Living your daily life in a shonen anime seems to be wrong.

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"..."

Black eyes looked at him as if he were an idiot.

He didn't say anything.

for a long time.

"Alright, alright, you can go hungry tonight, Febri. Eat quickly, then go to sleep."

"Ah."

"..."

……

Silent all night.

The next day, she ate a lavish breakfast in front of Kurohime.

Then I called Chelsea and Mine over because I wanted to understand the situation, including financial reserves, talent reserves, strategic material reserves, and so on.

"How much could there be in just one year?"

Chelsea knows these things best because they are basically all her responsibilities.

He chewed on the lollipop he got from Philip while flipping through the relevant materials he had brought, and explained.

"Currently, we have sufficient funds. Lord Qiye, you have brought us a lot of gold and silver treasures, which provides the most solid foundation for our development. In addition, the city defense... Oh, the current Workers' and Peasants' Army often goes out to suppress mountain bandits. On the one hand, it is to train the troops, and on the other hand, it has also collected a lot of materials and money. Most of this money is used to invest in various factories. Currently, the income and expenditure are balanced, and there is no profit."

Because most of the factories currently serve the military, they are not profitable.

The rest involve daily necessities and food, which can be exported and are profitable, but not much. Overall, it is a state of breaking even.

Of course, the money in the vault is indeed decreasing.

This is equivalent to the national treasury.

Money is being invested in people's livelihoods and the military, but these areas are not currently generating revenue, which is equivalent to not collecting taxes, so the money in the treasury is naturally decreasing.

"There is a problem."

There's more to Chelsea than that.

"It's almost time to hand over the taxes to the national treasury, but we..."

"Once it's ready, hand it over. Arrange for someone to escort it. When it arrives, send the message back, and I'll go there myself."

"Seven Nights said."

Once the taxes here are delivered to the capital, the taxes from other places will have arrived by then.

Go there and bring all the money back.

The empire's taxes for the entire year...

Although, judging from the current situation, many things will be taken away by others through underhanded means, moving things once is much faster than developing slowly.

Chelsea knew what it meant for Seven Nights to go in person.

Sometimes, when they're short of money, they'll say they'll go to nearby cities or places and bring back a lot of gold, silver, and other treasures.

Well done.

"If that's the case, the reserve of funds isn't too much of a problem. As for talent, education has already started, and many ambitious people have been recruited, including a lot of political and military talents. There's a bit of a talent surplus. If we don't expand our territory and give them opportunities, some people might want to leave."

"I'll say it again: first, infiltrate the villages and regions, control these areas, surround the cities, and slowly cut off the connections between them, isolating them. Then we'll take them all down in one fell swoop. You and Mine will be in charge of this together."

"Ah."

Both Mine and Chelsea nodded.

Then comes the next one.

"The stockpiling of strategic materials is currently underway. Factories are operating day and night, and the production of various firearms and melee weapons is being accelerated. There are no problems. The only shortage is food."

This world has firearms, but it has far more cold weapons.

The Workers' and Peasants' Army primarily used firearms, but also had reserves of cold weapons, so that a large number of troops could be quickly armed if needed.

With cold weapons, all you need to do is use them to stab or slash, and you can be considered a soldier.

Although they were just cannon fodder.

But if there is a real need, this is the only way.

Ultimately, it's just a matter of time.

If Chelsea, Mine, and Akame can develop peacefully for ten or even several decades, then there will be no problem at all.

They're just too impatient.

Revolutionary armies, foreign tribes, and so on are all taking action. If we don't act while they are still weak, and wait until they have developed before we come out, it will be tantamount to seizing the fruits of their victory, which could seriously lead to conflict between the two sides.

So Chelsea wanted to hurry.

Take action as soon as possible while they are weak and preoccupied with their own problems.

Then, they absorbed the revolutionary army and the rebels in various places.

So we need to act quickly.

However, Shichiya wasn't in a hurry at all.

He knew.

Without him, the revolutionary army could have stormed the capital a few years later, ended the empire's rule, and established a new regime.

There were many factors contributing to the revolutionary army's success.

Firstly, the Empire's rule was unpopular. Secondly, the former Imperial General Najendan joined the Revolutionary Army, and under her call, more people joined the Revolutionary Army, causing its strength to grow rapidly.

In addition, Akame, Mine, and others are active in the Imperial Capital, collecting Imperial Arms, intelligence, assassinating officials, and so on.

This was of great help on the main battlefield.

However, now, Akame, Mine, and Chelsea have not joined the Revolutionary Army as originally planned, but have instead teamed up to work independently. In addition, Nanaya has acquired a large amount of gold and silver treasures and is developing firearms, etc.

The world has deviated from its original trajectory and is heading in a direction that no one knows.

"It seems everything is fine, so let's continue to develop in peace for a while longer!"

"Yes."

Chapter 304: It's for...

Kurohime has disappeared.

And I will never go back.

The direction that Kuroko went to after receiving the mission was not at all in Jinrui City. Shichiya brought her back through spatial teleportation, so even if they investigated, no one could find out about this place.

As for how the Empire would view this matter, Shichiya didn't concern himself with it.

He focused on "training" Black Eyes.

They locked Hei Tong in the underground research room, which was fully equipped with a bed and blankets.

However, despite the term "confinement," she was neither locked up nor bound, and her Imperial Arms, Hachifusa, was not even taken away. Along with Gaia Foundation, it was simply left there.

"So it's another conspiracy?"

Kurohime pondered this.

But regardless of whether it was a conspiracy or not, she still tried to escape.

She wanted to find her companions, bring them over, and take care of Qiye.

That was her idea.

However, no matter how many times she ran out, she would always be back in the underground laboratory as soon as she stepped out of the shrine gate.

It's always the same, always the same...

Over time, she even began to wonder if she had lost herself in another dimension.

Or is it a hallucination?

A hallucination of being able to run away when you are not actually running away?

No, that's not the case.

Regardless, after experiencing so many such things, her originally firm will began to waver.

Then came the fatal blow: food.

Although Qiye didn't completely starve her, she was only given simple meals without any meat. Meanwhile, Qiye and Feibuli ate and drank well in front of her every day.

It happens every time we eat.

He wanted to kill someone.

Kurohime really wanted to kill Nana and then take all the food.

But as time went on, she stopped wanting to kill Qiye and started wanting to eat him instead.

Then, all she wanted was for Qiye to give her something delicious.

That's why it's said that there's no food that can't satisfy a foodie.

If there's no food, we might as well destroy the world.

But I don't have that ability.

Anyway, a long time later, Akame came to the shrine again and saw her younger sister, who had become much thinner.

Black Eyes, who had suffered so much, burst into tears.

Holding Akame, she cried her heart out, having suffered countless injustices during this time.

She hasn't cried in a long time.