Chapter 635 Reconstruction (4)
As if he had been waiting for this mont, he suddenly stood up and raised an objection, attracting the attention of the heads of each family participating in the eting.
“Objection… do you an…”
Viscount Marie Black, who provided the venue for today’s eting and took on the role of moderator, also trailed off as if embarrassed.
Yes, that will happen.
At first, I ca to report survival and was bombarded with all kinds of attention and questions, but after answering everything roughly, I was the one dozing in the corner.
You might be wondering why this is happening all of a sudden.
“why? “I told you to raise an objection, but is there a problem?”
“No… not really. “We at lves respect the voices of all families.”
“Then that’s good!”
I soon received permission from the host and expressed my opinion without hesitation.
“The Goldbeard family is not the right person to receive this construction order!”
“yes…?”
Not only Viscount Marie Black but also the other heads of the family all reacted by saying that they heard all the strange noises.
Well, of course.
Count Goldbeard is not only the only count out of 32 families, but also holds the position of vice-lord of lves.
That alone is enough to represent lves, and since he also owns several construction-related businesses, I agree that he is the right person for this job.
But…
“Uh… Then, is Baron Yandel’s position not to participate in receiving this construction order?”
“no! Of course I’m participating! “It’s an opportunity to make a lot of money, so why just suck your fingers and watch?”
“So, the reason you opposed this agenda….”
“The reason you opposed it is simple! The Goldbeard family is not bad, but in my opinion, there is a more suitable candidate!”
“A more suitable person… who is that?”
In response to Viscount Marie Black’s question, which seed to have nothing to do with her sincerity, I shalessly pointed at myself with my thumb.
“This is Baron Yandel!”
“….”
“….”
Why is everyone saying nothing?
At this ti, shouldn’t we find out the reason for that confidence and co out in a positive way?
I had no choice but to promote myself alone.
Well, it looks like an elentary school student is running for class president and talking hard.
“If Baron Yandel participates in the construction, all barbarian warriors will join. I don’t know about you yet, but we barbarians are more natural workers than dwarves—.”
Still, I tried my best to appeal, but then soone snorted and interrupted the conversation.
“Foot.”
Soone took a closer look and found a dwarf hanging on a chair, fiddling with his beard.
The competitor for this order was Count Goldbeard.
“…Why are you smiling?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. “I don’t an to disrespect my barbarians, but… I just find it a bit fun to talk about.”
“So where are you going?”
Count Goldbeard seed taken aback for a mont when he persistently asked in a cold, subdued voice, but then burst into laughter.
And he looked at manly and said.
“Even if it’s not specifically in the field of architecture.”
“….”
“There’s no way the barbarians are better than us dwarves, right?”
Hehe….
Have you seen this damn raceist?
For a mont, my hair turned white, but I thought that I would lose if I got angry, so I tried to keep my composure and opened my mouth.
“Eh? There’s nothing better? You can tell just by looking at his height, right? What about the fact that dwarves are inherently incapable of competing with barbarians?”
Short stature was an offense to dwarves.
Well, they seem to be rationalizing that it’s okay because they have other talents…
but rationalizing it like that is proof that they think it’s their own weakness.
“…Haha, if body size was everything, how could you still be a barbarian who has beco a noble?”
Although he was smiling calmly, I could tell just by looking at him that his pride was seriously damaged.
So, it’s ti to scratch the weak points a little more.
“Oh, that’s really interesting too. “I’ve been eating well and living well for a long ti, so why haven’t I grown taller yet?”
“…haha.”
“Ah, Count, aren’t you like that? I still get confused between goblins and dwarves sotis. Since they are both so similar in height… I guess you don’t know because you haven’t been to the labyrinth? “How similar are you and goblins?”
“….”
“Um… Baron Yandel? “Joe, please calm down a little.”
“Calm? I think the count over there should file the complaint, right? “My beard over there is trembling right now.”
“….”
“But I’m suddenly curious: why do all dwarves grow beards? Growing a beard doesn’t make you taller—.”
The Count, who had been silent and his beard shaking just a mont ago, slamd the table and stood up.
“…I will not tolerate any more rudeness!”
