Muteki Shounin no Isekai Nariagari Monogatari ~Gendai no Seihin wo Jizai ni Toriyoseru Sukiru ga Aru Node Isekai de wa Rakushoudesu~ - Vol. 6 Ch. 25

[MangaDex]

 

[x_renon_x]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?
Feels like authority put him there to manipulate and use his incompetence to release their criminal henchmen that gets caught.

 

[brndndss]

Aaron is just surrounded by incompetent, corrupt guards Boyd at least listened to reason, after it was beaten over his head lol

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the scanlation

 

[outinthegardener]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?
Feels like authority put him there to manipulate and use his incompetence to release their criminal henchmen that gets caught.

Put your worst employees in the place they can do the least harm- management.

I agree with you, likely there's another corrupt boss higher up who wanted to undermine the guards and sneak in corrupt goons. Classic "Local noble is the head of the child trafficking gang" trope.

 

[RolandMayfield]

Thanks for the chapter!

Since the normal way for a manga to have the incompetent guard commander has already been said, I am gonna say he is the third or so child of a noble and got relegated to the guard due to being unable to do anything and got the job as a "get out of the house" kinda deal.

 

[DirtEater21]

Thank you for the translation. Why do stupid people always get high positions

 

[T-sama]

Incompetence of that level is scarier than the malice of the scumbags

 

[finalm]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?
Feels like authority put him there to manipulate and use his incompetence to release their criminal henchmen that gets caught.

Normally a town guard would simply be part of the local garrison of whatever feudal lord ruled the city and surrounding regions. So this guy would be a military commmander in charge of those troops, appointed by the lord. Said lord does not need any stooges in charge, he can already do anything he likes, as long as he does not wrong his own liege.

Ironically, this guy's attitude is far more realistic than his subordinate's in such a setting. Fuedal authorities did not really investigate (much less take statements from commoners, this guard acts like modern police...), because guilt was decided on the basis of "character" rather than evidence. In short, you won if your social class was higher than the opposition's or if you had people of higher class to vouch for you. So yeah, him barging in and demanding a stranger with no standing simply by punished based on his people's word would not be out of place.

 

[OWMWO]

Normally a town guard would simply be part of the local garrison of whatever feudal lord ruled the city and surrounding regions.

Ironically, this guy's attitude is far more realistic than his subordinate's in such a setting.

Yup.. this is a proper past setting where law means I AM THE LAW and MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

He cannot even recognize a knight from his striking look, no way he is connected to nobility or such. I bet it is seniority, much like what it is now in current army code. And if he brings money for the local lord, he get to keep his position no matter questionable is his work professionalism.
Honestly, that knight should fire him and his subordinates, a public execution too will not be an exaggeration as he is just a town captain seeing they spits on knight. PLUS caught red handed confessing he let go of criminals, endangering the public security.

 

[Mogima]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?
Feels like authority put him there to manipulate and use his incompetence to release their criminal henchmen that gets caught.

a lil' something called ✨✨NEPOTISM✨✨would be my guess.

 

[finalm]

Yup.. this is a proper past setting where law means I AM THE LAW and MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

He cannot even recognize a knight from his striking look, no way he is connected to nobility or such. I bet it is seniority, much like what it is now in current army code. And if he brings money for the local lord, he get to keep his position no matter questionable is his work professionalism.
Honestly, that knight should fire him and his subordinates, a public execution too will not be an exaggeration as he is just a town captain seeing they spits on knight. PLUS caught red handed confessing he let go of criminals, endangering the public security.

The knight wouldn't have the authority to punish the guy in any way. He could go the the feudal lord and say he was slighted by the guy's behaviour, demanding satisfaction/compensation but there's no guarantee he wouldn't be ignored. The title of knight, while technically nobility, held very little weight, since it wasn't hereditary or tied to any land. Hence even if the lord makes an enemy of him, it's not like he has the means to be an inconvenience in any way.

