The magic merchant who mingled with Fairy Tail

The familiar yet slightly unfamiliar voice, the huge yet restrained magic power, made Kira instantly realize who the speaker was.

There is no doubt that the cheap sister I met not long ago...maybe for a while...is standing behind me at this moment.

You can tell without looking that there must be a slight smile on her face, the two little girls who don't need to eat must be followed behind her, and her figure must still be so perfect.

In just a moment, Kira simulated a dozen possible scenarios in her mind. At the same time, she stood up, turned around, and asked aloud: "Sister Eileen, why are you here?"

After turning around, he saw Eileen, Heine, and Juliet standing quietly behind him like a single mother raising two children, looking at him inexplicably.

Under this situation, Kira had no time to think about why Irene suddenly appeared here. He decisively put on a poker face and greeted him with a smile: "You guys came just in time, I am preparing for the 'Food Competition' that will take place in a few days. The restaurant selection is going on, the dishes have just been served, why don’t you sit down and let’s eat together!”

What seems like a simple sentence actually hides Kira's multi-layered calculations.

A familiar tone can unconsciously draw the relationship between the two people closer;

The reason for greeting each other with a smile is because Kira firmly believes that everyone is a quality person, and a quality person will not hit someone who smiles at you, unless it is a smile with evil intentions such as ridicule or evil smile;

He said that he was conducting restaurant reviews because he wanted to tell Eileen that he was not lazy or playing fish in the water. Instead, he was still busy working when others got off work. This proved that he had been conscientious and diligent during this period of time. Work diligently and live up to Eileen’s expectations, so don’t listen to the slander of that brainless little girl Heine;

In the end, Irene was invited to sit down and eat together, so that she could share the burden of eating the Overlord meal with him...

etc! ! Something seems wrong?

Kira was stunned for half a second, and suddenly remembered something, Erin couldn't taste anything she ate! Then if you invite her to have dinner with you, wouldn't you be jumping into her minefield? ! !

Thinking of this, Kira's face instantly turned pale.

Ruined! !

"Then what..."

Just when Kira was about to make amends, Irene spoke up: "Forget about eating, I already ate before I came here."

"Really? Then don't force it..." Kira said as if she had received an amnesty, "I wonder what Lady Irene wants from me?"

"snort!"

A soft snort came from the maid behind Irene, Kira's little secretary these days, Heine.

The girl looked at Kira as if she were looking at a cunning and cunning scumbag who did one thing to his face and another behind his back.

The two hours of getting along every day gave Kira a superficial understanding of this brainless girl, and he quickly understood what she wanted to express: "Will you call me Irene now? Didn't you use it so arrogantly before? Is 'Sister Eileen' here to suppress me?"

Kira rolled her eyes and said nothing: "I'm working, so it's working time now, so of course I have to use a more formal address! Otherwise, won't others think I'm using the back door?"

Heine looked confused: This guy... doesn't he know that he has long been regarded as a backdoor by the people in the town?

The exchange between the two only lasted for a short breath, but Irene still noticed it, but she didn't pay attention. She just stepped forward and sat down opposite Kira.

"I heard you're going to hold a 'Food Contest'?"

"Yes!"

"What's the reason?"

"To promote the economic development of the town!"

Kira had already prepared, and blurted out the prearranged words, "You have also seen the reports a few days ago. The town next door held the 'Big Eater Competition' not long ago. This event was not only in the newspapers, but also became a hot spot in the empire for a long time. No less, they even used gimmicks like 'Mysterious Woman' to attract a large number of tourists and promote the tourism industry of the place."

"I think we can learn from this and hold a similar event in our city to raise taxes!"

Why raise taxes? I'm not short of money...

Irene pondered for two seconds, frowned her beautiful brows, and said softly: "Is this necessary?"

"Of course, Lady Eileen!" Kira felt that she had an opportunity to show off. "I have carefully observed that the balance of our town's treasury is seriously insufficient. This may be due to the fact that the empire has focused on magical military in recent decades. related."

"Due to the lack of sufficient funding from the empire, the magic school in the town is quite crude. There is a serious shortage of both teacher resources and teaching resources. Many children of the new generation do not enjoy the opportunity to learn magic. This is undoubtedly a great pity!"

"For a magical military empire like the Albares Empire, a steady stream of magicians is an important cornerstone of the empire's strength. Once the cornerstone is unstable, the empire will collapse."

"I know that the emperor and the Twelve Shields are both very powerful magicians. Each of them can easily conquer a small country. But if there are no soldiers at the bottom, no matter how powerful the general is, he is just a mere commander. Similarly, if the empire does not have the bottom layer, The magicians are just a larger magic guild."

"This hidden danger may not be visible for the time being, but in a few decades, the empire's high-level magicians will be in a state of inactivity! And at that time, if we want to deal with it and restore the national strength, it will take at least fifty years. !”

The Albarez Empire has only been around for over a hundred years since its founding. I think it should be able to frighten it in fifty years...

Kira stopped for a moment, took a big sip of wine, looked at Irene who was silent and watching her quietly, and continued: "But we can nip it in the bud now, as long as we hold a 'Food Contest' Small activities can attract tourists to come and spend money, thereby increasing the economic income of the town. The next step is to improve the magic school in the town, teach the next generation of children magic, increase the number of imperial soldiers, and successfully continue Albare As long as the Si Empire exists!!”

Finally finished! Are you all stupid? !

To be able to elevate the competition to such a high level, I am truly a genius! !

Kira felt smug inside and started drinking to quench her thirst.

The fact was just as Kira thought. His impassioned speech directly made Eileen and the two followers behind her stunned. They blinked and looked at Kira who looked calm, as if he had seen Like something weird.

Heine, the girl in black standing behind Irene, opened her eyes wide with disbelief on her face. Her mood at this time could only be described as shock: "Who is this person? He is still the one who only works less than two hours a day. , during this period, do you still have to use your head to fish for rubbish by drinking water and going to the toilet? Why can he say such a bunch of obviously outrageous things, but they seem to be coherent? Is it really possible to tell Lady Eileen Like, he is actually not a traveling businessman, but a man who talks about comics?"

Erin is not a fool. She was once the queen who ruled a country. She is much more experienced in political methods than Zeref and most of the Twelve Shields. So after listening to Kira’s speculation, , she could immediately analyze how likely Kira's idea was to appear in the future.

The final conclusion is... Kira is just farting! !

The whole process seems reasonable, but the Albares Empire has its own national conditions, and the hidden dangers Kira mentioned... make some sense, and are likely to happen, but for the people in power of the empire, the decline of national power does not matter at all!

Zeref initially established the Albarez Empire to pass the time. In his opinion, it was just a chess game, and even the twelve shields were just chess pieces. From the bottom of his heart, he did not care about the life or death of his citizens, nor the empire. Survival or death.

The empire fell? Then rebuild!

Someone died? Then regenerate!

No magic? Then learn!

Does it take fifty years to restore national strength? Then just play it for another fifty years, what’s the big deal!

Furthermore, the Albarez Empire is likely to launch a 'holy war of annihilation' to wipe out mankind in the future, and it will not be more than fifty years before this 'holy war' is launched.

Because even Zeref needs usable 'chess pieces' to launch a war, and the two most useful chess pieces he has obtained over the years are Ogast and Irene.

Irene will not say it, but Olgaste is already over 80 years old and has very little life left, so Zeref will definitely start a war before Olgaste dies.

After the war is over, humanity has perished (the timeline is restarted), and it no longer matters what life will be like after that.