Oh, of course, there was no difference in eye level even though I stood up.
‘Ugh, tsk tsk. Is this why we have to confiscate all the chairs from the dwarfs?’
While I clicked my tongue thinking about this, I calmly asked back as I looked at the dwarf who turned over in his seat like a man.
“What if I don’t hold back?”
“….”
“What if I can’t bear it? Are you going to challenge to a duel?”
It goes without saying, but there was a set answer he could give to this cheat-like question.
“…It’s barbaric.”
Just ridiculing my low level and avoiding it.
But this is also a little funny.
“why? Isn’t that why you guys brought here? “Are you going to attack when I’m being ignored by other nobles?”
“Even then… I was against it.”
“Eh? “It was definitely unanimous when the vote was taken back then, right?”
“That was already agreed upon before—.”
“Ah, are you saying you can’t even express your own opinion if everyone else is saying the sa thing?”
“….”
“Well, the shorter you are, the shorter your liver is.”
As I was about to be sarcastic one last ti, soone shouted like an angry bull.
“Baron Yandel—!!”
This ti, it was a difficult opponent for to attack with Noppagu.
He was a grandfather who was serving as the president of lves.
His na is Takuo Welbeard.
His race is Black Bear and his title is Viscount.
We’ve never had a conversation alone, but every ti we t, he smiled kindly and said only nice things, so I left a good impression on him.
In fact, I heard from the Rabbit Baron that he is very respected within lves.
He said he’s never seen him get angry until now…
‘It’s no joke because he just smiles quietly all the ti and then gets angry.’
When Hoeju, who was always standing in the corner like a boss, started yelling, not only but Count Goldbeard also flinched.
And when Hoeju saw us like that, he shouted like a hot-blooded boy.
“never! Don’t forget! The reason we gathered in one place! “We must always co together as one to survive!”
Wow, your voice is good too.
Well, since he’s a black bear, his body size isn’t that much different from mine.
“Difference of opinion? Good! But I will never stand by and watch us fight among ourselves! Do you understand?”
“…I guess I got excited for a mont. “I’m sorry, Hoeju.”
“How can Baron Yandel have no answer!”
“…I will be self-reliant.”
As soon as I took a step back, Hoeju sat down again and began to look as gentle as usual, as if he had never been angry before.
So…
“Then can I continue what I was saying earlier?”
I also opened my mouth slyly.
“What you’re saying is what you were saying…”
“Isn’t the conversation cut off earlier by an interrupter? “I was explaining why we should choose Baron Yandel.”
“Oh yes… I did. Please continue speaking.”
Soon, I continued my explanation naturally as if I had prepared a PPT in advance.
Why are barbarians the best hard workers?
We spoke sufficiently about cost-effectiveness and quantity, and also said that 8,712 Bifron residents could be employed as manpower.
“Hmm… Are you saying barbarian warriors are that good at building houses?”
“Of course, it cannot be built as elaborately and robustly as a dwarf. But it’s fast.”
At this point, when he looks at Count Goldbeard while saying a word of humility, the dwarf coughs humbly.
Looking at their expressions, it looks like the complint itself isn’t bad…
“Hmm, our work speed isn’t slow at all either.”
If I even add one word, I can see how much you hate losing.
“Anyway, I think this reconstruction project is about quickly restoring a large area. The royal family itself must be hoping for that.”
“That is correct.”
“I ant it in that sense. “Why did they say I was the best person for this reconstruction project?”
“Sure… it makes sense…”
After the briefing, people’s reactions were ambiguous.
It seems like there are a lot of people who are quite swayed by my persuasion, but it seems like they are doubting whether what I am saying is true or not.
In fact, soone even raised doubts.
“But it’s not just Baron Yandel’s words. “The fact that they are so good at construction work.”
“Then why don’t we just compete? They call in dwarves and barbarians, have them do construction work, and then look at the results and score them. “If I lose, I will accept the result clearly.”
The host looked at Count Goldbeard in bewildernt at such a blunt suggestion that could only be made in a bar.
Eyes as if asking for a doctor.
However, I felt it just by looking at his actions and his height, but as expected, this guy was not good enough to beco an adult.
