About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"..."

Kal'tsit looked at the document handed over by Charnet, and her pupils dilated slightly for a moment.

"Can I understand your silence as consent?"

"As you please, Mr. Charney."

Kal'tsit put the document away, nodded slightly, and left the museum.

After leaving the museum, Kal'tsit's frown finally relaxed a little.

Even though I have been wandering for 200 years, but...

It is indeed difficult to "hold back laughter".

Want to test Rhodes Island's [Armament Capacity]?

And the enemy to be defeated is the [Reunion Movement]?

Laugh at Skr people.

76. I asked you to find a class to attend, not to close down the factory!

——I feel like I haven’t seen Platinum much recently. Could it be that because he has been slacking off for years, he has finally been forced to work 996?

In a roadside cafe, after a simple disguise, Orson was thinking about when he could get Platinum to destroy the record of his previous experience of wearing women's clothing, while waiting for the next person he would meet.

The spokesperson for the Chamber of Commerce has been appearing frequently in various news reports recently, and the content of his speeches has remained the same every time.

The core content is that "chivalry" has not completely disappeared from Casimir. The original intention of the knight competition is still to discover the "knight among knights" who can guide Casimir forward. I hope that the audience will not worry, they will never forget their original intention.

Although most citizens were confused by the spokesperson's series of actions and the overwhelming "Ten Discounts" campaign for the Knights' Games, and stopped claiming that "Casimir's chivalry is dead," there was still a small number of citizens whose inner anger and doubts were exacerbated by spokesperson Charne's repeated speeches.

"You...you must be Mr. Orson, right? Sorry to have kept you waiting."

"Mr. Branch Knight? Hello, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come."

The person Orson had just been waiting for appeared - Daniel, the 'Branch Knight', a member of the Jungle Knights and affiliated with Brilliant Shield Industries.

"Nothing. I'm just very nervous to be able to talk to the young infected knight who has been gaining momentum recently and the guards of the Linguang family."

At Orson's gesture, the Branch Knight sat down on the chair opposite him. Although he was older than Orson, his tone seemed more respectful.

As the knight competition progressed, the popularity of some knights gradually emerged, and these gods who illegally formed a team to disrupt the event naturally gained stable fans and high popularity.

[Infected Knight/Guardian of the Linguang Family] - Though his initial battle was unfavorable, his opponent was the 'Deer-Headed Death God,' so it was understandable. Furthermore, after his initial defeat, he steadily and unassumingly won every subsequent match, his playing style akin to his age or height, a steady and solid one.

As a guard of the Linguang family, he also demonstrated exceptional domestic skills. Someone filmed a video of the infected knight working at the Whipblade Knight's café. He was well-organized, elegant, and affable, perfectly satisfying countless girls' fantasies of a "knight." Many even paired him with the recently reappeared "mysterious blonde Victorian maid." Of course, this often led to conflicts between the "original wife" faction (referring to him and Maria) and the "double servant faction."

[Deer-Headed Death God/Pure Black Mountains] - A Sarkaz Knight with an unknown identity, unknown origin, and unknown purpose, full of mystery. The only thing people know about him is that the ventilator worn on his terminally ill body, which is corroded by mineral disease, is made in Casimir.

The Deer-Headed Grim Reaper, who belongs to the Reunion Movement, not only defeated the Infected Knight (the video is lost), but also continued to crush all obstacles.

Countless opponents initially sneered at this dying Sarkaz, whose half body was already in the grave, but in the end people discovered that the corpse to be buried in the coffin was actually themselves.

After that, whenever there was a battle involving the Deer-Headed Grim Reaper, people would no longer speculate on whether he would win, but whether his opponent would retire on the spot.

[Cat-Eared Knight] - Rhodes Island's Filin Girl competitive knight. Although she has more wins than losses, she is far behind the Infected Knight and the Deer-Headed Death God.

But the Cat-Eared Knight's cute appearance and lovable timid personality have earned him countless fans (mostly male mothers).

The last one is Maria Linguang, the younger sister of the former champion 'Shining Knight' from the Linguang family. Her fighting style and record, to be honest, are not eye-catching.

But the "attitude" she maintained was impossible to ignore. It was an ancient spirit that was incompatible with the environment of knight competition, and it reminded people of the glory days of Casimir decades ago.

In short, Orson is now considered a "famous figure" in Casimir, so it is not unreasonable that the Branch Knight treats him so seriously and respectfully.

"Mr. Orson, what you want to discuss with me this time is about matters related to our [Middle Forest Knights]?"

