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Chapter 478 Childhood sweetheart appears
"Master Lin, Princess Lana invites you to discuss something today. After the training is over, please come with me to see Princess Lana."

"Your Highness Princess?...Okay, I understand."

As the training was about to end, Clem told Lin about this.

Gazef probably guessed why Lin was so close to Lana, but he didn't ask too much.

The three of them had their usual breakfast in the restaurant, and after enjoying the soldiers' attention as if they were watching an animal, they followed Climb to the princess's boudoir again.

Unlike yesterday's politeness and restraint, Lin took the initiative to open the door before Clem, and subconsciously complained, "Your Highness, it's only been a day, are you so anxious for the result? It's a pity that my brother didn't come back last night. He must have been called by the second prince to discuss other things. He clearly said there would be a family dinner in the evening... Eh?"

Looking up, I saw a beautiful woman sitting with the princess at the round table on the balcony.

Her green eyes and pink lips glowed with health. Although she was not as beautiful as Lana, she also had a different charm. If Lana was the brilliance of a gem, she was the brilliance of life. This was natural, after all, she was a priestess of faith.

——Laqisi Elbein Drew Aindora.

You can't imagine who she is by looking at her pink dress, but in fact, this woman is the leader of one of the only two steel-level adventurer teams in the kingdom, and also Lana's closest friend.

"Long time no see, Lagis, how are you doing recently? - Healing."

Lin walked up quickly, took her hands, and cast magic without saying a word. The light green fluorescence of the life system enveloped her, and then quickly dissipated in three or two seconds.

The sudden action made Laqisi's body stiffen on the spot. Seeing that she didn't move, Lin reached out his hand and put it on her forehead to feel her body temperature.

"Well, apart from being a little hot, I'm in pretty good shape."

“Thank you for your concern… No, that’s not right, please, please let me go…! This is very rude in front of Her Highness Lana!”

The blonde, green-eyed girl broke free from the man's hands, her cheeks turning the same light pink as her clothes, and she lowered her head slightly with her eyes cast down, looking shy.

"Hey, hey, hey! Did you ignore us after seeing the captain?!"

The gruff voice echoed in the room.

Lin turned his head and looked at the fat and strong woman who was very disproportionate to the small round table, and greeted her, "Gegelan, don't you hate this kind of place that requires formal attire? Why did you come with me this time?"

Gegelan grinned wildly, "I do hate formal occasions, but seeing the devil captain like this, I will die without regrets even if I suffer."

"I didn't expect the devil captain to be shy. I've learned something new. I should have called Tia as well."

In the corner, a girl crouched with her hands on her knees and spoke up. Although she was teasing her captain, her tone was too bland to make out her true intention.

Her name is Tina. Like Gaglan and the aforementioned Tia, she is a member of the Blue Rose. I forgot, there is also a vampire loli old woman. But Lin doesn't like her and often ignores her.

"You two will be punished when you return!"

"Angry."

"Captain Devil."

Hearing Lagis's angry rebuke, Gagran and Tia pouted. However, they had expected this to happen before they came, so they didn't care.

"This is the first time I've seen Lakis like this."

"Lana?"

The princess's teasing made the leader of the Honorary Kingdom's adamantine squad feel very embarrassed. In this harmonious atmosphere, no one noticed that Lana's gem-like eyes were covered with a layer of gray mist.

"I'm very curious, could it be that Laqisi and Lord Lin know each other?"

"Hey, didn't I tell you that we are childhood sweethearts?"

Before Lin's elder brother married the Duke's daughter, Lin, as the second son of the family, had been childhood sweethearts with Lagis, a young lady from the Aindola family. Their friendship could be traced back to when they were six years old.

"At that time, Lagis was very naughty and often forced me to go to dangerous places, such as catching snakes, climbing mountains and diving into the sea."

"really?"

"Well, after all, girls develop very quickly, so she took me everywhere."

"I see."

At some point, Tina came up to Lin and whispered, "I want to know more about the Devil Captain. Please tell me in private later."

"no problem."

The two gave each other a thumbs up, reaching an agreement.

