Chapter 474: Chapter 66 - Sounds Good... But Have Weakness And Threat
"Finally finished!!" Yulia said loudly after arranging several report papers.
Right after my mind was filled with the words of my Goddess, who was preparing to do something related to my Yurification System blessing, it coincided with Yulia’s work being finished.
Just by giving her a stack of report papers and providing a variety of colored inks, it was enough to keep Yulia busy and immersed in her little job of sorting the report papers on my desk.
The work that should have taken a long time to complete has now ended quickly and left me speechless.
The pile of reports on my desk—I mean, on this wide, round table—isn’t just a bunch of small reports, it just a few piece of paper for Yulia. It will took quite a while to sort these reports until they were properly grouped, but Yulia sort it in a few minutes.
I don’t want to doubt Yulia’s ability to be meticulous and work quickly like this.
But... Just in case, I wanted to check some sample report papers that she had sorted.
"A-Are you really done? Isn’t that a little too fast, Yulia?" I asked Yulia as I stared at the pile of report papers and reached out to grab a few samples with the size of my hand.
Graapp...
Yup, I don’t want to doubt Yulia’s fast and thorough abilities.
This is just a precaution!
There’s nothing strange about that, right?
My hand, which had taken several piles of report papers sorted by the color code on the right end of each paper, now began to pay attention to the number codes and color codes that Yulia had sorted.
"Yes, it’s done, Lily-sama!" Yulia replied with a smile that showed off her abilities.
With that brief answer, my eyes began to search for any errors that might have occurred without Yulia’s knowledge. She is indeed a doctor trained to work with a high level of concentration, focus, and precision. However, that doesn’t mean she never makes mistakes in her work.
Fllaapp...
Fllaappp...
My eyes continued to dance across the report papers I was carefully reading. I had read them thoroughly and had my signature on it, so there were no errors in the numerical or letter codes written on the report papers.
What I’m doing at the moment is looking for errors in the color code, but it seems that it will be difficult to find because of Yulia’s have a high level of precision works.
As far as my eyes danced over the pile of report papers that had been color-coded on the right end of the paper, there were no single mistakes made by Yulia.
"It does help my work..."
"This kind of color code..."
"However, it would also make it easier for enemy spies to sort out important information just from the color code at the right end of the paper."
"Is there a way to prevent that from happening, Yulia?"
Between my eyes, I read the number codes and letter codes that were adjusted to the color codes, and I asked Yulia about that important thing, hoping to get the right answer.
I’ve thought about that before, and it would be a pretty fatal weakness if the information on Marquess Rommel’s military reports were sorted by color code, known by enemies.
In order to prevent this weakness from occurring in the future and benefiting the enemy spies who had successfully infiltrated Marquess Rommel’s military, I questioned Yulia about this and placed the report paper that had my signature into the wooden box containing the A1 report paper.
Yulia’s expression turned serious after hearing my question.
"I’ve found an answer to that problems, but it requires a special tool that my mother created," I continued, glancing at the tool I had just used to keep the report paper containing A1 information secret.
"If every report paper that was to be sent to my father or mother had to be color-coded, it would only be effective for this military expedition."
"Outside of military expeditions... Using color coding on report papers like this would be too threatening to the confidentiality of information," with words filled with gentleness and a glimmer of my amateurish thoughts on information warfare, I placed the stack of report papers that I had signed into a wooden box not far from me.
Ploomm...
"If I think about it carefully, yes indeed... there is some threat to that," said Mio, who was not far from me and came back to me.
After the incident involving me eating a mildly poisonous leaf, frantically calling Yulia for a high-quality antidote, and doing something embarrassing, Mio finally entered the conversation.
Mio smiled and tried to shake off her awkward attitude of having done something rude to me.
Mio’s panicked actions showed that she cared about me, so I didn’t really mind her actions for doing that.
