Fundraising Countermeasures

The saintess had written a letter. What should I do?

When I took a peek, it looked like the contents were saying that I would hand them the dungeon cores destruction rights, along with requesting financial support, but thinking about just how much DP and funds she was getting us, I cant say that its much of a bad thing.

However, itd be a seriously bad thing if the Holy Kingdom started watching me.

A dungeon that gains attention from the Holy Kingdom, whose doctrine says to smash dungeons itll have a lowered lifespan. Literally.

Because of that, I called Rokuko to make some countermeasures.

Kehma, peeping into a room with a girl staying in it, is that sort of thing your hobby?

She was looking at me with considerably cold eyes though. Vexing. Its enemy inspection, you know?

Yep, its because shes an enemy. Its not like I wanted to obverse her well-shaped legs and shoeless, defenseless feet or anything. If I really wanted to, I could indulge in Meat or Ichikas, so its not like Im starving.

So, a plan for what? To not let them get funds?

Good guess, Rokuko. Thats right. Wait no way, are you an impostor?

No, Id obviously know that the question is how we can stop them from getting the money. Replace the letters? Or maybe we stop their delivery?

Are you alright? Are you feeling sick!?

Rokuko was being unusually bright. I placed the back of my hand against her forehead to make sure whether she was feverish or not.

Hey, Im not sick! Dont look down on me so much!

You were a little hot

Its in your head!

That so? Its fine then. I was worried because youd suddenly turned smart.

Im happy you were concerned though. Fufun, you could praise me more though you know?

Alright, shes back to Rokuko now.

So, what will you do? Outside of the dungeon, itd be hard stopping the adventurers deliveries after they took the commission. Right, we could take them when they are given to the adventurer guild.

Giving the guild liability issues sound like itd be troublesome in various ways. Even if we replaced them, the letters are sealed with wax stamps

When she put the letters into their envelopes, the saintess stamped them with her seal. Itd be obvious that they were tampered with.

For that, wouldnt it be fine if Kehmas magic fixed the seal? You could just break the seal then mend it after right? Ah, but if there is a magical effect on the sealing wax you cant show your technique, well need another one as well wont we?

Oi Rokuko.

What? Did you rekindle your love?

You are you the real Rokuko?

I am though!? So rude, even I think so!

Got it, well then show me your foot and Ill confirm it.

You can confirm it with that!? Well, I dont really know why you need my foot though H-here.

Taking off one of her stockings, Rokuko exposed her foot Fuuu. I took my time validating it, but shes the real one. In truth, Rokukos feet dont have any beauty marks at all, but I know shes her. To be accurate, I confirmed it by looking at the menus map function.

Well, Id be in trouble if she were an imitator though. Did she eat something that appeared from the gacha, like a fruit of wisdom or something?

No doubting it, youre the real Rokuko.

Thats what Ive been saying so, does Kehma have a plan?

Yeah, I do. Ill put in a complaint.

My plan was exceedingly simple.

We would also write five letters, mailing them to the same address as the saintess.

Because theyd be the same address, adventurers taking the commission for hers would naturally take ours as well for the profits. The guild might even recommend people to accept them as a pair.

This way we wont have to obstruct the saintess letters at all.

If it turns into a situation where none of the saintess letters arrive, neither will our complaints, but in that case theres no problem at all.

Heeh, Kehmas plan is different after all.

But who would read a letter from a figurehead village chief whose village doesnt even have a name? Thats the only hole in it. And so, Rokuko, you will do it.

Me?

Youre Haku-sans younger sister. That is, the younger sister of Haku Raverio, the empires ancestor.

Oh, I can borrow Haku Ane-samas influence huh!

Particularly since this is Haku-sans favorite place. Thered probably be no problem using her name for this Rather, Haku-sans younger sister might be a more influential title than untactful saintess.

And because of that, using Rokukos name, we prepared five letters to match the saintess.

Its contents: [We are troubled by the saintess wolfish devouring of our winter rations, paying no heed to the costs. We are selling things to her because it is business, but there is a limit to such things. Could you please tell it to her indirectly, as her country?] It was a petition, one written somewhat grandly.

Well seal it with wax and stamp it with the imperial seal.

In truth, its something Haku-san gave us for when Rokuko write [Request] letters to her. Though were using it to directly communicate with Haku-san through writing letters borrowing something used to talk directly with Haku-san is very scary.

Then again, even if well be borrowing this empires seal, I get the feeling itd be fine since Haku-san said, This seal is for Rokuko to use however she wants.

If we send Haku-san a thank-you note from Rokuko afterwards, shell definitely be happy. Definitely. Yep. Shed definitely take advantage of it if I show weakness here, so Ill end it with a one-sided thanks.

Looks like the letters were finished being written while I was thinking that, all five are completed.

Theyre perfect. Writing five letters with the same things in them is tiring though.

Good work. Well, these will do something about the saintess letters Ill hurry out to make sure they are accepted with hers.

Un, please.

The attendant had just left the guild, leaving the saintess letters with it. I hurried to the guild, carrying the letters that Rokuko wrote.

The commission easily went through the guilds Receptionist-san, who requested the fee for the five letters along with delivering them to another country, the fee was a little pricey due to getting the option for me wanting them to be taken along with another commissions, five silver coins in all. Five silver doesnt feel like much of an expenditure at this point, huh.

After that, the commission chart was affixed to the bulletin board. It was placed nearby the one for the saintess letters, a bit above it to be exact. Like this, theyll probably be taken together.

Also, the task of getting to where the saintess letters were being kept in the guild would have been a failure They were put away in the guilds safe, so I wasnt able to retrieve them. Rather, theres a restriction making it so that I cant collect other peoples things whenever I want huh Well, if I were able to, Id be able to go with the savage strategy of just doing something like taking a warriors armor and weapon mid-combat.

Preparing letters ourselves was the right call.

Fufufu, Kehmas plan was correct as expected!

Y-yeah.

I wasnt able to use her plan of tampering with the letters though Rokuko seemed happy for some reason?

But even so, out of money huh. How much longer will the saintess funds last?

Maybe itd be better to make a move in exploiting her.