Log Horizon, Vol. 4 (light novel) by Touno Mamare

Author:Touno, Mamare [Touno, Mamare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2020-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

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After Raynesia’s departure, a chaotic despondency ruled the conference room. Krusty, the Round Table Council representative, had gone with Raynesia. Shiroe, who had struck the Lords’ Council as a counselor and a moderate, had gone as well.

The only remaining Round Table Council envoy was Michitaka, who seemed like a resolute hard-liner.

The Lords’ Council was also unsure where to bring down the fist they had raised. Rather, in the first place, although they’d raised their fist, it was questionable whether they actually managed to bring it down at all. Those with the ability and the will to handle the situation at the conference had gone, and their purpose was confused.

During the discussion that followed, poor Baron Clendit completely lost his ability to preside as the chair. He turned pale and red by turns, the desperate care of his retainers proved useless, and at last, gasping feebly, he requested permission to retire.

Although theirs wasn’t as severe as Baron Clendit’s, all the lords were harboring the same sort of confusion to a greater or lesser degree.

As a result, at around midnight, the conference was temporarily adjourned.

In the corridor, Michitaka exhaled deeply.

This couldn’t be more of a pain in the butt.

In the first place, although Michitaka was in charge of a merchant guild, he wasn’t particularly skilled at fine negotiations. He was the sort of guy who thought that a merchant’s job was to make good things, sell them at fair prices, and open up new markets, and nothing else.

And anyway, I’m a blacksmith…

He still considered himself an active artisan. Even now that he was on the Round Table Council, he plied his hammer every day. Now that the number of players heading to high-level dungeons had fallen off, the magical materials needed to create magic items were running thin and things were a bit dreary, but it wasn’t impossible to work around.

Michitaka’s opinion of himself was that he’d just happened to like hanging out with other people and hadn’t had any aversion to talking, so his friends had kicked him upstairs.

He’d probably sounded like a hardliner to the Lords’ Council, but as far as Michitaka was concerned, he’d only been giving a bunch of rude idiots an earful, and he didn’t feel any ill will toward the League of Free Cities as a whole. He’d been against sending soldiers mostly because that was the role he’d been given, out of the three Round Table Council members. Personally, he wasn’t actually against contributing troops.

In any event, he was a production player. Compared to the Adventurers who would leave the town to fight with the expedition, he was in very little danger of dying. Even when the war began, it was likely that he and his guild would simply provide logistical support from Akiba. He couldn’t deny that, privately, he felt guilty about someone in a position like his easily approving of war.

Grousing now that things are in motion, huh…?

He shoved thick fingers into his black hair, scratching at his head. He was in a rotten mood, and he really couldn’t stand it.

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