Licia was silent, but by the look on her face, even the uninitiated Jin could easily imagine that she had hit the bull's-eye.
"I ...... no, we can discuss it with you if you want to do it yourselves."
"......"
Licia still did not open her mouth, but after Jin and Erza took turns talking to her, she finally opened her heavy mouth.
"...... limits."
"What?"
"I felt I was at my ...... limit."
Then Licia began to speak her thoughts in a halting manner.
The limits of what she could do as a lord.
The limits of our village.
Limitations of life improvement.
The limits of one's ability.
"......Oh, I see."
Jin thought that Licia was too much involved by herself.
She is trying to do everything by herself and is getting out of control.
It is precisely because Jin used to work in a black company where he was forced to do everything that he wanted to do that he immediately realized it.
"<>, or ......"
The director of the school sometimes said this to us.
"Brother Jin, what is that?"
"Mr. Jin, what does it mean?"
Sure enough, Elsa and Licia asked.
"I'm not sure if I know exactly what it means.
Jin began to explain.
The word originally comes from the phrase "He who knows how to be rich will be rich," which is found in the (a compilation of the teachings of Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese thinker), and since these tend to lack explanations compared to Japanese, the meaning can change depending on the interpretation. But Jin does not know that much.
"First of all, paradoxically, there is no limit to human desire. As long as there is a desire for more and more, the mind will never be at peace. So I think he meant something like ."
This does not mean that we should not be ambitious.
It is a warning against refining one's mind by dwelling on what cannot be done, or what is unobtainable.
As he was explaining, Jin thought of the people of the village of Kaina.
They accept what they have and live a life of peace and tranquility.
Of course, when Jin made various tools and magic tools, they accepted them, but no one asked him to give them more.
(...... is it the blood of the old Leonard's Kingdom?)
Jin did not understand it either.
"......In short, it may be that as things become richer, the heart must also become richer."
Jin explained with his own interpretation.
"<>, is it? That's a good word."
Licia smiled a little.
"...... I guess I'm the same way. It sounds good to say that I'm not satisfied with the status quo, but maybe I've been so preoccupied with the big, glamorous things that I've been worrying about what I can't do, instead of doing what I can."
Licia's smile became even wider as she spoke these words in a self-analyzing manner.
"Thank you, Jin-san. ...... somehow reminded me of the first time we met."
"First time?"
"The first time?" "Yes. The first time I went to the village of Kayna as a tax collector.
Oh, that time?
When I loaded wheat into the cart that Jin had built and crossed the Togo Pass with the young people of the village.
Licia, wondering what she could do for the people as a nobleman, asked Jin.
Jin-san told me that he felt that it was dangerous for someone who did not have such concerns to be in a position of power.
"Yes, that's right."
"So I thought about it and came to the conclusion that I should do what I can do. I seem to have forgotten that. I was trying to do something that I couldn't do, and I hit a wall and ...... was worried about it all on my own."
Licia's face looked much livelier as she said this.