"My Lord, are you certain about this? Stone walls are expensive. We’d need to hire masons from the capital. The treasury... well, it’s not exactly overflowing."

"It’s the noble pursuit of leisure, Cosette!"

The young man, Van—formerly a simple salaryman in a different world, now the ruling lord of this land—stretched his arms high above his head. He wasn't sighing out of misery, but rather out of a profound sense of accomplishment mixed with laziness.