I Became a Civil Servant Who Can Use Magic

People offered various speculations about the roars coming from the inner castle.

“To judge those noble bastards…”
“A massacre…”
“Here they come!”

At someone’s shout, the people beyond the broken bridge parted like the Red Sea, splitting to both sides.

Tap.
Loen and Psyche landed in the gap between the split crowd.
Along with the two unconscious counts.

The surroundings fell into silence.

The old man quietly blended into the crowd the moment Loen flew across the broken bridge.

“Count Orte?”

Someone seemed to recognize the identity of the captured man and muttered his name. Soon, whispers spread among the crowd.

It’s rare for commoners to recognize nobles’ faces. Unless it’s the lord ruling where they live.

They usually just guess ‘Ah~ he must be a noble’ based on clothing and behavior.

However, in Orte’s case, not only was he immensely influential within the Barrier, but he had also been committing considerable atrocities here.

Anger spread like wildfire among the crowd.

“Kill him!”
“Judge him!”
“Revolution, mmph.”

After beating down the knights and charging into the inner castle, those women had now appeared holding the count by his hair.

Everyone seemed to realize what had happened.

They walked along the road towards the city square.
Upon reaching the square, Psyche woke up the counts.

“..!”
“Huh!”

As soon as they regained consciousness and grasped the situation, they tightly shut their eyes.

The ominous gazes of the crowd surrounding them and the inspectors looking down from beside.

They sensed their approaching fate.

Loen gave a signal with her eyes.
Nodding her head, Psyche began reciting their crimes one by one.

“… kidnapping ……… dark mage ……… that’s all.”

Right after she finished speaking, Loen stepped forward.

Long words were unnecessary.

“Execution.”

Their fate was decided with that short word.

“Send us off clean- Guh.”

Just as Count Orte was trying to show some noble dignity even now.

Whack!

Loen’s kick flew into his back. And to Count Leo beside him as well.

They rolled on the ground and were thrown in front of the crowd.

“??”

Everyone was bewildered by Loen’s unexpected action.
Not just the crowd, but everyone including Psyche and the old man.

Wasn’t it an execution?
But why kick them?

Generally, when people think of execution, they imagine beheading or the guillotine. That’s how it actually is too.

But suddenly kicking the execution targets and throwing them into the crowd.

What is this supposed to be..?

At that moment, Loen’s words echoed across the square.

“As you please.”
“!!”

People understood the meaning of her words.
Shock, confusion, and questions appeared on the faces of the crowd.

She’s telling us to do as we please with the nobles!?

However, no one stepped forward readily.

When they actually tried to lay hands on the nobles’ bodies, their instincts stopped them.
They had lived their whole lives under the class system. This was unavoidable, regardless of emotions.

“You bastard! Give me back my daughter!”

At some point,
Someone overwhelmed by anger surpassing instinct rushed at the count.

Mounting Count Orte, he punched the count’s face several times.

“Do, do you know who I, guh, ugh, gak.”

An unprecedented sight of a commoner beating a noble’s face unfolded.

People who had been watching cautiously also joined in beating the nobles when they saw Loen staying still.
The crowd filled with anger surrounded the two counts, and then miserable screams shook the surroundings.

And so, in the end.

Those who once reigned from above were brutally torn apart by those at the very bottom.

“Shall we go?”
“Yes..”

Waaah!

Loen left the square, leaving behind the crowd who kept shouting “Goddess of Victory” while holding up Count Orte’s severed head.

Loen’s group returned to the inner castle.

“Psyche. Why do you look like that?”

Loen asked.

“When you said to drag them to the square, I naturally thought you were going to publicly execute them. But to think you’d throw them to the commoners saying ‘do as you please’.”

The old man also quietly nodded at Psyche’s words.

“Really? I thought just executing them and ending it would be too merciful, so that’s why I did that.”

Psyche was at a loss for words at Loen’s answer.

‘Even though you’re also a noble raised in a ducal family.. you’re unfazed by this?’

Even though the boundaries have blurred a lot compared to the past, the Empire is still a class-based society.

Therefore, regardless of the crime, the execution of nobles should be carried out by nobles or inspectors of equivalent status.
This is common sense.

Entrusting the execution of nobles to commoners.. was unimaginable.

However, Loen did just that.
She left the punishment of nobles in the hands of commoners.

