Chapter 109: Councilor
"So much...."
Anna wiped the semen off with a cloth and put on the underwear that had been thrown away in an attempt to fix her messy clothes.
There are a number of red hickeys on her neck and collarbone that look like bug bites, but Anna doesn\'t seem to notice.
I put my hand on Anna\'s waist as she continued to worry about the smell of semen, and I left the meeting room.
"Mayor..."
In addition to the four council members, there were five more men waiting in the waiting room.
I guessed they were the five appointed council members who had been nominated by the elected council members.
All nine of them greeted Anna and me with vague smiles on their faces.
The look on their faces from the moment we entered the room meant that Anna\'s moans might have reached this room.
"Mayor, that ......
"Ah...."
The young man who stepped forward was a man dressed in high quality clothes for a wealthy man. He looked to be in his early thirties.
Judging from Anna\'s small voice, I guessed that he was probably the senator she had appointed.
"What is it?"
The man introduced himself with a merchant-like movement and said that he was a councilor appointed by Anna.
He glanced over at Anna and made a perturbed face.
Anna\'s afterglow sexiness was so teasing that I almost had a second erection next to her.
He seemed to have his sights set on Anna, so I pulled my hands around her waist and pulled her close to me.
Anna looked embarrassed, but she didn\'t reject me and stuck to me.
"Anna....?"
From the look on Anna\'s face, he could tell that she had consented, not been forced into submission.
The other members of the council seemed to know what was going on when they saw her snuggling up to me with a meltingly sweet expression on her face, her hickey-covered neck exposed, and the stench of cum that came from her.
"This ...... is a cause for celebration!"
"Yes, that\'s right. As expected of the mayor.
The councilors behind her opened their mouths one after another as if to shake off the muffled air in the waiting room.
The councilor who had been nominated by Anna in front of him was still staring at Anna in a daze.
"Anna tells me you\'re quite good. I want you to work hard for the development of Nambonan City."
"Y-.. yes....."
After answering me, he stepped back, wobbling slightly like a drunk.
As I was somewhat watching him, Rumon came up to him and gave him a pat on the shoulder. They share the common trait of being the sons of a large merchant family, so perhaps they are close friends.
There is a plaza in front of Nambonan Castle, where the council is located, and it is usually the place where major announcements about city affairs are made.
This is also where the announcement of the surrender to the citizens took place. The results of the elections are also announced here, and the birth of new council members is announced to the citizens.
Anna and the nine male members of the council went up on the stage and announced their appointment to the crowd of citizens gathered in the square.
After the announcement of my arrival, it was time for speeches by the council members.
The elected councilors paired up with their chosen appointees and stood at the front of the stage to introduce themselves and talk about their vision for the future of the city government.
"You seem to have a very good grasp of the situation."
"Yes, I do."
The civilian officer of the Quardenze army nodded his head in reassurance as he took notes on what the councilors were saying.
As if in unison, the councilors began their talk with a slogan like, "I am now a councilor of Nambonan City in the territory of Quardenze. It was as if they were reminding the citizens that Nambonan was no longer an independent force.
The words that followed showed the characteristics of each councilor, but basically, the content was the same.
The elected officials pledged to be sincere to the citizens, while the appointed officials talked about the future management of the city.
One of the civil servants reacted to a councilor who said that the city should become the second largest city after New Nellie. His family is a knightly family that controls the second largest city in the Quadrant. Maybe he didn\'t want to lose.
"Anna is next."
"Yes. After all, only the spirit of Nambonan is worthy of going last."
It was Rumon who said so.
The spirit of Nambonan is a great alias, but I immediately understood that she was popular enough to deserve it.
As Anna and the nominated senator advanced to the front of the stage, a loud cheer that could only be described as a roar echoed through the square.
"You\'re very popular."
Anna\'s vagina, who was attracting the attention of all the citizens in the square, is still filled with my semen.
The citizens would never have dreamed that the little nymph in front of them was having sexual intercourse with the mayor just a few moments ago.
According to Rumon, because of the age difference between us, Anna and I look like mother and son, so the idea of a physical relationship would not be first thing that comes to mind. If the sexes were reversed, such a thing would not be uncommon, he said.
The poor appointed councilor, who was caught completely off guard and had Anna snatched away from him, declared that he was ready to become a city councilor with Nambonan City.
The person I really wanted to be with is now mine.
I hope that he will devote his energy to the development of Nambonan City and increase the tax revenue to the Quardenze family.
After all the council members had finished their talk time, it was finally my turn to speak.
When the city official announced the mayor\'s entrance, a frenzy that rivaled Anna\'s earlier appearance filled the square.
Shaking the fabric of my clothes from the explosive sound, I hurriedly came out from the side of the stage, climbed up to the stage, and waited in silence.
After a few moments of silence, the voices died down and the entire square became eerily silent. Finally, I opened my mouth.
"Citizens of Nambonan."
Using the magic to raise my voice, I began my speech as if I were speaking quietly.
I had put a lot of effort into memorizing the manuscript and practicing my speech, so I was able to speak smoothly and without hesitation.
