111 Episode 10: Waiting Talent (2/2)
”Dear Anis, good job”
”Laini is the one, good luck. Is that your kid?
”Yes. Let me introduce you first, Mr. Monica. Please.”
Monica, the girl Raini urged me to step forward. After a glimpse of my face, I bow my head deeply.
”My name is Monica. I don't have a family name, I look forward to seeing Her Royal Highness the King today.”
”Monica. Welcome, uh, you don't have a family name...”
Basically, even civilians have family names. It is the orphans and those who have abandoned their homes who are said not to exist. Monica answered with a slight distortion of her mouth as if she was one of those.
”I'm a bastard. Mother and father have cut off the edge. My mother died at an early age, and I have nothing to prove, so I can't prove it to her bloodstream.”
”Hmmm......? So, have you ever lived as a civilian?
”Yes. After my mother died, I went into the orphanage, so I worked as I was in the orphanage. This fitness test has paved the way for the wizard, and I hope to work under Her Royal Highness Sister Wang.”
”... hmm? aptitude test?”
What the hell are you talking about? I turn my eyes around. Then Raini laughs bitterly and raises his hand.
”Well, I didn't dare tell Master Anis because it was a mess in the Wang capital, but there was a little commotion.”
”... disturbance?
”We talked about whether His Majesty the Predecessor could arrange for the bastards of the nobility or the children of the second and subsequent generations who would not hold office in order to send a wizard to build a new city, to the point where the debate was prolonged, right?
”Yeah. I heard that...”
”So that's it. Did you even have a picture of the future where you want to surround yourself with some kind of position in the future?”
”Right.”
”As a result of talking about the concept, there was a protest or a plea from each side. Mostly from the Ministry of Magic.”
”Ministry of Magic? Protest or plea?
... I don't know, I've got a really bad feeling about it.
”To put it bluntly, you complain that His Royal Highness the King of Anisphere is only cunning.”
”... Yes?
Raini's words made me want to overhear it and I got zero strange voices. Instead it was Ilia who answered.
”The Ministry of Magic is very understaffed right now. Even if you waited for an educated graduate in college, that's still not enough. So I complained that if His Royal Highness the King of Anisphere were to secure the human resources proposed by His Royal Highness, we would have the right to bring in the human resources.”
”Ugh, yeah.”
”Then the Ministry of Spirituality and then we started hitchhiking, and then the Knights and I both gave each other a name.”
”... Huh?
”The children that Lady Anisphere tried to bring in were troublesome positions that were difficult to treat both nobles and civilians. But Master Anisphere was enlightened in his magic, and there must have been a change of mind in the way he saw magic, in the way he was aristocratic. If you are going to be able to use people, how about sending people to each desired organization with only short-term professional education in the future? to the story.”
”Yep...?
Oh, what. So you're telling me that's the only way I can get people to be smart, and that's what happened to people?
”The Ministry of Magic can help, so you complained in tears that if we were to use magic, we would teach ourselves. When the Spirit Ministry actively takes it away if anyone has literacy in the arts and culture. They want them to carry out cultural inheritance and development. For that reason, I insisted that we should create a new, dedicated title frame and leave it behind, so that those who are not educated as aristocrats would be fine. And I even thrilled to say that the story is a chance to take back into the country the potential wizards that are scattered around the wild.”
”Heh...”
”So the noble house that wanted to have ties with the provinces tried to send non-trail children to us first, and as adventurers we saw moves such as rushing down to the field to pick up the common people, so before there was confusion, it became a major policy to let the hopeful re-examine their magical suitability with one voice, and to allocate talent to the workplace of hope and to the appropriate workplace...”
Wow, that's kind of awesome...?
”By the way, His Majesty the King had his head. Even His Majesty the Predecessor told us that he had not expected it from a boulder. By the way, I couldn't be interested in my hobby for a while because I was smiling and pushed to work by Master Uphilia.”
”Father...... ugh!
Too pathetic......! What the hell did your father do...! It's my fault! I'm sorry, Father! But he's my father!
”That's why. At present, we are very busy in Wangdu to re-examine magical aptitude, grasp and manage those who wish to, and use this as an opportunity to organize their household registry, even if they may not go to nobility.”
”............... something, I'm sorry?
”No, Master Anis is not bad at all...”
”It must have been a problem that I had to get my hands on someday. I'm just saying it's now.”
Well, since your father's generation, it's been a problem for noble bastards to descend on civilians and become adventurers, or, in terrible times, to be victimized by robbers. I have heard that children born in the care of common and aristocratic people are never raised in a very good environment.
It can also be a hand in saving children in such a non-remunerated environment, and the country can regain potential talent. I can be noble, or I can't guarantee I can go back, but I might open the way.
I was talking to Yufi about how it would be nice to build a school for civilians, but it would take a reasonable amount of time if we were to educate all civilians. This wasn't the kind of story that would solve it immediately either.
I would have been in a hurry, but it didn't seem to me that this was a bad thing as far as the previous stage was concerned. I don't think the people of Wangdu are the same place.
”... well, isn't there a lot of hope? And there's only one?
”Yep. There were many nobles who would definitely recommend my son to Her Royal Highness Sister Wang, but I was in charge of the interview and played mostly.”
”Huh? Did you play it?
”If it is to be the person to send to Anis, it should be carefully selected.... Some of them were targeted by Anis, so the scrutiny became more severe.”
”Aim for me?... you mean assassination?
That's not a serene story, so Raini shook her neck left and right with a subtle look on her face.
”No.... It's the mistress of Ennis.”
”... Huh?
I was surprised to return the gavel a lot earlier. What, mistress? What's next!?
”Of course, it's not what the kid wanted or anything, it's awesome! That's the story. It's primarily the thoughts of parents. Because Anis thinks that girls are in love. There are a lot of nobles out there who tried to send you on foot that you don't even have to go to paedophiles to be picked up like me or Ilia!
”So Raini was in charge of the interview, so I played a nobleman with those thoughts, but there were too many of them. Then it seems that Master Uphilia also thought that we would have to carefully select them and educate them and then dispatch them if necessary...”
”... I'm sorry about something?
I don't think Raini's doing so much more work because of me, that. Uh, I mean, the honey trap I was after almost sent a girl... no, I still don't like it when all of a sudden a guy talks to me. So if you're a girl, you can't be anybody!?
And even Ilia and Raini didn't accept it unconditionally, shallow or whatever...
”However, the only reason why you can't send people out at all is because Anis is in trouble. It was Monica who gave permission to send them out.”
”She had a high degree of aptitude for the magic of soil and water, so I think she would be very suitable as an architectural assistant and then a human resource to work in water relations.”
”I appreciate that!
That's not the kind of person I need right now to get my hands off my throat! Hey, it was just a surprise story, but this is good news.
It was me who was so happy that I was about to make a small leap, but Raini's expression turned into something only slightly nervous.
”... and Monica really wanted to work under Anis.”
”... Reason?
”Let me put that out of my mouth, Lady Raini”
Monica lays down her eyes and reassembles her hands in front. It also looked as if it was a sinner confessing his sins from now on.
”... I am the heir to the blood of the executed Earl of Chartreuse.”