32 . The actual situation of the pigeon combe and the offer of the green pigeon



 The acceptance of the underground labyrinth (dungeon) challengers from Batcombe had begun.

 A total of seven carriages, five large stagecoaches with the first 50 people on board and two wagons carrying their cargo, had arrived at Liberty Village via the frontier small city of Picks as planned.
 As promised, the Liberty Village Guards have been guarding the wagons since they entered Picks.
'What a pompous thing!
 Saying that, the person in charge of accepting Batcombe's side, Vibrina, laughs, but her expression also looks slightly ill-at-ease.

 That would be true.
 If Batcombe's bad reputation wasn't so bad, there would be no need for such a heavy-handed security guard.......

 She was well aware that the Batcombe was blowing up a few combat actions here and there that were called exercises.
 However, when it came to this topic, Vibrina was
"....Your father and I are very concerned about this matter.......I'm sorry.......but please don't do any more than that.......now......
 Then she would shut her mouth.

 After regaining her composure, Biblina went to work accepting the group of carriages that had come.
 However, it seems that when she lived in Batcombe, Biblina had her maids do all those kinds of chores.
 She is not accustomed to this kind of miscellaneous work, so whatever she does, she's baffled and confused. Since she is not familiar with these kinds of tasks, she is confused about what to do and asks Unja to help her with the task for the time being.

 Because of the conversation we had earlier.
 I couldn't help but notice that Biblina was gloomy, so I visited Daiken-san, the former hero of the Great Sword of Batcombe and now working as an apprentice guard in Liberty Village, and asked him about the situation.

 Naturally, since it concerns the internal affairs of the country I was formerly in, I thought it would be nice if he could tell me as much as possible, but
'I'm not required to keep it confidential, and I've never been trusted when I tell you.
 When he said that, he began to speak heavily.

 According to Daiken-san, he said.
 There are two main factions within the Batcombe.

 One is the Lords faction, led by the Lords, Gelter.
 One is the military faction, mainly the military leaders.
 
 In Batcombe, this military faction has held most of the power and the majority of the troops for generations, and it is their troops that are doing all the fighting and looting of other countries under the guise of exercises.
With regard to the attack on Picks that I carried out, there was a secret order from the upper echelons of the military... Well, I'm not going to make excuses now.

 Incidentally, of the party of great sword heroes she led, the three of them, Great Sword-san, Great Shield-san and Magic-san, were more of a military party.
 According to her, they were of the "If it provides a place to rampage, that's fine" type of thinking.
 She said that only the strongest archers were barely military, and because of that connection, she said that she was now back in the army in Batcombe and on some kind of mission.

 In order to control such a military outburst, Gelter has been trying to control the military's outbursts for the past 10 years since he became the lord of the land, and the use of the underground labyrinth (dungeon) this time is probably part of that.
''I looked at the people who came to the underground labyrinth this time, and I'd say there were 6 lords and 4 military factions.
 The military faction, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.
''There is a place where you can test your own martial prowess without having to take part in a plundering exercise, and if you become a Lordship, you are free to use this place.
 The aim is probably to persuade them to do so.
 In the unlikely event that the military faction tries to do something, since the lord faction has a larger number of people, it will be a check on them, and even if something actually happens, it will be easy to subdue them..........they are deliberately creating such a situation.

 In line with this, it is also significant that Biblina, the daughter of Lord Gelter, is present in Liberty Village.

 Even though the military faction is in control of most of the city, it is the lord faction that possesses foreign diplomatic power, and if the military faction caused any problems at the destination where the lord's daughter was dispatched, it could be a cause for the purge of the military faction.
 The reason why Biblina was being dispatched to Liberty Village here was because of a combination of complicated circumstances to that extent.

 When Daiken-san told me this much.

'If I make a big move, it might provoke the military faction in some way. It would be helpful if you would tacitly agree to allow me to support Lady Biblina in the shadows.
 Then I bowed my head.
 While I couldn't officially admit to that, I personally had to respond to the request by all means.
 Daiken-san laughed at me, saying that it was enough, and I felt a little shrugged off... if only I could do something more...
 
 This time, I gathered only those who held positions in the town hall and told them about it in private.
 It would be problematic if the word got out, but we felt that if we didn't have a common understanding in the village, we would be in trouble if something happened.

 Everyone's reaction was that they understood the situation, but they weren't sure if it was right to take everything they said for granted.

 Basically, however, everyone agreed that we would continue to accept the current system, which had just begun.

 Along with this, I've decided to have a few guards take turns guarding Biblina as a constant helper.

 For me personally, I need to rethink my approach to Geltor. Mainly in a favorable direction.

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 Some time after the start of the interaction with Batcombe.

 This time a delegation from the frontier city of Greencomb came to the village.
 The delegation consisted of a total of ten people, including the bishop who came last time, four church officials and six members of the lord's group's entourage.

 Their story was that.
 As a token of friendship between the village of Greencomb and Liberty, they wanted a Bobblebum church to be built in the village.

 The village of Liberty will pay all the costs of construction.
 Liberty Village will bear all necessary post-construction costs

 Incidentally, post-construction costs include

 Membership fees for church groups
 Annual Offering to God
 A monthly offering of thanksgiving for God's blessings
 All of the personnel costs of the priests and other church workers and the maintenance of the church's facilities

 All the priests and other workers in the church, even the cleaning crew, will be sent from the Green Combe to do everything, he said.