I told the audience that the election in Nambonan had been very interesting, that I was relieved to see that the elected councilors were loyal to the Quardenze family, that I expected Nambonan to continue to grow, and that I would continue to watch over the city as mayor. In summary, that\'s what I said.
"After listening to the declarations of the ...... councilors, I have determined that there is little chance of treason on the part of the citizens of Nambonan."
The citizens must have been relieved, too, because a sigh of relief overlapped with a deep, soothing bass, "Oh."
In fact, based on the data compiled by the civilian officials of the Quardenze army and the inspection of the city, we judged that the possibility of a rebellion was low.
And I decided to tell them what the citizens must be concerned about on a daily basis.
"I authorize the city to build a new wall."
This seemed to be a big surprise, and the citizens, who had been listening to me in silence, suddenly became excited.
After the war, all the walls surrounding Nambonan City were destroyed.
They were dismantled at the request of my father, who wanted the magic-repelling stones that had been used to build the walls. The recovered stones were directly used to build my grandfather\'s castle.
Obtaining the stone was the only purpose of destroying the castle walls. It would be more correct to say that the walls were lost as a result of the removal of the stones.
That\'s why Nambonan City now has no city walls, exposing its defenseless state like Anna\'s pussy. The citizens were worried about this situation, even though troops of the Quardenze army were stationed around the city.
But they cannot insist on rebuilding the city walls. They believe that the Quardenze have destroyed the walls that can be used for siege in order to deter the Nambonan rebellion.
The citizens feared that the Quardenze would use this as an excuse. "You want a wall? You guys are planning a siege! You\'re planning a rebellion! You\'re trying to rebel! I\'ll kill you all this time! This time, I\'m going to kill them all!" They imagined and feared something like this and thus did not protest for a new wall to be built.
Before I left New Nellie city, my father had told me that the rebuilding of the city walls would be left to my discretion. So I decided to give my permission on my own authority.
The citizens, who thought they had gained a great deal of trust from me, were very excited and shouts of joy erupted from everywhere.
After the speech, a party started in the square.
The banquet seemed to have started in other squares in the city, and the population density of the square in front of the council seemed to have decreased slightly.
I sat at a table set up on the platform for the members of the council, drinking tea and listening to the conversation.
"There will be a collapse of the Knights of the Old Voistra in the future, and I have always been concerned about public safety. I am deeply grateful for your trust."
The oldest senator, an old man, expressed his gratitude for the permission to rebuild the city walls.
There are a number of lands around Nambonan that have become part of the Quardenze territory in the last twenty years or so.
The noble families that ruled before that were destroyed by my grandfather, as well as most of the knight families who were subordinate to the families.
It is best to kill the fallen knights as soon as you can, since some of them live as bandits. Thieves with magic powers are a nuisance.
"Voistra. A faded country."
To the southwest of Nambonan City, there was a small country named the Kingdom of Voistra.
Today, that country no longer exists. That\'s because it was absorbed by the Zinkhaen Empire.
That was more than 50 years ago. When the Voistra royal family saw the momentum of the empire\'s first emperor, Zinkhaen, in his youth, they decided that it would be better to join forces with him rather than fight against him.
The Voistra royal family approached Emperor Zinkhaen, who wanted to establish his kingdom, and declared that they would return from being the king to being one noble family.
The Voistra family then changed their family name to become one of the noble families of the empire in order to spread the word of the kingdom\'s demise.
Because of their honest reverence and the fact that they brought the noble families that had followed the Voistra Kingdom together with them to the side of the Empire, they received the dukedom from Emperor Zinkhaen, a position they still hold today.
In this way, the Kingdom of Voistra disappeared from history, but the Empire created a dukedom and a number of count and viscount families that were cronies of the dukedom.
The subjugated groups of the Kingdom of Voistra that switched to the Empire are now collectively referred to as the Old Voistra.
Incidentally, most of the imperial aristocrats that my grandfather dislikes are the former Voistra. Rather, it would be better to say that he hates the old Voistra and also hates the imperial nobles who side with them.
The old senator probably understands that a war to annihilate the old Voistra will start in the near future.
Over drinks, the old senator said that he had been to the Kingdom of Voistra several times in his youth.
"I haven\'t heard many stories about the kingdom of the Voistra. Can you talk about it?"
"Just an old man\'s reminiscences, if you don\'t mind."
"No problem."
"Yes, sir."
I let Rumon, who had completely learned my job as a note-taker, listen to the old stories about the old senator.
The old senator was apparently 80 years old. By commoner standards, that\'s pretty old.
"When I first went to Ocellaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Voistra, it was so urban that ...... I pissed myself on the spot. In those days, the city of Nambonan was no more than a small village. ......"
So I listened to the story of the Kingdom of Voistra, mixed with the old stories of Nambonan City.
A ruined kingdom that no longer exists. What a phrase that tickled my intellectual curiosity.
Tomorrow we are going to visit my grandfather, who is dreaming annihilating the old Voistra.
I don\'t know when the war will start, but I\'m sure it won\'t be far in the future.