"Indeed, as you know, I seem to be more popular than I originally expected in the arena of knightly competitions. In that case, I'm also looking for my next destination. The Linguang family is already dead in name only, and there's no future in continuing to play house with that long-riding cavalryman who only has unrealistic fantasies."

Orson smiled at the Branch Knight and whispered his intention to change jobs.

"In name only—I, I always thought you would be someone who cared more about chivalry."

The Branch Knight was shocked by Orson's words. His description of his future plans, the Linguang family and Maria were completely in conflict with his own views of Orson.

"'Chivalry'... Then, what do you, or your Knight Order, think of the so-called 'chivalry'?"

Orson smiled as he looked at the Branch Knight, and unknowingly had led the conversation to the "Knights of the Jungle"'s views on the current Casimir Knight competition and chivalry.

After a while, Orson and the Branch Knight ended their conversation. Orson smiled and said that he might consider joining their knightly order after he returned.

After the Branch Knight left, Orson took out a notebook from his shoulder bag and wrote down the details of the conversation about the 'Jungle Knights'.

"Although it's a small knightly order, most people still support Maria's actions, believing that knightly competitions are indeed a violation of 'chivalry'... Interesting."

The notebook was filled with the names of various knightly orders, and after each name were the opinions of these knightly orders on the Commercial Association and the Knightly Competition.

Orson has been in private contact with various knight orders these days, using the same rhetoric to try to understand the knight orders' attitudes towards the Commercial Association.

What Orson didn't expect was that most of the knights' orders had been dissatisfied with the Commercial Association for a long time. It could almost be said that at least 7% of the knights had clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Commercial Association and the current state of knight competition.

This number is much higher than what Ocentalula and the others initially guessed.

"The remaining knight orders are... the [Knights of the Bladehelm] and the [Knights of the Sunfire]?"

Orson glanced at the list and found that there were still two knight orders that he had not contacted. Of course, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to contact these two knight orders.

Let's not talk about the Knights of the Sunfire, which will be overthrown by him sooner or later. Instead, the Knights of the Bladehelm were arrogant at the beginning and said they wanted to pick a fight with him and Maria, but they lost their momentum after their long knight's left hand was beaten by the "unidentified maid lady".

Ever since the assassination of Miss Black Snake, the Integration Movement has rarely appeared in public places. It is obvious that this is a signal that the Sangster family has given up.

Just thinking about this matter gave Orson a headache. Of course, the reason for the headache was not because the Integration Movement was targeted, but rather that the Knights were about to enter the post-season elimination rounds and the Commercial Association only noticed the abnormality of the Integration Movement, which was much later than expected.

What really worries Orson is the fact that he is "dressing as a woman". Who knows when Black Snake will use this to threaten him.

The plan to [split the Commercial Union] went more smoothly than expected. These knights had already been in a state of dissatisfaction. The only problem was that they were still lacking a "fuse", an opportunity that could truly trigger a split within the Commercial Union.

"Ding Ding Ding ~"

While Orson was thinking, his phone rang. He unlocked the screen and saw an email from Tallulah, signed "This girl is so cute~".

“A selfie of Tallulah—Puff puff puff!!”

Orson nearly choked himself to death.

After opening it, there was a photo of the "mysterious Victorian blonde maid knight lady" from a top-down perspective.

The maid in the photo is half-squatting on the ground, fanning her forehead with one hand and hesitantly pulling the pure white dress outwards from her chest with the other hand. At the same time, her white silk stockings have been soaked with sweat and appear somewhat transparent.

——Although I don’t know when this photo was taken, I am sure that the person who sent this text message was definitely Black Snake!

It seems that after the previous "my dad/my mom N kicks R myself" incident, the relationship between Tallulah and Black Snake has eased a bit.

This should have been a comforting thing, but after learning about Miss Black Snake's troublesome personality, Orson felt that he would be involved in inexplicable incidents more frequently in the future...

"Isn't this the Princess Victoria who's been making all the noise lately? Are you also a fan of her 'Knights'?"

“Wow wow wow wow!?”

A familiar middle-aged male voice came from behind, which scared Orson so much that he almost threw his phone into the trash can beside him.

"?"

"I forgot to include you in the 'frequency of familiar people'... Uncle Maenna, what are you doing here?"

Orsen locked his phone at the speed of light and turned to look at this pathetic office worker knight who was also a member of the Linguang family but whom he almost never saw.

"Don't call me uncle. It's nothing. My company had the morning off, so I was just wandering around."

Mainna spoke calmly, and then sat down opposite Orson naturally.

"Uh……"

Orson looked at Mainna's always frowning face and didn't know what to say for a moment.

