My job is to investigate other worlds!　~ A dull ex-salesman, but easily liked by girls of different

After separating from Palio and the others, we gathered in the inn's armored car to hear the report of the window flowers.

''We have completed the development and production of the cork bullet for suppression. It's a bullet made of cork pieces and metal powder hardened with plaster, but the impact is so powerful that it may kill you if you hit your head or heart. However, it has almost no penetrating power. Please note that even a wooden board is sufficient protection.

I asked for it, but I didn't know you could really use cork to complete a low lethal bullet... I'm impressed with the excellence of the window flower every time.

In case you're wondering, it's not carved out of cork, it's a variant of a frangible bullet made of hardened metal powder. It is almost a piece of cork, but metal powder is added in the center, and it is hardened by a small amount of plaster. It is hard to penetrate even clothes. However, it has a disadvantage.

Since plaster shavings are generated in the rifling, maintenance after use is difficult. If you shoot too much or neglect cleaning, it will cause malfunction. The bullets are just barely able to withstand the impact of firing and can be damaged if handled roughly. So we will continue to improve it in the future.

Thank you for your presence, thank you for the window flower. I think I'll be using low lethal bullets a lot more in the future. I'll be buying more corking material and I'll be asking for additional production and improvements.

When Window Flower heard the words of thanks, she smiled with a sly smile. Unlike before, she smiles a lot more often. I feel like crying with remorse that I should have treated her like a human earlier. But it would be a burden to be noticed, so I go back to my work.

Well, this time the job is to capture refugees who fled their homeland for heavy taxes and became bandits in this country. No damage has been done yet except for money and goods, and the amount of damage is small. If they are captured alive, they will get away with criminal slavery for a limited period of time, not the death penalty.

This is why we made the cork bullet. And I think there are cases where they will be needed in the future.

In Aigis, the number of refugees from Fafnal is increasing and crime is on the rise. But the king of this country is a great king. He is both kind and strict in order not to harm the national interest.

He has low wages to prevent economic refugees from flooding the country, but he has prepared farmland development jobs for the refugees and promoted a policy of assimilation to increase the country's strength. And leaving the refugees alone is risky. A poor refugee population, lacking strength and unsanitary conditions, is a breeding ground for epidemics and crime.

The government also offers refugees who have become criminal slaves the chance to become free people again. That's not just a humanitarian consideration. Criminal slaves without hope are not productive. And when they become free people, they become taxpayers. However, only criminal slaves who were originally economic refugees would be eligible.

Specific criminal slave relief policies.

It was set at five years of criminal slavery as a not easy but hopeful range. This was apparently a period of time that the king had officials investigate to find out how long it would be easier for them to be naturalized without leaving a grudge.

Also, unlike regular criminal slaves, work was only stipulated to be on state business. It's not comfortable, but under the state's control, the slaves are provided with a serious bed and enough food to keep them well fed, if only for nourishment.

Candy is also provided. If you serve your time and wish to become a naturalized citizen, you will be given a portion of the land you settled after a simple screening process. On the other hand, if they don't pay for their crimes and throw away even five years, they will be sold out of the country as indefinite criminal slaves. So far, there are few people who drop out of the settlement because of this policy.

Furthermore, refugees such as hunters and lumberjacks are also useful for settlement projects. They cut through the forest and contribute to the prevention of vermin and demons, and after serving their sentences, they are given hunting and logging permits. Those who have a job in hand earn an income from their skills, so they are naturalized early in Aigis.

Children without families, the elderly and the disabled are unprecedented because no one has ever reached them from Fafnal. But there have been cases of children who have lost their parents on the journey and have reached them. As for these children, they have been mixed up in the cities and have not been handled well.

This is not a lenient policy, and there are upfront costs, and there are upsets. But overall, the refugee problem has been kept low, and national and tax revenues are up.

I'm trying to get my life back on track with my goddess job, too. It's easy compared to them, but I want to leave them with a second chance to get a second chance at it. That's why I explained my policy of capturing them alive without killing them or seriously injuring them, and got my friends to agree.

'Ryota-sama, we are refugee crumblers, but there is a chance that some armor and sturdy ones may be available. We have also prepared cork rifled slug rounds for the Saiger 12K. It may be effective even through the armor, but it's too powerful, so please use it by choosing your opponent.

Slug Bullet. Essentially a shotgun that fires shotgun shells, but it is a large single shot. All the firing energy is concentrated in one shot, so the impact is large.

Ryota, is there anything I can help you with?　They're former refugees, and they have their circumstances. I'd rather have them captured and rehabilitated than taken down.

