I’ve been reborn as a villainous lord, so I’m going to defeat the mastermind with a group of characters who are good at just one skill

Thanks to Irma blowing up the guard head I was able to get an extra reward.

'How come they have such good equipment?'

'It's pretty heavy.'

　The maid was trying to pick up the sword that the guards had dropped.

　But it was heavier than she had expected and she was trying to hold it with both hands, but it wasn't rising as if it were.

'Don't push yourself too hard. Just carry it slowly."

'Then how did so many good things drop?'

'I'm sure someone must have helped them."

　Weapons and armour are reasonably expensive.

　If one tries to get all the weapons and armour, it is enough to buy a decent house.

　This is why soldiers who do not have weapons at their homes borrow them from Lord and others.

　Even a not-so-good sword costs about ten gold coins.

　A normal, good sword requires a hundred gold coins.

　Soldiers cannot possibly afford such expensive items.

　Except, of course, for high-ranking nobles and knights in the service of the country.

　The Baron Antoner's policy is 'You don't need expensive weapons, just use your skills'.It seems that they did not spend money on equipment, with a policy of 'cover it with your hands', and even the cheapest weapons were not even properly maintained.

　　That is why Kurt is quite grateful for the items dropped this time.

　However, there is no use for such a large quantity of weapons.

　The number of soldiers in Antonor territory now is zero.

　He could keep some of the current unmaintained weapons after destroying them.

　If the remaining ones are sold, the money could be used to hire more soldiers.

'So there are good people out there.'

'Good people ...... wouldn't be, however.

'Well, what do you mean by that?'

　It was probably the Grand Duke Kasteen, the mastermind behind the original story, who gave these weapons to the Guard Head.

　Was it because they were indisposed to Klaus, the Grand Duke Kasteen's messenger?

　Or did some of the middleman's money, which the chief buttler and his men had been cutting out, find its way to the Grand Duke?

--Did I get in the way?　No, because then they would have intervened in a more serious way. It's probably just for harassment.

'Don't worry about it. It will all become clear eventually.'

'I don't really get it, but I understand.'

　In the end, the maid couldn't carry the sword and Kurt had to carry it alone to the mansion.

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It turns out that Irma is stronger than imagined.

　She is indeed an alchemical saint whose normal attack is a blasting attack with a range attack.

　In the first place, even if it is the head of the guard, it is probably treated as a slightly strong small fry in the original story.

　If it was a small fry battle, Irma had no opponents.

　The problem was when she was up against a strong enemy.

　The ranged attacks were designed to have a weaker blow.

　Many players added Irma to their party because of her recovery magic, but even in that case she specialised in recovery and support.

　However, even in the original story, in reality she seems to be so much more reliable.

　Although it has the disadvantage that it can also blow up allies, it was found that it is not so dangerous in the current situation in Antonar territory, where there are no soldiers now.

　The problem is that Irma doesn't intend to explode it and is trying to do proper alchemy.

　However, the only time she succeeds in alchemy is in the bad end of her own route.

　As Kurt dies at the start of the original story, she had to give up on the success of the alchemy.

-Of course, I wouldn't tell her that, though.

　The route where the original story does not start is in a way also a bad end.

　Then the possibility that Irma could use alchemy could not be abandoned.

　There was nothing else to do but to hope for that.

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　Kurt had several representatives from the city come to the mansion after the servant problem was cleared up.

　The head of the town's only merchant association, Benjamin König.

　Representing the craftsmen was the blacksmith, Jordan Mottl.

　From the farmers, a young man, Kamil Elze.

　From the mercenary association, the head of the association, Niklas Ocken.

　The city is represented by these four people.

　On the lord's side, in addition to Kurt, a maid and Irma were seated.

　However, the city representatives all had grim expressions on their faces.

'What the hell are you doing calling us all the way down here?

We're busy, you know?"

　The fact that everyone was talking so strongly even to the lords meant that they were already overtaxed and out of the people's minds.

　Kurt smiles at the obviousness of this attitude.

'I'm sorry you had to come all the way here. I've asked you here today to talk about the taxes on this territory.

'You've already taken so much from us and you still want more!"

　Jordan was banging on the desk with all his might.

'Hii!"

　The maid screamed unintentionally.

　Then Benjamin says with a smile.

'What are you going to do if you scare Eefa-chan? The only person we should be saying this to is our lord.'

-Ehfa?

　For a moment Kurt tilts his head, but when he thinks about it, he understands that it must be the maid's name.

'Can I have one thing to say?'

'What's ......?'

'My parents were dressing down from taxes, and it caused you guys a lot of trouble. I won't let that happen again, you can rest assured.'

　If it were real, it would not be good for an aristocrat to bow down so much, but in this case we are entirely to blame.

　It is natural to bow down from a human perspective.

　Moreover, he felt that he would not be able to regain the trust of the people without doing this first.

'...... You can say whatever you like with your mouth.'

'Yes, I agree. We are already at our limits--'

'About that, I've decided to lower the tax rate from now on.'

'After all, you're going to squeeze us out of here ...... eh?'

　The unexpected words made Jordan ask back...