Hiro here. I think organized crime is better than thugs on the loose, they might rebel against me, but now there are 3 loyal to me immortal leaders, that will follow all my commands, I will get on with setting up puppet government in this outpost later.

  I took care of funds deficiency if my subordinates won’t spend their wages in this village we will have problems, but if they do, this village will thrive in a few month.

“Now we will gather everyone in the grand hall, and about that female slaves from now on, anyone who want’s to use them will have to pay for it, with money, price is set by slaves themselves, then as they collect enough they can buy their freedom, and who that slaves belong to?”, “Almost all of them belong to Uno Master” I see this will be easy, but what she means by almost?

“What about the rest?”, “Few of our former generals received slaves as presents, Master”, this might hinder the slave release program I am planning.

“Buy them back out before you announce the fact that there will be cost to use them, and set Trudy as an owner of slaves, also how do you enslave people? And why are they so obedient?”,

“If one doesn’t have fiduciary, or don’t have enough strength to keep one's freedom, or skills to earn one's keep, it will be sold to slavery, slave trader puts a choker spell on one’s neck and as one is sold to it’s owner, owner is set by a spell contract on blood, if one doesn’t obey its master's orders, spell will choke one to submission or to death if that is masters will” so it’s different from mind bending I did on this one’s.

“Did you put choker spell on soldiers you caught recently?”, “Not yet Master, currently there is no slave trader in this village”, “Good as I said before they will be free to go home”, I am a man of my word [in most cases].

  We spoke as we proceeded from throne room to grand hall, where I previously busted the party, as I sit on the chair on the middle of U shaped table, upper echelon of my subordinates sits at the table whereas for lower echelon(the majority), sits on the floor and rise their head from dogeza when I sat down, a bit too extreme of a welcome in my opinion.

“There will be no feasts and no free drinks---”, as I say that everyone is clearly disappointed but keep their mouth shut, “but you can buy as much drinks and food with wages that will be distributed today--”, I see clear signs of joy on subordinates faces, they know how much they will get and already thinking where to spend that money, “show your loyalty, rise your rank and get more money!, that’s all for today” as I say that and I stand up than hear hails:

“Long live King Father”, “Glory to Father”, “Hail Father”, “Prosper Emperor Father”, “Hail Father Zigu”.

Well this is pretty uncomfortable why some of them call me king and others call me emperor?

“Silence[I say with a volume of a thum(dragon shout)], I am no emperor not even a king, I am just a father and to cease all misconceptions we will keep a kingdom's lord in here as an official face, but our family will keep control of this outpost, and later we will seize control of kingdom and empire” as I say that and walk out of a grand hall there is still silence in whole castle, did I cast silence on them? I turn to my right and see Trudy then ask her just to check,

“Have you took care of female slaves in former generals possession?”, “Yes Master, one sub leader was tasked to bring them to the throne room, he will tell them that they will be compensated based on a price of each slave” good now I can move on.

  After female slaves were set as property of Trudy, I warned her that she is not to sell them and will let them buy their freedom as they collect enough money for their worth.

  Now as I sit on a throne equipped in a set of noble attire, receive a group of soldiers tied up and ready to be enslaved, as they see me I command my subordinates to unbind them, clearly shaken and confused they look at me.

“Finally I can continue with escorting you guy’s home, Trudy explain to them what if the family that I set up here”, “Yes Master” I listen as she explains the terms and conditions of life in this family, and soldiers look at me not understanding the point of this, if they will become slaves.

“You all are free to return home, but I won’t stop those of you who wants to join the family, in case there nothing holding you in kingdom” and as I finish, instantly almost half of them jump on the offer.

“The rest of you will travel to the capital with me on horse drawn car”  guide soldier said it will be 3 weeks of travel, with the speed we were moving at, so I turn to Trudy and ask,

“How long it will take for us to travel from here to capital on horse drawn car?”, “It will take 2 weeks Master” this is fast but can horses move that much faster? A 7 day difference, just to make sure,

“How many days are in one week?”, “Five Master, Just like the elements, Fire, Wind, Water, Earth and Void the lost element”, this is different from my world, then the calendar must be different too?

