My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 171

§ 171. Mileage Shop (2)

Sian jumped up from his seat and shouted.

“What, what is it?”

“Why are you suddenly…?”

“Young master…?”

Leia, Conrad, and Elena looked at Sian, startled.

But Sian didn’t care.

No, he couldn’t afford to care.

“Is 1% even reasonable?!”

1% was just too much!

In short, 500,000 mileage points to buy an elixir.

To get that, you had to spend a whopping 50 million gold in cash.

Also, a staggering 1.5 million mileage points to build special facilities like .

The cash amount to get that was 150 million.

150 million.

Is this… is this even a reasonable amount?

Even if you spent 150 million, you could only buy one.

To build other special facilities, you would have to spend another 150 million gold!

To build four special facilities like that, you would need a total of 600 million gold.

Including Noemi and Kyle, who would be added later.

You would need a whopping 900 million gold!!

Moreover, the amount spent so far was not retroactively applied.

So, you could only get mileage by spending real money from now on.

From now on, 150 million gold for !

From now on, about 50 million gold for !

200 million gold in total!

“Are you kidding me!!!”

This was beyond ridiculous!

Ding!

《When you’re stuck, try spending some cash~!》

I’ll kill you!

I will definitely kill you!

I’ll tell Sera right now to prepare a Blizzard dung pot [a magical item that inflicts frost damage].

I’ll tell Jerry to make a Lightning dung pot as well.

I’ll also ask Semir to make a magical engineering dung pot.

Ding!

《When you’re spending cash, try progressing~!》

Definitely, absolutely, unconditionally!

《Ah! Is it the other way around?!》

I’ll kill you!!

Swish!

Sian turned his head sharply.

And said to Conrad and Elena, who were staring at him blankly.

“Excuse me! I’ll be back in a moment!”

Sian couldn’t hold back his rising anger and blurted it out.

Perhaps because of his confident yet angry appearance.

“O-okay.”

“H-have a good trip.”

Conrad and Elena nodded absentmindedly.

They wondered if that was the face of someone excusing themselves… but they didn’t think too deeply about it.

Soon, Sian turned his head again and said to Leia.

“Leia! Please take care of them!”

-Huh? Uh? Ah, okay.

Leia also nodded absentmindedly.

“Then, please continue your conversation!”

With that, Sian strode out of the lord’s castle.

Sian, who had left the lord’s castle, headed straight for the commercial district.

He wanted to prepare a Blizzard dung pot and a Lightning dung pot.

And a magical engineering dung pot.

But that was just what he wanted.

The priority now was not that.

In any case, he had to prepare for a full-scale war with Elan Dur.

And he had to accumulate mileage for that.

It was a ridiculous situation, but…

He still had to find a way to earn gold.

So, Sian headed to the center of the commercial district, where ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ was located.

Facilities that were newly opened as the village developed into a city.

It was also one of the new buildings he had built with embezzled funds.

“Food ingredients this way! Medical supplies that way! Other tools over there!”

“Move quickly!”

Various materials were being transported in the commercial district.

All products were produced and manufactured in Ruben.

Items to be distributed externally and those to be consumed in Ruben were being sorted in an orderly manner.

It certainly looked like a commercial district.

“Oh. Lord?”

“Where are you going?”

Soon, those who discovered Sian stopped what they were doing and asked.

Sian waved his hand and continued.

“I’m going to meet Amelia. Don’t mind me and do what you were doing.”

It was none other than the ledgers he had taken pictures of at Elan Dur.

It was to uncover Elan Dur’s slush fund hidden in them.

The enormous gold he had to earn to accumulate mileage.

Currently, this was the only way to earn that astronomical gold at once.

Sian trudged along and headed to the building where ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ was located.

At that moment.

“Lord. Amelia is over there, at the edge of the commercial district.”

A villager’s voice reached Sian’s ear.

Stopping, he turned his head to see a man’s face.

A familiar face.

It was Gran, a member of the Ruben Brahe Merchant Guild.

“Huh? Why is Amelia there?”