 

[OWMWO]

The knight wouldn't have the authority to punish the guy in any way. He could go the the feudal lord and say he was slighted by the guy's behaviour, demanding satisfaction/compensation but there's no guarantee he wouldn't be ignored. The title of knight, while technically nobility, held very little weight, since it wasn't hereditary or tied to any land. Hence even if the lord makes an enemy of him, it's not like he has the means to be an inconvenience in any way.

Spits on a knight means spits on said knight noble name/house/the lord he serves, also a knight can fully carry out his JUSTICE againts peasants regardless of his rank in the town autonomy, this is why a corrupt knight is a standard trope for medieval jerk.
And any noble/lord will not want to get on other noble/lord bad sides over a trouble by peasants, the knights are the 1 who will solve the peasants problem.

 

[finalm]

Spits on a knight means spits on said knight noble name/house/the lord he serves, also a knight can fully carry out his JUSTICE againts peasants regardless of his rank in the town autonomy, this is why a corrupt knight is a standard trope for medieval jerk.
And any noble/lord will not want to get on other noble/lord bad sides over a trouble by peasants, the knights are the 1 who will solve the peasants problem.

That's the point - a knight has no name/house etc. since it's a title only that singular person has earned and it will be gone once he is dead. Making a case of insults you -> insults your liege is a mighty hard sell unless you enjoy exceptional favour with said liege, in which case your standing is already likely pretty high among noble society in the first place.

That might be true (or might not, if the ruling lord takes offense at you killing his peasants as you please) with a random commoner but definetly not with an official appointed by the feudal lord, doubly true if it's a military official, whom you'd expect to represent some real value to the ruler on account of his skills and experience in something crucial to the domain. Trying to punish someone like that by yourself is likely to get you killed on the spot by the men he commands, as they will not go to ask permission from the lord when their commander is attacked. Even if that does not happen, you're in for a world of hurt at the hands of his master, since even landed nobles would not dare just impose their own rule directly in another's domain (unless of course they were looking for a fight).

I told you, a knight was technically nobility, but unless the feudal lord has a lot of respect for the principle of the matter, he has no ground to stand on here. In fact it was the other way around - no knight would risk disrespecting a landed noble in his own home and would go out of his way to show deference unless he knew said noble very well and could gauge his reaction to whatever he was about to do.

 

[HaikenEdge]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?

Probably the Peter Principle. Basically, people get promoted until they're incompetent.

Dude may have been a competent guard. Just a bad manager because he trusts his guys too much.

 

[DrunkinDonut]

For forgetful readers like me, the incident is from Chapter 19/20. (Found it 4 chapters away from my initial guess).

And the two guards are beyond dumb with that excuse. They know a superior officer decided to take over the case, and they still decided to get the Commander involved. Like even if you get Daichi in trouble with the patrol report, the Full Report is still going to get filed. And getting them released before you arrest Daichi is just going to get them all in trouble.


@inkindoug Just as a heads up, Page 15, Panel 4, you've misspelled, "should" and "interesting".

 

[inkindoug]

For forgetful readers like me, the incident is from Chapter 19/20. (Found it 4 chapters away from my initial guess).

And the two guards are beyond dumb with that excuse. They know a superior officer decided to take over the case, and they still decided to get the Commander involved. Like even if you get Daichi in trouble with the patrol report, the Full Report is still going to get filed. And getting them released before you arrest Daichi is just going to get them all in trouble.


@inkindoug Just as a heads up, Page 15, Panel 4, you've misspelled, "should" and "interesting".

Thanks for the heads up. Weird 2 word in 1 bubble gone awry... I'll fix when home

 

[xathrya]

really incompetent leader, how could he got that position?

 

[DarkenerPlays]

How did that guy become a guard, or more like how did that guy even manage to get a higher position?
Feels like authority put him there to manipulate and use his incompetence to release their criminal henchmen that gets caught.

he had a real sense of justice though, not corrupt at all just bad at judgement and has a lack of insight

 

[x_renon_x]

he had a real sense of justice though, not corrupt at all just bad at judgement and has a lack of insight

Yes I know that, but as I said, "if he doesn't know which people are bad, then the higher ups can manipulate him through that." I didn't say anything about him being corrupt, just dumb and naive which can be easily manipulated by bad guys.