Sweet Reincarnation

Royal Havarnex Memorial Institute. There, the Hall of Knowledge of the Kingdom of God. It is an academic research institute founded by King Havarnex, who was also hailed in the Kingdom of God as the Sage of Fingerfolds, and the research covers a wide range of pharmacy, law, theology, philosophy, military science, astronomy and magic. Various people visit here every day, gathering wise men from all over the country and constantly pursuing the cutting edge of academia. Beginning with the king that person, a prince or queen, or a guest of another country. Of course, the leading aristocrats also visit.

Count Cowenbar is one of them.

"This is, my Count. It's rare to come to such a place."

It was the Director of the Institute who welcomed the visitors. When I was in my fifties, I was involved in the world of research for many years and sit in the director's seat with glorious results. Hair on the head has already left with the wind for a long time, and when it glistens, the top of the head can hardly be said to be a sign of wit. The point is baldness.

The Director welcomes visitors by stopping at work. The visit of a prestigious nobleman who also enters the Ten Fingers within the Royal Palace cannot be made without. The Count Cowenbar family is a prestigious foreign affairs aristocrat and is also known as a millionaire because of its duties.

Diplomacy is a job that is on the extensions of relationships, but the exchange of responsible gifts is frequent. A gift of greeting if the season changes. A gift to celebrate if there is a celebration. A gift of condolence if there is unhappiness. Exchange gifts on something.

From this side, give them something that makes them happy, and from the other side, give them something that makes them happy. This is the basis of the gift.

In general, specialties that are not uncommon in this direction will please the other party. Gifts that are easily available to the other party are below. And vice versa. In other words, we will give each other something unusual for the other. It doesn't matter if it's easy for us to get it. Instead, it would be more convenient for us to make gifts that are easily accessible if we were ourselves.

In other words, it is like trading exclusively in super luxury goods. It would be the common denominator between diplomacy and trade that uses value bias to benefit. Moreover, the exchange of this gift can also take place with the other party, who is otherwise prohibited from trading. You can call it super exclusive trade.

I mean, make money.

The contemporary Earl of Cowenbar was particularly good at this handful of talent. Make huge profits from the exchange of gifts, and make more money by running the property in your hands. It is neither exaggeration nor anything that is said to be a fingerfolding millionaire in the country.

The money is expensive inside. Unlike a kerchief that just builds up, it is Count Cowenbar's fashion to give money exactly where it should be used. He has also donated a considerable amount to the Institute and, to be honest, the current director is also a person who has benefited. Without the support of Count Cowenbar, the Director would not have achieved results in his own research.

R&D is something that takes money and time anyway, and patrons who give money are always welcome. Not to mention that if you are someone who has already supported a lot of money, it was natural enough to welcome you with a rubber.

"Long time no see, Director. Looking good."

Like a diplomat, Count Cowenbar sits in a chair with a people-loving smile. Has it been about a year since I talked to the director face to face like this?

"No. Not as much as your young lord. You can't beat the annual wave that stops by."

The director mocked herself haha. In a world where the average life expectancy is shorter than in modern Japan, if you are in your fifties like the director, you will be treated as an elderly person who is not strange to have a grandson instead of a grandson. Compared to when I was younger, my eyes became puffy, and I had difficulty reading the letters. I don't remember things well, and as a researcher, I've been out of the front line for a long time. Right now, we are in a position to unify the Institute because of the many achievements that we have built up in the past in a biased way. Even if it is wrong, it does not take its place because of its high level of competence in the current situation.

Count Cowenbar, however, does not give such a cut off at every yawn, but exchanges like no other.

"Isn't the director still young, too? Even about two months before that evidence, you were presented with brilliant research results. Sure, the importance of lineage in magical ability, was it? It was really a novel focus, it was a topic."

Count Cowenbar is also reaching out to gather information without fail on the various research contents of the Institute. It is the boulder piercing called the Heavy Town of Foreign Affairs that brings it to life as a topic of aggressiveness.

"That was the idea of a disciple. I, for example, just pinched my mouth a little from the side. Still, my disciple told me that he owed it to me. When it comes to novelty, everything will be the feat of a disciple"

The director specializes in magic. It's a field of research about understanding the extraordinary power of magic and harnessing it in the world.

In the kingdom of the Knight, it is the research related to the Knight that is considered the floral form. The fields of metallurgy (Yakinaku) used in armor helmets and swords, military science for battle, and medicine and medicine to heal injuries are floral. Research funding is easy to collect and patrons are easy to find.

In contrast, it is normally wizards who benefit most from magic. Man with understanding of research, besides being just a handful of wizards, magic is something truly distinctive and varied. It is also difficult to find wizards whose research meets each other, but it is also difficult to ask them to become more patrons. That's one of the reasons magic doesn't thrive.

In that regard, the Director did well. A heretic child in a way as a magician. He is a magician and an expert in preventing magic by accomplishing numerous studies of magic alienation. Typical is the method of constructing a magic jamming space using light money. It's like Pais used in a liquor (sugar making) building. Although it is a nearly forty year old study, it has also been awarded a medal for its significant contribution to the national interest due to its practical application.

