Iron Blood Earl Riccianne

“Like I said, I'll leave the matter to you two. Anyway, I will consider Senna's marriage as a blessing. ”

“What else are you going to talk about today? ”

Senna asks as she looks at Lycaen. It's been happening since Lycaen told me about marriage yesterday.

“Wait a minute. We got one more to go. ”

“Huh? Who? ”

“Rudyl.”

“Well, why Rudy? What do you want to talk about? ”

“Don't be afraid to come and hear about it. ”

“Mmmm... ”

Then someone knocks on the door outside and says,

“Earl, this is Rudy. I heard you called.”

“Come in.”

Carefully opened and looking around the room, Rudy looks at Saena and looks at her eyes and is stunned.

“When you open the door, you'll come in and sit down. What are you doing? ”

Lycaen says Rudyl comes forward and sits next to Seyna.

“It's not in my character to be talking in circles, so let me get this straight. Do you two want to get married? ”

“Eek!”

“Yes, yes? ”

At the same time, a bewildering scream erupted from their mouths. There are lightning strikes in the dry skie.What are you talking about all of a sudden?

But strangely enough, their voices also contained very little expectation. Knowing it well, Lycaen smiles strangely at his mouth, looking at the two people sitting face to face with narrow eyes.

It's like I know everything, but I feel like I know what you are. I didn't know if Ricaien was actually thinking that, but at least that's how Senna and Rudyl felt.

After a long, speechless turn of events, Senna opens her mouth.

“Marriage? Suddenly... ”

Lycaen cuts off Senna's words and unravels what she has to say.

“Stop talking nonsense. Where are these now……. ”

However, it was not Sena who would stay silent even after being fired from the horse.

“W-what do you mean? What did we do? And all of a sudden, you can't just do whatever you want. Where's Mom? ”

“I've already finished talking with Father and Mother. ”

“What, what? But this isn't it. No questions asked, all of a sudden, top of the line! ”

And Rudyl received what Sanaa said.

“Since you mentioned marriage first, I will now speak as the eldest son of Earl Poldenbine. I don't think it's polite for my brother or me to work this hard. ”

But sometimes you don't have to.

“What? So you don't want to marry me?! ”

Senna's arrow suddenly turned to Rudy.

“Oh, no, that's not what I said. ”

“Enough, you shut up! ”

Senna, who shut Rudy up for a moment, says to Ricaien:

“Think about it, don't you think you're a little out of it? ”

“Just finish your story. Seeing what you two are doing, I think I'll nod even if I marry you right now, but everything is in order. I'm not asking you to marry me right now. Of course, it doesn't matter right now, but you can take some more time to think about it. But there is something to know first. ”

Suddenly, Senna and Rudyl shut their mouths as Lycaen speak with a stiff expression. I don't know when to talk with a smile, but I couldn't dare to talk to Lycaen with such a heavy face.

“It would have been frustrating for Senna to have been driven recently. I'm going to tell you why, so listen carefully. ”

Seyna and Rudyl nod slowly, and Lycaen begins to talk.

“Soon there will be a great war. ”

“What, what? War?!"

Senna cries out in horror, but she quickly bows her head, receiving Lycaen's icy gaze.

“There is an unknown secret society in the world called Circus. They have controlled every country on the continent in cancer, and this war of conquest was also driven by their scenarios. Just listen quietly. ”

Lycaen calms her down with a heavy voice as she sees what she is about to say, and then continues. An organization called Circus, and its purpose, and its future continental politics. And what he's preparing himself for.

“Believe that lie?! ”

Senna asks with a face full of disbelief.

“Is it possible for such a large organization to hide its appearance? ”

“You've been hiding since you could. ”

“Hmm……. Well, it is. ”

At the end of Rudy's nod, silence flows through the room. Rudyl and Sena heard something so shocking that it was hard to say anything anymore, and Lycaen waited for them to be able to hear the story.

“Sena.”

It was Lycaen who broke the long silence first.

“Yes.”

“In the meantime, you must have felt like I was driving you. ”

“Well, I did. I'm glad you know. ”

“That too, in preparation for the war against the Circus we just spoke of. ”

“Huh?"

“If I go out to fight them, who will protect my father and mother? You're the only one. At that time, if you make a small mistake, it could soon lead to the danger of your parents, so that you may still have a habit of thinking carefully and carefully from now on. ”

“Ah... hmm. ”

Senna nods slightly surprised.

“So I hope that you will always adopt that habit of yours. Okay?"

“Oh, okay. ”

Once he started speaking again, Lycaen continued his story without hesitation.

“I'm talking to you two about marriage, not to force you both to do so, if you have any ideas. And in the meantime, I thought you two were open to each other, so I brought it up. ”

It was definitely not that they were insensitive to each other. Rudyl had it in her for a long time, so there's nothing to say, and she was already deeply in love with Rudyl.

I was just embarrassed because it was so urgent.

Lycaen dragged the story again because the two of them couldn't speak first, clapping their mouths together.

“And if you two are going to get married right, I think I'm going to use that as well. ”

“What, what? So you want me to get married? ”

“Don't get excited. Marriage between nobles with territory is a matter of political interest, as long as they are married. ”

“Even so……. ”

“Again, I don't intend to force the marriage. But if the two of you get married, I must warn you that I am willing to use that marriage for a formal purpose. ”

The two nod at almost the same time. Come to think of it, Lycaen wasn't wrong. Moreover, even though they did not say this, and even though they could use it after marriage, they could say it beforehand because they cared enough.

Rudy opens his mouth with difficulty, thinking for a long time.

“Is it really necessary to wage that war? ”

“What do you mean? ”

“The world won't change much if the people of Circus take over the entire continent. Historically, no matter how the dynasty changed and the country changed, the flow of the world didn't change much. But why do you need to fight so hard? ”

“You think so? ”

“Yes, I don't understand why you're trying to go to war that you don't have to go to war with. ”

Lycaen frowns for a moment with a long sigh and wrinkles around his brow.

“Phew! You're quite right, too. The world won't change that much. But is the world under the control of the Circus normal? You have to twist it somewhere. And what do you think it means to live in a world ruled by such men? ”

“What the……. ”

“To live in a world where the ruler has changed and flow has changed means to surrender to them and compromise and live in that world. I don't want to continue my family on my knees, obeying those miserable bastards. ”

“But you're still loyal to King Bren." ”

“It's a deal with each other all the time. As much as I own and control my territory, I supply taxes and military power to the king. Loyalty hasn't been desired by the king, nor have the officials been worth discussing on this continent, so I won't mention it until now. ”

Rudy tilts his head and asks.

“But isn't it the same as following His Majesty's orders? ”

“Surrender is different from that. ”

“How is that different? ”

“As long as the king's orders do not infringe on my rights. ”

“Sometimes there are unjust orders, aren't there? And most nobles do not disobey His Majesty's command if they get dizzy even a little more. ”

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