After a brief moment of stunned silence.
"HAHAHAHA!!!"
Kaguya laughed so hard that she wildly smacked Daigo's back with her folding fan, nearly laughing herself to tears. "This is too hilarious! Is this the survival wisdom of an otherworldly emperor? If you can't beat them, join them at lightspeed? That surrendering posture is even more practiced than that old mage's!!!"
Looking at the young emperor kneeling on the ground with an incomparably "sincere" look in his eyes.
Bruce Wayne strode up to Jircniv like a cold, ruthless dark HR manager.
He pulled a thick document that had long been printed from the folding compartment on his tactical belt and mercilessly slapped it down in front of the emperor.
"Sign it."
There was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in Batman's low mechanical voice:
"Wayne Enterprises: Otherworld Empire Agency Employment Contract."
"Starting today, the Baharuth Empire will be reorganized and the imperial system abolished. You are no longer emperor, but the general manager of the Baharuth Branch Office."
Batman pointed at the clauses in the document. "Your salary will be based on performance evaluations. If civilian casualties occur within your territory, nobles embezzle funds, or wars are launched recklessly, all bonuses for that month will be deducted.
"If you fail the evaluation for three consecutive months, we will personally come to 'lay you off.'"
"..."
Jircniv stared blankly at the unprecedented "employment contract" before him.
With trembling hands, he opened the document and looked at the outrageously harsh KPI evaluation chart inside.
[Civilian satisfaction must not fall below 95%], [Annual urban infrastructure growth must meet targets], [All forms of slave trading are strictly prohibited]...
This string of absurd requirements was like a series of knives stabbing into his stomach, causing his stomachache to worsen exponentially once more.
But Jircniv raised his head,