10-44. The Face under the Mask
Satou’s here. It’s said that there are three people who look like you in the world, but while it’s not so bad if it’s a celebrity, I think it’ll be the most annoying if you have the sa face as a criminal.
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"Good evening, your majesty."
I talk to him with the violet-haired Nanashi’s tone as carefree as possible. The other party is the king of Shiga Kingdom. I’ve left a letter on his office regarding my visit two days ago, but there isn’t anyone besides him in this room. I think he should have left the body double in this room, and peep from another room while being surrounded by holy knights, but there are only the pri minister and the head of the Shiga Eight Sword in the next room.
I think that he’s a bit too careless.
"It’s been a while Nanashi."
His voice is like the body double-san too. Apparently the setting about eting his body double in the duchy capital is in effect.
"I’ve got a little business beyond the sky see."
"Fumu, the only people who are invited by the heaven are only the hero, the saint, and the savior hero of Shiga Kingdom."
No well, it’s the space, not the heaven though. I guess I don’t have to correct him as explaining it would be troubleso anyway.
I seem to have been recognized as the Shiga Kingdom’s hero, but I ignore it.
"Sorry for taking your ti your majesty."
"I do not mind. I also want to et you."
Thanks to Arisa’s supervision, I feel that my way of speaking has beco more gross. I feel that there might be better way of speaking to make people not liken it with Satou. It’s a regretful mistake, but I have to endure it and do it. Right, making Nanashi and Maou kill each other, and then create a new Nanashi Mk.2 might be a good idea.
"What is wrong, Nanashi?"
Oops, not good. My thought has wandered off.
"My first business is this."
"You do not need the sword of sky?"
The king frowns when he sees the fake Claiomh Solais that I’ve presented to him. Returning the holy sword is like declaring myself that I don’t want to protect Shiga Kingdom from demon lords. Let’s quickly clear the misunderstanding.
"You misunderstand. This is a fake see. Unlike the quickly made one before, this has a function to limit as to who can be its owner and the scripture to make itself flies in the sky."
Since the fake this ti is made from mostly the sa material as the real Claiomh Solais, its authenticity can’t be judged by so half-hearted skill. Due to the alloy made from orihalcon and true silver, it’s also equipped with the automatic attacks capability by using the sa scripture as the original. Its attack power is lower and it cannot split like the real thing, but it has quite the ability for a fake. I had added the circuit I learned from the elf village in order to put a function to limit the sword’s owner. I originally searched the circuit to prevent Pochi’s and the other’s equipnts from getting stolen.
With this function, only [Shiga Kingdom King] and [The One the King has admitted the ownership] can use the Claiomh Solais. The procedure for it is the sa as normal knighting ceremony. Only one person can be admitted, so the ownership of last one before the current will beco invalid.
"This one should be more real-like than the one from before you know?"
"Umu, it looks exactly like the real thing from what I see."
"You’ll know it’s fake once you try using the scripture later. I’ll leave the details on this paper okay."
I tell so and pass the manual. I entrusted the writing to Tifalize, and she wrote it while looking expressionless yet happy. She must like paperwork.
"Creating a holy sword such as this in such short amount of ti..."
The king groans while stroking his white beard and looking at the fake Claiomh Solais. I probably shouldn’t say that it was done in one week including the planning.
Rather than that, this is just the preface, let’s quickly get down to the real business.
"Oh Nanashi, would you let see the face under your mask once."
"Sure. However, only for a bit okay, it’s embarrassing."
I have already prepared a disguise mask under the outer mask since I thought that he would surely ask. This ti I’m using disguise mask version two that has special see-through inhibition and recognition inhibition circuits installed. The outer mask also has recognition inhibition circuit too so it can shut out most see-through magic tools.
I don’t feel like putting an air, so I just take off the outer mask and show the disguise mask.
This ti I use the face of an acquaintance for the mask. An acquaintance from Japan since using one from here will cause problems. I was hesitating between Mr. Overweight’s or my junior-shi’s face, but since Mr. Overweight’s face didn’t match my body build, this ti I used the junior-shi’s face.