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“And how many weeks are in one month?”, “Five Master, Like the elements” so it’s 25 days in one month? Then a year will be 375 days?

“How many month are in the year?”, “Fifteen master, and there are 3 seasons, Seeding season, Breeding season and Harvest season” wait what about winter?

“Then what about winter?”, “Master winter is a myth books say it happens once in 1000 years but even elves I know say it’s nonsense” this sounds like a flag.

“How long is one winter if it starts?”, “Some books say it’s five month, others say it’s fifteen month and there is no accurate data of recorded winter” this is a flag for sure.

“How long has it been since Hiroba liberated humans?”, “It’s been 950 years since human empire was established” looks like now I see why I was sent here, but let’s first deal with problem at hand.

“So let’s move out tomorrow, Trudy start the preparations”, “Yes Master” as she calls up one of sub leaders and instructs him to prepare carriages and horses, think of accepting my new subordinates.

“Before I leave the throne room, one’s that will travel tomorrow go eat and have a rest, Trudy see to it”, “Yes Master”, “And the one’s joining the family, pledge your loyalty and you will be ranked as little brothers for now, prove your worth and you will rise in ranks” then they all prostrated themselves before me and take pledge to follow our rules and my will.

“You may take assignment from superior and get on with earning merit, you will receive your first wages today” poor Abacus now that I think of it he needs help.

“Trudy can you find couple of people that can help Abacus with wages distribution?”, “Master I already set him up with a crew, of one sub leader, two minor leaders and a two fivers of big and little brothers to ran errands and help with tax collection next month”, “Very good of you Trudy”.

“Summon Lola here” I promised that she can read to her heart’s content so I better provide on reason she pledged her loyalty to me, I hope that books in this world doesn’t cost a fortune, but even if they do I can buy all the books in this world.

 As I think about the price of books in this world some minor leader enters the throne room followed by a little girl with senpaku eyes and tired expression looks like she was reading whole day,

“Lola how much will it cost us to buy books about all 4 elements, to be start teaching magic in all 4 elements?” Lola thinks for a while then Trudy spoke, while Lola was still thinking,

“Master four grimoires on basis of magics will cast us 4 gold, and we will have to wait for a copy to be made, and even if we find someone who try to copy grimoire, we will have to order from different copiers in order to not raise suspicion”, so it was this complex of a task?

“Ok then I will go and copy needed books myself and summon copies as i did with copper coins, also what books can you buy now and how much will it cost me?” I ask Lola again, as she understood that I called her here to keep my promise she smiled and said,

“I will buy a lot of books that are unrelated to teaching, learning history and legends are also my passion so daddy will have to spend at least one gold to set me up with books for this year” as she finished her selfish but cute monologue {player.additem silver_coin 2000}, I stand from throne take a step towards the girl with niyaniyagao(ニヤニヤ顔), and she turns pale and takes one step back I noticed she was teasing me so I will tease her in return, as I get closer to her while smiling I say.

“What do you think you are here for?” I ask as I look her in the eye she as starts to tremble, she knows she was to learn magic and then teach me,

“To teach Father magic and to advance my magic knowledge?” so should I stop teasing her?

“And now you ask for books just to entertain yourself?” looks like she is about to cry I should stop soon.

“I am sowyy I wiii leauun magic properlyyy!” she sits to the floor crying, well that’s expected she is 10 afterall.

“Do you remember what I said when you pledge your loyalty to me?” this is where I show my kindness.

“That I must follow your will?” no not that now I look like some demon lord.

“No the part about eating and reading” I say as I make my smile more kind and sweet, and she stops crying and looks at me trying to understand what am I getting at.

“My will was, for you to learn magic and knowledge of this world, then teach me all about it, and that includes history and legends my librarian, in this family you have a special position and a special wage, you will get 5 silver per month for food and now, I am granting you 2000 silver to rebuild the library in this castle and fill it with good books” as I say that I pour out 2000 silver to her feet.

  The next day I move out mounted on horse in direction of the kingdom's capital.