The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

Episode 043 Lily's Thoughts *

"Then I'll leave the money here, so think about it slowly, even in place of tea. It's time for me to go."

That said, after Yuri left, Lily Amian counted the silver coins placed on her desk.

Much more.

It's about twice as much as the price I put out by lightly calculating it.

I guess I could have kept the fishing, but Lily called the clerk to order extra tea and sweets.

"Accepted. I'll have it with you soon."

The clerk, who took the order delicately, leaves the private room.

"... ugh"

And I put my thoughts to Yuri's words earlier.

(Indeed)

I think.

Lily Amian was born in a small canyon on the back of the mountain, determined by the river.

The canyon, in local terms, is called the Yana Canyon.

That little canyon was the land where Lily was born and raised and the entire territory of the Amian family.

The Lords are Lily's father and lord and nobleman, but the Amiens were "useless to their ancestors".

There are many such men among the zero knights who take charge of the five great generals as chief governors and flock beneath them.

They do not have a Knight's Degree and they are named only on the shape to the last seat of the general's ministerial corps, but they do not march.

To be more precise, I have a duty to troop out, but I don't need to go out on my own because I don't have a role within the Knights' military mechanism.

Most of them are "flower nobles" and must be knights, but they were especially called "pre-houses" and distinguished from ordinary knights.

Our Lord may be a woman.

When things happen, conscript a prescribed number of soldiers from the territory and take the form of keeping them at home.

The Amian family where Lily was born was, a long time ago, a great witch house in a country called Tenaa.

As a rule of the Great Witch Family, we can trace the lineage diagram to the Great Empire, but this doesn't make much sense.

Tenaa is a country where the royal family and the witch family have become particularly deeply intertwined in history, and the king named himself "Witch Queen" at the end of the day.

The king, only in form, had named the last name of Quada Chartre, but the twelve houses that named the royal family and the "Witch of Witches in Witches" were hematologically intertwined, like one blood family, a large family.

The Amiens are a family among them.

Of which, the other house still survives within the Kingdom of Siyalta, but ten houses are already doomed.

But such is no longer the only knowledge left in the family heirlooms of some houses, and then in the history books in the Great Library.

It doesn't have any effect on reality.

Anyway, Lily's ancestors came to the Kingdom of Siyalta as far as their native land was concerned when Tenaa was on the verge of doom.

Even if other nations perish and the cramped former witches rely on them, the witches will not help them.

Witchers are sucking up their income from the economy and the government.

Abuse the power vested in you by familiar merchants or by the royal family to obtain money.

Witchers with such a family business naturally had a strong sense of territory, and their treatment was cold, even if other countries perished and those in the witch's house flowed.

Renting an overnight inn or so will never divide your rights and give you the foundation of your life.

For this reason, the Amians abandoned their previous businesses and relied on the Knights, the Nozas, to give them the gold pieces they had brought with their lives and to make them their pre-houses.

Preliminary homes are exempt from working as knights.

If so, it is fine for the Premier to concentrate solely on territorial management, and there is no way that he can remain in a household pattern that is just peaceful without military service.

As a substitute for military service, the pre-emptor must pay the house money in the form of a payment by placing it on general tax revenues.

The payment is expensive, and the Amien family still has little to say income from the territory.

Though not in deficit, given the income and expenditure, the income of the house was as much as the tears of a sparrow.

That modest income is also not earned steadily every year.

If the murder continues and the crop is poorly made, it sounds like tax revenues, of course.

In the event of low tax revenues, the tax to be given to the Noza family according to tax revenues is to be reduced proportionately.

However, the amount of the advance payment is constant each year, and this does not change, so in some cases the amount of tax revenue from the territory has to be exceeded.

Saving as much gold as the tears of sparrows left at hand in preparation for the year of the deficit, and in some cases cultivating fields with their own pockets, was a far more cautious life than a pre-family, nobleman.

There is such a circumstance, and the pre-home is also referred to as "the coin of the house".

Even if they go under the umbrella of the Knights in search of nobility, the vast majority will no longer be able to pay their contributions as the years pass, and all of the property they have brought as a result will be taken and extinguished.

