【The Old Man of the Expelled Inn Unwittingly Dominates Today Too】Although I Want to Lead a Slow Life, for Some Reason the Strongest Beauties Who Hold Important Positions in the Country, and Were Once My Disciples, Gather Around Me Asking to Be Hired – Even Though I Only Taught Them a Little～

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“Damn it all!!”

I, the magnificent one, was raging alone in my room.

“My glorious first battle resulted in defeat!!”

Why? Why did I lose? To someone like Northmanea?!

Was it because I attacked while the Sword Saint was absent? Because I skimped on the Sword Saint’s pay raise?

No! There has to be another reason!

“That’s right! It’s all that incompetent Baldo’s fault! He must have swayed Sword Saint Alesia! It can’t be anything else!”

Otherwise, there’s no reason for anyone to leave my excellent self.

“Hahaha~ You seem pretty upset.”

A different voice echoes in my room, which should be empty.

I glare fiercely at the ‘mirror’ hanging on the wall.

“Hey, ‘Mirror,’ watch your language. I’m very irritated; my guts are boiling.”

“Hahaha~ Good, good~ Malice is my nourishment~ Yours is truly exquisite.”

“Tch, don’t get cheeky… Remember, depending on my mood, you could be shattered at any moment.”

The one talking back is the ‘mirror.’ A literal talking mirror.

I dragged it out of the royal treasury long ago, and it suddenly started talking. I was irritated, and about to break it when it told me it knew how to undermine my father, so I decided to listen to it.

Ever since it’s been constantly grumbling at me.

Apparently, it feeds on people’s malice. It spouts nonsense about how my malice is top-grade, but I have no idea where any malice exists within me.

I only have perfectly reasonable thoughts.

“But because of the damn nobles who keep complaining, I’ll have to spend my precious money.”

“Hahaha~ That’s just chump change~ You have an infinite mountain of gold after all.”

“Don’t joke around! That gold is all mine! Once I conquer the continent, I’ll build a palace of gold!”

“Haha~ A palace of gold, huh. That’s great~ You’re probably the only one who would think of something like that. But that important hidden treasure mountain of yours might be in danger.”

“The ‘mirror’ is talking about the hidden treasure mountain that I own, my essential and secretive gold mine. A new vein was discovered in a previously abandoned mine, and I bought off all the parties involved at that time, exploiting their weaknesses to make it my own. Even my father doesn’t know about it. The fact that the mine is located near the border with Northmanea and needs to be more conspicuous helped.

——It was an immense undertaking.

There were times when I spent vast amounts of gold, times when I employed numerous spies, and times when I mobilized a large number of assassins. Incidentally, a part of the funds I embezzled back then, I framed Baldo for misappropriation.

If my father had found out, he would’ve seized it immediately. And then, it would’ve been spent on idiotic things like social policies for the impoverished or school education.

Idiots! Gold exists for the strong! Like me! I couldn’t care less about the useless poor!

“Haha~ Well, your precious gold mine is being targeted.”

That’s right——

“——Northmanea’s scum are invading!”

“Haha~ Of course they are. You attacked them first, after all.”

Yes, I received information that Northmanea, whom I invaded just the other day, is preparing to counterattack.

“What do you think the excellent Prince Genus will do now? Just sit quietly?”

“Hmph, they have two invasion routes planned. One is from my very precious hidden gold mine. The other is by breaking through the Kingdom of Natol.”

Natol is an allied nation of my Kingdom of Fridania. I am the leader of the alliance, and Natol is effectively a tiny country that’s like my subordinate. So, nominally, I have to send reinforcements.

However, my army is amid reorganization after the previous war, so I don’t have extra troops.

“So, you already know what choice a wise person like you should make, right?”

“Of course! My gold mine is the top priority! I’ll deploy elite troops there! As for a small country like Natol, I’ll send some unimportant forces.”

Northmanea probably knows about the existence of the gold mine. Otherwise, they wouldn’t invade a mountainous region with little strategic value.

Around the gold mine, I’ve set up a defensive line mainly comprised of guards who didn’t participate in the previous war. They are strong soldiers who have thwarted enemy invasions time and again.

——As if I’ll hand over my precious gold mine.

“Hahaha~ As expected of Prince Genus! That’s a perfect 100-point answer~.”

“Heh, I’m only stating the obvious. My decisions are always correct.”

“Of course they are! You are always right.”

(Hahaha~ This prince is genuinely the best~ The more he moves, the more boundless wickedness springs forth~ What an intriguing individual to stir up~ Hehehe)

At this moment, Prince Genus was unaware of one crucial fact. Most elite defense troops from the battle-hardened Kingdom of Fridania were elite troops directly under the former Sword Saint Alesia.