"I heard you suddenly needed to talk to me. What's going on, Lion?
"Dear Ars, this has gone badly"
"A bad thing? What happened? What happened?
"Your royal life has been decreed."
"Yes or royal life?
"That's right. King's life, I mean, that's an order from the king. As soon as my men perceived the information in the King's capital that the royal fate would be conveyed to the Fontana family, and hence to its main agent, the Ars, they informed me in [a conversation]."
"The royal family gave me orders? Maybe we're not talking about coming back to Fontana territory."
"No, you don't"
"Well, what is it? Don't waste it, tell me quickly, Lion."
"Okay. Listen to me. Information obtained by the distribution, but also corroborated by the fact that it is fairly certain information. The royal fate is to form an alliance between the royal family and the Fontana family, making the Fontana family the next hegemonic nobleman."
"... what? You, what did I just say, Lion? You think the Fontana family is the next hegemonic nobleman?
"That's right. The royal family has already sent a messenger to convey his royal life."
The New Year, celebrated even as we were discussing it in the Council to create the Fontana Charter and so on, was about to spring by the end of the Council.
And then I had a child, and the other day there was a birthday in Vulcania involving residents.
I've been keeping Rion absurdly informed during those seasons when the warm sunlight started to show its face.
The royal family has issued a royal life.
Moreover, the content was to make the Fontana family a hegemonic nobleman.
Why are we talking about that?
Not very much, but it's too impossible for Fontana to be a hegemonic nobleman.
"... how does that happen? By and large, you were talking about being a hegemonic nobleman somewhere among the three nobles, weren't you?
"Exactly, but the Percival family of the three great nobles has greatly retreated its forces. It seemed like a huge loss of Labyrinth Street in particular. I guess it's harder to target a hegemonic nobleman now that we've been held back from important points that were producing talented people, demonic stones, and weapon defense equipment."
"Percival family may be, but what about the others? The Memento family pulled the army to Fontana in the name of picking up the king on purpose. I don't think even the Rheinzatz would pull back so easily."
"Naturally, I guess. Perhaps the whereabouts of this royal fate are due to the political judgment of the Wang Metropolitan Area."
"Political judgment?
"Yes. Originally, the existence of hegemonic aristocracy for the royal family itself was just an obstacle. Because the aristocrats, who would otherwise be under their own control, name their hegemony on their own."
"That may be true, but wasn't it with the power of hegemonic nobility that the weakened royal family was able to survive?
"Exactly. but until now, most of them were great nobles close to the king's capital. But that creates a distance between the royal family and the hegemonic nobility if the Fontana family in the northernmost part becomes a hegemonic nobility. Perhaps that's what they're after."
"... I don't know. Can distance be an advantage to the royal family?
"Of course, it will have advantages. If the Fontana family became hegemonic aristocrats, they would be offered a place in the Wang metropolitan area away from their original territory, where they would garrison their troops. And we must move to offer the conflict in aristocratic territory from the centre to the south as a hegemonic nobility. It will also require royal cooperation to move the army freely. In other words, if the Fontana family sent troops as hegemonic nobles, that would mean easy to use pawns for the royal family."
I see.
The Memento and Reinzatz families, or the Risorte families of the Percival and former hegemonic nobles, are also much closer to the Wang metropolitan area than the Fontana family when they look at the position of the territory.
The hegemonic nobility has the name of being somewhat reciprocal because of its relationship with the royal family, but the truth is that there have been many times before, such as by exerting pressure on the royal family in the context of a large territory.
The royal family hated the pressure.
So if the Fontana family, more distant than any other aristocrat, became a hegemonic nobleman, they would have thought they could escape that depressing pressure at all.
Besides, the Fontana family is a 15-year-old former peasant, too, whose lord Garrod is only a 4-year-old child this year and who holds real power instead.
They may not even be seen as opponents in the kingdom metropolitan area of Haiqian Mountain Thousand in the power struggle.
In short, if the Fontana family were to become a hegemonic nobleman, would it be thought that it would be a handkerchief from the royal family that would be free to release only a very user-friendly force of war?
"Rather than the Fontana family, I'm licked by the royal family. But the fact is, it won't be possible for us to be hegemonic aristocrats. There must still be a big difference in force between the Memento and Reinzatz families as a story in the first place. I don't think it's easy to name a hegemonic nobleman, even if we're just around the Wang metropolitan area. Can't the royal family figure that out?
"No, you probably know that more than once. In time, I think you brought up this royal life."
"What's the point of giving a royal life when you know you can't?
"This is just my guess. but this is probably the case. The royal family doesn't want any noble family to be empowered. I want to sharpen my power from every aristocrat. But the royal family doesn't have much real power. So what should we do? It's what makes each nobleman fight and crush each other."
"... well. So the information is leaking at a stage when the messenger who delivers the royal life has not come to Fontana territory? If I knew such a royal fate had been issued, the Memento family would definitely be angry at Fontana. Maybe the Rheinzatz family is the same"
"I think it's quite a stubborn strategy not to fight yourself and cut your power off from your surroundings. If the Fontana family loses to the other great nobles, is it possible to say, for example, that they could not refuse at the request of the Fontana side"
"You're unscrupulous. At any rate, you can't just take that royal life properly. If you jump on that bait, at the end of the day, Fontana will be caught in the scourge of war"
"Well, you need to move as fast as you can"
"Huh? What makes you move, Lion? Why don't we just formally put in a no when the messenger arrives?
"Then it's too late. Let's say that the messenger came and told Master Ars his royal life. Then the knights of Fontana will undoubtedly rejoice in it. Because if you refuse, you'll never be a hegemonic nobleman to a nobleman or a knight with the northernmost territory like ours."
"If you say so, yes. Doesn't it seem strange to just have a delightful one without thinking about the hassle that followed? And if you refuse, I may be thrust up as someone who disobeyed my royal life. Is that what this is all about?
"Yes. Emotions take precedence even when we talk about reason in this hand. First of all, I'm sure they will continue to say that Master Ars is the one who made the wrong decision for Fontana's current representative."
"But not saying no will also go ahead knowing that you have a cliff yourself. What am I supposed to do, Lion?"
"... does not give a word against the messenger. We'll have to do it right."
"Hilarious, huh? Or……. Uh, I'd like you to talk about this kind of number of magic tricks outside of me."
"I don't have a choice. Now, consider my response to the Messenger."
"Excuse me. Please, Lion"
Nod eye to eye with Lion.
Lion would think of a good reply.
but I don't know how far that goes either.
The King's life has already leaked its contents to the surrounding area.
Naturally, that would be where the Memento and Reinzatz families would also know.
In other words, it is possible that those two houses, which ate the Percival family and grew even bigger, will turn to the Fontana family enemies.
I thought royalty was really like a plague god to the Fontana family.
but I can't even just moan.
I instructed him to gather more information and think about the future of the Fontana family.