The ship arrived at the harbor in the territory of Tohkumo, and after unloading and so on, I said to the 50 members of the 'return group'.

Let's disperse here for now. Let's disperse here and go back to our village and get some rest.

　Wah! ......

　Everyone threw up their hands in the air at this.

　The guys in the unit had become so belligerent over the course of the expedition that many of the 50 returning members of the group had complained about not wanting to go home in Hafenfeld, but now that they had returned, they seemed to be missing their village.

Yamamoto-san and Ichitaro don't have a place to stay, do they? You can come over to my house if you want.

Mister Eigha. Hey there ......

　Gonkichi Yamamoto, a carpenter by trade, is staying at his friend's house in Kimura.

　The engineers and transport units in that area get along quite well with each other through cooperation, don't they?

　It's good for the lord to have a group dispatched to Okuga to get along with our own troops.

Yes, I understand. ''Tell Kimura's chief I said hello to him for me.

'Oh! I will not be cowed.

　Then there's Tanaka Ichitaro-kun, who seems to have fallen in love with a girl who is an attack-type wizard in his unit before he knew it, and he's halfway through being pulled by her arm.

　She is Nakamura's daughter, I believe.

''Ah, oyakata [Okami] san ......

　Well, Ichitaro himself didn't seem to want to leave the front of Liv's tits, but his indecisiveness would not allow him to pay off the hands of a girl who said she liked him, and he would have to stay at his wizard girlfriend's house for the night.

Oh dear. It's kind of naughty, isn't it?

　Liv muttered 《Mutter》 and sighed.

　Well, people in the country get married faster.


　And then there's Igarashi-san. ......

Why don't you go home today, Igarashi-san?

No. ......

　Igarashi-san said and shook his head brummily.

　Hmm.

　I've been thinking about this for a while now, but Igarashi-san doesn't want to go back to his parents' house for any reason.

...... Well, let's just go home as normal then.

Yes, sir.

　Therefore, I took Garcia, Liv and Igarashi-san, who had nowhere else to go, and we went back to the mansion together.


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I'm home.

　When I arrived at the mansion, Garcia shouted cheerfully, but the only thing that came back from the house where he was away was the silence.

　As I was putting away my bags and giving Liv a room, I noticed an overwhelming sense of dustiness in the house that I had been away for more than a month.

The house I had been away for more than a month was overwhelmingly dusty. "Ke-ho-ke-ho. ....... You guys must live in an amazing place.

　Liv is choking on that dust.

　Well, it's a brand new house, though.

Eigha's husband. It's better to hire a maid after all.

Maid Kaa: ......

'You don't have any maidservant girls among the lords?

I've never been absent, but I'm not sure if I'm a ...... maid.


　--Yeah.

　That was back when I was still in the hero's party.

　On the occasion of a quest, I was once asked by a nobleman's house, 'I want to hire a maid, so I want you to assess who has talent.

　He must have heard rumors about the cultivation skill [Goddess Eyes].

　So I selected a couple of girls of maid professionality from his estate and gave them to him. ......

　The girls say that they were a mess, breaking plates and mistaking salt and sugar for each other.

What do you mean?

''Perhaps [Goddess' eyes] included the perspective of 'A maid should be a doozy' in the criteria for judging [Goddess' eyes].

What's with that assumption?

Seriously.

　It's a very accurate judgment of certain talents, such as physical ability, magic and technology, but it's especially confusing when it comes to judgments of jobs centered on human relations, such as sales and service industries.

　But the judgments about sales and service jobs are often confusing.


"Well, how about having a normal interview?

We don't have time for that kind of thing. Hey, Igarashi-san.

Yeah, ......?

　I looked back at the flag in front of the secretary's knee.

≪Maid of Honor.

　I was about to dance with my brush.

'Igarashi-san: ......'

Yes?

No. ...... It's nothing.

　Igarashi-san...... Do you like maids?



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　So the first project we started after we returned to the estate was to recruit maids.

　A number of banners were set up in front of the pavilion, and they were fluttering under the blue sky.

≪Maids for the Underworld!
≪Maid of Honor.
≪Maid of Honor.

　How many maids are you looking for?

I hope we get a lot of applications!

　Garcia smiled and said that, but I didn't come back to Tokumo for such a thing!

　Yes.

　There are two main projects I want to start in the territory before I enter the farming season.


　One is to cultivate industry so that I can make use of the items I acquire from quests as raw materials.

　The other is to strengthen the transportation infrastructure of the territory by taking advantage of the operational capabilities of the territorial troops.


I'm going out for a bit at .......

　So I decided to leave the katana to Igarashi and others and head to Yoshioka Shrine.

　Incidentally, that long stone staircase of Yoshioka Shrine is a piece of cake now that the Kuro-Ohmaru can fly.

　It's so convenient.

　Hooray! ......


That's why I'm doing you a favor.

　Well, my father's side, Yoshioka Juzo, was at the shrine, so we started talking right away.

What do you mean?

'Yeah. There's an engineer named Liv Lantis who I recruited during the expedition. I was thinking of setting up an industrial research institute and school around her.

This is a great story.

No, we'll start small, so don't worry. But first, you need a workshop. You need a special kind of construction, like bricks and furnaces and so on, you know ...... that master builder who built my house, right? I've built that one, so I think I can handle some special orders. I'd like to have him help me with that.

　That's right.

　I'm trying to build a pseudo facility like the "Blacksmith of Lantis" at Tokumo.

　That's also because.

　I want Liv to develop more equipment as we complete higher level quests in the future.

　We have no choice but to create our own equipment that fits our characteristic ...... or in other words, our 'group warfare against monsters'.


　However, there was no need for Liv to come to the territory if she was only to develop the equipment.

　They could have just done it at the blacksmith's shop in Hafenfeld.


　However, there are 150 people in the territorial unit, and no matter how much Liv could do, it's impossible for her to continue to supply that kind of amount by herself.

　It was also the reason why the Demon Ore's [Arrowhead] had run out of ammunition in the Saber Tiger battle.

　That's why I'm thinking of asking her to train a group of engineers to produce the new weapons she's developed here at Tokumo.

　First of all, I'm thinking of aiming for a scale of 5 to 10 people.

　This is the meaning of a research institute and a school.


...... and in order to do so, we need a box (hardware) called a 'workshop'.

I understand. I'll ask the carpenter's master to go to the lord's office.

Yes, please.

　Okay, now we're going to get one thing going.

　And now I need to talk to my son, Shohei: ......

Shohei's gone with Akira to survey the geology of his domain.

Geological survey?

Yeah. It seems they're into it these days. Did they say they were going to Isomura today?

　I thought for a moment that they weren't digging for demon ore ......, but geological survey.


　That's a word that makes my fingers move, isn't it?