Chapter 11:
EP 11 - House of 20 Bodies(1)
“Isn’t this too much?”
Here he comes. Or rather, the pig came. The fat blonde tanned lord had finally arrived, sweating profusely in my office. I had sent Sieri downstairs to avoid an encounter with this lord, and Aira was attending to me by my side.
He complained that three of his serfs just left, saying it was sudden and unjustified. And he had a point.
In a fief, every serf was a valuable asset, representing labor and military strength. Naturally, there would be complaints if a neighboring young blonde brat took three of his serfs without any consultation.
"What's the matter?"
Of course, I had no intention of apologizing for this matter. From my experience in society, I knew that apologizing meant losing. Apologizing only increased the demands for compensation without gaining anything. So, I played dumb. No matter how logical his argument was, I planned to deny everything. After all, if I framed this as a personnel transfer issue, he had no way of taking Sieri.
“'What’s the matter'? How can you just take someone else's serfs like this?”