Incompatible Interspecies Wives

Chapter 178: An Approaching Crisis (2)

I headed to the office to meet Gale.

Several servants followed behind me.

"..."

I still wasn't accustomed to such treatment.

How much longer must I endure this before I become numb to it?

Taking a short breath, I spoke to the servants.

"Go take a rest. I'll manage on my own."

It was widely known within our household that I was uncomfortable with the servants' accompaniment.

I had made it quite obvious over time.

Perhaps because of that, the servants bowed silently and stepped away from me.

Only Desmond, the head butler, continued to follow me.

Soon, I arrived in front of the office.

-Knock, knock, knock.

"It's Berg. I'm coming in."

I opened the door and entered naturally, meeting Gale's gaze as he was looking over some documents.

His expression wasn't bright.

He didn't even look up at me, deeply engrossed in his work.

Then, he sighed and put down the documents.

With a face full of worry, he spoke to me.

"It's never-ending."

"..."

"I expected this...but it's really pouring in every day. It's like a horde of war monsters."

Gale was talking about the bandits.

Just as he said, bandits were springing up everywhere.

People who had lost their homes as a consequence of the war.

People whose land was too contaminated to farm.

People who had fallen out of mercenary life...and so on.

All choosing the path of becoming bandits.

The end of the war didn't mean a paradise-like future was awaiting us.

The whole kingdom was still groaning under unhealed wounds.