84 – Kidnapping Case – 1
Luna von Luitbert is the world’s strongest tactician who defeated Princess Leonia twice in her prime. However, she was not the strongest from the beginning. When she was young, she was an innocent girl, but there was an incident that awakened her into the embodiment of Machiavellianism, who did not hesitate in her means and methods.
That was a kidnapping incident that occurred during this period. On her way back from her administrative training, she is kidnapped by bandits who want her for ransom. And the story goes that she was held captive by bandits for two weeks while they prepared to ransom her at Louis Vert’s main house, and as she suffered all kinds of humiliation, she caused internal strife among the bandits and killed all of them.
Of course, the story says that she simply suffered all kinds of indignities for two weeks, but honestly, it was obvious what would have happened. And now that history has already changed a lot due to my actions, I wanted to prevent, if possible, a tragic event that would change the girl in front of her forever.
Above all, she plans to become a strategist who demonstrates tremendous talent in both civil and military circles. She calculated that there was no harm in doing her a favor.
Because of this, my plan was to prevent her kidnapping. And for that, if possible, it would be better for her to go to her administrative practice with her.
But here, a question arises. Since it was an administrative training program hosted by the academy, safety measures must have been in place, but how could there have been room for thieves or something like that to intervene? No matter how difficult the times were, it was incomprehensible. Regarding this, I decided to collect information first.
It is unlikely that the thieves happened to know her name, Luna von Ruit Wert, and came to kidnap her and demand a ransom for her from her house. Apparently, someone told the thieves Luna’s direction of movement, but at the moment, it was unclear who was behind the scenes.
First of all, the person doing administrative training with Luna was Bertolph von Ruytwert.
“It seems unlikely that Bertolf was the culprit… “
Bertolf was Luna’s cousin and heir to the Ruitbert branch. That means that when Luna, the heir of the main family, dies, Bertolf will inherit the family.
Looking at this point alone, Bertolph was also suspicious enough, but the problem was that Bertolph was also with him when he was kidnapped. Given that Bertolph almost died as well, it is unlikely that this incident was a mystery. In the first place, Bertolph does not have the courage to plan something like this. According to Luna’s assessment, he has the qualities, but he is still just a child imitating her tricks.
“Then…” “
In the end, the culprit is on the other side, but we don’t know yet. I feel like I should stay by Luna’s side and gather information little by little.
—–
“What!? “Are you asking me to change my administrative training partner?”
Bertolph made a fuss.
“Okay. “I want to go with Luna.”
“Why? Did you fight with your partner? “Just talk to me a little bit.”
“We didn’t fight. Honestly, I haven’t even seen it yet. “I don’t even know her face.”
“Then why? You can’t believe it… “
Bertolf looked around and spoke quietly.
“Other than that, do you want to go with Luna? Are you interested in Luna too?”
“Let’s just say it’s not completely wrong.”
“This is crazy… ! Charles Jean Rochepol and Luna von Ruybert? Really?”
Bertolph seemed to have a huge misunderstanding, but he decided to leave it at that for now. Because he couldn’t think of any other excuse anyway.
“So? Are you going to change it? “Are you going to tell me?”
“Of course… ! Of course you have to change it! As you know, there are no martial arts talents in our family. How reassuring will the elders in the family be if you come in as a son-in-law? As the successor to the Ruitbert family, I must dedicate my whole body to the elders and ancestors of the family.”
I didn’t think anything of it, but Bertolf was drinking kimchi soup alone. Besides, why isn’t there no talent? Luna von Luitbert is destined to stop Leonian invasions twice someday. Although now is the time when it is not receiving much attention yet.
“Please do well with Luna. Because I fully support you. Even though Luna is unlucky, she is a good girl in her own way. Then she says take care of it. “Brother-in-law.”
I roughly ignored Bertolf, who was talking nonsense. In fact, she doesn’t know whether Luna is a good person or not. What is certain, however, is that Luna was a character who could greatly shake up the story of her game, and she simply calculated that buying the favor of such a character would help her for a long time to come.
—–
“Why are you so late? Cousin… “aaah!”
When Luna von Ruit Wert saw me getting into her carriage, she was startled.
“Why are you here?”
“Oh, you didn’t know? “I changed partners with Bertolf.”
“Who wants it?”
“With Bertolph, as I wish.”
“You didn’t get my consent!”
“Uh… Yes. “Then would you like to find another partner right now?”
“… “
She couldn’t object and closed her mouth. That’s because her personal relationships weren’t that wide. Her ability was clear, but she didn’t have much talent for socializing.
Each person has strengths and weaknesses, but she is not good at being close to people. That’s almost its only weakness. So naturally, she would have no one to change her partner with except Bertolph. Although it seems like Bertolf is dependent on Luna, in fact, Luna is also dependent on Bertolph, so it is a two-way dependency relationship.
“I don’t know what my cousin is thinking. Why did you put me together with someone like you? “You know very well that they are opposites.”
“Were we opposites?”
“Of course. “I am a person who tries to do something about a sinking ship, and you are a person who will abandon all the other people on board and just change because the ship is sinking.”
