I Returned As the Governor of the Country That Abandoned Me

40 – Let’s Go

“Here it is.”

“I had a hard time.”

Received from Serena the personal information about the mercenary named Kai and his actions in Hiran. I slowly read the report she gave me.

“Your Excellency, I brought it.”

“Come in.”

Two people enter the office at my words. It was Ariel and the prisoner she took this time.

Serena winked, and Ariel knelt down on her knees. I just kept reading her report, whether she got to her knees or not.

“Name.”

“My name is Rudin..”

“Age.”

“This year, I am nineteen..”

Young age. Of course, I’m not that old, but there’s a slight age difference between me and me, so it’s okay to say things like this.

The reason I called this guy is simple. To ask what the Empire’s intelligence department missed.

Imperial Intelligence knows everything in this world. However, what they know is ‘information’, not ’emotion’.

This girl brought before me will tell you about the ’emotion’ part that the Ministry of Information and Communication did not find out.

“Mercenary, is Kai a cook?”

After reading the report, I found an interesting part. That is, they set up a restaurant in Hailan. Of course, it was ruined shortly after.

“.. No.”

At my question, the girl hesitated for a moment before answering. I’m not a chef, but I opened a restaurant. This part is highly doubtful, isn’t it?

“If not, this place must be a meeting point for the resistance.”

The reason why a young man who is not a chef opened a restaurant is simple. It is because of the nature of the restaurant.

A restaurant is a place where many people come and go easily. In other words, it means that the resistance disguised as the kingdom can easily come in and out.

That’s why I thought the reason Kai opened the restaurant was a place to meet with the Resistance.

“Serena.”

“Yes, senior.”

“Turn the whole place upside down and search it right now. Apparently, that place is the place Kai created to contact the Resistance.”

“Okay.”

Serena, who had heard my order, tried to get out of here quickly, but it was then that I heard a voice in front of me.

“..Well, you don’t have to go… “

Rudin. Kai’s colleague opened her mouth.

At that, I frowned. Will she wrap herself up as her own colleague? Without even thinking about the situation you are in right now?

“Really.. It’s just a simple restaurant..”

Hearing that, I couldn’t believe her ears. A boy whose job is not to be a cook, opened a restaurant for no reason? I can’t understand.

“That is a lie. If so, why did you guys open that restaurant?”

“According to Kai, he wants to tell the people of Hailan what ‘delicious’ means..”

I was taken aback after hearing what Rudin said. You want to tell us what ‘delicious’ means?

“Are the people of Hailan unable to taste the food?”

“.. Not at all.”

Serena, who heard my question, also smiled as if she was dumbfounded. Judging by the guy’s reaction, she said, it seems like I wasn’t wrong.

To tell me the meaning of delicious. Anyone who hears it will think that the people of Hailan are people who cannot taste the taste of food.

Yes. The meaning of ‘delicious’ he said is understandable if he is confident in his cooking skills and is trying to show the heavenly taste that he has never felt before. By the way, didn’t the boy say he wasn’t a cook? With what kind of confidence did you say that?

“I said that the mercenary named Kai is not a cook.”

“.. Yes.”

“Then, what kind of food were you guys trying to sell?”

“Uh.. I don’t really remember, but I tried to make food that Kai knows.”

“He’s not even a chef, but he knows the recipe. I wonder what he is doing.”

I smiled and said that. Seriously. I’m not a cook, so I don’t know what recipes to present to others.

However, a boy named Kai is different. Although she is a mercenary, she is said to have known cooking recipes to present to others. Of course, it didn’t take long before it was ruined.

“Kai is… A high school student.”

“A high school student?”

I focused on the unfamiliar words that came out of Rudin’s mouth. What is a high school student? Is this a new class that has appeared in the Resistance?

I turned her head to look at Serena, but she didn’t quite understand either.

“I don’t know what a high school student is either, but my colleagues and people around me assume that it is a great job.”

Right now… I don’t know…

Rudin added that to me as he told me. I don’t know what being a high school student is. However, it was clear that when she was around that boy named Kai, she became strange one by one.

“Where did that high school student come from?”

“This is when the restaurant is counting the profits. Kai said, ‘Ah, this is mental arithmetic,’ and did a simple calculation, and I remember my colleagues admiring, ‘As expected, high school students must have a great job.'”

“..Are you guys unable to even calculate?”

“..No. At that time, for a while, it felt like something had happened to my head.. When I think about it now, it was a calculation that was nothing.”

I laughed at her words. Apparently, a guy named Kai might be more dangerous than I thought. In this way, she makes people around her stupid.

He lowers the intelligence of people around him. The girl kneeling in front of me right now, Ludin.

According to Serena’s reports, she was said to speak in a timid voice that was too embarrassing for her to say. But what is this look like? I’ve never seen such vulgar words and actions.

I don’t know if it’s because of that, but for this reason, he seems to think that the intelligence of the people around him is low. Seeing that he declared that he would open a restaurant and teach the meaning of ‘delicious’ even though he is not a chef.

‘He is a dangerous person.’

Like Ariel’s swordsman’s constitution, he may have been born with a similar constitution. He lowers the intelligence of the people around him.

Perhaps black magic. If that’s the case, the man is dangerous. So much so that he needs to kill the day fast.

What if he makes contact with the king of a country? Of course that wouldn’t happen, but he might degenerate the king’s intellect and get a title higher than an earl.

If he only accepts a title, he might even receive the title of a knight or a fiefdom. What if there is an aristocrat who already preoccupies that place? It will probably even degenerate that person’s intelligence.

‘Is it all delusion?’

Thinking of that, I chuckled. Anyway, where is that ability? If he had that ability, it would be safe to say that this world was for him.

However, such a world will not exist, and I reject such a world. Even God wouldn’t want such a world in the first place. Oh, have you even met God?

“Your Excellency. Kai is… dangerous.”

When I was alone in my delusion, I heard a voice again in front of me.

“I, I will keep an eye on him.”

I looked at her eyes as she said that. Truth. She is truly telling me so.

However, how can I believe that?

“In a village on the outskirts of the capital of the empire, there is my family.”

Did you notice that I was suspicious? She spoke quickly.

After hearing her words, I signaled to Serena by nodding her head.

“Mother, father, younger brother… This is one family.”

Rudin started to mention the names of her own family members. Looking at Serena, she signaled me with a nod. Probably, everything the girl named Rudin said was true.

“Are you asking me to release you with the lives of your family as collateral?”

“..Yes. I will report Kai’s whereabouts to His Excellency.”

Currently, the location of the Resistance headquarters is not completely known. Seemingly invisible, their invisible position. No matter how much the Empire’s intelligence department tried to dig in, it was always blocked right in front of them.

That’s why I thought. Let’s use this girl to pinpoint the location of the Resistance’s headquarters.

“Your comrades are said to have entered the Commonwealth Kingdom.”

“Is that so?”

“The mercenary Ludin died on the spot. From now on, you belong to the Imperial Intelligence Service, Luden.”

Employment with the life of the family as collateral. If you don’t betray, it’s an attractive position. As a civil servant, the salary is moderate.

Of course, this is not an official job, but a disguised job. I can’t leave this guy alone without being assigned to anything.

“Kai will head to the stronghold of the Resistance.”

Perhaps if my delusion is correct, it is highly likely that he will head for the Resistance’s main base. And, he might even know how to get there.

So I decided to use him. If, according to my delusion, he goes to the headquarters of the Resistance, I will turn that place into a sea of fire.