Of course Psyche couldn’t help but be surprised.

In the end, that was the difference.

Loen, who was a noble but retained a modern way of thinking, and Psyche, who had been a noble from birth.

Psyche fell into thought.

‘Now that I look at it, Loen is really not to be underestimated either. Am I the only normal one in the Inspection Department..’

While she was lost in thought, the old man who had been looking at Loen with an indecipherable gaze was about to open his mouth, thinking this was his chance, but stopped.

“Shall we try to clean up now?”
“Eh? Right now?”
“We can’t leave it like this, can we?”
“That’s… true.”

The inner castle was truly hell itself.
Corpses strewn everywhere, floors dyed with blood.
No further words were needed.

“Chief Steward.”

Loen called out to the chief manager of the inner castle who was trembling in a corner of the first floor hall.

“Yes!!!”
“Gather everyone involved in city management and operation.. including the city guard captain, finance officer, and administrative officer.”
“Yes!!”

More time was needed for the victorious army led by Count Lidyte to arrive.

But they couldn’t just sit idle until then either.
The streets and inner castle were dyed with blood right now.

And so, under Loen’s command.
A large-scale cleanup began.

“Psyche!”
“Yes!”
“Let’s start by clearing the corpses, helping those people.”
“Okay..”

The old man waited patiently.
He was quite used to such waiting.

Contrary to popular perception.

The Imperial Guard is also divided into various subordinate units according to their roles, like the Inspection Corps.

Among them, the unit with a status similar to the Inspection Department is called the ‘Personal Guard.’

Those belonging to the Personal Guard must never reveal their identity.
This is because their sphere of activity extends beyond the Empire to the outside world.

Therefore, the Personal Guard lives their entire lives under false identities.
They live false lives wearing masks, dedicating themselves to the glory of His Majesty the Emperor.

They are also shadows operating behind the scenes.

Thus, when first encountering Loen, the old man presented his usual false identity as he always did.

However, he remained silent because he couldn’t interfere with the Inspection Corps’ official duties under a false identity.
He looked for an opportunity to have a conversation.

When the cleanup had progressed to some extent and Loen had also caught her breath.

The old man finally spoke to her.

“I was wondering if we could have a conversation now.”

Rewinding time to right after Loen defeated Bamos.

Loen decided to send a letter requesting support to the nearest Inspection branch.

She judged that additional inspection personnel would be needed to sort out the situation after everything was over.
Moreover, upon careful consideration, she felt she might have made too big of a mess. So she sent the letter.

“He’s a reliable person, so you don’t need to worry.”
“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

The letter arrived at an Inspection branch located outside the Barrier in the northeast through Count Lidyte’s messenger.

“War intervention, holy war, dark mage, noble purge?”

The branch chief who checked the contents rubbed his eyes several times.

“Did I read this wrong?”

What on earth is this suddenly coming from beyond the Barrier, which is so remote that it doesn’t even have an Inspection branch?

Judging by the contents, this was a matter that should be decided by the Eastern Branch overseeing the entire eastern part of the Empire.

“Send this letter to the East immediately. As fast as possible.”
“Understood.”

The letter that started from the Barrier passed through the Northeast and arrived at the Eastern Inspection Branch.

“A letter requesting support? Who sent it?”

The Eastern Branch Chief checked the sender first.

[Sender: Loen Frantz]

“If it’s Loen, that new recruit in the Inspection Department? The one who used 6-star meteor fall magic near the ducal capital..”

Oh my head.
The Eastern Branch Chief pressed his temples.

After reading the contents of the letter.
It was quite a spectacle.

Those crazy bastards in the Inspection Department…

“Dispatch personnel to beyond the Barrier right now. And send the letter.. to Inspection Headquarters.”
“Yes.”

The letter that started from the Barrier passed through the Northeast and East, and finally arrived at Headquarters.

“A letter?”
“Yes, a letter forwarded from the Eastern Branch. I’ll be going now.”

The seal on the letter had ‘Support scheduled from Eastern Branch’ written on it.

Inspection Team Leader Ide, who opened the seal, took out the letter and unfolded it.

And read through it carefully.

War intervention? Hmm.
Holy war? Hmm.
Dark mage? Hmmm.

Then her gaze stopped at ‘Purge of Traditionalist nobles planned.’

“A purge…”

Ide nodded with a faint smile.

“Seems she’s doing well.”