Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (異世界の沙汰は社畜次第)

He went flying so easily.

A far cry from the holy maiden.

Are the powerless otherworlders really this weak?

He always acts so cocky.

He's just a scoundrel who dares to harbor feelings for Her Holiness!

Oh...

I forgot to give this to Seichiro.

He's so capable.

Perhaps we should even give him the authority to act independently.

Seichiro!

THE OTHER WORLD'S BOOKS DEPEND ON THE BEAN COUNTER

I PUNISHED THEM

Hey, Aresh.

What kind of person are you interested in?

What kind of person is he?

He has no resistance to magicules

yet still insists on overworking his exhausted body.

He's also a picky eater

and keeps trying to sneak in tonics if I don't keep an eye on him.

Now that I think about it, he's so troublesome and infuriating.

But...

Someone I just can't leave alone.

How bittersweet!

I see. Someone you just can't leave alone.

New feelings are confusing him.

Surely we can call this his first love!

Commander Indolark!

The royal medical bureau? What is it?

What do you mean?

Like I said, someone in particular is responsible for all of Kondu's care.

I can't heal him.

You're the director of the medical bureau,

the best doctor and healer this kingdom has.

Why can't you heal him?

Technically, it's not that I can't heal him, but that I shouldn't.

No, well...

I've already sent for someone suitable to treat him.

Kondu's peculiar constitution is connected to his relationship with Aresh.

I don't want to blurt that out by accident

and see my head separated from my body!

I've heard there are those who dislike him because he's from another world,

yet not the holy maiden...

Huh?!

That's how you're interpreting this?!

If I don't treat him, I'll earn the ire of the prime minister

who holds peerless political power in our kingdom!

If I do treat him, I'll piss off

the highest-ranking and most powerful man in the kingdom's military!

All I can do now is buy time!

If you absolutely refuse to treat him,

I will arrange for another healer.

Th-That...

That'd be a huge problem! Absolutely not!

Aresh!

Commander Indolark?

I'll begin treatment. Please leave.

I'm terribly sorry, Your Excellency.

It's just that Aresh is responsible for all of Kondu's care...

Even so, why must we leave for him to be treated?

I-It will take some time...

I'm sure Your Excellency is quite busy, so there's no need to wait here.

Aresh, is half an hour enough?

Make it an hour.

Got it.

Thank goodness Aresh got here in time!

With his constitution, Kondu would have immediately gotten magic-sick

if I'd used the amount of magic necessary to treat such serious wounds.

It could have even been fatal.

The thought of a healer who doesn't know his constitution treating him

sends shivers down my spine.

Then there's acclimating him to magical energy...

I should just leave Kondu to Aresh, who knows his constitution well,

and focus on how to get through this situation.

I see. You're staying until the treatment is over?

It hurts... In fact, it's agonizing...

He went flying so easily.

He always acts so cocky.

He's just a scoundrel who dares to harbor feelings for Her Holiness!

Those voices...

I see. So it was them.

Then they must not be planning to kill me.

I just need to wait it out...

I hope you've learned your lesson. Know your place!

This is bad... I can't move...

If they leave me like this, I might die...

So warm...

I recognize this feeling.

Commander Indolark...

How do you feel?

Much better.

Your injuries are still severe.

That's why I'm going to familiarize my magical energy during the treatment

so it isn't interrupted by magic-sickness.

It's going to take some time.

Okay. Sorry for always troubling you.

Does it hurt anywhere?

No, I'm fine.

I see.

His voice is hoarse.

You saved me.

Yeah.

This is the palace infirmary.

Someone must have carried me here.

I was lucky. I'll have to thank whoever it was...

They're broken.

I know. But it's better than not wearing them at all.

Shall I clean your clothes with magic?

No, this is fine.

Yes, this is perfect.

My memory is hazy from when those thugs beat me until my treatment was over,

but I'll never forget their voices.

Two were men from the third royal order who kept complaining about expenses.

The other was the second order knight who harassed me at lunch.

Um, Aresh?

Time's almost up. Are you done?

Kondu!

Ah, you're finally finished.

That took a long time.

Ciro-san and... Prime Minister Karvada?

What brings you here?

His Excellency was the one who brought you here, Kondu.

I'm very sorry for the trouble.

No matter. I'm just glad you're safe.

Wait, hang on.

The prime minister was the first to find me,

and the commander of the third royal order treated me himself.

Isn't this an incredibly lucky and convenient turn of events?

Kondu.

What happened? Tell us in detail.

Harvey. Matthew.

The commander is calling for you. Come with me.

Sir.

These two like to storm into the royal accounting department over expenses.

I wonder if they've filed a complaint about it.

Before, Aresh would have totally ignored something like that...

Aresh, I've brought them.

Enter.

What happened, Aresh?

Harvey Morales. Matthew Nieves.

Where were you during the water hour yesterday?

Sir! We were both organizing the storerooms before afternoon training

to check on our equipment for the expedition.

The storerooms on the second floor of the east wing?

Yes.

I see.

Then this scrap of cloth most certainly belongs to one of you, does it not?

Y-Yes! I believe it must have caught on something during our inspection.

I see.

By the way, yesterday, a high-ranking civil official was assaulted.

Multiple people punched and kicked him.

Huh?

Said official was found unconscious in a second-floor storeroom of the east wing.

He had countless bruises. His ribs and arm were fractured.

Might this high-ranking civil official be the holy maiden's tagalong?

That's right. Do you know something?

No, we just happened to pass each other when we were leaving the storerooms.

I see. So something happened after that...

"The holy maiden's tagalong."

That's Assistant Director Seichiro Kondu of accounting.

He was an unbidden plus one on the holy maiden's summoning.

Not only does he have no powers, he also has no resistance to magicules.

He can barely eat or drink anything.

Yet even so, various departments are wailing that he's

interfering with the palace accounts, cutting their budgets.

There are rumors that Aresh, who usually shows little interest in others,

has started having lunch with Kondu and manages his meals.

The victim says that he tore off a piece

of one perpetrator's clothing with a nail that he found on the ground.

What?!

I knew it...

Why would they do something so stupid?

That look in Aresh's eyes... That means he's seriously pissed off!

We're innocent!

Would you really take a nobody like him at his word, Commander?!

That's right!

He was unconscious, wasn't he?

Shouldn't we think whoever discovered him

is using him to frame the third royal order?!

Excuse me.

Y-Your Excellency?!

It was Prime Minister Karvada who found Kondu and carried him to the infirmary.

I could hear your voices from the other side of the door.

So? What did you want to say about whoever discovered him?

This is the second time we've met.