A Treacherous Courtier Manages the Empire Well

49 – Momentary Teleportation

“It was a mistake to wander around the most run-down housing area. The Languine people never lived there from the beginning.”

Krak acknowledged his mistake and made corrections. He stepped out onto the main street instead of the seedy back alley where the poor commoners lived. He wrapped his head with a hood, hiding his rabbit ears as much as possible, and looked around. It didn’t take long for him to discover the residential area where the security guards lived.

Although the houses looked similar to those of other commoners, it was a housing complex located much more centrally. As someone who had been only searching for hidden places, thinking that the Lupine people would naturally be discriminated against here as well, Krak couldn’t help but be shocked once again.

He cautiously observed how the Lupine people were living there.

“I’ll be going to work.”

“Come back safely.”

In the morning, Lupine women bid farewell to their husbands who were dressed in security guard uniforms and going to work. They were all wearing good-quality clothes made of fabric that was no different from the clothes made for other humans. It was a series of shocks and surprises.

After seeing off their husbands, Lupine wives had breakfast with their children. The contents depicted on the flyers were not lies.

They really were eating white bread with jam and meat.

“Kids, let’s eat. We have to go to elementary school after.”

“Will you come with us, Mom?”

“Of course.”

After eating breakfast, Lupine women headed to elementary school with their children. There, they learned basic writing and arithmetic from their teachers. Until this point, Krak wasn’t particularly surprised.

“It’s perfectly possible to educate the Lupine people in writing out of necessity.”

It had happened in Karamba when they educated people in writing for use as spies or assassins. Krak didn’t dispel his suspicion. However, his suspicion began to shake greatly after the classes were over.

“Ray! You’re here again! Want to play together?”

“Sure!”

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“hahahaha! Ray is strong, so it’s fun!”

The Lupine children started playing with the other human children as if it were completely natural. The parents who came to learn how to write with their children watched them play and prepared to have lunch together in the warm classroom, taking out the packed lunch they had prepared.

Krak was silently watching the scene from the roof of the elementary school. His pupils were shaking severely. Lupine children playing with human children? It was unimaginable in Karamba.

“Are they purposely staging this scene for me to see?”

It was such an unbelievable scene that his paranoid thoughts momentarily went in that direction, but it was quickly refuted.

“No. That can’t be true. My infiltration was perfect. The security guards here and the members of the bloodthirsty legion who conducted inspections haven’t discovered me. How could they know when and where I’m coming from and stage it?”

While he contemplated, either because he was dissatisfied with the Lupine child he had been watching playing with the other children or because an human child pushed him, a fight broke out. Krak realized that things were going to get chaotic.

A fight had broken out. If it happened here, then in Karamba, the Lupine child who caused a problem for whatever reason would be dragged away and beaten until he died. Krak thought it would be the same here and observed the situation.

The teacher and parents, who had seen the children fighting, quickly rushed in and approached the fighting Lupine child and human child.

“What’s going on here!”

The human child who had been hitting the Lupine child hastily stood up at the stern shout of the teacher.

“It’s nothing.”

“What happened? Tell me honestly.”

The children, who were cautious in response to the teacher’s words, cautiously confess the truth.

“Colin pushed Ray because he was jealous of how well Ray plays with the ball.”

Upon hearing this, the teacher looks angry at the human child who started the fight. She commands Colin.

“Colin, apologize to Ray right now.”

Apologize? The human child to the child of the Langan tribe?

Crack opens his mouth wide in surprise.

But that wasn’t the end.

“Colin! Do as the teacher says! Isn’t it embarrassing that you can’t apologize quickly?!”

A woman who seems to be Colin’s mother rushes out of the classroom and shouts angrily. Colin looks at Ray with tears in his eyes.

“I-I’m sorry, Ray. It was my fault. You’re so good at playing with the ball and I just…”

Ray, the child of the Langan tribe, seemed unfamiliar with the apology from the human child, but he nods his head soon after.

“It’s okay. Let’s all play together.”

“I’m sorry, Ray…”

“It’s okay. Come here.”

Ray, the child of the Langan tribe, hugs the human child Colin, and the teacher and parents applaud together. The mother of the Langan tribe sheds tears at the sight, and the other parents comfort and console her.

After seeing all of that, Crack didn’t look any further.

He quietly retreated from the school and walked along the roadside in a daze.

“Is this… Is this really true?”

A world where humans apologize first when they make a mistake to the supernatural beings.

Was such a world really existent?

Crack couldn’t believe what he had just witnessed.

In that one spectacle, all of his common sense was shattered.

The contents of the flyer were true.

No.

It was beyond being true.

“Can I have some meat here!”

“Yes! Come on in! We have fresh chickens raised in the poultry farm in the southern region!”

“Can I have 500g of chicken breast?”

The Langan tribespeople were commonly seen not in the dark and shabby alleyways, but on the bustling roadside where everyone was walking by.

People selling goods. People going to see movies.

“Oh my, sweetheart. If it’s not too forward of me, may I touch your tail just once?”

“Excuse me?… Ah. Yes. Um, go ahead.”

“Oh my goodness. I’ve never felt such soft fur before. It feels good, sweetheart. As the wife of a security guard, I must make a good impression, right? hahahaha!”

Even in the cafe, there was a scene of Langin women and local ajummas coming together to chat.

On the main street.

The Langin people were living as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Although the Langin people were still cautious and trying to adapt to this ordinary life, it seemed like they were gradually getting used to it.

Mac felt his tension loosen.

He sat down in his seat.

“It really existed.”

Childhood.

The ideal country where humans and beast people, who had thought about their innocent childhood, lived together.

But it was a dream that had to be given up quickly after experiencing the despicable nature of humans.

