114: Visitors

June 24, 2022 – 2 minutes read – 379 words

The party is over, so I can finally get back to normalcy.

Well, not quite.

When I’m staying in the Royal Capital, every day that I don’t spend with the military, I spend with visitors.

The most common one is Sonaris, she wants to hear about my fighting style to use as a reference for designing my armor.
The next most common visitor is someone from the Canaan family; sometimes it’s Uncle Trolla, other times it’s Aisha or Dekose.

The third most common was the Dixon family, usually Kevin Dixon.
It seems he wants to join the Kingdom Army, but he’s too young.
So he comes to ask me about training and to get some training in.
He’s going back to the Dixon territory soon it seems.

While no one house visits often, nobles coming for trade talks are very common.
When they want a bath like mine, I will introduce them to one of several craftsmen that can do the work.
As for liquor, there were many houses requesting them, so I ended up setting limits according to the title ranking.

The Snake territory is becoming even more powerful in terms of logistics.
As more merchants open branches or relocate to the Snake territory, our inns and entertainment districts expand.
This does mean security is more expensive, but the rise in tax revenue has exceeded the security cost increase.

The real issue I’m dealing with is suspicious people spying on my Royal Capital mansion.

Some just peek in or watch from a distance, but the foolhardy try to climb over the fence.
They’re immediately seized by the guards, obviously.

Under interrogation, they all claim the goal is to discover the method for making the new types of alcohol I’m selling.
One big difference in the patent system versus Earth’s patent system is that I don’t need to disclose my method when I receive a patent here.
So only some well-paid craftsmen and I know enough about the methods to reproduce the products.

It seems my territory is also dealing with a plague of suspicious people as well.

“I’ll need to make a clean sweep the next time I’m in the territory.” Pat

One of my servants had a grimace after seeing me quip about cleaning up the spies.

Editor Note: Right now, I'm heads down on wrapping up the last chapters for Volume 1 (translation and images).
Then I've got to tweak the combined chapters to make them cohesive and so on.
I've never tried to edit a book-length text before, it's…
interesting.