"Sir Eric." Hiyori handed the document to Eric: "The land management and reservoir construction will be completed soon."
Eric looked through the documents and nodded: "Very good, how much budget is left in the treasury?"
Hiyori sighed softly: "It's only enough for three months."
"Don't worry, we have a bumper harvest this time, and the funds will be enough to support us for a long time." Eric comforted with a smile.
Hiyori lowered his head and replied, "Yes."
"Eric." Erza then advised Eric: "Some citizens are having disputes in the area around the reservoir."
"Huh?" Eric asked in confusion, "What dispute?"
"After the contaminated land was remediated, some people claimed ownership of the land near the reservoir," Elusa said.
Eric frowned and asked, "Can they produce the voucher?"
"I can't take it out." Erza said with some embarrassment, "That's why I feel embarrassed."
"Then it will be nationalized, and then divided into fields of equal size, and then the locations will be selected by drawing lots." Eric said, "Elusha, you are fully responsible for this matter."
"yes."
"If someone feels that it is unfair to cause trouble or incite the masses, then we will send troops to suppress it. They cannot be allowed to easily disrupt social order."
Erza hesitated: "Isn't this a little bad?"
"Once the conflict expands, it will cause greater trouble." Eric said: "Controlling the riots to a minimum is responsible for the safety of other people."
"Yes." Erza finally agreed.
Eric kept discussing political affairs with several people, and unknowingly, the sun gradually set.
"Everyone, as for political affairs, can we wait until tomorrow to discuss it?" Kuang San interrupted the discussion with a smile: "Eric has just been back for a long time, let him have a good rest today, right?"
Erza chuckled softly: "I'm very sorry, I didn't realize that we were talking about this time."
"I originally wanted to hold a banquet to celebrate, but I didn't expect that many of my companions were not in China." Eric also smiled and said, "Then let's celebrate together when they come back."
"There's no need to say polite words." Arturia stood up: "The person next to you has a face that says 'You guys are too much of a hindrance here'."
Kuang San chuckled and said, "That's not the case."
…
After taking a shower, Eric was wearing blue pajamas and leaning back in a chair lazily.
"Eric, are you feeling tired?" Kurumi, who had just finished taking a shower, wiped his wet hair with a soft towel.
The gorgeous black hair, the smooth and tender skin, and the extremely delicate appearance of a doll, coupled with the wet appearance after bathing, make her even more enchanting and alluring.
"It's okay." Eric took a sip of Happy Fat Home Water and sighed: "I wanted to help more people if I felt capable. However, after actually finishing it, I found that there were many unsatisfactory things."
Kuang San moved lightly, his white and smooth soles stepping on the floor silently. Then she gently sat on Eric's lap and brushed his cheek with her soft palms: "It's better not to build a country. When you first went to sea, you always had a smile on your face."
"Since the founding of the country, your smile has decreased a lot." Kuang San said with some distress: "How about we go back to being the Dawn Pirates? We don't want this country anymore."
Eric shook his head and said: "It's like water without a source or a tree without roots. I want to be more stable. I go to sea when I want to be free and go home when I want to be safe."
"What's more, we have invested so much money, it would be a waste to give up now."
"Ara." Kuang San stretched out his white finger and tapped the tip of Eric's nose: "The last sentence should be your true words."
"Hey!" Eric suddenly stood up.
"Yeah!" Kuang San screamed, and quickly hooked Eric's neck with his hands.
Eric naturally wouldn't let Kurumi fall down, so he hugged her soft waist with his left arm and passed his right hand under her legs, which was the so-called princess hug.
"Disgusting~"
"Like it?"
"I don't like it~!"
…
"Except for the year of practice, we have never been separated for so long." Kuang San naughtily stroked Eric's Adam's apple with his fingers.
Then she raised her upper body and stared at Eric with her bright red eyes: "Don't be separated from me again."
"A goodbye is better than a wedding." Eric said, "Obviously you just..."
Kuang San’s eyes widened, he pinched the soft flesh of Eric’s waist and threatened: “Don’t say anything!”
"Okay, okay, I won't tell!" Eric raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.
