238 . Aristocrat Another Story



~ The story goes back to the point where Safate and the others visited the House of Lords.

 The former nobles of the Senate were aware of Safate and the others' arrival at the royal capital in a regular magic ship, almost in real time.

 The former nobles of the Senate knew that the Quinn Chamber of Commerce was closely connected to the frontier city of Liberty Combe.
 Therefore, at the time they decided to present the subpoena to Safate and the others, they had acquired the building across the street and opened a dummy shop there to keep an eye on the Quinn Chamber of Commerce.
 At the same time, there is also a regular magic ship embarkation and disembarkation tower beside the Quinn Chamber of Commerce.
 The former nobles of the Senate kept an eye on this regular magic ship boarding and alighting tower as well as the movements of the Quinn Chamber of Commerce.

 A room at the back of the House of Lords.
 Inside the secret meeting room, where only a few people in the House of Lords knew of its existence, were the former nobles of the Senate.
 When they received word that Safate had come to the royal capital, they immediately gathered in this room.
 Among them were the current head of the House of Lords, the head of the Royal Capital Knights, the head of the Royal City Street Administration, and other people with considerable authority in this royal capital.
''But I didn't expect that Gapoli would fall from grace so easily.
 One of the former noblemen of the Senate said angrily, "I still have to earn my money from him.
I had to earn more money from him, and I did him a favor.
And to think that the children were all trash we may have picked the wrong men.
 The former nobles of the Senate were speaking ill of the Greed family.
 Those outside of the Senate just continued to listen to the conversation with an uncomfortable expression on their faces.
''Well that's fine. It's fortunate that Safate, Gapoli's second son, has been found.
This man, the son of Gapoli, has risen to the position of lord of a frontier city.
I suggest that he continue to run House Greed as we discussed, and then you and I will bring him under the control of the Senate.
How about we get them to donate all the rights to that magic ship as well, as a gift?
"Hey, hey, don't you think it would be conspicuous if the city gave directly to the Senate? Let it say that it was donated to the Bobblebum cult, and we'll have real control over it.
But what if he doesn't shake his head?
I'm afraid I don't know. All we have to do is lock him up in the Senate until he shakes his head as usual.
 At the same time, the former nobles of the Senate gathered in that room let out a low laugh in unison as they said those words.
''So, for you guys........''
 The former nobles of the Senate all turned their gazes to the House of Lords and other key officials of the Royal Capital here.
''Please treat you guys as you always have,''
Anything coming from the frontier city of Liberty Combe is to be suppressed. Other important people, especially those of the Seiryu School, must never hear of this.
You can do whatever you have to do to achieve that goal. You see, we are backed by the Bobblebum sect, so don't worry about anything.
But, but...
 At these words, the head of the House of Lords raises his right hand timidly.
How do you think........isn't this different from the past when we confined a store manager who refused to pay us our back taxes? To have a lord of a frontier city, and also a frontier earl's knighthood, under house arrest like this to get him to do what he says...
 When the Abbot said this, all the former nobles in the Senate turned their gazes to the Abbot.
''.......My lord, you do not understand.
What will happen if I don't do everything in my power to get Safate to take over the House of Greedo and turn him into my slave?
Let House Greedo cease to exist. There's going to be a full investigation by the House of Lords Audit Office, that's for certain.
Those bastards in the Audit Bureau are a bunch of bastards who will never be paid. I'm certain that any investigation will expose the records of Gapoli's years of bribery to and from us, not to mention the appointments of our own Senate.
"And in return, they may discover the favors we have bestowed upon the House of Greedo.
You know what I mean? If they find out, you who have been taking bribes for years will not be allowed to get away with it.
 With those words in front of him, the Director became depressed and silent.
 The others didn't try to open their mouths any further either.
 The former nobles of the Senate nodded in satisfaction at the situation.
They nodded in agreement, "Anyway, if we can make Safate take over the Greed family and get them to listen to us, everything will be fine. Guys, take care of that for me.
 With that, the former nobles of the Senate laughed again.

 Then
 
 The former nobles of the Senate succeeded in putting Safate and his wife, Erdena, under house arrest as planned.
 The room is located in the basement of the Senate at the back of the House of Lords.
 Even though the House of Lords is constantly guarded by guards, the Senate has its own guards to guard the building.
 With such a heavy guard, it seemed impossible to rescue Safate and the others.

 Inside the conference room in the Senate, the former nobles of the Senate were gloating.
''All we have to do now is wait for those two to break.
 While saying that. They were taking a leisurely meal.
 Then the guards came rushing in.
''Oh, my God! Someone has broken into the basement!
 At this news, the former nobles of the Senate rolled their eyes.

