KonoSuba Chapter 78: Hidden hand behind the scene (Patreon)

“How brave of him, to actually dare to cut my bounty.”

“Actually, they did not have such a huge authority, for example, that bounty had always been in the guild.”

Seeing that Sato Hikaru had deduced everything behind the scene, Luna sighed, and tried to speak well of the guild: “It’s just that before the verification process was completed, the guild was unable to give the bounty to Mr. Sato.”

“Unable to get them directly, is it? I see, no wonder he intentionally placed a crime for subverting the kingdom on my head.”

After hearing the additional information from Luna, Sato Hikaru could be said to have completely understood the matter.

When he first let Sena describe the crime as a test, Sato Hikaru had preliminarily confirmed the hand behind the scene was not the adventures nor was it people from the guild.

And since the time he transmigrated to this world, the only people he met were the adventurers and the people from the guild. If the culprit was not them, then the culprit could only be the one from the kingdom officials.

Since he had assumed the culprit was from the kingdom’s official, and he did not even meet anyone from the officials, it was even more impossible to offend them.

In such a situation, he only needed to consider which place the conflict of interest occurred.

If he looked at it from this direction, Sato Hikaru immediately recalled the name written on the document, the order to arrest and investigate him because he caused destruction of the city wall, he was suspected to be a spy, a terrorist.

Then, wouldn’t the answer be obvious?

This city wall, who would be the one that needs to pay for the repair? That would be the one who did something to Sato.

The pattern was different from his original world, the kingdoms in this world were more like the middle-age aristocratic system.

Axel’s city wall was destroyed and required reparation, the funds for repair would not be from the kingdom’s coffer, nor would it be from the king’s personal coffer.

Instead, it would come from the person in charge of Axel city.

This includes everything related to the things done for the civilian after the destruction such as civilian’s losses, reimbursement, rescue, everything came from the person in charge of the area.

This was the responsibility that came with the nobility’s privilege.

However, this was very obvious, the person in charge of Axel was not a good noble, one who was willing to lead the people for the sake of the people.

Probably, from his perspective, he should be someone who just stayed at home, drinking red wine, having parties and playing with the maids. Suddenly received an outrageous bill telling him that the wall of the city he was in charge of was destroyed, and he needed to take out a lot of money to repair it.

At the same time, he also received a notification for the release of a huge bounty, and when he saw in the report that the bounty was to be given to the asshole who bombed his home’s wall, and then just wanted to leave!

As for the matter of this asshole having subjugated a demon to protect his civilian?

Who cared about the life and death of those cheap civilians! He just knew that he needed to give out money for some unknown reason, and the one that made him needed to pay the money was actually alright, and even had a huge bounty to receive.

Then the person in charge looked at the bill and the report, and immediately slapped his head, wanting to just take away the bounty to deal with the bill.

In fact, by doing that, not only would his wall be repaired without him paying any money, he even profited a bit, feeling that he was a genius!

However, this genius’ ordinary idea had a problem.

This money did not directly go through his hand, although he was the one releasing it.

The money had always been kept in the guild and he only had the right to approve of it.

Forcefully hindering the approval? Turn it down continuously?

There was no point, at most, that would make the guild cancel the bounty, and retract the money, he still could not get the money.

Since that was the case, then he should just throw the bastard who made him pay so much money into the prison, then arrange a crime for subverting the kingdom and kill him, and then confiscate all of his assets.

“This way, after he passed the verification, the money that the guild released would become my asset, he could then use the reason of confiscating my assets to take away the money from the guild.”

After explaining simply to Chris and the other three on the reason why this happened, Sato Hikaru felt that the lord of this area’s brain was filled with feces.

“What grounds did he have to think that he could suppress an adventurer who could subjugate a high-level demon alone?”

While speaking, Sato Hikaru looked at Darkness and asked: “Who is Axel’s lord to be such an idiot? You should know who, right?”

“Axel’s lord, Alderp Alexei Barnes, is a uh…”

Halfway speaking, Darkness suddenly stopped, after thinking of the words to use, then continued speaking: “Is a noble who was rumored to be not very good.”

After hearing this name, Sato Hikaru immediately recalled a person, if he did not recall incorrectly, in the original work, the person who sued Kazuma was also this person.

Furthermore, If Sato Hikaru recalled correctly, this guy also seemed to be keeping an addled minded demon?

Thinking of the demon, Sato Hikaru could not help but glance at Chriss, an idea immediately sprouted in his mind.

“Rumored to be not good meant that he was rumored to have done a lot of bad things but there was no proof, right?”

“Yes, when the kingdom dispatched people to investigate, they did not find anything, even the investigators from other nobles also got the same result.

“Furthermore, clear evidence that should exist could not be found no matter how it was searched for, even the person who found the evidence would immediately change his words.”