Saving 80,000 Gold in an Another World for Retirement Chapter 217

217. Transport Corps 3

What a blunder!

Come to think of it, I taught Sabine-chan and the King about the radio, but I’ve never taught it to anyone related to Count Bozes.

I taught some people during the treaty negotiation journey, but that was a confidential matter, a top-secret, so it cannot be revealed.

Obviously. How ridiculous it is to be able to interact with someone several hundred kilometers away in an instant, from the military, commercial, and various other perspectives…

Well, the impact might be small for those who know my [transfer], though.

So that’s why, it seems that I was not conveyed to Count Bozes, the matter about the radio I mean…

It won’t be a problem if he knows about it. Besides, I contacted the King in the royal capital with radio during the invasion fleet attack, so I thought Count Bozes had already known about the radio.

Ah, no, maybe Count-sama knew, but he just didn’t tell his family about it. Because he can’t just leak the confidential information of the country, even to his wife and children…

And, for Beatrice-chan, Colette-chan is just a commoner. Well, no matter how much I say that [she’s a vassal candidate], she won’t believe it so easily. After all, Colette-chan was just a village girl in the county of Bozes.

And Beatrice-chan seems to think that I’m just taking her to give her a proper education in order to return the favor from saving my life… And that I said [It’s an education to become a vassal], just so that Colette-chan won’t feel reserved…

And that Colette-chan, who is just a commoner, is freely using the secret tool that allows to [talk to me anytime, even if I’m far away]. While on the other hand, she, who believes that she is my best friend… more than Colette-chan or Sabine-chan, hasn’t been taught about it at all.

…it’s bad.

It’s pretty bad…

And if she knows that Sabine-chan has her own radio on top of knowing about it, it’d be far from bad!

…it’d be dangerous. Pretty dangerous…

What should I do…

And as expected, I can’t possibly install a radio set in Bozes house.

If I do that, the radio, which is an Over-Technology for this world, will allow Count Bozes and the King to do unthinkable things such as instantly transmits information and many other things…

And various things would be planned on the premise of its existence… If I were gone, all of them would immediately collapse. Starting from a slight malfunction, deterioration of the battery or the solar panel, and so on…

Right, it means that I’ll be racked with anxiety if they were to make a defense plan on the assumption that real-time information can be exchanged between the royal capital and the county of Bozes.

I brought the radio to this world so that I can communicate with someone far away. I don’t intend to let anyone other than me use it for their own convenience. If I’m the only one they can communicate with using the radio, no one will be troubled even if I’m gone, and the radio doesn’t work anymore.

During the treaty negotiation journey is an exception. At that time, the safety of the delegates was the top priority. …the matter about Princess Remia, too, I suppose.

She only uses it for playing and talking with Sabine-chan or to request for emergency rescue, so it doesn’t matter if it suddenly stopped working one day. Because the meaning of its existence would be lost for good, If I, the one who should go for her rescue, am gone.

If it’s only used for a single purpose and would be rendered useless with my disappearance, then there’s no problem. There’s no way they could reproduce it within a few hundred years, and it will decay and disappear in the meantime anyway.

Besides, if I were to disappear by my own will, I will recover all radios and solar power generation systems before that, along with everything of modern technologies in the [general store Mitsuha] and my territory residence.

Ah, I collected the radio that was installed inside the carriage that was used during the treaty negotiations trip and the solar panels on its roof after the team returned to the royal capital. …or rather, they’re now installed on this carriage.

[…tsuha! Mitsuha!!] (Colette-chan)

Ah. I was in the middle of a conversation with Colette-chan…

“I… I’ve got a little urgent matter all of sudden. I will call you later!” (Mitsuha)

[Eh? …ah, un… 10-4!] (Colette-chan)

“Yakuman!” (Mitsuha) (Note: Mahjong stuff, basically highest score)

[Eh?] (Colette-chan)

“No, nothing… 10-10!” (Mitsuha)

It’s not Tenhou, and it’s not an emergency order either. (Note: Again, Mahjong stuff)

Besides, I’m not even using CB radio, just amateur radio equipment.

…well, I was just half-joking and teach Colette-chan the Ten-code.

And Colette-chan, who correctly guessed that there’s [something happened], immediately withdrew.

Now the problem is …

“That was Colette, right?” (Beatrice-chan)

Beatrice-chan probably had never met Colette-chan until she came to the territory residence.

Well, obviously. There’s no way the lord’s daughter could be acquainted with a villager’s daughter. Unlike the viscounty, which has a population of fewer than 700 people, the county of Bozes has a much larger population, and there’s no way the daughter of a count could blithely roam the territory.

…But, since Beatrice-chan visits the territory residence on a regular basis, of course, she had many opportunities to talk to Colette-chan. So, even though the voice that came out from the speaker of the radio was slightly distorter, she still recognized whose voice it was…

“…what is that?” (Beatrice-chan)

With [the light in her eyes disappeared] that often called the [void expression] on her face, Beatrice-chan repeated the same words as before.

Aaaaaahh, it seems I can’t escape from this one!!

“…I see. Not only Colette but Princess Sabine too…” (Beatrice-shan)

So Beatrice-chan murmured, still with the void expression on her face.

…scary!!

Well, even if try to fool her now, I’m sure she will ask Colette-chan later.

And Colette-chan might not be able to endure Beatrice-chan’s interrogations.

If she were to find out that I’ve fooled her after she asked Colette-chan… it would be a catastrophe.

And after that, if the hand of investigation reached Sabine-chan too…

Buruburuburuburuburu! (SFX)

With that in mind, it’s definitely better to honestly tell her about Sabine-chan too and finish it all at once.

So I told her everything.

Besides, Sabine-chan is of a far higher class than Beatrice-chan, so there’s a faint hope that it might help to ease her anger if she knows that, not only Colette-chan but Sabine-chan also knows about it.

…of course, in terms of my friends, including Colette-chan, there is no concept of hierarchy!! Everyone is equal… except during formal occasions.

…well, as expected it would be really bad if she finds out about the Earth or the new continent, but I guess there’s no problem if it’s just about the radio. It is already known to many people anyway, even the court ladies and the maids at the royal palace knew about it …

Ah, of course, the court ladies and the maids have trustworthy backgrounds. Most of them are the daughters of lower-class nobles, high-ranking bureaucrats, and the likes, so they will never reveal the secret even as a mistake.

Because if they were to betray the royal family, it would not end with just themselves. They would rather sacrifice themselves than putting their house and whole clan at risk. Every noblemen and merchant in this world have that kind of mentality…

So even if they were threatened or caught and tortured, most of them would rather report it to the officials or bite their own tongue.

…it’s not like it could be imitated just because someone knew about its existence, so I have no problem even if they talked about it. That’s why I want them to prioritize their lives over that in such cases. Otherwise, they would be executed even if they were released, because they concealed the super confidential secret of the country…

So, it’s better to keep the existence of the radio unknown.

And…

“I request that magic tool! If I have that, I can freely talk to Mitsuha even when I’m at Bozes mansion!” (Beatrice-chan)

I saw that coming!