"Oooh, god!"
Huh? Maybe the king likes Junior-shi’s face, he’s shocked to the point of convulsing. I don’t think it should be at the point of praying to god though.
"N, No, Nanashi-dono, would you show that face to the pri minister too."
Dono? Leaving that aside, please stop talking like it’s an old man’s last request.
"Just call Nanashi okay, your majesty. I don’t want to show my face to too many people, but it’s okay if it’s just pri minister-san."
"I’m sorry, then I will call him."
The pri minister who was waiting in the next room ca after being called by the king. According to Toruma mo, this person is of one of the only three duke houses in Shiga kingdom, the previous Duke Dukus-san. Looks like he has handed over the house to his son, and co to the king’s side to handle administration.
This pri minster’s appearance completely betray his occupation. He’s a big man with bulking muscle that would very much fit if he were introduced as a general. The fan he’s holding on his hand is really ill-matched. How did he beco like this when he only has [Self-Defense] skill as the battle skill.
"Have you called, your majesty."
Pri minister-san seed to have been told beforehand about Nanashi, he didn’t show any surprise when he saw the masked and asked the king about his business. We finished introducing ourselves by the king and greetings.
"Nanashi, please."
"Ho~i"
When I took off the mask, at first minister-san hardened and then began crying flood of tears.
Both the king and the minister, why do you guys react like this.
Junior-shi’s face is a normal plain one, and even though you could even say that it’s relatively good-looking, it shouldn’t be enough to make other people shocked.
Unexpectedly, maybe it’s like Lulu’s case, and it’s reacted strangely by the aesthetic sense of this world.
"It’s enough right?"
"Umu, I thank you."
I don’t think you need to thank you.
"This Dukus’s house is a family that has served Yamato-sama before the founding of this kingdom. They’ve kept the photographed figure of Yamato-sama during the kingdom’s founding with the [Figure Copy Tool].
Fu~un? That’s quite an abrupt trivia.
"Yamato-samaaaa!"
After wiping his flood of tears, he tried to hug with both arms, so I smoothly evaded. The king stopped him before he tried again, so I didn’t have to evade.
Yamato-sama?
Er~r, that ans junior-shi’s face resembles the ancient king Yamato-san’s?
However, it’s impossible for them to be the sa person.
In case there’s a slip in ti during the summoning, that fellow is weak to pressure, and easily taken by the flow more than . At the very least Junior-shi isn’t soone capable enough to be a king, or rather, not the type to create a nation.
It’s another person, and even if there’s a relation between them sohow, maybe Junior-shi is a descendant of the ancient king Yamato.
"I’m Nanashi you know. I’m not related to ancient king-san okay."
"Aye, understood."
No, that’s the look of soone who doesn’t understand.
It must be the look of soone who thinks that Nanashi is the reincarnation of Yamato-san or sothing.
Dang, that’s right, it’s the hair. It’s said that violet hair is the proof of a reincarnated person, and there are a lot of reincarnated people. I think it’s unbecoming of a king and a pri minister of a kingdom to hastily jump to conclusion just from the hair and face though....
Well, whatever. Correcting it is annoying, I’ll leave them misunderstand.
For now, I made sure to tell them not to treat as the ancient king Yamato.
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"And, about the business, like, I want to sell magic tools in Shiga Kingdom see, would you give the right to do comrce please?"
"Fumu, very well, I will prepare it."
An imdiate permission. As expected of monarchy. It’s nice for this kind of thing to be done fast.
"The comrcial right is not a problem. Nanashi-dono, what kind of items are you intending to sell?"
"Un, I’m thinking, like, magic equipnts and tools, and also things related to dicines. I’ve prepared airships as the featured product."
"Airships?!"
Asked by the pri minister-san, I roughly outlined the goods’ genre but the king exclaid at the word [Airship].
"Un, I was thinking of selling large transport ships, and smaller carriage-sized ships for private use. The one besides the transport ship has to use the aerodynamic engine though, so it’ll start selling a bit later see."
