"Hah, you're getting married? Ars, you're getting married before me."
"Looks like that's what happened, part-time brother."
"Bullshit. Besides, the ladies of nobility and you are the winners."
"No, my part-time brother said he wanted to be a hero to help the princess."
"Well, that's a man's dream. Ahhh, don't try it!"
"Maybe we'll find someone nice because it looks like the maid will come to Barca with Lilina."
"Stupid. I'm going to marry a beautiful woman with more leverage. Watch it, Ars."
After the New Year's celebrations in Fontana's city and back in Vulcania, I told my family about the wedding.
My part-time brother is angry at me for listening to that.
But the rest of the family accepted this marriage story with great forgiveness.
I mean, I still think it's a big deal to marry a woman from a peasant background.
Everyone was happy that I was still a child.
"But I knew you didn't feel like getting married. What kind of blowing is that, Ars?"
"Hmm? Lillina seemed like a good kid. And it seemed like the benefits of marriage would be huge."
"What's in it for you?
"Oh, I've been talking about building a castle for Gran and this Vulcania. But I couldn't decide what kind of castle to make. Because that's how we're going to move forward."
"Why is marriage related to castle building? I've built a castle by the river before, don't you think you can make it whatever you want?
"The castle I'm going to build in Vulcania is going to be luxurious to show my authority. However, I was concerned about the Fontana family, the owner of the castle, when it was too luxurious."
"Is that how this story goes?"
"That's right. We have a blood connection with the owner of the Fontana family. You can't go to a run-down house like your parents'. Use Barca's power to prepare the best dwellings to welcome Liliner. If that's why you're building a little luxurious castle, you're not complaining."
"I see. It's the most troublesome thing, the relationship with the nobles."
"Well, that's it, too. You can do whatever you want from now on."
Thus, I decided to proceed with the construction of the Vulcanian castle, which I had been abandoning for a while.
"Yes, Ars. Are you thinking about what kind of castle you're going to build?
"Oh, I've thought about it before. After all, I want the castle to be a symbol of the land called Barca."
"Isn't it a symbolic castle? Yes, but what exactly are you thinking?"
"The theme of this castle is glass. I want to make a castle that uses glass."
"Is it glass?
"Oh, yeah. You know that demand for glass has grown since we built the castle town. A merchant from outside was surprised to see the actual windows in the city building. It's a unique building on other lands."
"Surely there are no windows or buildings on other lands."
"So if we can use the glass effectively, it will be a castle that we have never seen on any other land. I thought the impact would be enough, and it would be authoritative."
"Hmm. I know what you're trying to say... Glass can only be used for windows. Even with the castle full of windows, I don't think it will have that much impact."
"Fufufufu. Don't just use window glass. Stained glass for this castle."
I've been thinking about it ever since Gran first told me about making a castle to be authoritative.
It was about how to give authority to the building itself.
The easiest thing to do is to get high.
Basically, a tall building is not normally necessary, and daring to build it also leads to showing power.
But that's why I didn't feel like building a building that was too high.
For some reason, we don't have enough manpower.
Originally, I lived in a small group called the village, and this is how I managed to make the land I developed into a city.
But I was basically staying at my house with Kyle, my brother, and then I got help with housework from someone I knew.
This is because the head of the family is his father and his heir is his eldest son, Hector's brother.
It means that I left my parents' house and made a new one.
In other words, it can be cumbersome to manage even if you build a building that is too expensive and large.
It is easy to clean thanks to the life magic called Cleaning , but it is still difficult.
So instead of simply showing authority on the scale of the structure, I wondered if there was any other way.
And from there, we arrived at using the light.
I've heard this story before in my life.
God and Buddha usually have a backlight on their appearance.
It seems that when light shines from behind a person, that person may also be perceived as sacred.
By daring to use this to shine light from behind, it can also lead to an image of the person.
The person who visited Vulcania meets me in the middle of my new castle.
At that time, I had a lot of big stained glass windows behind me, so what if the light was shining in there?
Perhaps someone who has never seen anything like it will overlay the impression of that beautiful light with me.
Perfect for authority.
So I decided to build a building using stained glass with Gran.