The country that made this dream a reality existed just beyond a mountain range.

The Ailam Empire.

Unable to contain the surging emotions, Mac took off his hood and threw it aside, sitting in the middle of a busy street and crying.

Suddenly, a rabbit beast person that he had never seen before was crying with a pair of large rabbit ears on his head, catching the attention of the people passing by.

“Hey there! Are you a beast person?”

One Langin man, who had been watching the security duty nearby, rushed over and chuckled when he saw Mac.

“Wait a minute. This… this is… aren’t you Crack?!”

The Langin people recognized Crack, who was famous as a legendary thief in Crescent Triangular Plaza. In fact, it was more surprising if the beast people living in Karamba didn’t know Crack. He was not only a figure who occasionally provided necessary items through theft for the beast people, but also for other beast people.

“Crack! Why are you crying here?”

Without being able to answer the Langin security guard’s question, Crack cried for a while and finally managed to calm his emotions and speak to the security guard.

“Randor. Is the ruler of this place Randor?”

“Yeah. It’s Randor.”

“I want to meet him. Can you take me to him?”

He had already confirmed enough.

Ailam was the paradise that the beast people had dreamt of.

Now, all that remained was to bring the Wungin, Toinin, Hoinin, and Myoinin people to this place.

And to do that, there was a being who had created this paradise.

I had to talk to Randor.

“hahahaha! hahahahaha! Please come in! Welcome!”

I approached the Toein man sitting on the sofa, eating snacks and drinking tea with a bright smile.

“You said you’re Randor, right? Nice to meet you! Welcome to Ailam. I’m Landoor.”

Crack, while nibbling on a cookie, looked at me silently.

“You said your name is Randor?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I have a favor to ask.”

“Go ahead, tell me.”

“Our tribe… and all the other non-human tribes, can they all live here?”

I couldn’t hold back my laughter at his words.

“Of course it’s possible! hahahahaha! I’m willing to do my best to help with your secret relocation.”

“We can also receive the same treatment as the Rangin tribe, right?”

I was both surprised and delighted by Crack’s cautious question.

“Of course! The empire has too much work to do right now. We’re planning to build a railroad, but we don’t have enough people to work as railroad laborers. I would be grateful if the non-human people could do that job. We will offer the same contract conditions as other human workers. And we will provide imperial citizenship too!”

At my words, Crack seemed to be choked up as tears welled up in his large eyes. He asked me in a trembling voice.

“Why… why are you treating us so well? We are non-human and you are human, why are you treating us non-humans so well?”

I approached him quietly and firmly held his hand. As a symbol of the harsh life in Karamba, Crack’s hand was full of scars. I gently caressed his hand and smiled.

“I know very well how severely discriminated you all are in Karamba. Because of that, if there is a country that once shows kindness to people like you, I will never betray that country. Even after the railroad construction is completed. This country will have plenty of jobs for the non-human people.”

Crack’s eyes became even more moist, and I teasingly began to play with the tip of his tongue, cautiously but enticingly.

“As long as you do not betray Ailam, Ailam will never betray you. If you pledge your loyalty to Ailam, we will provide you with citizenship, jobs, houses with roofs that can shelter your heads, and universal and legitimate rights that all imperial citizens can enjoy.”

At my words, Crack couldn’t hold back and started crying out loud.

I laughed and consoled him.

Crack hugged me tightly and sobbed for a long time before raising his head.

“I pledge my loyalty. Ailam is now our homeland. Please accept us.”

“Of course! Crack, I will accept you.”

Finally!

It was the moment to secure railroad workers.

Now, all we need to do is bring them to Ailam.

After crying for a long time, Crack regained his composure and began planning with me.

“Crack. To bring you all in properly, we need detailed information about the werewolf tribe. How many are there exactly? How much baggage do they have, and so on.”

“Most of the werewolves don’t have much, so there isn’t much to call baggage. However, excluding the Oo’ing Tribe, Myoin Tribe, and Hoin Tribe, their reproductive ability is strong, so their numbers are significant.”

“What is the size of each tribe?”

“The Oo’ing Tribe is similar in size to the Rang Tribe, and the other three tribes each have several thousand members. The To’in Tribe has a number exceeding tens of thousands. Since the Sultan does not approve of us leaving, he will try to stop us by any means necessary. In such a situation, how can we possibly transport tens of thousands of werewolves?”

Crack sighed.

I also started to worry. Once we heard the details and estimated the cost, we realized that it wouldn’t be an easy task to move them.

Unlike the Rang Tribe, we couldn’t use dragons to transport them because there were too many. To move tens of thousands of werewolves, we would need hundreds of dragons at the very least, which would attract too much attention.

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On the other hand, if we secretly transported them in carriages, the large number would raise suspicions during the inspection on the trade route, which is not only done by us, making it highly likely that we would be discovered.

But then, a sudden idea occurred to me.

“Princess Selenne mentioned something like that before. She said that Mountaingate has become wealthy and that the high-purity magic stone and long-distance teleportation technology have greatly advanced. Teleportation. Our Ailam tribe uses long-distance teleportation magic.”

“Are you planning to transport the werewolves using teleportation?”

“They say that long-distance teleportation from the palace to Eldon Viscount has become possible, right? If… if there was a teleportation scroll that could teleport thousands of werewolves from Karamba to Ailam all at once? If we used that scroll to transport them, it would be much safer, wouldn’t it?”

Crack and I looked at each other simultaneously.

And without anyone saying it first, we both started to laugh.

The next day, I took Crack and went straight to the capital to meet Princess Selenne.

It was to establish the framework for a large-scale werewolf transportation operation using teleportation.