn’t it be more frightening for me to appear with the princess of Hebron next to me than to just appear?

The guide priest nodded as if he understood her explanation, and then pointed his hand toward the wide interior of the main hall of the church.

“Saint Catherine will be over there.”

“Thank you.”

“No, then I’m done… ….”

I followed the priest’s words and opened the door attached to the inside of the main hall.

I met eyes with Katrin, who was wearing jewelry with red lines on her calves, bare legs exposed.

“…… !!!!”

“Oh my god.”

I immediately slammed the door shut, but the sound waves emitted from inside the room penetrated the thin wooden wall and got stuck in my eardrum.

“That, actually, excuse me… ….”

As I tried to open the door again and apologize, this time a mace flew in.

Koowang! The mace, which had barely passed through his head, fell to the floor and the wooden footboard shattered with a bloody sound.

“This ungodly man!!!!! Not as full of black heart as that black hair!!!!!”

“Oh no, it’s unfair!”

“Lord, one more goes up today!!”

In the end, the runaway of the saintess could only be calmed down after Lilia Hebron intervened.

I’ll never forget the chilling sensation of mace that ran through her hair.

***

“Well, shouldn’t it be ironing… …. I didn’t even look at her breasts or butt—”

“What?”

I checked the hand of the saintess who was fiddling with her mace on her desk and shut her mouth. Lillia, who was sitting next to me, gave me a look, asking me to stop talking nonsense.

“Anyway, you are a strange person, you are.”

“Ah… ….”

I couldn’t refute anything.

But it was a bit unfair. I just opened the door as the guide priest said, and I didn’t expect to be changing clothes there.

Furthermore, if looking at her legs is disrespectful, wouldn’t it be the design of the saint’s dress that shows her thighs with the sides open?

Anyway, Catherine seemed to have exhibitionism, putting the name of a saint to shame. It’s okay to show it to a lot of people, but it’s a bit so to show it alone.

‘But it’s strange to show it alone… ….’

I imagined a saintess calling with her quiet voice in her dimly lit room.

Luvern, come in here. When I enter the room like that, Catherine Sisella, dressed in a sky-high dress, breathes excitedly and lifts her skirt and says.

-Look at this, it’s a luminous dinosaur.

Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops models shining with fluorescence fell between the saintess’ crotch. Why no Velociraptor?

‘Crazy.’

What kind of imagination is this?

I shook my head and quickly erased the thought from her head. After the incident with Petra, my brain tended to turn to that direction if I was a little careless.

“So? Why are you two looking for me?”

I took a deep breath and looked at the saintess.

“I think you are aware that the establishment of a single diocese this time is being disrupted by the marquisate.”

“Ah, I know all too well about that. But if you’re here to ask me for help…….”

“The principle of separation of politics and religion. I know.”

Then Catherine Sisela’s eyes narrowed. The person who knew that had the expression on his face asking why he had come to visit him.

But everything is different and ah different.

There are some people who slip away like mudfish from the laws that have been firmly established by the imperial family, so the ambiguous ‘concept’ of the separation of church and state can be tweaked as much as you like.

“The saintess does not need to openly support the establishment of a single diocese in the Rupel Territory, nor does she need to put pressure on the Marquis of Karahan, nor does she need to ask the Imperial Office for support.”

“Yes…… ?”

The saintess’ amber eyes shook.

“You just need to accompany us to the Marquis Territory. As far as I can tell, it’s a ‘pilgrimage’ schedule to the surrounding territories.”

Once again, the Marquis of Karahan was irrelevant even if it was seen as a stereotype of a corrupt territory.

The high class monopolizes wealth, the middle management class plunders the poor people, and only the common people who are oppressed under them die.

Count Dionaos Rupel was not like that during the time of the now ill Marquis of Karakhan, Saxony, although he defended it.

Youngji can’t be so corrupt as soon as the son of an idiot takes the position of assistant manager. It must have been rotting without even realizing it before then.

Because the lord couldn’t run all the territories alone, and even the people under him couldn’t say that he was upright.

That’s right.

Is the condition of the parish in the Marquess really intact?

I was a bit skeptical.

Saint Catherine Sisella is a saint, but at the same time she has the right to interrogate heretics and execute them summarily.

There was no one who didn’t know that the Combat Sisters were in fact an organization with a different name from the Inquisition Bureau.

What if a saint was dropped on such a marquis territory?

Tactical Nuke in Coming!!!

It was clear that Yeongju, who misunderstood the opponent he was going to play with, would lose his mentality, let alone make a profit.

Protest for violating the separation of church and state?

Is that possible?

The saintess just came on a pilgrimage to the neighboring marquis while the work of the single parish was slowing down.

Very checkmate.

At the near-perfect explanation, Catherine Sisela’s mouth slowly opened, and Princess Lilia Hebron’s eyes twinkled.

“How are you? Holy Maiden, would you like to hang out with me?”

She pondered for a moment, then answered, biting her lip as if she had made up her mind on something.

When she told me about the situation of the Marquis of Karahan, it would not be easy for her to refuse as she clearly showed signs of anger.

“…… If it is for the sake of the people of the territory who are suffering.”

“Good. Then, let’s start right away tomorrow!”

Where is the provincial Toho one day doggy walks her hookup without knowing that the gang is afraid?

I am not a bully.

I also don’t like haguk, and I didn’t want to cassock bread while running into the deputy lord of the next estate.

But don’t trample on finances like this, then I’ll be a gangster too!

I can’t turn back now.

Look forward to it, kid.