"You swear you will never be separated from me for more than a day again!"
"I swear, I will never leave Kurumi for more than a day again!"
"That's pretty much it." Kuang San rested his head on Eric's shoulder.
"However, do you think we need to search for talents quickly?"
"Well..." Kuang San said while adjusting his posture to make himself more comfortable: "Most of the officials in China are not clean, but if the water is clear, there will be no fish, so you can only turn a blind eye. "
Eric suggested: "So, I want to recruit some internal affairs staff."
"Okay." Kuang San raised his eyebrows: "At least there won't be a few more women..."
"Why do you say that?"
"In history, have women served as internal affairs officers?" Kuang San asked rhetorically.
"Yes, Shangguan Wan'er."
"Ah?!" Kuang San turned his eyes: "Do you still have some food left?"
"..." Eric didn't answer.
"Haha." Kuang San chuckled and stood up, sitting on Eric like a queen, looking down at Eric from top to bottom.
…
The next morning, Eric got up energetically. The person on his pillow was no longer there, but the scent of a woman remained in the bed.
He pushed himself up with some weakness in his limbs, as if he had just run a thousand meters and his muscles were sore the next morning.
"I overslept...but it's excusable..." Eric scratched his head and put on his clothes with weak legs.
"squeak"
The door of the room was pushed open, and Kuang San, radiantly dressed in costume, came in, making the whole room light up.
The jet-black hair exudes a gorgeous light; the fair skin exudes a rosy color; Sakura's lips are filled with a satisfied smile.
"Eric is awake?" Kuang San smiled lightly and picked up the plate with breakfast: "I brought you breakfast."
"Well..." Eric looked at the bread and porridge, pointed at the suspicious items floating inside and asked:
"This is--?"
Kuang San tilted his head cutely: "Tiger whip?"
"Why is it a question? Didn't you do this?" Eric was startled, and then refused righteously: "My health is very good, I don't need this thing!"
"Of course." Kuang San smiled, evil and seductive, with an expression of "Of course I know whether your health is good or not."
"But I still have to make up for it." Kuang San smiled and said: "My other clones are still waiting to line up~"
"..." Eric's body trembled, remembering the fear of being dominated last night.
Eric shrank his head and asked, "Are you taking it upon yourself to do this?"
"Hmph." Eric pouted: "That's better than the cheap woman!"
"Yes, really..." Eric twitched the corners of his mouth and started eating breakfast.
Kuang San looked at Eric and asked, "What are your recent plans?"
"Hmm..." Eric answered vaguely with rice in his mouth: "Lick Jeanne first, right?"
"Huh?" Kuang San raised his eyebrows and said in a cold voice, "What did you say?"
"Gudu..." Eric swallowed the bread in his mouth and said cautiously: "Increase the friendship between companions?"
"..." Kuang San stared seriously into Eric's eyes: "Then?"
"Then I can call the internal affairs officers, and I can leave all the work to them..."
"Well, this is the Eric Sang I know." Kuang San's expression finally relaxed.
"What do you mean?" Eric was a little unhappy. He had been working hard for half a year on government affairs.
Kuang San’s lips were close to Eric’s cheek, and he kissed her softly: “I mean, go ahead and do it.”
…
"Eric-sama." Early in the morning, Hiyori came to Eric's office to submit materials.
"This is the military expenses incurred by the pirate group that recently came to China to cause trouble, and the expedition led by General Esdeath."
Eric took the report and stared at it for a few seconds.
"Isn't the calculation wrong?"
"No." Hiyori shook her head regretfully.
Eric sighed: "Oh, I know."
"General Esdeath has been very economical on military expenses." Hiyori said: "Use the ice to freeze the pirate group's ships, and then lead the soldiers to approach the battle to seize the pirate ships and supplies. In addition to reducing the number of people in the battle, Our army has basically no losses."
"Where does all this military spending come from?"
“Road damage, house damage, or military pensions.”
"Really?" Eric raised his forehead and said, "This alone is such a huge expense."
