"Yes, Leon. This is your magic bag."
"... thank you, Ars. But you made something amazing again. I didn't think I could make a magic bag."
"Thanks to the Bootica family. Ah, just because it's a prototype without a design, there will be another formal award ceremony later."
"Can I get another one? Thank you very much. I'm sure a lot of people will be happy about this."
Because it's convenient. However, please be careful because it is a leather product and it is too early to be handled roughly. So, I'm gonna change my mind, but have you checked outside?
"Yes, of course. The first is the Menmen who occupied the King's City, but they still seem to have passed the age of the King's City. They claim to be providing protection to the royal aristocracy attacked by the Allies."
"You're pulling the aristocrats who follow the House of Menmen to King's Landing and buying protection from the aristocrats who plundered them there? It's a very convenient story."
"But it is true that the only thing that could have stopped the runaway coalition was the Menmen. The nobles of the King's Land had to accept the protection of the Menmen, no matter what."
"... means that the Menmen put the economic power of the King's Land into their hands. What happened to the Anti-Memen Federation?
"The Anti-Memen Federation is in a delicate state. We are united because we cannot compete with the Menmen in one noble family, but it is not a single rock. As a coalition, we are insisting on releasing the King's Capital to House Menmen, but it seems that House Menmen are not going to listen to it for now."
"Well, there's a noble family near Menmen, so it's hard to unite."
"That's right. As a coalition against the Men, it seems to expect the House of Rhinesatz to form an alliance with Royal Doren and formally become a hegemonic nobleman. But the Linzats are at war with the Kingdom of Resolute. However, it is likely that there will be a ceasefire with the Kingdom of Resolute in the near future."
"Ceasefire with the Kingdom of Resolute? Weren't you robbed of a part of your territory?
"Exactly. However, we have prevented attacks on the near-attacked territorial capital and have settled to the point of skirmishes. And since the usurped territory was originally part of the Risolte family, we thought it would hurt less to lose it."
"Oh, I see. Will the Kingdom of Resolute take back the territory taken from the former hegemonic aristocracy by the Trinity Alliance? But even if they take back the territory, is there a truce there?
"Looks like House Rheinzatz and the kingdom of Resolute have agreed on the same idea."
"What do you mean, a common idea?
"It's an expansion of your faction, Ars. Apparently, I've changed my mind after watching the Fontana kingdom move this winter. While the kingdom of Resolute and the House of Reinzatz were fighting to crush each other, the kingdom of Fontana captured three noble territories. Looking at it, he began to think that it was better to take it from an easy place to take it. The dispute between the two sides was temporarily shelved, and by reaching out to the nearby aristocracy, they agreed."
"Two large forces have embarked on a territorial expansion.... but you can't keep the Menmen quiet, can you? The economic power of the Wang Metropolitan Area will be attractive, but if they take the surrounding territory, they will be troubled."
"Of course. For this reason, it is rumored that the Menmen will also begin to move in order to seize the aristocracy around them. To summarize the current situation, four factions - the Kingdom of Fontana, the Kingdom of Resolute, the House of Rheinzatz, and the House of Menmen - are about to swallow up the area and chart how small factions will stand in it."
Having been briefed by Leon on the current situation of the surrounding factions, the first thing I thought was that I should not be on the weaker side.
Until now, there has been a historical bias whereby several noble families struggle with each other, but the number of noble families should not be reduced too much, and yet powerful noble families have become hegemonic nobles to protect it.
Therefore, even small aristocrats managed to protect their territory by asking for help from their surroundings.
But now it's different.
Unlike once when we fought over each other in a loose alliance, land grabbing began to happen by large forces.
Perhaps four factions, including Fontana, will continue to expand their territory, and as a result, the small aristocracy will be manipulated and swallowed up by the flow.
Then you have to make a decision.
Which faction should we go to?
In fact, I think there are very few things that can make that decision.
In the first place, if it was good to go under someone, I wouldn't have named a nobleman.
If you're in the mood, you want to stand up and be an independent force.
Moreover, it is very difficult to determine which faction to reach.
The Menmen are in control of the King's Land, but they were only unjustly occupied and were poorly regarded by the surroundings.
In contrast, since the original hegemonic aristocracy, the Reinzatz family, is missing its core king and the royal family is protected by the Menmen family, it is not clear whether they will really think and act like traditional hegemonic aristocracy.
And the former hegemonic aristocracy, the House of Resolute, now takes the liberty of naming a new royal family without obtaining permission from Royal Doren.
The fact that nobody can be trusted is the same.
I wonder if the kingdom of Fontana looks subtle again.
After all, there is only one Gallows, who is five years old this year, of Royal Fontana.
If anything happens to Gallows, in an instant the kingdom of Fontana will lose its pillars.
And when you lose that pillar, who holds the most power, there is a former farmer who runs around the battlefield every year.
If you think about it, you might think that they might be under the peasants, who are historical aristocracies, and it's hard to get to Fontana.
At the very least, it may be normal to want to see how things are going and be able to ride a winning horse as much as possible.
In other words, in Leon's and I's view, the next four factions will take possession of each other's territory, but each noble family on the small faction side will rather choose where they will go and go under some faction.
I wonder if there are many places where some kind of opportunistic action is taken to determine the situation while maintaining independence while resisting to some extent.
How should Fontana behave in this situation?
If other large forces are expanding their territory, we cannot just sit back and watch it.
Well, Elance and Wagner, who are border guards, are in charge of cutting the territory.
It may be easier to set up a trimming operation for a while.
With that in mind, I decided to look again at home affairs.