"Tina, restrain yourself a little." A terrifying smile appeared on Lagis's face, and then she said awkwardly: "That was a thing when we were children, and...if I hadn't forced you, probably..."

Lin Liangran said: "Ah, that one."

Lana was very curious and asked, "I wonder what you two are talking about. If you don't mind, can you tell me about it?"

"It's nothing, actually. It's just because I climbed a tree when I was a kid and couldn't get down."

"Ah."

"Then I accidentally stepped on empty space and fell down."

"Ok?"

"Then I was born with a supernatural power - [The Goddess's Grace]."

"Um???"

"After that, even my hair turned blue. Hahaha, it's not really a past worth talking about."

"..."

As Lin recounted the past, Lagis, knowing that she had done something wrong, buried her face deeply in her hands. She must have felt remorseful and annoyed for her playfulness and recklessness as a child.

Geglan smiled and said, "Even so, when the devil captain heard that you would come, he still dressed himself up beautifully."

"Is that right?"

"That's not the case! It's a formal occasion, so you have to wear formal clothes!"

"Even if Her Royal Highness the Princess doesn't mind?"

"…This is necessary, understand?"

The noble lady held Geglan's shoulder and muttered: "I should have known not to bring you here." Maybe she didn't expect that the teammates she brought would become the ones who laughed at her joke.

"It seems like you guys have a very good relationship. I feel left out."

Lana smiled as she complained, if an expression that only raised the corners of her mouth but had a serious look in her eyes could be called a smile.

Lin said casually: "The relationship should be quite good, after all, we almost got engaged."

"……what?"

"Because of my brother, five years ago, he was ambitious and wanted to have me engaged to the descendant of the Thirteen Heroes, the daughter of the Aindora family, that is, Lagis, in order to consolidate his political position. But later, as you know, my brother lost his ambition and the engagement with Lagis was cancelled."

"That's right."

The corners of Lana's mouth curled up higher than before, while Lagis sighed slightly for some reason.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little off, Lin knew he had to change the subject, although he didn't know why.

"So, what is the matter with you, Princess? If you want to talk about what happened yesterday, I'm sorry that I haven't seen my brother yet."

"No, this time it's about the experimental field."

When talking about the experimental field, Lin and Lana both looked serious, and Lagis also subconsciously straightened her posture.

Lana then shared her plan.

After careful consideration, Lin said, "Your Highness, what the princess means is that if we rotate the planting of other crops, it can greatly slow down the consumption and buffer of the land, and also increase the yield rate, right?"

"Yes."

“How long will it take to see results?”

“It’s estimated to take about six years.”

"So how much money did you lose by growing other crops during these six years?"

"It depends on the type of crop. But if the normal yield is 1, I think it will drop to 0.8, but after six years it will permanently increase to 1.3. If livestock breeding driven by forage cultivation is on track at the same time, the number will surely be higher."

"Um……"

With the data from the experimental field as proof, there shouldn't be any mistakes, and there's no need for Lana to falsify them.

I have to say, it is a fairly high proportion.

however--

Lagis frowned and said, "It sounds tempting when you say that, but can farmers accept a loss of 0.2% for six years? And it will take at least four years to recover the loss in six years. In other words, it will take ten years in total."

"I've already thought about this. The Kingdom can provide an interest-free and unsecured loan to cover this 0.2 loss, and repay it after the harvest has paid off. If the harvest does not increase, then there is no need to repay, or there are other methods. Most importantly, as long as the harvest increases, it will only take four years to pay off the loan."

“I think it’s difficult.”

"why?"

“That’s what I said. People value immediate benefits more and many people want stability. Even if we tell them that the increase will definitely reach 1.3 in six years, they will still hesitate.”

"I... don't quite understand. The experimental field is going smoothly..."

Lana was a little at a loss.

It seems that I feel that even though I have put the data in front of me, I am still being rejected - I have become a person who can only talk on paper.

Lin said slowly: "Perhaps because they have not seen the actual return, so they are hesitant. Moreover, if the royal family bears the losses in the past six years, the national strength will decline, and those opposing nobles will be happy to see it. Even if they really gain 1.3 in six years, the power of the opposing nobles will be strengthened... In other words, the royal family will not gain any advantage no matter what."