"General Esdeath once proposed to expand the army." Hiyori looked at Eric steadily: "I think it is better to wait for Lord Eric to come back before making a decision."
"For China, which has a population of one million, an army of only a few hundred people is indeed very small." Eric agreed: "The army should indeed be expanded."
"Yes." Hiyori wrote down in the document with a pen.
Several people began to work intensely and busy again.
…
During a brief break, Eric found Joan in the lounge.
Joan of Arc turned her head and looked at Eric: "Don't worry about me, go take care of others."
"Well, having said that, I find that you are all the same person." Eric smiled and said, "What's there to be unhappy about?"
"Huh?" Joan of Arc narrowed her eyes: "Isn't that Englishman also a person?"
"She also has delicious food to accompany her, so she is not alone."
Jeanne curled her lips and said nothing.
Eric took a step closer and sat down, but Joan didn't react with disgust.
Joan of Arc suddenly said: "I'm talking about you."
"Um?"
"Why do you do so much for the people of this country?"
"Hmm..." Eric thought for a moment: "For your own ambition?"
"Why is it a question?" Joan sneered: "I heard from others that you defeated Kaido the Beast and invested a lot of money in building the country, just to satisfy your dream of being an emperor?"
"Almost." Eric nodded and admitted.
"Huh?" Joan's eyes widened: "Why don't you deny it?"
"That's what I really think." Eric spread his hands: "I want power, power, and beauty, and I can't stand the behavior of the world's nobles."
"..." Joan of Arc laughed out loud: "You are much more pleasing to the eye than those guys who claim to be righteous."
[Joan Arc’s favorability is slightly increased, but the bond level remains unchanged]
'If the leader of France was even one ten thousandth like Eric, I would not...' Thinking of this, Joan of Arc shook her head vigorously.
'I am a fake, artificial, and fabricated one. I am not a real saint. Only this desire for revenge is real! '
"What's wrong with you?" Eric interrupted Joan's thinking.
"Nothing." Jeanne looked away.
"Don't stay alone." Eric suggested: "If you want to fight, go to Esdeath, if you want to listen to music, go to Miku..."
As soon as she heard Mijiu's name, Jeanne trembled all over and her voice was a little distorted: "By the way, what's going on with that woman named Mijiu? She always pounces on me when she sees her!"
Eric smiled and said nothing.
"One day I will burn her to death with fire!"
"Although I keep talking about burning you to death, you haven't done anything."
"snort!"
"Your arrogant temper needs to change."
"You're so annoying, do you want me to strangle you to death?" Joan of Arc replied fiercely, but also felt helpless: "Really, why should I answer the call of such a person..."
"Because you long to be loved." Eric replied: "Even if you are an Avenger who focuses on revenge, in your deep consciousness, you still want to be surrounded by beautiful men you like."
"Ha!?" Joan of Arc opened her eyes wide, and her hands ignited with flames: "You say it again!?"
"Ah ha ha ha..." Eric raised his hands in surrender: "I'm sorry, please put the flame away first."
"If there's anything you don't like, you must tell me." Eric also understood that it was very difficult for the Avengers to open their hearts, even if she was the best woman in Chaldea.
"I'm talking about you." Joan of Arc's voice stopped Eric who was about to leave: "Why do you care about me so much?"
"Because-" Eric turned around and said, "You are my companion."
"Besides, I am your master. Isn't it the right thing to care about my servants?"
[Joan Arc’s favorability is slightly increased, the bond level is increased from 2 to 3, and 2 bond points are obtained]
Eric clenched his fists in his heart and shouted: 'Yes! '
"Whatever you think!" Joan turned around, only her red ears showed that she was not in a calm mood.
Seeing this, Eric quickly struck while the iron was hot and prepared to take the next step.
"... Just stop it! Really! If you continue to go deeper, be careful, I will burn you to death!?"
Eric was blasted out by Joan of Arc's flames.
"Huh~" Eric complained as he wiped the ash from his forehead, "You really don't need to be teased. He releases explosive flames as soon as he makes a joke."
Eric purchased the holy relic in the system mall: "Interior Officer, come and be my ox and horse!"