 The former nobles of the Senate immediately rushed all the guards into the cellar.
 However, the door remained stubbornly closed and showed no signs of opening at all.
 The former nobles immediately checked the image of the surveillance crystal.
 However, what was captured there was up to the moment when the woman who looked like a maid returned to the room.

 The former nobles of the Senate were desperate to take Safate and the others out of the room anyway.
 In fact, at this point, Safate and the others were already gone in this room, but there was no way the former nobles of the Senate could have known that.

 At this time, another movement had begun in the Quinn Chamber of Commerce.
 The spies of the Senate, who were conducting surveillance across from Quinn Chamber of Commerce, turned their heads when a magic ship that was not scheduled to operate docked at the embarkation and disembarkation tower.
 Then the Frontier City Libertycomb Guards elite unit led by Gelter and the Frontier City Libertycomb Guards elite unit led by Googus and Lil Pop respectively, rushed in and quickly took control of the spies' store.
 
 Quinn had realized early on that the shop was suspicious, and while he dared to pretend that he was unaware that he was being watched, he continued to monitor it in reverse.
 With Quinn's guidance, Geltar and his team had succeeded in getting to know the building in an instant.
 
'I know what those bribe-deep, corrupt old men in the Senate are thinking,' he said.
 Gelter went first to the Central Frontier Station.
 Here, he summoned his old acquaintances, the Seiryuites of the House of Lords, and told them that some of the former noblemen of the Senate had put Safate and the others under house arrest.

 Knowing privately that the former nobles of the Senate were repeating such an act against those who did not follow their wishes, the Seiryuuists of the House of Lords immediately took action.
 
 At the same time, Gelter also began to act.
 Gelter, who joined up with the Batcombe Guards unit that had been hiding in the back roads where there were many sub-humans, rushed straight into the House of Lords.
''Geltar-dono, what does this mean!
Oh? I'm under house arrest, and I've come to ask for the return of the Lord and Lady of Liberty Combe and their wife, who are under house arrest here.
 Gelter raised his voice against the guards of the House of Lords.

 The former nobles of the Senate panicked at the attack of this Guelter.
 Even though the guards of the House of Lords and the Senate were well guarded, their opponents were the guards of that frontier city of Batcombe.
 Known as a mercenary state, the strength of the guards of Batcombe's guards was well known even in the royal capital.
 They are led by a fierce man, Geltor, who was once known as the King of Mercenaries.
 In a panic, the former aristocrats of the Senate not only assembled the guards in the basement, but also called in the guards of the Bobblebum Sect's headquarters to confront Geltar and his men.

 As a result, the two men, Jalvin Serbin and Serbin, who had entered the Bobblebum Sect's headquarters from a different route, succeeded in entering the headquarters of the Bobblebum Sect, where the guards were surprisingly thin on security, without difficulty.
 Here, they scattered magic bombs and drove the headquarters to the verge of collapse before escaping.
''You've gotten your revenge for years!
It's good to know!
 The two joyful men then met up with Jambalea and evacuated the area, protected by a squad of guards led by Googs.
 At that time, the two men, Jalvin Serbin and Serbin, had succeeded in bringing out quite a bit of top-secret material as well.
 Originally, the whereabouts of these materials were considered top secret, and ordinary people were not even told of their whereabouts.
 However, Jalvin and the others, who had once been enslaved and served by the Bobblebum sect, had been entrusted with the security of this room.
 In King's Landing, the arrangement had not been changed, as the two men had been thought to be dead.
 The two men had noticed this and had packed all of these materials into a magic bag and taken them out as a last-minute waste of money.

 This enraged the bishops of Bobblebum.

 The bishops ordered a hurried summons against the former nobles of the Senate who had pulled the guards out without permission.
 But at this point in time, they hadn't been able to turn away Geltor and his men or enter the crypt.

 Meanwhile, the Puritans of the House of Lords were also working in secret.
 While the guards were being led by Guelter and his men, they were forcibly removing all the financial documents that had been kept in the back of the Senate.
 The work had been planned and carried out quickly, and by the time the former noblemen of the Senate were aware of it, it had been completely completed.

 It was only three days later that Gelter and the others left the House of Lords.
 It was only the day after they received word that Safate and the others had returned safely to the frontier city of Liberty Combe.

 Incidentally, on that day, the former nobles of the Senate who finally succeeded in raiding the crypt couldn't help but be dumbfounded when they saw that there were only bone men there.


~And the story returns to the present here