Evening when the sun began to set.

"It's all over."

Back in the wilderness near Winkia, we were reporting to Mr. Gilbert in a tent with all four houses in the Principality of Ishgalia.

Mr. Gilbert, who received the report, trusted me with the report because he had some knowledge of my qualities, but I don't trust the others who were in the tent with feelings like "what are you stupid about". Just got a request last night, and it was too early to come back in the evening.

"Is there anything I can prove?

A gray-haired, 50-year-old man who wasn't there yesterday asked.

"He's my brother's father."

Mr. Mishrina tells me secretly.

In other words, it is the current king of the Principality of Ishgalia.

"I don't know if it'll prove it, but I'm bringing in this mastermind"

"Ooh!"

Cheers from the Lords.

You can't just show them the summons, so you go outside the tent, disguise it like you brought them here, and then show Grandpa to the people in the tent.

"Become!?

The first person to react was Bertrand, the head of the Noswage family.

I mean, he's the one who hits Grandpa's grandson.

"Grandpa, why...?

Grandpa, who gets his grandson's gaze, goes off his gaze.

But I won't let that happen.

"'Don't run away.'"

If ordered, Grandpa would have to meet his grandson face to face.

"Lord..."

Grandpa looks at me resentfully and then serves face-to-face with his grandson.

Neither of us would have thought that our first reunion in two years would take this form.

"Are you sure, Master Alfred?

"I heard he died..."

"You're alive, aren't you?"

Three other houses besides the Nosworthy family that didn't know about Grandpa's survival are astonished.

On the contrary, Mr. Gilbert and the Duke, who knew he was just missing, seemed somewhere convinced of Grandpa's appearance.

"So, what does Lord Alfred mean by mastermind?

"Let me explain that to you"

Mr. Mishrina leaves in front.

You can trust me to speak from her mouth more on these occasions than you can explain from me.

Grandpa - Evolution from the Undead, the fruit of research told from Alfred's mouth. Using that method, the dead - the deceased wife - can also be brought back to life, but for that reason I teach that I am overwhelmingly underwhelmed.

"Kisama!

This time, the owner of the most damaged Salall family hangs on to his grandfather.

"... Huh!

It wasn't my grandfather who was damaged by the beating, it was the Earl of Salall.

He was rubbing his hand, which he hit like he hurt his fist the other way when he punched Grandpa in the cheek as it was.

The beaten grandfather is flat.

"What do you mean! It hurts."

"Oh, from the average person, he's the kind of person you'd never win"

Besides, even soldiers and knights would feel painful if they didn't attack with all their might.

It is natural for Count Salol to hurt his fist if he beats him with an untrained body because he does not seem to be a master of martial arts excellence.

"Now he can't refuse or shut up about questions because I'm tutoring him. So will you refrain from imitating me like you hit me?

"If you say you're in tune, let him hit you!

I hope you don't say impotent.

All I can do is teach him to obey my orders. I can make you order and beat me, but I just can't make you lower your status with one order, so if you don't want to hurt your fist, you just have to put up with me wanting to beat you.

"Relax, Count Salall"

"But the outrage of this man has cost the people of our land thousands and thousands and many more who have been forced to evacuate. As far as I'm concerned, I can't leave this person like this."

"I know what your lord said. It was a sin committed by the incumbent earlier. Let the Nosworthy take responsibility for this…"

"Ha!"

My grandfather was sniffing at me.

"Responsibility of the Nosworthy family? What the hell kind of mouth are you talking about?

"... what?

"I'm not gonna let you say I forgot. It was almost forty years ago. Non also succeeded our Lord young because of his illness and sudden death. You have to rule the territory while struggling with sudden obituaries. What did your father or grandfather do to you?

Forty years ago, we were talking about when we weren't all born or not long ago.

But I guess it was just before for Grandpa. Speaking voices included anger.

- In war.

Apparently, the Enfield family on the east side and the Wilkins family on the west side have taken possession of the Noswage family territory because they have just been replaced.

I couldn't afford to be sending troops to both East and West in my grandfather, who had just become the dominant, and my territory was shredded more and more while I was going right and left without knowing what to do.

In the end, the territory continued to be taken until the former Duke, worried about the contested situation in the same country, applied for a ceasefire to stop the dispute.

"I still haven't forgotten what your father said in that ceasefire meeting." Trouble with self-government should be solved as soon as possible because you are the one who keeps the territory. "Many of the former Nosworthy people were sacrificed when they were attacked. The land that was taken has not returned either. Neither the King nor the others compensated me."

As the Duke, I just wanted to resolve the disturbances in the country as soon as possible.

As a result, it doesn't even matter if the territory of the Noswage family is smaller. The cause of becoming smaller lies with the young predominant.

"Then it is up to you who couldn't quickly solve the disturbance of your own territory even against this disturbance. That's what this country's going to do."

……

Was my own father or grandfather really doing that?

Counts Enfield and Wilkins were bewildered by each other's eyes.

But King Glaudis, the current Duke, seems to have a verse in mind.

Once again, when I show you the map of the Principality of Ishgaria, which was placed on the tent for the operational conference, I do indeed feel that the territory of the Noswage family is subtly smaller than that of other aristocratic families.

"Wait! Doesn't my Salol family have anything to do with that?!?

If a commotion that included the meaning of war and retaliation that was there when we were just taking the lead, the Salol family seems irrelevant.

"No, the most problematic thing is the Salall family. I know that the war was fomented by the Sal 'or family at that time. Besides, I also know that both households are being given troops in return. Even though the Lord's father was as young and as proud as he was, and he knew how hard it was... no, he was the great sinner who caused the war because he knew."

"Chi, my father's sins have nothing to do with me!

"What are you talking about? The Lord inherited the Salaal family, so did the Salaal family. This is also a vengeance against the others, mainly the Salor family of Nong!

Was there a disturbance on the south side for that reason?

Consequently, the disturbances that occurred on the south side may not have been transmitted more than to the capital to the territory of Nosworth, where Grandpa had ruled, sometimes with the Ishawood family at the heart of the country along the way. The land taken from it should also be a northerly stop, so it has little impact.

I don't care about the other territories, but it would mean that self-government was important.

"This time, many innocent people were sacrificed in the uproar caused by Sir Alfred. How do you think about that?"

"... right. I just don't have any luck."

He was about to hit me again, but that had been stopped by Mr. Gilbert, who had predicted beforehand and was circling back.

"There was nothing compensated for the people who died when Noun was at war. If you're responsible, it's in the Salall family."

……

Neither can the Duke contest it if past cases are brought up.

"Okay. The Noswage family shall have no responsibility whatsoever"

"Sire!"

"So what do we do? Because of past remorse, there was an undead commotion, and you still say that the mastermind was the predecessor of the Nosworthy family? There's no reason I can say that, so I have to deal with it internally. Just like Sir Alfred did."

The Earl of Salall pulls back with a look like a bitter bug chewed up.

"Is it time?

Everyone's gazing at me.

He told me a lot about why my grandfather went into this behavior and past events, but it had nothing to do with me.

"So shall we discuss the rewards"