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The conversation is so light that it is hard to believe that I am talking to the king.
"Miguel, that land..."
"No, I don't need it, it's a dead zone."
I'm still engaged to his daughter, and I don't need that land. If the duke had heard this conversation, I wouldn't be surprised if he were crying.
It would take five years to restore the dukedom to its former glory, even if either I or the king were to give up our official duties and focus on managing the land."
Everyone here said they don't want it, and they can't give it away to the nobles in the neighborhood.
Anyone with a decent sense of the management of the territory, as well as those who only think about exploitation, will say they don't want land that is at risk from the red stone disease.
Ewell has been reading Khalil's report and is looking for the dungeon that caused the disease, but given the information about the number of people fleeing the dukedom, I doubt she has found it yet."
Hmm? I don't quite understand the king's capabilities.
It is still understandable that information on those with capabilities comparable to the deadly sins is not being updated.
But now that the descendant of the hero is in the royal capital, it would be possible to get information on the location of the dungeon in the duke's territory.
Although the protagonist, a descendant of a hero, is currently the only person in this world who can repel the ability of deadly sins from birth, he should not be powerful enough to repel the power of the king's arrogance from the ducal territory to the royal capital. ......
As usual, it's an inconvenient ability, and I regret having given Ewell a large area of land for nothing.
"I didn't expect her to bring into the fold someone who could repel my ability, and if it was a deadly sin, but the scion of that trash? I thought he was a smarter man than that. ......"
Regretting giving him a large piece of land for nothing: ......
Oh I see, so it looks like the entity that can flip the ability will not be able to get information about the organization or the land of the house to which the entity belongs.
Remo Film specific location."
Well, from the looks of this girl, I guess it wasn't wise."
The Prime Minister used magic to project the party hall in the air.
The image shows Duchess Nora, who is clearly being avoided by the faction's sons and daughters glancing at her from afar, the hero, and Duke Ewell, who is going to talk to his faction's nobles, looking as if he has a headache.
"In a kingdom where many nobles pursue their own interests, many would probably give up on a duke who has shown so much weakness.
In fact, the only person who is following him is the debt-ridden baron."
It's all over, huh?"
I've said it many times, but the groove is too light.
Does Khalil have any good suggestions?"
The king turned to me.
A good suggestion. ......
In the past, lands where not even a single crop could grow were given to nobles as a punishment, but the dukedom is too large to do so.
In the first place, it would be managed by the royal family until it is used as a punishment.
In other words, no one wants to manage that land except the original owner, the duke.
"How about we just leave the land and the title temporarily as it is and fine the duke for his behavior at the fiancée's engagement party?"
Well? Go ahead.
'By making him pay a huge monthly fine, we aim to slowly weaken the duke's family while letting him manage that land.
Perhaps he will try to sell the land to the royal family or to one of the surrounding noble families, but they will refuse."
I think this is a pretty good proposal, although it is a bit too personal.
The key part of my suggestion is that it is a punishment for the actions of the fiancée, not for harboring the descendant of a hero, so he can be stripped of his title and even executed when finishing the dungeon.
"Don't think too much. You seem to have gotten over it, but your anger hasn't subsided."
It's a good suggestion
If we let him manage that nasty land as punishment, the duke will let his guard down because he is glad that the punishment is just this much, and we can strip him of his title when the red stone disease is resolved after the dungeon conquest."
The king even told me about his abilities, and I should clarify that I am not enraged.
"I'm jealous, you see?"
"Huh?"
'My ability is to create living creatures.'
When I told them that my sin was jealousy, they both froze for a few moments.
''Khalil is infatuated with that one?''
The king says, pointing to Nora Ewell's reflection in the Prime Minister's magic. To this I nodded with a mixture of regret and shame.
'You were so young, .......'
As the King and the Prime Minister looked at me warmly, I realized the terrible fact that if I had not gained knowledge, I would have become obsessed with Nora Ewell.
I was too occupied with myself to think about such a thing, but now I was afraid that I would have walked away as a jealous count.
'Don't look at me like that, I used to have dreams about my fiancée, too."
"A dream, you say?"
'I was trying to make her happy, even though it was a political marriage. Well, I executed her because she was trying to take over the country."
Executed ......
The king clapped his hands once and began to speak, perhaps to switch the slightly uncomfortable atmosphere.
"I think we'll go with Khalil's plan for the Duke's punishment, and for the man who nipped my ability we'll eliminate him at the same time as the Duke.
""There is still a problem.
What about the engagement, Khalil?"
I don't need to think about it.
"Of course I will break it off".
Hearing these words, the king grinned.
"Hey, Khalil,
Let's have a little fun."