At the round table at the forest guard’s headquarters, Izel speaks heavily to the gathered members.

“So what about EX?”

“As a result of having an informant investigate, it seems that she is living on a pension by living with a designer acquaintance in a luxurious mansion and having a slum girl pretend to be a maid.”

Izel’s eyes lit up at one word of the report that she couldn’t ignore.

“Pension?”

“Yes, the Whitening Kingdom is providing the Archmage Pension.”

Izel frowned in disappointment.

“Phew. I’m canceling the EX recruitment plan.”

“Why?”

Izel was a man of common sense, and who could blame him for not being able to understand the princess’s childish heart?

“Think about it, it’s a pension! Pension! I didn’t expect Ex-kun to be incapacitated. How come you guys don’t even understand such a simple thing?”

“I’m sorry. You’re right.”

“The bad part of the one-man.”

“Is it wrong here?” Even if I think so, there are no subordinates who object. Subordinates are more afraid of incurring the captain’s wrath than preventing the sinking of the ship.

“Just keep it down.”

Misunderstanding Ex’s actual situation, move on to the next measure.

“I have asked the kingdom for help.”

“Oh, as expected of the captain! The devil will be defeated by the kingdom!”

Hope resides in the gloomy expressions of the members.

“We need to delay the stampede until help arrives. How’s it going?”

“Yes, we have successfully secured the necessary number of the latest type of barrier electric boxes. Although the budget has run out, we plan to have all of them in two weeks.”

A stampede occurs when the monster’s total attack power exceeds the threshold.

“Late! Make it half a week.”

“Yes.

The vice-president opened his mouth as if it was difficult to say.

“Problem?”

“Even if we are fully staffed, we don’t have enough people to operate the electric box. We’ve sent a request to the Adventurer’s Guild, but no one has shown up yet.”

Izel grinned and came up with an outrageous plan.

“As for personnel, I told you I would handle it.”

“You said, what move are you going to use? I have no idea.”

As the members watched in disbelief, Kaiser’s beard twitched with confidence.

“Take a closer look around the city. We’ll be staffing with slums.”

“Oh! Such a move! It’s wonderful. It’s an idea that kills three birds with one stone: securing personnel, contributing to society, and cleaning up trash.”

His subordinates praise the psychopath-like idea of ​​using the socially vulnerable as consumables.

“Fortunately, Viscount-sama was stricken with illness, and it became very easy for me to work. I wish I could heal like that.”

“As expected of you, you have great luck. If Viscount-sama gives you a ‘good idea’, we may be told to take the lead.”

At first glance, it looked like luck, but it’s not.

“We will avoid confrontation with Majin Fool with logistical support as usual.”

“I foolishly threw away the indulgence that I risked my life to defend the city.”

“Captain, are you sure? I have one concern.”

“Concerns?”

“One of the members who raised their hand continues.”

“Slum people are unconscious and threaten to abandon our noble duties.”

“Any ideas?”

“That’s right.”

“If you were told to run a generator all day while being frightened by monsters in a dangerous forest, you would of course run away.”

The deputy commander raised his hand to Izel’s homework.

“He is also a psychopath.”

“How about a private prison? If we lock two people in a small cell and let them spin an electric box in two shifts, we can clear our concerns.”

“To the frightening shitty suggestion,

“No”

“I’m sorry”

Izel surprisingly strongly objected.

He gently narrowed his eyes at the atrophied vice-captain.

“Lieutenant. I said it’s a bad way to say it. Say shelter again.”

“Shelter? How much extra budget will it take?”

“I appeal that the safe is empty.”

“No additional budget is required. Just by changing the words, the image will be different. It’s not like you’re locked up, it’s a protective base from magical beasts.”

“Oh! As expected of the captain. That’s right.”

“The shitty proposal was coated with rhetoric and decided.”

“Let’s move on to the next topic. Did you find the thief who entered the office while you were away from the counterattack plan and stole the magic stone?”

“No, I don’t have any clues. I’m currently asking the Mages Guild.”

After that, there was a long discussion about the image improvement plan, but the seed money was exhausted and no effective solution was proposed.

Izel concludes with a tired face.

“Listen, trust in us has been lost. Everyone, please refrain from living. Until things are settled, we will use carriages and have no contact with ordinary people.”

“Yes”

“Isel looks at the ruined room.”

“You thief. If it’s not this time, I’ll do my best to capture you.”

The magic stone that should have been on that shelf is missing.

The forest guard was cornered.