Even if you do the boys to the cavalry with the money you save, if you can't get a seat in the cavaliers, you'll stay in the prep house, so unless you can have a more talented boy, you can't be reborn as a decent knight, and you won't lose your payment.

So a long-surviving pre-homeowner, apart from the lordship without exception, has a family business that earns a lot of money.

It could have been a processed bird beast bone, a blacksmith, or the production of furniture.

In the case of the Amiens, it was a mechanical production industry.

It was Lily's great-grandfather who started the production of the machine.

Having a clever hand and a fondness for mechanical watches, he began to build his own column clock when he got the tools with the title in quality.

In a large column clock, the product was quickly reputed for putting in the sculptural finishing of the Tenaa tradition and painting it with plenty of black glowing varnish all over it when it dried.

The house was further moistened when it was further equipped and successfully produced a small pocket watch.

After the death of my great-grandfather, my father took over the business and now mechanical production is the main source of income for the Amien family.

Lily was born as the father's daughter and taught family business from an early age.

How machines work, goldsmiths. It is for this reason that, in some cases, it is ripe for woodworking.

Thus, at the age of ten, Lily was finally placed in a correctional institution.

Lily was the first child to enter a correctional home in the Amien family since coming to the Kingdom of Siyalta.

Because of the high tuition costs, the college is not easy to get inside for a premierer.

There were only two students in the dorm when Lily entered the dorm, a student named Trail of Pre-House.

Lily was admitted to correctional institutions to study elementary political science involved in territorial management, as well as taxation or law.

Also before that, graduation from the correctional institution was due to the fact that it would be a major status as a lord.

The Amiens have enough to send their daughter to a correctional home, too, but they still can't afford it.

Unlike the witch house, I couldn't afford to give her a penny for her daughter who went into the hospital.

So when Lily was admitted to the correctional institution, she was doing maintenance on dorm student pocket watches, etc., and was spreading the pennies.

It wasn't money for Lily to play with, it was the money she needed to live.

In birch dorms, familiarity is also important.

Something like a penitentiary uniform, if you wear it for years, you'll need to fix the dimensions, and no matter how careful you treat it, you can't stop it from getting old and rubbing off and fading.

Even if you wear the same clothes, if you wear them until you break a uniform made by a cheap, ill-armed tailor, you'll be laughing in a birch dorm.

To avoid that, Lily needed money.

Students who generally possess luxury pocket watches priced at more than ten pieces of gold can also turn an envious eye in the dorm.

For them, a pocket watch was more of a luxury accessory than a machine for knowing the time.

However, a pocket watch is a machine that requires regular maintenance.

The pocket watch had to be disassembled, polished and refuelled every two or three years, so the job was endless.

However, the maintenance industry, which had been doing so meticulously, had stopped accepting Yuri's request since it began to arrive.

For Yuri's work was much more lucrative.

As Lily turned next door, Sham was pounding with a hot milk tea in front of her.

Odd, you must be thinking about the challenges you were given earlier.

Lily knew that in Sham's head, where this had happened, complex thoughts were taking place that went beyond people's knowledge.

At first glance, this child, who always just seems confused, demonstrates superhuman abilities in certain areas.

Yuri would have raised it by hand salt, a gifted child.

Unfortunately, however, its superhuman abilities are not at all helpful in the correctional institution curriculum.

For this reason, Sham had a slightly lower reputation for mediocrity, a poorly performing wonder in the dorm.

(... what is it for this kid?)

And Lily thought.

Yuri doesn't seem to realize it herself, but she's a celebrity.

A beautiful man with pitch-black hair, the stronger the fight, the better the brains are said to be than the head of the correctional home.

I hear that his mother has a mysterious origins as a peasant, and that he became the best friend of His Royal Highness Carol early in school.

Even in the writing neighborhood, he soon jumped to the lead of the fashion.

Rumors also come in if you are famous.

It was also a famous story that, upon entering school, he dived into classes in Kra as soon as they were opened and continued to learn as one of the most enthusiastic students.