After all, I seldom come into contact with him, and all I know about Mainna's personal situation is the fight they had before.

"First of all, let me thank you. If it weren't for you, perhaps Maria and Zofia, those two idiots who couldn't figure out the situation, would have gotten into trouble a long time ago."

Mainna ordered a double espresso and looked at Orson and said calmly. His tone didn't sound sarcastic or anything like that. It felt like he was really just expressing his gratitude to Orson.

"Although Maria is ridiculously naive and her head is full of unrealistic dreams, she is still a member of the Linguang family. Thank you for protecting her during this time."

"No...it's more like a babysitter than protection."

Orson, who almost took care of Maria's food and daily life, rubbed his head.

"There's no need to belittle yourself. My gratitude to you is genuine. And I know you, Maria, have always been curious about why I, as the chief cavalryman of the Linguang family, chose to become a less-than-stellar civil servant, right?"

"It would be a lie to say I'm not curious. Your skills are probably on par with Miss Margaret's. I really don't understand your intentions."

Orson could sense from the "melody" displayed by Mainna that this middle-aged man was not as lazy and idle as others said. On the contrary, in his melody, Orson could always hear the restlessness and anger hidden deep inside.

"Really... then are you free later?"

"Eh?"

"Come to my company and I'll show you something."

Mainna still had a bitter face.

He planned to invite Orson to his workplace to experience it for himself.

For Casimir, the Knights were antiques that had long since left the stage, and this class was now nothing more than the rich and powerful disguised as privileged people.

What really keeps this country going are those ordinary people who work silently at their jobs.

Whether it is Maria or Margaret, their goals were wrong from the beginning. The [Knights] should disappear, and it is these silent people who really need to be saved and changed.

Mainna thought Orson might understand her idea, but when Orson actually arrived at the company, the situation turned out to be completely different from what she had imagined.

"You're occupying a senior position but taking pleasure in exploiting new employees. Your professional skills can only be described as tragic. People like you should start over by cleaning toilets!"

"The approval process is incredibly slow! And why are you, as the approver, usually not at your desk? Do you have any idea how long your dereliction of duty will delay the office system?"

"Everyone, follow me! It's time to get rid of that incompetent boss. Don't think you can keep your job by keeping silent. You are just committing slow suicide by using the lives and values of others!"

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!"

Orson led all the employees in the office into the boss's office, carried the man to the first floor and threw him into the trash can.

"...?"

Before she could even say a word of the "Casimir philosophy" she had prepared, Mainna watched Orson reshuffle and reorganize his small company from employees to management in less than 5 hours.

The script doesn't seem like this...right?

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"Oh, Uncle Manna, did you see the boss's expression when he was thrown out? A guy who thought he controlled the means of production looked utterly humiliated when he was abandoned. But it's thanks to the strong abilities of your colleagues that we were able to challenge the company. Anyway, this way, you can go home earlier more often from now on."

"..."

"So, what did Uncle Maenna want to do by inviting me to the company?"

"...You are truly a remarkable person, Orson. And someone who can change this country."

"Eh?"

Mainna turned her head away, not looking at Orson's eyes, which were so naive that it was hard to believe that he had just overturned a small company.

In the past, Mainna learned a lesson from her work: "Most people are worn out and spend their lives busy and mediocre."

Today, Mahenna has learned a new lesson: "But as long as you are powerful enough, the rare 'minority' can lead the 'majority' to rebel against the rule."

"In fact, I've been preparing with some like-minded companions to overturn Casimir's completely distorted structure. Maria Margaret and I pursue something different. What I want to do is to completely eliminate the Knight Class."

"...completely disappeared?"

Orson was stunned for a moment. He knew that Mainna was not as harmless as he looked, but he never thought that this uncle who scolded Maria for having unrealistic dreams also had outrageous goals himself.

"I know what you're thinking, and our utterly childish actions can't be concealed forever. A few days ago, one of my close friends was found 'committed suicide' in his office. He was carrying intelligence on him, including the locations of all the 'underground arenas' in Casimir, as well as videos of nobles going to the arenas to watch the infected fighting each other. Now that information has completely disappeared, probably destroyed."

——A few days ago, there was a suicide in the office...

"Is it the one with the Knights of Northwood?"

"You know about this?"

Both Mainna and Orson were a little surprised, but the reasons for their surprise were completely different.

"I know... or rather, I'm involved in a certain sense—ahem, that's not the point. Are you saying that he wants to overthrow the current Casimir just like you do?"

"Liberating the infected and letting them know even a tiny fraction of the countless disgusting truths about knight competition is one of our plans."