Lonely Attack on the Different World (WN)

omes important.
The Princess and others still seem unable to keep up with Maiden Wars.
Maiden Wars are too soon for this world, certainly, the influence is corrupting!

「I thought that he will either kill or kidnap the Second Prince, but he decided to fight a trade battle through the souvenir store?」

「His target is the Confederation backing the Second Prince, so he is setting up economic warfare against them.
It’s a warning that screwing with the Kingdom will ruin them.」

Claiming that the Confederation, who supposedly specializes in the economic side of politics, warfare, and finance, has its weakness in commerce, he launched a pin-point attack.
Because the Confederation is profiteering off politics and military affairs, their finances can’t cope with commerce.
If money is taken from the country that makes money without selling actual goods, it will create a deficit, destroy the military, and crush their politics.
They will lose to commerce.

According to Haruka-kun’s explanation『Monetary economy, or rather, credit economy is fragile and has its limitations.
While it’s convenient, it comes with its own dangers in exchange.
I mean, it’s merely a promise that one can buy stuff with the coins? If no one agrees to sell then it’s pointless.
Military and politics become a guarantee for the credits, mixing all three gets you profits, but you can’t go back to the way things were before.
The Merchants Confederation can’t fight through commerce anymore, you know? They are simply profiteering without manufacturing, transporting, or trading, so they don’t have crafters, transporters, or traders.
So if they become unable to solve their problems by throwing money at them, they’ll have nothing left.』is supposedly how it is?

「Make them unable to guarantee the money ……huh.　Does that mean the actual merchants will take back their country?」

「That is the Confederation’s own internal problems? But they will lose their real power.
After all, it seems that even merchants have issues with the way the Confederation does business.」

It’s because they had such an easy time making money by putting pressure through politics and military threats that they lost the strength to properly do commerce, and thus are resented by the proper merchants.
If they lost the only money they had in such a situation, even if they took only a slight loss, it would put cracks into their coalition.
They are working together because it’s profitable, but what will happen if it leads to losing money? What if they are made to take losses? Losses piled upon losses to the point of collapse? After all, he is definitely going to press them that far.
Trying to make money with the military and politics, only to have both crushed.
Their finances can’t prevail over commerce, that’s why they were targeted there.

「President-sama, I’ll wash your back.
You have such a beautiful clean skin, so smooth and lovely.」

「Hya.
T-Thank you very much, Shari-sama, but it’s a bit ticklish, eh, no need to go there.」

After getting warmed up we shine up the skin once again.
This bubbly soap is definitely addictive, a product highly endorsed by mushroom addicts.
I feel like the more I use it, the prettier the skin gets!

The Princess seems to really like washing backs, so every time we get into the bath she gets very excited.
She must’ve always been in the position of the one getting washed, and never could scrub others.

But… Somehow, the way she rubs is… Weird? Weirdly good? She is strangery skillful, but there is something off about it? Is it because she isn’t used to this yet? But why isn’t she using a body brush and is doing it with her bare hands instead?

「I wonder if Oda-kun and the others are okay.
He mentioned that they are dealing with the actually dangerous stuff, so wouldn’t it be better to go there together?」

「But there aren’t enough people here as well~.
With this uproar, I’m sure there will be a line outside by tomorrow morning?」

「「「Whooa, the business is booming.」」」

The Confederation’s aim is to take the Capital, restrain the Theocracy, take over the supply of magic stones, and make a deal with the Theocracy.
The bargaining chips are magic stones and the Kingdom.

And while the Kingdom and the Theocracy are glaring at each other, they’d attack the country of beastmen.
The Kingdom, that would’ve come to aid the beastmen, can’t act, and their business rival, the Church, is also too busy.
This is the perfect opportunity for them.

If even one of those plans goes well, they will make more than enough profits, and if both do, they’ll hit a jackpot.
This is a large profit on a national scale.
Someone, somewhere, is going to have something taken away.

That’s why crushing both will lead to huge losses.
They might be a merchant confederation, specializing in making money, but here we have the Great Demon King of Ripping Off? A regular great Demon King is bad enough, but this goes straight for the money? That’s scary, you know?

Looks like Haruka-kun wants to settle the fight in three days.
Once it settled, the Confederation will either keep continuously bleeding money, or will have to run away with a heavy loss.
Apparently bleeding them forever is more delicious, but it won’t continue for long.
That’s why it’s a short-term souvenir store.
And once the Confederation pulls back, the Capital will lose its supply and dry up.
After that comes recapture of the Capital.

And Haruka-kun will return to the Frontier on his own.

For the next thing, that no one knows about yet.

Preparing to face the real opponents, still lurking in shadows.

All alone, Haruka-kun is going to defend the Frontier.

And we still haven’t decided whose bras are going to be made today.

All alone, he is going to work on making bras… Wait, that’s just how it usually goes?

[TL Notes:
[1] Shoujo (from Japanese 少女 – Girl) is a category of works targeted at a young female audience, typically characterized by a focus on personal and romantic relationships.
Also, not 100% sure (only 98%) but that description sounds very much like NANA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_(manga)
It’s literally how the manga opens.
And with all of that, it somehow was labeled “shoujo” despite being more “adult-oriented” in plot than many “josei” titles.
It also fits year-wise with many other references, being early 2000s.
[2] Omusoba – yakisoba served with a thin omelet on top.
[3] Viking (バイキング) – is how they call all-you-can-eat buffet in Japan.
Apparently, the idea traveled to Japan from Sweden after a certain hotel manager saw it there, but as one might expect “smörgåsbord” was “a bit much” so they went with an easier to pronounce “viking”, it’s not hard to make the connection between Sweden and vikings, so no need to explain how that idea came up.
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