Then can you devise a smoke ball?　A lot of smoke and easy to throw. Preferably if it has the effect of irritating the eyes, throat, nose, etc., it would be better.

This time it's a light cork bullet with a short effective range. The smoke screen is easy to fight with at close range shooting, even without the tear gas effect. A little smoke can be dealt with by the thermocameras in the multi-purpose goggles, and there's a simple gas mask. 'You've thought this through very well, Window Flower.

"Smoke to incapacitate you, right? I understand. I've also learned how to smoke out demons, so leave it to me.

There's not much I can do with just slugs. What else do you got?

'Yes, in addition to slug rounds, I also made a buckshot cork shot. They are less vulnerable to armor than slug rounds, but they are effective when many people are attacking and resisting at the same time. Please switch the type of ammunition and respond flexibly to the situation. Also, it can be used to carry spare ammunition.

'Oh!　I know how to slug and buckshot, and I know how to haul ass. I'll take care of it, and when the time comes, I'll be a Sudegoro. I won't let anyone die.

In a short period of time, Manya has improved her handling of firearms and is actively learning earth knowledge. She is especially good at controlling short and medium distances. She is small but sturdy, strong, and strong in fights.

Then there's the window flower bandit information.

We found their makeshift settlement in the forest.

It's a cowardly strategy, but the plan is to attack the village first, hold the family hostage, and encourage the rushing bandit group to surrender. It's a risky operation, but if it's successful, they can capture them with minimal injuries.

Even a cork bullet can cause broken bones, blindness, or even death if it's the head or heart. In a melee, you never know where you'll hit. That's why we want to avoid fighting as much as possible, even if it's cowardly.

The heart of the operation is the early suppression of the village. Take hostages before the bandits on the street notice you and come to your aid. The rest of the plan is to use the hostages to scare them into surrendering.

The village group has a large number of people, and it's a race against time, but we'll make it work.

A policy is set, and each of us begins to gather materials and prepare for production before the sun goes down. We'll have the night to pack up our equipment. Tomorrow we'll have to make a good case for Palio-kun.

But if I was only worried about the refugees, a terrible punishment is waiting for me.

Armored car, in front of the slime tank

"Ryota-sama, this mission is ahead of us in the forest, so we need a motorcycle. However, we have almost no biodiesel fuel left. I know you're loving the Scavenger Slime, but...

Scavenger slime is the stuff of fuel, we knew that...

"These children are my salve!　Hey!　You can't force yourself to come here!

'I knew it was the slime that was getting the slime... and the bike doesn't work?　Come on, Ryota, give it to me quietly!

No!　These kids didn't do anything wrong!　Not only that, but they're even purifying the water and soil that humans have polluted!

"Sir a slime can't be friendly to a human being, can it?　Give me that thing and I'll send you...　I got it under control!　Take it quick, Midia, take it!

Get off!　No!　Please!　Please don't kill me!　Please.....

Wow, Ryota's crying... but I'm sorry, I need it.

I don't know what it is, but I feel like a bad person...

Let's hurry up and process it into fuel. If we don't hurry, Ryota-sama will be in trouble.

Those scavenger slimes that I carefully cultivated and filled my culture vat to the brim... 80% of them were killed at once!　He said he didn't miss it, but the outstretched tentacles looked like they were asking me for help...

I am sorry. Please forgive me for my inability to do anything about it.

As I was rolled by a tank in the corner of the armored car and gagged, I could only watch the scavenger slime being processed with tears streaming down my face as I apologized.

I'm not going to be able to get the same thing done. Window flower, can't you do something about it?　It's just too hard to work with.

"I feel like I'm doing something awful too sir, I've been taking care of the slime for this. I'm begging you, please stop crying. It's hard for me too.

"The Lord will cause you trouble. I can be cruel if I have to, but I'm completely useless when my affections get the better of me... I didn't expect it to be to slime...

They've already killed me. Who decided that I wouldn't miss it because it was a slime!

'Ryota has no mercy on demons, but this time he's not a demon, and as far as I'm concerned, I think it's fine for Ryota to be affectionate...'

Well I think I like my husband because he has this kind of personality...

Well it's hard to help when you're a psycho who loves to kill living things.

After that, the biofuel tank was almost full. The window flower begins to further process the slime coating to make it stronger and more usable. The corpse of a scavenger slime. Even that was vacuum-packed and there was nothing left of it...

They say it's because vacuum packs make them hold up better for non-preserved food.

I'll be the only one to at least remember them. So I tried to write my name on the vacuum pack with a magic pen, but even that was stopped by everyone.