This is a microcosm of why Lana is obstructed every time she pushes for a new bill.

It is true that the bill she proposed will benefit the civilians, but due to the current political disputes in the kingdom and the constraints from all sides, the bill cannot be implemented smoothly.

"Then find a merchant..."

"Those merchants you mentioned, although they don't get involved in the kingdom's political disputes, they also have their own opponents. If you easily assist one faction, you might ruin your business relationship with another faction."

Laqisi poured a basin of cold water on him.

Lana closed her eyes slightly and said helplessly: "It's very difficult... Lagis."

"Even if it's because you're not good at prior negotiation that there are many policy loopholes. Well... I also understand that there are two major factions in the country, and it's very difficult to pass the bill." Lagis also sighed.

Lin looked at the two people who were pretending.

No, Lagis might really feel difficult and helpless, but Her Royal Highness the Princess must be pretending. After all, if she had no solution, Lin would not be here.

"…Leburne Territory."

"what?"

"It would be great if Rayburn could lead the implementation."

First of all, Leibun is the largest noble in the kingdom and owns the largest territory, so he can see the average data more intuitively when implementing policies.

Secondly, Marquis Leibun is financially strong, and even if there is a loss of 0.2 every year for six years, he can still bear it, and it will not affect the operation of the territory.

Finally, Lord Rebuen is bound to the Akusis Church. If there is a shortage of manpower or something unusual happens during the implementation, the Akusis Church can also clean up the mess.

Her Royal Highness the Princess had already seen this point.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that Lord Leibun stands on their side.

The terrible princess had already eaten me to death. Lin had a more direct understanding of Lana's monster ability after experiencing the superhuman intelligence most directly.

"May I?!"

"Won't it cause trouble to the Rayburn family?"

Unlike Lana who pretended to be happy and excited, Lagis looked a little worried and concerned.

Lin waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. The data of the experimental field is not fake. The super high return rate of 1.3 will make even my brother excited."

The nobles of the kingdom are awkward.

They were both resistant and willing to accept the proposal put forward by Her Royal Highness the Princess. In general, they just didn't want to take risks. However, the Leibun family didn't mind taking this small risk.

Other nobles may make a small profit, but the Rayburn family will never lose money. If the profit rate is really as high as 1.3, it will be a huge profit!
"Now let's talk about my side of the story."

Seeing that the problem in the experimental field was solved, Lagis opened the bag handed to her by Tina and took out a piece of parchment.

This is something that Laqisi cannot understand.

She handed the parchment to Lana, saying, "We found this parchment when we were burning the black powder in the village. I brought it back with some kind of written instructions, I guess. Can you tell what it is?"

The unfolded parchment was filled with symbols, not the language of any kingdom. Lana only glanced at it and replied nonchalantly:
"It's a substitution cipher."

The so-called substitution cipher is a ciphertext that replaces plain text with other words or symbols, etc., in units of one or several words.

For example, a replaces x and b replaces √.

"I thought so too, so I searched for the replacement table for a long time, but unfortunately I couldn't find it. Because the replacement table might be memorized, we captured a man who was suspected to be the person in charge. I think the best way is to use confusion magic to make him change sides and ask for the decoding method... But as you know, the same warlock will have less and less effect if he casts confusion magic on the same object continuously, so I want to be cautious and talk to you first."

"I see... Is this the reason for staying at the scene... a trap... or something deeper? If so, then it wouldn't be too difficult to replace it. Well, I think this code shouldn't be difficult to decipher. Let me see, the first one in the Kingdom language is... wait for me."

Then she left with the parchment.

Lana's words made Lagis' eyes widen. She couldn't help but look at Lin opposite her and found that the other party seemed to be used to it.

It's unbelievable.

But on the other hand, she knew Lana could do it.

After Lana closed the door, Lagis crossed her hands and placed them under her chin, and asked in an extremely oppressive tone: "Okay, now it's time to talk about you and Lana. Lin, what is your relationship with Lana?!"

"Ok?"

For some reason, Lin had the illusion that he was caught having an affair with his wife, and under the watchful eyes of Lagis, Geglan and Tina.

...This damn three-court trial!
(End of this chapter)