Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

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Year 7442, Month 8, Day 16

Today when we were about to enter the dungeon, I was called out by Church-san who was guarding the tax official at the entrance. It seems that on Friday of next week the knight group of Baldukk is going to enforce the punishments of criminals they're holding including Dereonola. Bel and I were told to be there as witnesses. It can't be helped so we'll have to make that into a day off from entering the dungeon.

Furthermore, when I tried asking the reason why there was over two months between the arrest and the judgments and it seems it was for the convenience of the lord. Since Baldukk is the King's direct territory then the lord is the King but obviously there's no way the King would go out of his way to come to Baldukk for this stingy job so normally it's the governor who manages the government of the town. However, as a matter of fact that governor isn't a representative with full authority like in Japan. They're limited to just the administrative authorities. In the first place it's not even an official governor. Since Baldukk is lined up with Rombertia as the King's direct territory in the true meaning of the expression so there's no official governor.

The only one who can administrate justice is someone that has been officially appointed as governor by the lord. Since that's the case the administrative secretary (they're treated as and actually called governor out of custom) that's appointed to take care of only practical work in Baldukk can't perform the judgments of criminals. For that sake, around 4-5 times in a year, when he has some leeway the official lord that is His Highness Count Baludukk Thomas Rombert the Third goes out of his way to come to Baldukk just to perform the judgments. It seems that reason this time was that it wasn't convenient for the official lord, His Highness to make it.

In any case, so it's Friday of next week huh? I need to make sure I don't forget. Thinking that I thanked Church-san and was about to return to everyone else when I was called out again. This time it was some advice. Bel is a foreigner. She's a noble but since her family isn't in the Kingdom of Rombert her treatment is the same as a commoner. Obviously that means it's the same for taxes and she's going to the government office every month to pay taxes. It seems that just in case it would be best for her to have the documents proving that she's paying taxes at that time. I'm sure it won't be necessary but it's nothing more than a just in case so I guess I should be grateful for the advice.

Bel and I exchanged glances as we returned to where everyone else was and explained to them that in order to stand witness to the judgement and enforcement of Dereonola's punishment we would have a day off from entering the dungeon Friday of next week, then we entered the dungeon.

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Year 7442, Month 8, Day 20

The combat potential of our party went up a bit since Angela joined but what was more useful than that was her special skill as a Dog-people race "Super Sense of Smell". Almost all of the monsters that live in the dungeon give off indescribable sour and raw smell that will make you feel like throwing up. She can accurately differentiate the smells of these monsters.

At least until the end of my experiment I'm grateful that we won't end up charging into a place where a dangerous enemy could be. Even with just that it was worth buying Angela. Thinking that, I was grinning on my own over how I profited, but it was quickly proven that something like that was just a bonus. Her true value was something much more important. Just as you could expect from Angela who has been entering the dungeon longer than we have, compared to us she had a wealth of knowledge about the dungeon.

For example, the location that you teleport to in the dungeon, it seems that there's some restrictions on this place you teleport to. It seems that currently there's over 400 locations confirmed that you can teleport to but in most cases there's a mark left in the area of where you teleport. Was there something like that? thinking that and since I was interested I tried asking and it was simple. The pedestal for the teleport crystal where you end up teleporting to has a variety of symbols like numbers carved into it but among those it seems that there's always at least one symbol that points to the direction. On the wall where that points to there's a small number written. The number is obviously something was carved out by the adventurers that visited until now. Also, even if you teleport to the same place it seems that the symbols carved into the pedestal aren't fixed so while we obviously noticed the symbols carved into the pedestal, until now we just ignored them not properly investigating.

What the, there was something this simple? With this we should be able to almost pinpoint the location we teleport at the start but I don't get it. Even if there's a number of inaccuracies written on the map I purchased there's a considerable portion of the 1st floor and information about the traps written on it. There's no information included in there about the teleport locations. Was it a partial map I guess? However, Angela quickly answered that question as well.

Normally, the maps that are sold are divided into four types. The first is obviously the one that has the terrain drawn. The next one is that with the information about the traps added. That's the map I purchased. And one more is the one that has teleport information listed. It seems that there's numbers written all over the map. Since this one and the map with traps from just now both have a lot of information on them it's normal that the map isn't just one page. Even the map I'm holding is made up of 9 pieces of parchment about the size of A3 and along with the terrain the information about traps is written but since there's no way it could fit with just one page it's split up. Even on this map the terrain is drawn extremely small. I think in terms of scaling it would be roughly 1/3000 - 1/5000 or so? The roughly is just going off our feeling but even what is it drawn on just one piece of parchment I can't help but think that the scaling differs depending on the location. That's why even if we say it's a picture of the terrain there's some inaccurate parts to it as well.