Sian tilted his head but soon shook it.

Thinking something must have happened, he said to Gran.

“Then, can you tell her to come this way?”

“Yes, I’ll go and tell her right away.”

At Sian’s words, Gran immediately started walking.

Sian stared at Gran and entered the ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ building.

Having entered the ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ building.

Perhaps it was because the newly built building was newly built.

“Oh.”

The interior structure was very neat and pleasant.

And the structure was optimized for the merchant guild’s building.

Sian didn’t know much about merchant guilds, but he had visited many merchant guilds.

No merchant guild used a better building than this one.

Even the famous merchant guild buildings in Lucia, the best commercial city in the empire, were not this good.

“It’s worth the expensive price.”

Sian nodded in satisfaction.

And calmly scanned the structure of the building.

Again, a pleasant and neat interior.

However.

“Why is it so clean?”

Somehow… the cleanliness was too much.

It wasn’t just clean, it was as if it had never been used.

No matter how clean it was, there should have been traces of use.

But the interior he was seeing now showed no such traces at all.

It was as if it had been abandoned rather than used.

Just as he was wondering what was going on.

“Lord? Are you inside?”

A clear voice was heard from outside.

Turning his head, as expected.

Amelia, the long red-haired beauty, was pacing outside the building.

He wondered why the owner of this building and the head of the merchant guild was doing that… but anyway.

“Oh. I’m inside!”

When Sian shouted loudly, Amelia finally entered the building.

“You were looking for me…”.

At Amelia’s words, Sian nodded once.

“It’s nothing much. Amelia, you know how to read ledgers, right?”

“Well… I guess?”

Amelia nodded lightly as if it were natural.

Writing and checking ledgers was the basics of being a merchant.

“Then, how about checking the source of the slush fund in the ledger?”

“Hmm…”.

Amelia seemed to be thinking for a moment.

But only for a moment.

“If a slush fund exists… it’s possible.”

Amelia nodded as if there was no problem.

Once the leading merchant guild in the West, the Brahe Merchant Guild.

Amelia was the daughter of such a Brahe Merchant Guild and a woman with considerable talent as a merchant.

“But why?”

“Ah, well, I have to find a slush fund.”

Sian took out his smartphone from his pocket.

And showed Amelia the ledger photos of Elan Dur that he had saved.

Amelia checked the smartphone screen that Sian was showing.

“What kind of budget is this…?”

And her eyes widened at the scale of the budget written in the ledger.

“Is this perhaps… Elan Dur’s ledger?”

“Yeah. That’s right. But how did you know?”

“Because the budget scale doesn’t make sense. There aren’t many places in the empire that can manage this kind of budget. More than anything, if you look at where the budget was used, you can roughly guess.”

At Amelia’s answer, Sian gave her a slightly admiring look.

To recognize it as Elan Dur’s just by looking at the ledger.

As expected.

Amelia was Amelia.

“But how on earth did you…?”

Amelia looked at Sian with wide eyes.

Because the contents of the ledger were so detailed.

Such ledgers were managed strictly and secretly.

In short, it could not be leaked to the outside.

Especially if it was Elan Dur.

So…

“I stole it.”

It wasn’t something to gloss over with the word ‘stole’!

No, and wait a minute.

What? Stole it?

Is he even saying that…

Amelia looked at Sian with an absurd look.

But she quickly shook her head and brushed it off.

From past experience, she knew that she shouldn’t impose common sense on Sian.

So, she knew that it was easier to give up thinking.

“So, can you tell the source of the slush fund by looking at these ledgers?”

“Just a moment…”.

Amelia carefully examined the contents of the ledgers.

“There are a few… suspicious aspects.”

At Amelia’s words, Sian clenched his fist.

Elan Dur’s slush fund.

Considering the scale of the budget, it would be at least hundreds of millions.

If he could swallow such a slush fund…

Not only would he be able to spend a lot of cash.

‘I can accumulate mileage!’

Maybe 1.5 million mileage.

So, he might be able to build one of the special facilities worth 150 million gold.