“Good! “Let’s give it a try!”
That’s how the duel was established.
***
After the dueling parties reached an agreent, all the characters naturally noticed one person.
It was Hoeju sitting in the corner.
How will Hoeju react to the fact that we, who were arguing earlier, are actually having a confrontation?
Everyone was worried about this, but the unexpected reaction was very pleasant.
“Hahaha! Yeah, it’s better this way! I will create a position for you soon and contact you. Instead, promise to submit cleanly to either the loser or the winner.”
“I swear on my warrior’s honor.”
“I too swear on my hamr.”
Okay, so now this issue is over…
As the agenda from the beginning dragged on for a long ti, Viscount Marie Black, who was in charge of hosting the eting, continued the eting again.
“Then, we will conclude the discussion regarding orders and move on to the next agenda.”
In fact, from their perspective, receiving construction orders was not that important of a topic.
Well, it’s about making money anyway, right?
As a new family, we are obsessed with things like this.
As they were people who had maintained noble families for hundreds or at most thousands of years, they all had a lot of money.
And in that sense.
“This agenda is a free discussion about the Noark invasion and the occupation of Bifron.”
As soon as a new topic cos up, all the heads of the family stiffen their expressions and adjust their postures.
Their attitude was so serious that it could not even be compared to the order-related agenda just monts ago.
“As this discussion is about sharing information and analyzing and inferring situations we don’t know about, I hope everyone will speak freely.”
As soon as the eting began, the household heads who had remained silent expressed their opinions in passionate voices.
“There is circumstantial evidence that the royal family knew in advance about the invasion of Noark. This was obtained from a very reliable source….”
“I would like to tell you in advance that this is not certain information. “There is a rumor that Noark’s side has tampered with the protective magic circle in Biffron.”
“Huh… “How could such scoundrels take over the great sage’s legacy?”
As the discussion did not have a clear end, the eting continued to get longer and naturally, many questions ca to during that ti.
“By any chance… do you know anything about Baron Yandel?”
“That’s right! “Weren’t you nearby when that happened!”
“The Baron is the only one who has been to District 7 and Biffron.”
They seed to have high expectations of , but unfortunately, I didn’t know much either.
Noark and the royal family’s movents were suspicious.
Isn’t it a bit much to bring it up here without any basis?
“I don’t know either.”
The heads of the family couldn’t help but be disappointed when they honestly said they didn’t know anything.
However, they seed to understand it to so extent.
“Hmm, I guess so…”
“Well… there’s no way he would know sothing just because he’s a baron.”
“I’m sure this topic will co up at this royal eting, so I can’t help but look forward to information from there.”
“But in the end, all we hear is trivial stories. “The really important information doesn’t reach us.”
“In the end, they will monopolize the fruits of this incident.”
I don’t know why, but the atmosphere suddenly darkens and everyone looks angry.
At this, I had no choice but to tilt my head and speak.
“Uh… if that’s the case, there’s nothing I can’t tell you in a few days…?”
But the heads of the family who heard also looked puzzled.
“…huh? “What do you an, Baron Yandel?”
“Literally.”
“Haha, you an literally? “What, are you talking as if Baron Yandel has obtained permission to attend the royal eting?”
“Oh, I thought so?”
It wasn’t anything to hide, so I just answered calmly. But was it just a story they could not hear in passing?
“….”
“….”
After a mont of silence.
“What?!”
“baron! “Is that true?”
“…oh my god! “There is soone who has been granted permission to attend the royal eting in lves!”
Suddenly the surroundings beca noisy.
“Isn’t this… almost 600 years old?”
Why are there so many things these guys haven’t been able to do for hundreds of years?
To be honest, it’s a bit absurd, but…
“Baron! baron! Tell ! “How on earth did you get permission?”
“B1! “Is it because of the exploration of the first basent level?”
“No, maybe it’s thanks to his contribution in rescuing the explorers from Area 7.”
The intuition of a warrior born as a natural fighter was speaking.
“baron! “Say sothing—.”
“Sore throat.”
“…huh?”
“I’m suddenly thirsty. Is there anything cold?”
From now on, I am the boss.
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