The transport ship has the sa performance as the airship that I’ve caught a sight of in the duchy capital. The cruising speed and maximum altitude are about the sa, and it’s 40% larger. I’ve designed it to have big load capacity.
I want to make the private airships popular among the nobles in order for it not to be unusual when I have one myself during our travel between cities.
"Private use?! Using the precious aerodynamic engines for private use pleasantry is it?"
What an exaggeration.
"It’ll be convenient for viceroys if they can freely co and go to the royal capital right?"
"It is true that it’s convenient, but do you have such abundant amount of aerodynamic engines?"
"Un, relatively see."
Back then with Lulu, we got a lot of it when we were over fishing tunas and narwhals. At that ti, shark-shaped monsters were coming to attack the tunas from the sky. I quickly disposed of them, but their identity turned out to be the famous monstrous fish of which the aerodynamic engine are taken from.
I got a bit too much of the aerodynamic engine’s parts since I had obliterated every bad monsters who were coming for the tunas around the vicinity of the ocean area. The tunas and the narwhals had parts that could be used for aerodynamic engine too but they could not output as much power as the shark’s parts. Moreover, since it seems that only the shark type ones attacks the towns around the coast, only materials from this type are known to people.
"How many can you concretely prepare."
"Five large transport ships, and 20 small private ships, I think."
The pri minister inquired with slightly flustered tone due to my vague answer, so I revealed them the concrete number.
By the way, the large ship has 30 tis the output power of the small ship.
Rather than that, the problem is whether they give the permissions or not, the king and minister-san look pensive.
Doing illicit trade is bad, right.
"Nanashi, due to the national defense concern, freely selling airships will be troubling."
"I intend to only sell it to Shiga Kingdom Nobles at present, no good?"
I asked in disgustingly cute way.
Ah, my life is decreasing...
"U, umu, then---"
"Please give the royal family the preferential right."
The pri minister-san set a condition as if covering the king’s words who was seemingly going to give his permission. Interrupting the king sounds like a lese majeste.
"When you’re selling airships, please negotiate with the royal family or the royal army first."
"Okkey."
"Okkey? I don’t know that word, what does that an?"
"Ah, sorry sorry. It’s, like, affirmative."
After such exchanges, I was able to get the comrcial right to sell magic tools in the kingdom.
I gave one among the five large transport ships as a sample, and was granted the comrcial right and a dallion due to that achievent. This dallion that minister-san has arranged is the proof of the royal purveyor rchant, it allows to have business transactions with nobles in equal standing.
The price of the large transport ships couldn’t be set without looking at the real things, so it was for another day. For now, I’m told that I should present the ships to the airport that’s used for presentation on the edge of the royal capital three days later.
As for other samples, I also give so magic sword, magic spear, and several kinds of magic dicines. As for the magic weapons, it’s established that a magic sword is worth 150 gold coins, and a magic spear is 200 gold coins with excessive profit, but I sell my magic sword for 100 gold coins and magic spear for 200 gold coins.
These magic weapons aren’t like the one from the duchy capital that use only bronze, they have mithril and brass alloy mbrane covering the bronze base to make them look good. Their power as weapons are about the sa since they’re both casted magic swords, but thanks to the mbrane, it won’t beco rusty or decayed, it’s easy to maintain.
The dicines line-up are the sa as from the duchy capital, in addition I’ve added nutrient and nourishnt tonics. I present large quantity of nourishnt tonics to the king and the pri minister-san under the pretext of being samples.
Please fight for 24 hours.
Ah, that ans you can sleep for four hours huh. How enviable.
The paynt will be in three days later since the goods will be delivered with the airships delivery.
Obtaining the comrcial right this ti is for the sake of the auction later.
Even though my power of money is unparalleled, I’m thinking of reducing the assets of people who are likely to beco my rivals.
Now then, the preparation for the auction is going well.
As an extra, I gave Sir Sokel to pri minister-san when I was visiting the royal capital for the goods delivery. The man should be able to make good use of Sir Sokel’s testimony.
The fact that the real identity of the guy called His Majesty is still a mystery makes feel uneasy, but I’m expecting the kingdom’s authorities and spies to uncover it.
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