"From my perspective as a maid who doesn’t understand military tactics, information like paper that is color-coded based on the contents of the report inside... definitely catches my attention," Mio continued, casually entering the conversation.
After panicking and doing something related rude to her pride as a professional maid, Mio positions herself as an amateur figure, which fits the topic of conversation this time.
Tap...
Tap...
While saying the sentence that made Yulia think hard to find the answer, Mio walked beside me and took the pile of report papers that Yulia had sorted, putting them into a wooden box that was ready to be sent to Marquess Rommel’s Mansion via my teleportation slash.
"I-I was thinking the same thing... after I thought about it again, indeed... there some weakness and information threat about it," Yulia replied while cringing after realizing one fatal weakness of the color code she was introducing.
"In terms of sorting report papers, it does make things easier... but it also makes things easier for others who want to use the color coding for theirs own benefits."
"Uhh... this is a small idea that will bring problems in the future," grumbled Yulia, who now looked annoyed with her own idea.
I just smiled after seeing Yulia realize the weakness of her idea.
"There’s no need to rush to solve this problem. Luckily, this is used on report papers related to military expeditions that explore the deepest parts forest that have not been explored by Earl Timoti or anyone else. So we can use this color code on every report related to the natural resources in the deepest parts of the forest," I said to solve this less pressing problem.
My hand returned to touch the cup of tea in front of me, and I drink the remaining tea that was still left at the bottom of the cup until it was empty.
The remaining tea left at the bottom of my cup was gone in an instant; it felt like three drops of water had entered my mouth and disappeared as soon as I swallowed them.
Gluuppp...
Without realizing it, the words I’d just uttered drew nods of approval from the military officers working inside the Central Command tent. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught their slight nods and watched them, who began to pick up some colored ink to mark the report papers they were working on.
Just from my casual remarks that I wanted to solve this unimportant problem, they already working to adjust it.
It seemed... it would make my mother a little bit bothered with the report paper that had color codes on the edges of the paper.
And it all started when Yulia couldn’t resist marking the report paper with color codes.
There’s no other way but to let it happen, huh?
"Then, just think of this as a trial test of the color-coded report paper effectiveness," said Yulia with a guiltless smile.
"Yes, let’s think of this as a trial test run of color-coded report paper," I replied, accepting this sudden decision.
I don’t know whether this is a good or bad idea.
What is certain, this military expedition will use color coding in every report relating to the flora and fauna found throughout the military expedition in the deepest part of forest.
My mission this time is to find the Dark Elf race’s residence and forge an alliance with them.
At the same time, it also fulfills the Goddess of Nature’s request to find the Dark Elf race’s residence.
"Well, my job is done here. I’ll go back to my tent and sleep."
Yulia suddenly said something like that and made me look at her with cold eyes.
After doing something that made the military officers and me have a hard time with the color coding she introduced, she wants to run into her personal tent and sleep?
"Ohh... I won’t allow it. Please help the other military officers to understand the color code you introduced, Yulia."
Before Yulia really left and disappeared from this central command tent, I gave Yulia an order to work overtime.
I could feel my face smiling at her...
With a facial expression that can make anyone submit to my every command, without exception.
Yulia tried to act calm, her hand that was holding the medicine box now slowly put it on the ground, and the smile on her face... seemed forced towards me.
"G-Gladly, Lily-sama..." Yulia replied in a tone that was forced to sound obedience.
"Hmm... why does it sound like you don’t want to do this kind of work?" I asked in a cold tone and glared at her.
"N-No! I-I will gladly carry out Lily-sama’s orders!" Yulia replied with a light squeal of her own.
Then, Yulia rushed to one of the military officers to teach her about the color code she had just used and introduce.
"Umm, Lily-sama..."
"Y-You did that, so you wouldn’t have to bother teaching the others, right?" whispered Mio, who was standing next to me and still arranging the report papers into a wooden box, neatly.
"..." I just kept quiet and smiled at her.