The village will now receive God's blessing. Oh, what a wonderful thing!
 I placed the pledge on the tabletop and folded my hands in front of my chest as if the bishop were giving thanks to God.
I'm sorry, but I can't take this story.
 I made it clear that I was going to refuse.
 The bishop staggered exaggeratedly and said, "Blasphemy? He stared at me with a tight expression on his face.
 The village of Liberty is still a newly built village and does not have the financial resources to pay for the church's expenses to that extent, so he tells them again that he refuses.
 The bishop said that if that was the case, the association would provide a loan, but the loan was of course interest-bearing and I refused three times, saying that it was impossible now.

 The bishop has repeatedly asked me to reconsider, but I have no intention of accepting such harsh conditions, nor do I have any intention of actively accepting the racial supremacist Bobblebum religion.

 The village of Liberty has over 80% of its inhabitants who are sub-humans, and there is already a Telsulian church that advocates for sub-human patronage.
 The Tersulian church does not demand any money from the village, and Sister Yome, an owl people, even works herself to raise funds.

 The bishop, who has been urging us to reconsider again and again, finally said
'If they refuse to talk to the church, it could cast doubt on our future friendship with the Green Convicts, wouldn't it?
 I even started to say it.

 I'd be lying if I said I didn't hesitate a bit, but I kept shaking my head to the end.

 After the mission went back to the inn.
 I called the town hall officials together again and told everyone what I had to say today.

 I apologized to everyone for turning down the church on my own.
If I was a lord who said yes to that, I'd be out of office, wouldn't I?
 I was relieved when Googs said that and everyone else agreed with him.

 Since the delegation is still in the village, they may come back tomorrow with the same proposal, but I told them once again that I was going to reject it as well.

 After everyone left, I asked Eldena to stay behind for a bit and apologized again for what happened today.
 Her parents were a group of Greencombe lords.
 It was distressing to know that she was happy that the relationship between us and Greencombe, which had been deteriorating for a while, had been getting better for a while now.

 But Erdena is.
"...What are you talking about? It would have been harder for me if you had taken me up on that offer.
 He said and hugged me gently.
''I'm glad you care about me but that doesn't mean you're going to misread what's important.
 I nodded again at Erdena's words.

 As I had expected, the Green Convoy came to me again first thing in the morning the next day and again begged me to build a church.

 This time, they made a lot of concessions, such as half of the construction costs being held by the church, but I told them once and for all that I couldn't accept the offer.
 By the time the bishops finally gave up and went home, the sun was already shining.

 
 These two days have really worn me out.
 I know that my lord shouldn't be making such weak statements, but I was still quite mentally drained.

 Such a fold.
 Erdena visited the lord's office again.
''Would you like to join us?''
 With that, he brought me my lunch and drinks.
 Erdena didn't ask me what happened with Greencombe, and we enjoyed our meal together, exchanging idle conversation.

 That was all there was to it.
 I felt a little bit better after she left... haha, I have a simple mental structure, I

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 Because of the response to the facility from Greencomb, it was destroyed for two full days.
 I started my work today by processing the paperwork that had been piling up this morning.

 The number of people moving into the village has been increasing steadily.
 Most of them are sub-humans, and there are still many cases of people who used to live in the neighboring villages and move in by themselves.
 They are often looking for work as well, so we introduce them to the public works in the village, and this service has also been well received.

 There were reports of some of the Batcombe soldiers causing skirmishes in the village, but Vibrina took care of both cases immediately, and thanks to that, it wasn't an important one.
 
 The on-site sales office we run in the small frontier city of Picks has also been doing well, with Black, the demoness (augmented by the augmented people), taking the lead in sales. We also received a post-mortem report that they had been able to hire a few residents of Picks as temporary employees due to a lack of manpower.

 A young buffalo man and his wife, who are farming in an inn village on the old road, informed us that the work was going well, but that the farmland was so large that they needed to replenish their manpower.
 In response to this, we have posted job advertisements in the village inn, dining room, and reception area of the underground labyrinth (dungeon), so we can only hope for a response in the future, so we replied to that request.

 I've heard that the expansion of the hot spring lodges has been settled, and they're doing well, with an occupancy rate of 90% at any given time, but we've also received a request from a young couple of elves to replenish their staff.
 I'll have to make another job ad for the hot spring hotel....

 The underground labyrinth (dungeon) continues to have its highest occupancy rate to date, thanks to customers from Batcombe repeating the challenge multiple times a day, I'm told.
'We're making a lot of money,'
 I can almost hear Gianbarea's voice saying, "I'll be able to hear it.

 There were reports from the magic workshop, Eldena, that the production of magic stones was going well.
 The magic stones produced and sold here have been well received at the sales office in Picks, and they are hurrying to build a system to increase production as they are waiting for them to arrive.

 It seems that there is no particular problem with the management of the school, but while the number of applicants is gradually increasing, it seems that they need to consider increasing the number of teachers for the future as well, since they are lacking in the number of teachers.

 Salamander Sarah's mining operation of the dragon scales seemed to be going well.
 Even if she continued mining at this rate, she was sure that it would not be depleted for more than ten years yet.


 Thus, after checking the reports from each department.
 I'm happy to hear that the situation in the village has been favorable for all of them.
 I can say that I continue to process them with a smile on my face, but I can say that I'm troubled by the fact that there are many reports of a slight shortage of human resources and the pile of paperwork doesn't seem to have decreased at all, no matter how hard I try.

 I'm going to have to work a lot of overtime today.