Bab 68: Be Calm

Arabella frowned as the men continued to collect money from each house.

Her companions also knit their brows as they watched with obvious displeasure as the people who had just survived a flood and were already suffering from a financial crisis and food shortage, were paying money to suspicious men.

Alwin used a magic barrier so no one would notice them watching from the forest.

[They look like mercenaries. Is this also Marquess Gulliver's doing? Aside from slavery, he is extorting money from the common people? Isn't this too much? Just how many laws of the Empire is he breaking? I knew I felt something was weird about him before. I should have listened to my instinct. We shouldn't have assigned him to take care of Prudencia. Back then he was the most suitable candidate since his fief was just beside Prudencia. But look at what he's done. I have to take care of this personally.]

Arabella blinked twice when she realized it was Raymond and the ministers who have appointed Gulliver.