People has this odd "fascination" of making criminals famous by adapting their own accounts into books and memoirs. Wouldn't put it past them that this can happen. Just ask people like CM and NN.
Poor Kokubun.
If that tax plan goes through, Japan will have shortage of high-level adventurers (who will most likely move somewhere else). In dungeon related emergencies, that will be a VERY bad scenario to end up in.