Sian suppressed his rising joy and watched Amelia.

As he waited for Amelia.

Amelia’s appearance… somehow looked a little strange.

She kept looking around, restless.

She didn’t seem to be able to concentrate.

“Why are you looking around so much since earlier?”

“Yes, yes?”

As expected, Amelia looked startled at Sian’s words.

“Ah, that’s…”.

And the fact that she was hesitating seemed to mean that there was definitely something.

“What is it?”

Sian urged Amelia.

Amelia lowered her head and said.

“…This building… looks too good…”.

Amelia continued in a barely audible voice.

“Actually… every time I passed by here, I thought it would be really nice to work here…”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

At Amelia’s words, Sian tilted his head.

Whether she knew Sian’s feelings or not.

“T-that’s right. What am I saying now? D-don’t mind me, Lord. Haha…”.

Amelia seemed embarrassed and didn’t even think of raising her lowered head.

“So, what are you talking about?”

Sian couldn’t understand Amelia’s appearance even more.

Because.

“This building. It’s yours.”

What kind of case is it to be envious of your own building?

At Sian’s words, Amelia raised her head abruptly.

“…?”

And then tilted her head.

She didn’t seem to understand what Sian was saying.

“Yes? What are you saying now…?”

As expected, Amelia asked Sian.

Sian scanned the interior of the building once and said to Amelia.

“This building. It’s yours.”

To be exact, it was the Ruben Brahe Merchant Guild’s building.

But Amelia was the head of the Ruben Brahe Merchant Guild.

Either way, it was still a building for Amelia.

Stunned.

Then Amelia’s movements froze.

A moment of silence.

“Whaaaaat?!?!?!?!”

Amelia screamed in horror.

“R-r-r-really?!”

“What. Didn’t you know?”

“Yes! I didn’t know! Not at all!”

No wonder.

There were no traces of use.

“Wait. Then, was the reason you were on the outskirts of the commercial district earlier because of that?”

“Yes!”

Amelia nodded several times.

In the meantime, the Ruben Brahe Merchant Guild didn’t have a proper building.

They were using a material warehouse located on the outskirts of the commercial district as a merchant guild building, not a merchant guild building.

So, Sian thought that new facilities had been opened this time.

The effect of the merchant guild building was also good. There was plenty of embezzled money.

He had built ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ and ‘Gather Around Trading Post Lv.1’ next to it.

‘Have you been neglecting it all this time…?’

Come to think of it, Sian had only spent cash and hadn’t given any proper instructions.

He had spent cash when he was at the Elan Dur mansion, and he had just returned to Ruben.

To be exact, he had spent cash when he left for the imperial palace… but anyway.

Still, he thought they would be using it on their own.

But perhaps because it was a newly built building this time.

She didn’t seem to know its purpose well.

‘Isn’t the magical engineering workshop also neglected?’

Maybe that was the case.

“R-really?! Can I really use it here?!”

“Of course. It’s yours.”

From the beginning, wasn’t the name of the building ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’?

If not Amelia, who else would use this building?

Whether she knew that fact or not.

“Wow!!”

Amelia exclaimed.

Soon, she put her hands together near her chest and gave a bright smile.

She looked like a child who had received a gift she had dreamed of.

“Waaaaa!!”

It wasn’t a joke, she really looked like a pure child.

Sian let out a hollow laugh at Amelia’s appearance.

Because he didn’t expect Amelia to like it that much.

Well… if you think about it, it was understandable from Amelia’s point of view.

The daughter of a fallen family that once made a name for itself as a large merchant guild.

Amelia had been fighting alone for years to revive such a family.

With no one to lean on.

In the days when she was ignored as a woman.

This moment, when she has a merchant guild building that is no less than anyone else’s.

It could be seen as the first step in regaining the glory of the past Brehe Merchant Guild.

For Amelia, this moment would be like a dream.

Besides, the current ‘Sweep It Up Merchant Guild Lv.1’ looked quite good even to Sian.

