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The next day, I had a visitor before noon waiting at the mansion.

"Don't you live in a mansion that's good enough for civilian habits"

Viscount Baland visited. He's lower than the lowest taller Melissa among us, has a fat belly, and a mustache that doesn't look good even if he's trying to be a little dignified.

A man who, even speaking of Viscounts, had just ascended from the Baron last month from the merit of working together with only a few forces in the coup.

Talent that is not a problem for the Duke of Foulsheys or disposable.

I am therefore entrusted with the use and running.

The Viscount looked down on me and Mr. Gaelio with disrespect, even though he was visiting as a messenger.

A fallen aristocrat if you try him. Adventurer even if you say you are successful at it.

I think they're both opponents who aren't enough to take to be civilians.

"Be rude to them, Viscount Baland"

"The Count is also kind to the civilian population."

Count Alistair sits next to the Viscount.

The interview in the reception room, just like yesterday.

However, Melissa and Michelle have been asked to leave the room. The Viscount's purpose is only to be the head of the Lagway family, Mr. Gaelio. Then they also have some real purpose, and they don't complain about my presence.

"I'm not as free as I'm wasting my time in a place like this"

Yesterday I often say to the habit of being entertained at the Alistair family and wasting my day.

"This time His Majesty, who became king, promised me the rebirth of the Ragway family. If you are a nobleman, even though you are a former one, take this upon yourself."

Seems like he's really just going to go home to say his own business, and he's getting up off the couch.

Orders not to be allowed to say whether or not.

I intend to leave it to the momentum to make no judgment and force it to accept.

But this one's heard from Count Alistair beforehand. I have also decided to deal with this later.

"This is a very pleasant story, but I will decline you"

"Hey, what!?

He didn't assume he was going to say no, and he's about to fall, breaking the posture he was about to get up.

"Do you think that's acceptable? He's promised me a rebirth, not to question my responsibility for not being able to fulfill my role as lord noble!

Nobles who keep territory are obliged to govern and pay taxes.

Mr. Gaelio, who has been pursued for the status of lord along the way, cannot complain if he is guilty if he is to be brought into line with the laws of the nobility.

However, the circumstances are special.

"I was unable to protect the territory and the people I would keep from my country. But the Duke of Farsies has already announced that it was the third prince who took it from our house. It's like the state confiscated it, if you say so."

If the State considers itself ineligible as a lord, it makes the territory the direct jurisdiction of the State by depriving it of its aristocratic status and dropping it on the civilian population.

The previous Rugway family also had such a history that it became the depository of the country and the first Lords were to rebuild it.

The kingdom of Metis is vast. There are a number of terrible territories in operation, and it is not uncommon for them to be confiscated.

"Let me decide to live as a civilian as ordered by the state"

"Become...! That should be acceptable..."

"If you are noble, you should obey the will of your country."

"But that was decided by the previous country..."

"Right. It has nothing to do with the current royalty. So we who became civilians when we were royalty before have no reason to be told by the royal family today, 'Do your duty as nobleman', etc."

The Viscount loses his word to Mr. Gaelio.

A more mind-turning figure would have been able to argue with Mr. Gaelio's argument, but the intrigue is the Viscount of Success. I was unable to contest Mr. Gaelio's inexorable logic. I guess Mr. Gaelio has more places as a nobleman.

Then the Viscount will have to rely on his side.

It's Count Alistair next door.

I believe that if you are the same aristocrat who received a welcome within yesterday, you are on your side.

But one way or the other, it's on our side.

"Viscount Baland. I wanted that story to come through to me in advance."

"Huh..."

In response to Count Alistair, Viscount Baland had told him nothing specific but to visit the purpose of the visit as a messenger and to tell him to summon the person of the purpose.

I could still have anticipated a case that could not be ignored from the other party or the situation, so I had obtained information by acquiring a squire.

No way, the Viscount, who doesn't think his information is leaking, is losing his word.

"I have trouble welcoming him as a nobleman"

"Hey, why......!?

"I haven't made it public because it was still a story I wanted to keep inside, but there's a story about welcoming his second daughter, Miss Merrill, as my son, Elliot's companion,"

"The target is a civilian. Are you insane!?

"Wouldn't you? Blood muscles are great enough for you to try to welcome me back as a nobleman. I don't serve as Countess or anything else in a young lady who just has good blood muscles on such a periphery. He/she must also possess excellent powers"

In fact, Count Alistair's wife also supported him in practical terms.

I just heard about it, the daughter of a lord who used to rule a small town nearby. From an early age, he achieved outstanding grades, felt limited in his education in a small town, and a lord who wished him to be active in the wider world sent him to Alistair's school.

So, both the Count got acquainted, and even after graduation, he was to shoot the Countess's seat while she was still serving at the Alistair family.

Seems like a decision from generation to generation, and in the Alistair family, the person in person decides who to marry, even if the parent may refer the woman.

"There's already talk going on between them."

Although there are some parts of the story that I don't like, I also agree.

"So I've been consulting with Lord Gaelio for a long time to see if he could serve as a jury knight at home"

Jury knight.

Not a knight who serves his country like his brother, but a nobleman with an exclusive title to serve his nobility. I can't let a child take over with a one-generation title. Still, as a nobleman, I have the minimum authority to command soldiers, and I have no less right to give instructions to civilians.

Accept the Jury Knight.

This was the condition offered by Count Alistair.

"Even though we've been through this for a long time, there's no way to tolerate this kind of imitation of scratching from the side."

"Hih...!

When Count Alistair glanced at the Viscount with a little more intimidation, he put on his buttocks and then retreated.

Sometimes as a borderline lord, there is too much difference in strength between Count Alistair and the Viscount who has years of experience. Besides, the lord of the Alistair family, who rule the vast Arkanam region even when he says Count. Powerfully, it is not a mistake to say that it is equivalent to the Duke.

"Kee, I'm not feeling well so I'll let you go home......!

He leaves the room to jump out of Sylvia's open door, where he was holding back as a maid with his legs gushing.

"Where are we going?"

Outside the mansion is the knight of the escort brought by Viscount Baland.

I was scratched with shame. We will be heading with them to the Inn, not in a very state where we can return to the Count's house.

We need to return to the king's capital immediately, even if we fail in our mission as messengers. But I can't act satisfactorily in my current mental state, and today... maybe tomorrow I'll be drawn to the inn.

First of all, you succeeded in leaving the messenger.

"But Viscount Baland is a miscellaneous fish. I can't feel safe enough to get away with that."

Earl Alistair has offered three conditions in advance.

From here, the second condition needs to be transferred to execution.

I'll take care of the escort to King's Landing.

Count Alistair is due to head to the King's Capital from now on.

As an adventurer, I was supposed to guarantee safety on the road. Of course there is to be a knight of escort. Still, they needed our escort because that's all they trust in our strength.

The perimeter of the mansion is protected by a number of knights, arguably excessive. This is to travel to the King's Capital immediately after the negotiations with the Viscount have been concluded. Rapid action is needed because we need to get to the King's Capital sooner than the Viscount.

"But are you sure it's okay for the Count to leave the territory?

"I don't run a territory that would put me in crisis as far away as I am alone. I don't have a problem leaving it to my men for a few weeks, and I have a wife, so it won't be too much."

Your wife had the ability to keep the lord away.

"Plus he said he's become a new royal, and he hasn't even said hello yet. Even though it's just off the border from the king's capital, it's also true that it's time to head there."