It Is Legal for an NPC Who Is Being Oppressed To Run Away

29 – A very large snowball launched by an NPC. (One)

On the evening of the day Ragni was enjoying a hot night alone, the mountain ranger left Ponia.

“Your Majesty!! This is a false accusation!! Please inform us!!”

“””Please notify me!!”””

Three territories lost to monsters.

It was the most heavily defended of the territory, and in the position where the most battles had been fought so far, the King of Ponia, Grand Ponia, was wearing armor and watching the nobles kneeling before him and shouting with cold eyes.

“Yes. Did you say it was a false name? What kind of false name are you talking about? Is it a false charge that you embezzled the taxes you have collected so far, or is it a false charge that you embezzled the wages paid to the mountain keepers? Let’s talk about it.”

As the king spoke in a voice that seemed bewildered and absurd, even ridiculing, the human who was tied to the very front among them. A man named Count Tarpoon opened his mouth with an expression that seemed more unfair than anyone else in the world.

“Your Majesty!! All matters related to taxes have been left to the Tax Administration! Of course, I deserve to be punished for not checking directly before such an unpleasant situation occurred, but how can I pay the taxes that the people pay to Your Majesty and the country? “You must have played around with it!! Please verify the facts once again through proper procedures and investigation!!”

“Yes, that’s right. Then, the fact that the mountain manager in your territory was receiving 3,000 cans a week was just a result of the pranks of your subordinates?”

“Of course!! What on earth did I want to do by embezzling just 7,000 cans? This is a terrible terrorist attack brought on by the producers colluding and pointing their swords at our country and nobles!!”

“Heh heh. The illiterate people guarding the mountain pointed their swords at you. Those who lived on a salary of only 10,000 cans? That’s an interesting story.”

The King laughed heartily. Producers collude.

How on earth is that possible? The number of mountain rangers in this country, if properly aggregated, is around 40.

What this means is that only 40 people were in charge of the mountains on this vast land. Even if they had left the mountain and gathered together to collude, there is no way they could have done it, and if they had done so, they were living on a street where traces of their contact with each other would inevitably have been left behind.

According to the Prime Minister’s investigation, there were even mountain rangers who did not know which mountain rangers lived on which mountain or whether there were rangers on mountains outside of their own area. But they colluded. Forty illiterate people gathered together and colluded to drive out forty nobles. The king simply laughed at the answer on such an enormous scale.

and.

“Come on in.”

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When the King stops laughing and calls someone, several people rush in.

Their faces are covered in charcoal soot, like those who live in a blacksmith shop. The clothes on their bodies are like beetles living in a back alley.

Twenty such people came rushing in and immediately knelt down with their heads bowed to the ground.

and.

“Princess.”

“yes.”

Normally, when the king is on the front line, the chancellor should be acting as a proxy in the royal palace in the rear.

He too, wearing light armor, unfolded a long piece of paper at this place, right near the front line, and opened his mouth.

“First, John of Mt. OO. Get up and answer the command.”

“yes!!!”

When a dirty man covered in soot gets up and bows his head in apologetic manner, the chancellor immediately continues his words.

“Tell me your weekly wage and when it started.”

“Yes. My weekly wage was 1,800 cans. This is the reward I received for 7 years, and the goblin orc subjugation reward was being paid an additional 500 cans every month.”

A nobleman who was the manager of the territory that included the mountain turned blue in the face and screamed that he was lying, so the emperor jabbed and made the knights around him step on him.

Even though they are nobles, the faces of all the nobles who were bound by the merciless sanctions become thoughtful, but the Prime Minister does not care and continues on.

“Didn’t you know the amount of money sold for the magic stones that come after subjugating monsters?”

“I knew.”

“But why were you satisfied with that kind of salary and worked as a mountain keeper?”

“…That’s the law set by the country, and my mindset of trying to get the same reward as an adventurer is nasty, but he said that he would forgive a stupid person for making one mistake, and he told me to quit… so I couldn’t help but make a living. .”

“Why didn’t you become an adventurer?”

“…The villagers were giving me affection at least, that’s what I thought.”

While talking, his face flushed red as if he were a criminal, and he honestly confessed that he lived a stupid life because he did not learn.

okay. It is said that even the villagers were using it while pretending to give affection to the unlearned guy in order to use him.

And the scenes that followed were similar. Some of the producers were working without even receiving 1,000 cans, and the low-level management aristocrats talked like crazy when it was revealed.

However, whether they did or not, the emperor crushed the remarks one by one, and finally the last mountain keeper opened his mouth.

“I… worked as a mountain ranger at Tapun Estate for 14 years.”

“Yes. How much was your pay?”

“…It was breakfast and dinner.”

“…Money? Did you not get the money?”

“That’s all, 3,000 cans are given out once a year on Labor Day.”