No, beyond the good level, no matter which merchant guild you looked for, you couldn’t find such a building.

From the beginning, the price of this building alone was a whopping hundreds of thousands of gold, so it couldn’t be bad.

So, it’s not that he doesn’t understand Amelia’s excited feelings.

“That side should be used as a reception desk, and this side should be used as a material warehouse! And that side is…!”

Still, is it that good?

“Do you like it that much?”

“Yes!!!”

Sian laughed once again at Amelia’s energetic answer.

To be honest, the cost of spending cash on this building was not small.

But it was also using embezzled money.

Seeing Amelia’s appearance that she liked so much…

“Can I move my luggage right now?!”

He suddenly thought that he had spent cash well.

Immediately after finishing the conversation with Amelia.

Sian headed back to Lord’s Castle Lv.3, where Conrad and Elena were.

And unfortunately, the source of the slush fund could not be dealt with right now.

After looking at Elan Dur’s ledger, Amelia said.

‘There are suspicious aspects, but… I need to look closely to see if this is a slush fund or not. Even if it is a slush fund, it will take time to reveal the source.’

Because there were more than 4,000 ledgers.

To be exact, 4,238.

How could he deal with that vast amount right now?

Time was needed to compare and check the ledgers.

Besides, the photos were stored on the smartphone, so it was difficult to check them right now.

He couldn’t entrust the smartphone because the smartphone didn’t react to Amelia.

Even if Amelia touched it, the screen didn’t move.

Therefore, Sian had to be there to check the ledger.

“I think I need to transcribe it.”

It seemed like he had to do the transcription work.

He couldn’t entrust the smartphone to Amelia.

And it was much more convenient than looking at the photos when comparing and contrasting the ledgers.

Anyway, the matter regarding the slush fund could not be dealt with right now.

“There’s no way right now…”.

Therefore, it had to be said that there was no way to earn gold right now.

Of course, there was profit from selling Ruben’s goods.

And that profit was not small.

But it wasn’t enough gold to use the mileage shop.

“Haa…”.

A sigh that came out involuntarily.

Sian swallowed his sigh and returned to Lord’s Castle Lv.3.

Just as he was trudging along.

Ding!

Suddenly, a cheerful notification sound was heard from the smartphone.

Sian wondered what it was but soon shook his head.

The notification sound that would be heard at this moment was obvious.

“Is it teasing me again…”.

Sigh, go ahead.

Sian ignored the notification sound of the smartphone and continued walking.

Ding!

Then the notification sound was heard again.

Sian ignored this as well.

But.

Ding!

The notification sound kept ringing.

Crack!

“…I’ll kill you.”

Sian turned his steps towards the lord’s castle.

And just as he was about to go to Sera for the Blizzard dung pot.

Ding!

The notification sound of the smartphone was heard once again.

“This damn Mobile Lord!”

Sian roughly took out his smartphone.

And checked the notification window on the screen.

〈Measuring compensation for emergency maintenance.〉

“Huh…?”

It was a system notification window, not a Mobile Lord.

Sian was able to come to his senses at such a notification window.

Compensation for emergency maintenance?

“Come to think of it…”

Come to think of it, there was no separate story about compensation for maintenance.

And perhaps because of the Mobile Lord’s teasing.

Sian also hadn’t thought about it.

〈Considering the special circumstances, we will calculate and provide the causal relationship of damages calculated from the point of service unavailability.〉

〈Measuring the causal relationship of damages…〉

“Causal relationship of damages at the point of service unavailability?”

Even this time, the compensation was a little different.

In the meantime, the emergency maintenance compensation was given an immediate completion right for all items purchased before the maintenance.

And roughly looking at the contents…

It seemed to be talking about the damage caused by the Mobile Lord going into maintenance.

So, the damage Sian suffered because of the maintenance.

It seemed like they were measuring that part and giving it as compensation.

“No, what kind of compensation is this…!”

Sian shouted without realizing it.

Because what kind of compensation is this!

The damage Sian saw by the Mobile Lord going into maintenance was not much.