Volume 5 Chapter 1: What’s a ‘Self-Restraint’?

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Author: 夜州 (Yashu)

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–– Cain was now fourteen years old.

Drintor’s population had grown and was growing rapidly due to the investment of public funds into developing the city.

The construction rush was still underway as well, with the builders themselves being so impressed with the ease-of-living there that many of them moved to Drintor with their families.

However, if there are towns or cities that are growing, there will also be towns or cities in decline.

Drintor kept its taxes relatively low to encourage population growth.

Cain, with his mentality of not needing to live in the utmost luxury, his private assets, earnings from being an adventurer, and the money being transferred to him from the Sarakhan Company’s sales, already had an enormous amount of capital at his disposal.

Hearing rumours about Drintor from towns with more severe tax amounts, it was only natural that not many would stay behind, instead moving to Drintor.

Seen from the lord’s perspective however, if the population decreased, so would the taxes.

One of those lords contacted the higher-rank noble whom they followed.

“If the population decreases any more than this, the town won’t be able to pay its taxes to the country.”

Sitting in the middle, Corgino growled, thinking hard.

“That hateful Silford… I’d be happy to crush Drintor if I could…”

The nobles belonging to Marquis Corgino’s faction had gathered in his mansion, and the one whose town’s population was decreasing had asked him to help.

Corgino wanted to help out the members of his faction, but the fines from repeated failures as well as having to have his whole mansion rebuilt had left quite the dent in his private assets. His profits from human trafficking behind the scenes had also been severely reduced with the crushing of his company, which was also a serious blow.

“If we could somehow kill… no, not happening.”

Marquis Corgino unintentionally spoke his thoughts out loud, then stopped in his tracks.

He had had an idea.

“What if… my sirs, everyone wait. I’ve got to think about this some more.”

“Of course.”

After the nobles in his faction all left, Corgino placed his elbows on the table, grinning evilly.

“‘That’ will be happening in a little while. If it’s there, no-one should notice… Oy, you there?”

Corgino muttered in the empty room.

“Yes, I am here.”

“I’ve got a request to make of you. See, ––––”

Corgino told the person what he was thinking of.

“…As you wish.”

The black shadow disappeared with those words.

“…With this you should settle down. Just you wait, Cain von Silford.”

Marquis Corgino muttered in the now empty office.

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“Eh, an escort as well…?”

In the royal castle’s reception room, Cain posed a question to the king, who was sitting in front of him.

“Yes, you should have already heard how the royal academy’s S-Class goes to the Republic of Ilstin on a study tour every year. We send our most excellent students abroad to broaden their horizons. However, members of the royal or ducal families don’t usually go. It would be a problem if something happened to them. However… Telestia says she’s going. Also, this year, even the Basiasean Imperial Princess is also here. There will be an escort of adventurers, but I’m still worried. However, with you there, you should be able to deal with any problems that may pop up.”

Cain had heard about that during school. The Republic of Ilstin was governed by a council of the lords of the various towns and cities that made up the nation.

The teacher had explained to them how that by coming into contact with students from other countries, they could broaden their horizons.

“Well, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m going… If there’s anything dangerous on the way, I’ll just go ahead with Transfer magic and––”

“–– Transfer magic is magic spoken of in legends, if you go around using it that thoughtlessly, you’ll be found out. I’m sure you understand that many other countries will blame us.”

“…You’re right.”

Cain had thought that if royalty was present, knights would also go along to guard them, but apparently guards were forbidden from entering other countries.

Knights crossing the border would be the same as declaring war, explained Magna, who was also present.

“And then… just because we won’t be there, don’t you dare do anything with Teles. You got that, Cain?”

“Same goes for Silk, all right, Cain-kun? To be honest, you’ll be married in a year, so I don’t really mind, but just in case, okay?”

The king and Eric reminded Cain.

“That won’t happen!!”

Cain immediately denied it.

A year had passed, and the two girls had indeed changed from just beautiful girls to being more grown-up.

Cain thought about how they looked, then immediately shook his head, deleting the image from his brain.

“I really didn’t want to let them go along. But… ‘If you don’t let me go along, I’ll never speak to you again,’ was what I was told, so I had no choice… She also said that Imperial Princess Liltana will also be going, and… that is something I really can’t stop.”

Cain smiled bitterly at the king’s resigned explanation.

“Understood. I’ll be going as a student, but I will also act as an escort and bodyguard. In exchange,––”

Cain conveyed his wish, to which the king nodded, satisfied.

“Just that much won’t be any problem. Magna, please take care of it.”

“Understood.”

“And then, Cain. I think you know this, but… you’re going to another country. So have some self-restraint, alright…?”

Involuntarily smiling bitterly at the king’s words, Cain nodded.

“I’m fourteen already. I have some common sense.”

“Then, that’s fine… if you went all-out… no, let’s stop there.”

Having finished their talk, Cain returned to his mansion and explained the situation to Koran.

“Is that so… you’ll be accompanying the Princess and the Imperial Princess.”

It took about two weeks to get to the Republic of Ilstin’s capital by carriage from Esfort.

They would reach the border in around a week from the royal capital via a number of towns and villages, and after crossing the border, the Republic’s capital was another week away.

As such, fitting preparations were necessary.

Food would be stored in Magic Bags provided by the country, and with the teachers managing everything, there would also be a fitting amount of escorts.

If something were to happen to the students of the royal academy’s S-Class, also called the brightest minds inside the kingdom, it would be quite the loss to the kingdom as well.

After discussing with Koran what things might be necessary, Cain had him order them from the Sarakhan company.

Alone in the room, Cain created other things that would come in handy on the trip.

The ones he created and fit in his room went there, and the ones that wouldn’t fit went in the back yard.

He created whatever came to his mind.

–– Things that no-one in that world could even imagine…

Indeed, the words ‘Self-restraint’ that the king had said to him had already disappeared from Cain’s memory.

Then, the days passed in the blink of an eye, and the day to go to the Republic of Ilstin came.

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TN: oh boy, it’s Corgino again. Will he finally get what’s coming to him? Find out that, and much more, in Volume 5 of ‘Cain is an idiot’. (seriously though, no spoilers please)

also, am I the only one that thinks “didn’t fit in his room+no-one in that world could even imagine=car”?

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