Among the mountain rangers who came in, the mountain ranger, who is older than anyone else and even has gray hair, speaks.

14 years ago, my weekly salary was 6,000 cans, and my weekly salary strangely decreased every year. And from one day on, the money stopped coming out at all.

The fact that he got angry at the village head and went to the manager to question it. and.

“At that time, the Count cut off my ring finger and told me never to make an absurd request again, and the Count in front spit and kicked me out.”

“……”

Jae-sang and everyone in the room are speechless.

The situation was literally just feeding them and making them work. The reality is that when I asked for money, they made me suffer from disability.

Even 14 years ago, it is a story of a vicious act that has continued since the previous king.

From the prime minister to the party involved, the mountain keeper and the count of the territory. A situation where everyone shuts up. The king rose from his seat and approached the white-haired mountain keeper.

“Your name is.”

“This is Johnson.”

“…Yes, Johnson. How old are you?”

“I’m thirty-six this year.”

“……”

how? How can this face, hair, and skin be thirty-six? Even the king is over 40 now, but anyone can see that this thirty-six-year-old mountain keeper looks like an old man with a king’s stomach.

In other words, the years of hardship, pain, suffering, and persecution permeated and remained in his body.

“…sorry.”

The king reached out and grabbed the mountain keeper’s severed ring finger and chanted quietly.

And the mountain keeper saw it just before lowering his head as if he was embarrassed.

– Tuduk.

“…My, my father. It’s because you didn’t take care of your hard work, your suffering…”

The king of a country sheds tears, holds the mountain keeper’s hand with both hands and speaks sobbingly.

“Resent it. You deserve to resent the country and me.”

What will come back if they come now and compensate for their hard work and lost money? Those who could not avoid being like beggars and fought while protecting the mountain even when the country was in this state.

Even if it’s not on the front line, everything has become a mess right now. The reason the country did not collapse was because they existed.

The mountain keeper called here is due to schedule. Because of distance. Only twenty people.

The rest of the mountain keepers must have been in the same situation.

There is nothing he can give back to those who were born and raised in the mountains, fought monsters without learning anything, and went through penance while protecting the mountain. Moreover, now I have to borrow their strength and myself.

“…I don’t have a conscience and a strong conscience to the extent that I can stand up straight and say that I will come and praise you for your hard work.”

“””……”””

The mountain keepers, who didn’t say anything because they had no learned manners, just bowed their heads at the king’s words.

And the king, who saw that, immediately continued.

“The manager of the area in charge of those who came here today, and the nobles of the territory, put on the weapons of ordinary soldiers and head to the front right now. I don’t even have the right to punish you guys. Recapture the land that those who were foolishly familiar with in the seat of , with your own hands!! Until then, I forbid you to return to the country!!!”

“Lung, Your Majesty!! Is that?!”

de facto deportation, and the death penalty.

Not just shaking their heads, but the monster’s s*xual appetite, the face of the nobles who were beaten by the word that they would feed them, and the nobles who were listening quietly became contemplative and tried to open their mouths one by one.

“After this. Whoever opens their mouth here, don’t even take their arms and throw them outside the castle wall. And all the troops they brought will be transferred directly to my army. Knight Commander!!”

“yes!!”

“Get these things out of my sight right now, and prepare for the territory recapture battle in three days!!”

“I will obey your command!!”

The cries of the nobles echo, but they quickly quiet down. The strong knights stomped on them, threatened them with their swords, and dragged them away without allowing them to even utter a sound.

And, the mountain guards remained in the throne room prepared for the king. Towards them, the King opened his mouth once again.

“I know that it is my duty as a person to comfort you for your hard work, relieve you of your resentment, and restore your lost youth and time, but I am not in a situation where I can give it to you right now. “Obviously, I think you guys know better than me.”

The king, who spoke at the same level as the mountain guards rather than returning to the throne prepared for him, unsheathed his sword and slowly placed it on the floor.

and.

“That’s why I’m asking you this. Three days later. Could you please take on the role of Sherpa (guide) in the battle to recapture the territory?”

The king put down his sword, knelt down, and bowed his head. The mountain rangers who saw this were so shocked that they couldn’t even speak properly or respond.

How could the best person in the country act like this to them, who have been ignored for years and decades?

If you told me to just go and guide you, I would have done it, but I would have done it if you gave me more money.

however. The king continued to speak.

“In this recapture battle, surely some of you could get hurt and some of you could die. I am a king who has no shame in asking this again before comforting you for your hard work and injustice. Even so, I ask for the country, “Won’t you lend your strength one more time for the sake of the people?”

The King’s sincerity, and his actions and words. All of the mountain rangers responded with their own voices and colors.

Three days later, the voices of the uneducated people, who were no better than local beggars and had no sense of decency, were heard.

“We’ve recaptured Mount Kildeth!!”

He was responding to the King’s sincerity and apology.