At any rate, it's over...
　It's over....
　Yeah, I'm done...
　It's over....

　Me, Julia, Tetra and Alice muttered as we soaked in the bath.
　Win and tighten the umbilical cord.

　Of course I understand that this is the case, but just for now, I want to loosen it up.
　

　"By the way, Alms.
　What, Julia?
　Do I look older?
　....

　I'm almost 30 years old.
　That's right, I'm getting old.

　However, I think 30 is still a young person on earth.
　Well, in this world, it's the age when you're treated like an old man.

　You know, you don't look much different.

　I muttered, looking at Julia, Tetra and Alice's bodies.

　All three of them gave birth to quite a few children...
　Her skin is smooth and she's beautiful as a limb.

　We're sorcerers.
　The sorcerer slows down the aging process a bit.

　Oh.....
　I've never heard of that before.

　Is that true?

　'True ... or rather, the margin of error, the margin of error. Well, I'm just trying to be young...

　Julia replied.
　I'm trying to be young.
　However, since this is a bath, the makeup should be off.

　That means it's not a deception, it's a daily effort.

　I reach for Yulia and Tetra's back....　
　I stroke it.

　'Kyah!'
　Hi!

　They both made cute noises at the same time.
　Yeah, she's still the same.......not to say she's smooth and has good skin.

　For now, let's say you two are good...

　'Alice, what are you doing?　You're probably older than me, right?

　I don't know Alice's exact age.
　But ... she must be a little older than me.

　Considering that, she should be in her thirties by now.
　But........why hasn't she changed from the past?

　'Well?　But I didn't do anything, you know?
　I see.

　Well, this guy is a beastman.
　He's like a half-spider, and it's no wonder he's considered on a normal human scale.

　''Well you know what?''
　What, Julia?
　What's your plan for the future?

　Julia asks me in a reserved manner.
　

　The first step is to dismantle the fleet. We have a treaty with Pofenia that specifies how many ships we have, so if we dismantle them, they will have to be dismantled as well. Well, two hundred would be enough. And then we will decide on a policy of governing Trisichelia Island and compensate the people with five thousand tarangs in reparations. That's the main process, I suppose.

　The question is how to compensate the people...
　That's the problem.

　I was thinking....
　As for the peasants, he will reward them with money, slaves, or in kind.
　For the peasants we will give them new land and make them self-made farmers.
　As for the merchants ... they have already taken Pofenia's trade area, and this will be enough to reward them.
　

　This will suppress their discontent for now.

　All we have to do now is wait for them to recover with time.

　''Well, we can stop the devastation in the country if we can get the soldiers to leave. 'Well, if we support food and give them slaves, that's enough to bring it back to normal.'　
　Hmmm ... so things aren't so desperate, at least for now?
　Well, I won.

　It would have been so bad to lose...
　We would have had to seriously dismantle the Romali Federation.

　But we won at least for now.
　And we got 5,000 tarangs in reparations.

　........well the debt was even greater.

　''Well it's depressing to think about the debt.
　If the worst thing we can do is beat the debt from the merchants, the debt from the Persis Empire is a problem.

　And Tetra says a bit of a problematic statement.　
　Well, but it's not wrong.

　I can step over the debt from the merchants (although I lose faith in them).
　But the debt from the Persis Empire is the only one that's tasteless.

　Well, for now, we'll just pay back the ten thousand tarrant we borrowed from the Persis Empire on a priority basis. Next is the debt from the people. The money we return to the people can be collected through taxes so we can use it to repay the merchants' debts.

　At any rate, the loan from the Persis Empire had helped a lot.
　Without it, we wouldn't have been able to build a ship.

　We have the know-how of ship building, so from now on our country will be the largest shipbuilder in the world. And now that we have the market in Pofenia, the taxpayers' money will be flowing in from the merchant ships we build. In addition, fortunately or unfortunately, thanks to this war, the money economy itself has become widespread.

　Wealthy people donate to the treasury or borrow from them....
　All of the money raised in various ways flowed into the country to fund the war effort.

　Ironically, this war caused a redistribution of wealth.

　Though from now on, though, the wealthy people who gained vast tracts of land and the merchants who took away Pofenia's trade area will create a disparity in the opposite direction.

　As for this.....
　Frankly, there's nothing we can do about it.

　We have to protect our own farmers anyway, though.


　As for Galia what shall we do with her?
　'That's ... I don't know, but I can't bypass it right now.

　I answered Alice's question.
　Galia.........namely the Roselle Kingdom.

　Currently, a civil war was raging in the Roselle Kingdom.
　With the death of the king of the Roselle Kingdom, it had split into two factions, the General Clue faction and the General Balthazar faction, and had developed into a major war involving the various tribes of Gaul.

　However, since the main battlefield is in Gaul...
　North Adelnia seems to be a bit more peaceful there.

　Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the situation is unsettled.

　The truth is, it's a great opportunity for us to expand our power...
　Unfortunately, our country is exhausted.

　Or rather, that's probably why we were able to start a civil war.
　It's just fortuitous that we were able to put the war with Pofenia to rest before the civil war in the Kingdom of Roselle ended... or so we should think.

　In addition, we continue to gather information as before.
　Thanks to the civil war, the Roselle Kingdom's spellcaster control system seems to have completely collapsed, and a greater amount of information is coming in than ever before.

　For now, as far as organizing the information is concerned........
　It seems that General Balthazar has somewhat of an advantage.

　Nevertheless, it is a difference in troops and financial strength....
　General Clue would be able to reel it back in.

　I can't draw any conclusions yet, but...
　According to my prediction, General Kryu will probably win.

　Well, that's just a prediction, so...
　We act as if either of us could win.

　All we have to do is to tie up with the old Balthazar faction if General Clieu wins, and with the old Clieu faction if General Balthazar wins.

　Whatever the case, we just have to be prepared to take some action.

　'Hey, Almus,'
　What's up, Julia?
　"Do you know how Merlin the witch is doing?

　To Julia's question....
　I shook my head widely.

　The witch Merlin has disappeared somewhere since she said she was going to the southern continent.
　At least we're not aware of its existence.

　........Well, I can at least tell that she's not the kind of woman who's going to die a little bit or something.

　Well, I'm sure she'll pop up in a while.
　Let's just hope she doesn't turn against us.

　If General Clue wins, will Marilyn follow General Clue?

　Could it be that if General Balthazar wins, Marilyn will be on our side?
　If that's the case, I'd really like to see General Balthazar win.

　Whether Marilyn is reassuring as an ally or not, I hope she doesn't even become an enemy, because it would definitely be troublesome to turn her into an enemy.

　''Hey, Marilyn, do you have any favorite food or something?''
　He likes lizards and stuff.
　That's very prejudicial.

　I chuckled at Tetra's words.
　But I can easily imagine Marilyn stewing lizards in a large pot.

　By the way, beside her, Yulia is chopping up mustard and marijuana and trying to put it in.

　

　Hey, Alms. Didn't you just imagine being rude?
　'No way!　Julia, you're still as beautiful as ever!
　Yeah, well, I don't know... but do you think it can be manipulated?
　"...I imagined that I was making ravenous soup with Marilyn.
　Honesty is good.

　Julia smiled.
　I'm still more afraid of Yulia than Marilyn. Yup.