「Mayor, please be careful.」

「Please have a safe trip.」

Rumon lowered his head. Following him, Kohali lowered her head, and her silver hair gently hung down.

「I leave things to you while I'm away.」

After I talked to the sibling, I left the mayor's office.

Two days had passed since the announcement. Although there were slight troubles, Nambonan was moving well under the new structure.

I decided to establish Rumon and Kohali's former mansion, which was among the confiscated residences from the councilors, as the new city hall. It had a splendid appearance, and its location was also good. Above all, there was a bath, which became the deciding factor. A better building might get constructed in the future, but the mansion would serve as the mayor's mansion and the city hall for the time being.

Although called a city hall, its main task was to observe and supervise the council. It was unlike the city hall in my previous world that would perform tasks such as accepting marriage applications, issuing residence certificates, and going around the populace. Hence, there were only a few staffs. It was a small organization with about thirty people; around twenty civil officers transferred from Quordentz house and about ten commoner staffs hired from Nambonan City.

Moreover, those city staffs were working at Nambonan Castle, the council's office. Hence there was only a small number of people left in this mansion. Many of the citizens appeared to be unaware that this mansion also served as the city hall, and they were calling it the mayor's mansion.

I hired Rumon as city staff. I didn't think he would succeed in starting a business, but I thought that he was suitable as an official, based on the evaluation I heard from the council's staff. When I sent an invitation to hire him while they were doing their preparation to leave Nambonan, he surprisingly accepted it. As expected, Rumon most likely considered that it was unrealistic and difficult to travel to a faraway land with a sheltered girl like Kohali.

If I hired Rumon, Kohali would also follow him. This could be considered a package deal or a value set depending on the person. I loved Kohali's gentle smile when she was together with her brother, so I took it as a good deal. I arranged and lent a room similar to a storehouse in the mayor's mansion to the miserable sibling since they had no place to stay. Kohali had been hired to do odd jobs in the mansion, but as expected, she was having a problem in working since she lacked in common sense.

These two weeks had been hectic because of the preparations for the new council election, so I hadn't been able to have sex with Kohali even once. She was included in my package deal, so what was going on here?

Ever since the announcement, I felt that Anna had become friendlier to me. One more step, I believe she'd become madly in love. I had no clue how long that one step would take, though. Maybe I should lavish her with honeyed words the next time we have sex, I thought.

「Young Master, the preparations are done. We can leave at any time.」

「I see.」

Nambonan City had become quite stable, so it had been decided that I would temporarily return to Nyuneri to report the situation to my father. I intended to return after sightseeing at the border with the empire together with my grandfather.

「Grandfather, let's go.」

I lined my horse with my grandfather, who had been waiting on his horse, and advanced through the city. The citizens were aware that I would be returning to Nyuneri and they were looking at us with curiosity. When I lightly waved my hand, they shouted in joy. My popularity as Nambonan's mayor seemed to be going strong. Good.

The walls had already been demolished to some extent, but the area around the gate hadn't yet. The gatekeeper saluted with a smile, and I told him to do his best in protecting the citizens.

「Grandfather, what are you going to do after you arrive at the base?」

「Hm? I plan to go around beating the asses of those slaves while I monitor the progress of the fort.」

The other nobles in the Quordentz Allied Army had captured the routed mercenaries and turned them into slaves. The Quordentz house had bought the slaves on the spot for a low price. As it would be time-consuming to take the group of former mercenaries to their territories, selling them for a reasonable price was easier. The slaves were making an effort in constructing the fort in the defense base, which was our current place of destination this time.

「... If we don't fortify the base, we won't be able to move.」

Although grandfather was the former head, he must follow the orders from my father, who was the current head of our family. Grandfather looked like he wanted to go and raise a bloodbath out of those nobles who he hated so much, but he was apparently going to endure until his task was over. I could see that grandfather was itching to fight. As he wanted to finish the construction and continue the war as early as possible, the slaves would probably be yelled at as they do their work. It would be tough for them.

Quordentz's territory was located between the Levios Kingdom and Jinkaen Empire. It was located west of Levious Kingdom, while it was in the east of Jinkaen Empire. Due to that, Quordentz's territory would expand westwards whenever grandfather attacked and seized the lands from the Empire's nobles. It would be great if the territory expanded in desirable shape, but that wasn't the case. The territory had become like a boomerang in shape. Conquering the area including Nambonan had stretched the border between Quordentz's territory and the Empire sideways. Preparing a defense structure was inevitable for a stable war in the future.

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