Why stay still when the ship is sinking in the first place? Even if you abandon others, those who will live must live. I thought I was a person with more common sense than Luna.
“I know what you’re thinking. “I guess you think it’s natural to abandon the ship if it sinks, right?”
“Can you read people’s minds now?”
“Only the heart of someone like you. You may not understand, but nobles have their own pride. As nobles are born with much more than ordinary people, their duties are also much greater than those of ordinary people. Repairing sinking ships is one of the duties of a nobleman. I really… I don’t know why I’m saying this. “We probably won’t understand each other anyway.”
I agree. I wasn’t about to say that before I sat down opposite her. Fortunately, the paradox of noblesse oblige seems to have ended.
“Can we leave?”
Open the window of the carriage and said the coachman. When I answered, the driver hit the horse with a whip and the horse started to trot.
We each read the books we brought as if we had planned them in advance, and did not mix a word while the carriage was running.
—–
Soon we arrived at a small city called Salzburg. When we arrived in Salzburg, we were greeted by the local magistrate, a short and fat man.
“Hello, this is Adam Colbert. “Please feel free to call me Adam.”
“This is Charles.”
“I’m Luna von Ruytwert.”
“Then would you like to tour the estate first?”
As we followed Adam, he started showing us around the city and explaining various things.
“Salzburg is a typical commercial city that makes a living through intermediary trade connecting western Swadia and eastern Arcadia. Specialties include dates and olives. “Thanks to the warm southern climate, fruit farming thrives, making it a great city where you can eat delicious fruit all year round.”
Adam seemed to have great pride in Salzburg. He never got tired of it and kept talking about his territory. An hour later, when his explanation of the territory was over, Luna and I were both not in good physical condition, so we had no choice but to go into the dorm looking clearly exhausted.
The first day ended after a good rest at the accommodation under Adam’s guidance, and full-scale training began on the second day. As Adam Colbert’s assistants, we took care of all sorts of chores and paperwork, but the administrators in Salzburg treated us as if we were part-time workers rather than students who had come for training.
But Luna did not look dissatisfied at all. This is because she was able to figure out how the actual administration works and what administrators do, even if only through a glance.
At first, I was dissatisfied because I felt like they were pushing me too hard, but from the beginning, I followed Luna’s example and paid close attention to what they were doing and how they were doing it. As I was doing chores and watching their work from time to time, I slowly began to get the gist of it.
“The paperwork is a mess! Someone organized this! “Organize it from the beginning in chronological order and according to purpose!”
“Sorry!”
“The documents to be submitted to the lord are this way! The documents to be submitted to the secretary go here! The documents to be submitted to the magistrate are here! Why did you move it there? Bring it back!”
“I understand!”
Watching Administrator Adam Colbert beg for his subordinates, I thought that administrative work was no different in the early and modern times when it was difficult.
‘I have to do this someday…’ ‘
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As the mercenary group grew, it needed someone to handle administrative duties. Unless I hire Zhuge Liang separately, I will eventually have to take charge of it, so I thought it would be better to learn it while I can.
I helped them with their work by assisting with administrative tasks for several days without even noticing the passage of time. Suddenly…
– Shake it off.
Administrator Adam Colbert collapsed helplessly. He quickly ran over and checked for a pulse, and there was one. He wasn’t dead.
“Call the doctor quickly! “Someone fell down!”
“Oh, again?”
Again? Have you ever collapsed before?
“Don’t worry too much, student. There are often people here who collapse from overwork. “I’ll take this person to the doctor, so you can go back in and do your work.”
“Yes? Yes… “
When I returned, administrative work began to slow down due to the absence of Adam Colbert. Without Adam, who was leading the administrative work, the remaining administrators began to become confused.
But suddenly one of the administrators started shuffling the documents. At that moment, Charles felt cold.
‘You shouldn’t mix that…’ ‘
But if I pretended to know about work, I couldn’t even say anything because I thought the work would increase even though I was doing a good job, so I just stamped my feet. However…
“Uh, uh! “You can’t mix those!”
Luna shouted as she looked at the administrator shuffling a pile of documents.
“Huh? You’re an assistant from the Academy, right? What do you say you know? “Do you know what this is?”
“Of course! The one on the left is a trade and transportation document from 1494 to 1498, and the one on the left is a trade and transportation document from 1499 to 1501. “It has been stored in five-year increments since 1484, when the administrator changed, so if you want to combine it, you have to merge the data in five-year increments starting from before 1499.”
At that moment, everyone’s eyes in the hall turned to Luna.
“Have you memorized that already?”
“Yes.”
And then those eyes began to come to Charles as well.
At that moment, Charles was astonished. Is he crazy? No matter where you go, you have to pretend you can’t work to get work, so why pretend to know and buy more work?
“You too?”
“Ah, not as much as this one… “
“So you’ve memorized it to some extent?”
“A little bit, a little bit?”
Since Luna had already pretended to know, if she said she didn’t know at all, she would be compared too much to Luna, so she just made a vague statement. OK…
“From now on, the two will work together as administrators, not assistants! “I’ll give you enough money, so don’t worry, just take on the tasks I’m asked to do from now on!”
f*cked. Work has increased.