Chapter 129

Fundraising Countermeasures

The saintess had written a letter . What should I do…?

When I took a peek, it looked like the contents were saying that I would hand them the dungeon core’s destruction rights, along with requesting financial support, but… thinking about just how much DP and funds she was getting us, I can’t say that it’s much of a bad thing .

However, it’d be a seriously bad thing if the Holy Kingdom started watching me .

A dungeon that gains attention from the Holy Kingdom, whose doctrine says to smash dungeons… it’ll have a lowered lifespan . Literally .

Because of that, I called Rokuko to make some countermeasures .

“Kehma, peeping into a room with a girl staying in it, is that sort of thing your hobby?”

She was looking at me with considerably cold eyes though . Vexing . It’s enemy inspection, you know?

Yep, it’s because she’s an enemy . It’s not like I wanted to obverse her well-shaped legs and shoeless, defenseless feet or anything . If I really wanted to, I could indulge in Meat or Ichika’s, so it’s not like I’m starving .

“So, a plan for what? To not let them get funds?”

“Good guess, Rokuko . That’s right . Wait… no way, are you an impostor?”

“No, I’d obviously know that… the question is how we can stop them from getting the money . Replace the letters? Or maybe we stop their delivery?”

“Are you alright? Are you feeling sick!?”

Rokuko was being unusually bright . I placed the back of my hand against her forehead to make sure whether she was feverish or not .

“Hey, I’m not sick! Don’t look down on me so much!”

“You were a little hot…”

“It’s in your head!”

“That so? It’s fine then . I was worried because you’d suddenly turned smart . ”

“I’m happy you were concerned though . Fufun, you could praise me more though you know?”

Alright, she’s back to Rokuko now .

“So, what will you do? Outside of the dungeon, it’d be hard stopping the adventurers’ deliveries after they took the commission . Right, we could take them when they are given to the adventurer guild . ”

“Giving the guild liability issues sound like it’d be troublesome in various ways . Even if we replaced them, the letters are sealed with wax stamps…”

When she put the letters into their envelopes, the saintess stamped them with her seal . It’d be obvious that they were tampered with .

“For that, wouldn’t it be fine if Kehma’s magic fixed the seal? You could just break the seal then mend it after right? Ah, but if there is a magical effect on the sealing wax you can’t show your technique, we’ll need another one as well won’t we?”

“Oi Rokuko . ”

“What? Did you rekindle your love?”

“You… … … are you the real Rokuko?”

“I am though!? So rude, even I think so!”

“Got it, well then show me your foot and I’ll confirm it . ”

“You can confirm it with that!? Well, I don’t really know why you need my foot though… H-here . ”

Taking off one of her stockings, Rokuko exposed her foot… Fuuu . I took my time validating it, but she’s the real one . In truth, Rokuko’s feet don’t have any beauty marks at all, but I know she’s her . To be accurate, I confirmed it by looking at the menu’s map function .

Well, I’d be in trouble if she were an imitator though . Did she eat something that appeared from the gacha, like a fruit of wisdom or something?

“No doubting it, you’re the real Rokuko . ”

“That’s what I’ve been saying… so, does Kehma have a plan?”

“… Yeah, I do . I’ll put in a complaint . ”

My plan was exceedingly simple .

We would also write five letters, mailing them to the same address as the saintess .

Because they’d be the same address, adventurers taking the commission for hers would naturally take ours as well for the profits . The guild might even recommend people to accept them as a pair .

This way we won’t have to obstruct the saintess’ letters at all .

If it turns into a situation where none of the saintess’ letters arrive, neither will our complaints, but in that case there’s no problem at all .

“Heeh, Kehma’s plan is different after all . ”

“But who would read a letter from a figurehead village chief whose village doesn’t even have a name? That’s the only hole in it . And so, Rokuko, you will do it . ”

“Me?”

“You’re Haku-san’s younger sister . That is, the younger sister of Haku Raverio, the empire’s ancestor . ”

“Oh, I can borrow Haku Ane-sama’s influence huh!”

Particularly since this is Haku-san’s favorite place . There’d probably be no problem using her name for this… Rather, Haku-san’s younger sister might be a more influential title than untactful saintess .

And because of that, using Rokuko’s name, we prepared five letters to match the saintess’ .

Its contents: [We are troubled by the saintess’ wolfish devouring of our winter rations, paying no heed to the costs . We are selling things to her because it is business, but there is a limit to such things . Could you please tell it to her indirectly, as her country?] It was a petition, one written somewhat grandly .

We’ll seal it with wax and stamp it with the imperial seal .

In truth, it’s something Haku-san gave us for when Rokuko write [Request] letters to her . Though we’re using it to directly communicate with Haku-san through writing letters… borrowing something used to talk directly with Haku-san is very scary .

Then again, even if we’ll be borrowing this empire’s seal, I get the feeling it’d be fine since Haku-san said, “This seal is for Rokuko to use however she wants . ”

… If we send Haku-san a thank-you note from Rokuko afterwards, she’ll definitely be happy . Definitely . Yep . She’d definitely take advantage of it if I show weakness here, so I’ll end it with a one-sided thanks .

Looks like the letters were finished being written while I was thinking that, all five are completed .

“They’re perfect . Writing five letters with the same things in them is tiring though . ”

“Good work . Well, these will do something about the saintess’ letters… I’ll hurry out to make sure they are accepted with hers . ”

“Un, please . ”

The attendant had just left the guild, leaving the saintess’ letters with it . I hurried to the guild, carrying the letters that Rokuko wrote .

The commission easily went through the guild’s Receptionist-san, who requested the fee for the five letters… along with delivering them to another country, the fee was a little pricey due to getting the option for me wanting them to be taken along with another commission’s, five silver coins in all . Five silver doesn’t feel like much of an expenditure at this point, huh .

After that, the commission chart was affixed to the bulletin board . It was placed nearby the one for the saintess’ letters, a bit above it to be exact . Like this, they’ll probably be taken together .

Also, the task of getting to where the saintess’ letters were being kept in the guild would have been a failure… They were put away in the guild’s safe, so I wasn’t able to retrieve them . Rather, there’s a restriction making it so that I can’t collect other people’s things whenever I want huh… Well, if I were able to, I’d be able to go with the savage strategy of just doing something like taking a warrior’s armor and weapon mid-combat .

Preparing letters ourselves was the right call .

“Fufufu, Kehma’s plan was correct as expected!”

“Y-yeah . ”

I wasn’t able to use her plan of tampering with the letters though… Rokuko seemed happy for some reason?

… But even so, out of money huh . How much longer will the saintess’ funds last?

Maybe it’d be better to make a move in exploiting her .