دانلود رمان انگلیسی “من که از حزب قهرمان تبعید شدم، تصمیم گرفتم زندگی آرامی در روستا داشته باشم”-جلد 4

The first time I saw her, my heart raced as it never had before.
In a faded, washed-out world, she shone brilliantly. I recognized as much because of who I was. She was the Hero, and I was the Sage.
I was fated to be by the Hero’s side, just like those old triumphant stories.
I can still remember that moment, even now. I was working on the budget apportioning subsidies to each of the guilds in the capital. This was an important task to be sure but hardly one that could be said to be worthy of a Sage.
At the time, we were in the midst of a string of consecutive losses to the demon lord’s forces, and the elite Bahamut Knights struggled to keep the front lines from collapsing. Naturally, all available resources went to funding military preparations, and subsidies to the guilds were cut to the bare minimum. Even a child could understand that much, yet the incompetent guilds schemed in every way they could, from bribes to threats, to get more for themselves.
Such hopeless fools. And I, a Sage, was pointlessly wasting my life dealing with the likes of them. It was unbearable.
“Your lordship.”
I was in the middle of working on the documents to present at the budget meeting when my assistant’s words interrupted me. Sighing, I set my pen down.