He said he had acquired Kra credits early, supposedly difficult alongside advanced conversations in ancient Shan languages, and for some reason he was still attending lectures after his acquisition.

If normal, it's not the kind of lecture that young kids like that would be interested in.

Yuri also had reviews of people who could take it for better or worse: Kra, Kra.

The ship is fine.

Lily understood the logic that if she went out into the outer ocean, she could escape from the hands of the Krah demons.

The country may perish. I also understand the sense of crisis that

However, even if the country were to perish, Lily could not imagine life such as melting into the people and living like lurking.

That's the case with others, so I don't study Kra or anything else.

Lily never wanted to learn either.

But Yuri is studying.

That smart kid would be perfectly mastered nowadays because he's been taking it seriously for five years.

The question remains here.

Why do we procure ships that now struggle to navigate the outer ocean and so on?

If you're afraid of death and you're just running away by yourself, you don't have to struggle to procure a ship like that.

If you have all that talent and you're not fluent in language, then you can't go into Klu's country and do it, which is rather hard to think about.

If you're about to get caught, you just have to run, and if there's no escape, you just have to cut through with a spear.

Skills for this will be acquired too much.

Lily had met Klu.

The man, who named himself Etha Vino, was a little confused by the language in Lily's dialect, but he showed his glasses pleasantly.

I didn't look so different from the Shans.

You don't have waking blondes, like His Highness Carol, so if you hide your ears, you'll go through as a klahman with it.

The Islamist nation, which discriminates against the Shans, does not cover the whole world outside this peninsula.

For Yuri, getting out of one or two countries doesn't seem so difficult.

I mean, if you're just running away on your own, you don't have to get a ship.

So why did you come up with the idea of procuring a ship, etc.

(I want to help her, too. Not only this kid, but my family and friends want to help.)

Conscious, unconscious, that's all I could think of.

It would also be because I am careful not to rely on my parents about where the funds came from.

There is a limit to the personnel to be put on board the ship.

No way can we let all the people of the Kingdom of Siyalta escape.

For example, what happens if Yuri goes about her business with her parents' money in grandeur?

That money, if you follow the original, is taxes collected from the inhabitants, so we should put it on first from the inhabitants, and Yuri and his family should be the last to ride it. That would make sense.

Yuri wants the right to choose who she wants to ride, freely and without shame.

(But Yuri, can you do that?

Yuri's closest friends include His Royal Highness Carol and Dora and Myalo.

Lily, half of whom were recipients and sellers of a novel written by Pigna, knew it.

Instead, they're all celebrities, so they come into my ear without a novel.

Regardless of Myalo, the Seven Witches, would His Royal Highness Carol or Dollar want to survive by abandoning their country from themselves?

The family, too, although there is no national consciousness in Sham, is now more responsible to the father of the Lord.

Will they take Yuri-kun's boat?

Abandoning them for refusing to board the ship, can Yuri-kun cross the sea to New Heaven and Earth?

A human being who tries to help someone and carry it out through a lot of hard work lightly abandons the people close to him and flees.

That seemed to Lily, as contradictory as action.

Yuri is the bearer of a divisive personality, so to speak, who can do such a job, who can accept contradictions without hesitation. I can also think of that.

But if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to move on to action at the earthen pit.

Will I die in the land of Siyalta after I have missed my loved ones?

"Senior? Aren't you going to eat?

When he realized, Sham had finished his milk tea and had eaten all the sweets.

This is how Sham thinks all the time, and when he goes into thought, he keeps thinking indifferently, returning to me like he ran out of fuel at a mundane moment, eating rice and writing.

I guess the fuel was out before I knew it.

Lily, too, often did when she was obsessed with mechanical bullying, but she never did just think about things.

"Eat up, eh?

"Is that okay?

"Yeah."

Lily moved the dish with the confectionery served in front of the sham.

Sham starts eating with a pucker.

The deed made me feel strange and elegant, although the demeanor was not particularly good or conceited.

After all, is that what noble birth makes you do?

I felt happy watching.

"Yummy?"

"Yes, it's delicious"