Instead of studying magic for the wizard, it was the current director who took in the people who wanted to disparage the wizard to achieve results and assumed his current position. I am so used to rubbing my hands on the rich.

"You have a disciple who could. It is also the duty of those who stand above to raise and guide those who are below. If a brilliant disciple has achieved great merit, that would be the merit of a director who is a teacher."

"No, no, I'm retired, too. There have been times lately when we can't even follow the story of young things. I don't want to get old."

"Be modest. This is where the highest knowledge gathers in our country, or no, on this continent. It binds the best sages, so you lose your head."

"It's an honor."

I am a retired and talked about director, but I still think I am young on the inside. Because it is a royal institute, the position of director depends on the king's personnel rights, but he thinks that no one deserves more than himself yet.

It is time for everyone to retire, but I am not aware of myself.

"Speaking of which, do you know. Recently, there have been more outstanding graduates at boarding and cadet schools."

Count Cowenbar proceeds to the point of insignificance. Praise the research results on the research and knowledge of the apprentice, praise the excellence of nurturing the apprentice, and take the story to boarding cadet school, which is a place of education. Let's call it natural talking.

"Well, that's great"

"Anything, the new principal's ex, the young teachers, said they were making groundbreaking reforms. Many people are impressed that good or bad organization depends on the power of those who are at the top."

The principal of the boarding officer school is the Foreign Affairs Valve. That, too, is someone close to the Earl of Cowenbar. While I know that, I praise the principal of the cadet school, even as if it were a general theory. It's a simple way to do it.

They appeal to their authority and power, pretending to be only rumours.

"Speaking of which, I hear a lot of new recruits hired this year are good people. Let us hope for the future. How are you today, my lord?

The Director is also a man who knows the aristocratic society. I nodded, knowing what Count Cowenbar was doing.

It's true that there are so many good people in this year's rookie. Some people are good but therefore neglected, but such is a good story in a human making organization.

"Actually, I'd like you to tell me what's going on with this institute. so that our home can contribute more to this country"

Encouraged by the director, Count Cowenbar speaks of the purpose for which he came here. Anyway, it's the one in front of the building who hid the truth.

"What is the status quo?

"I always wonder if researchers are the treasure of the country. Even if our country is a big country competing for the southern continent, we don't have time to rest because we're surrounded by enemies all the time."

The Kingdom of God borders with virtual enemies in the east and west, confronting great powers across small buffer nations in the north, and religious rivalries across the sea in the south. Rather than that, it is right that in the process of swallowing smaller nations, we extended our territory until we faced an opponent we could not easily beat. In recent years, we have won territory from the Kingdom of Siri, and if we try to make it a peripheral country, it is a country that will bite if we show the gaps.

Diplomatic efforts are essential to stabilize the country while being surrounded by so many enemies. It is the assertion of the foreign affairs valves that they have come to threaten, forgive, tender, and sometimes worse, and keep the peace.

"Your Excellency's pattern of work, I'm sure you'll be overly concerned."

"Ruri. It will be difficult to understand if you are in the country, but it is only with the power of foreign affairs to prevent trouble that there is national peace. Our job is to achieve nothing."

"I'm a doorman for foreign affairs, but you know what I'm talking about."

"Thank you. Then I want to believe that we can also help for the royal family and hence for this country by further refining it. But even so, the greater the power of this country, the easier it will be to work."

"I guess so."

No matter how good the intelligence plot is, diplomacy cannot be done without weapons to fight. No matter how smart your rich son is, it's like getting toys taken up by a kid general who's better than his arm. Unless there is an irregular like a cat-shaped robot, weak eating that can be abused is common sense in the international community.

It's not just military power apart from the power of the state. Of course, direct violence is also a currency that can be used in diplomacy, but parts such as economic power and solidarity are also important elements to the same extent.

power as a whole of the country. It is the improvement of national power that gives rise to diplomatic advantages.

When the reason is well understood, the director snorts, too.

"If we're going to increase the power of the state, the power of the state, we still can't avoid magic. Of course, there is no good reason for any discipline, but magic research, among other things, is directly linked to national power. That's what I always think."

"I'm honored that you understand so much about our research. Your wisdom depends on how impressed you are."

The power of magic is another element of national power. It would be a pleasure to say that our own research is also of use to the Count. The director loosens his cheeks slightly.

With such a look at the director, Count Cowenbar changes his argument as to whether this is the time of the attack, and his voice color becomes a bit lower.

"But in the magical study at present, our country is watered down by the Holy Nation"

When he was poked where the pain was, the director warped his face.

In fact, the Holy Nation, the great power of the South, is known as the Magic Power. His country, a religious state, attaches great importance to magical power throughout the nation, which is also caused by the nation itself. Religious authority, which holds the ritual of conferring magic, holds the power of the world in the context of its power. An absolutely centralized state, where magic is the holy kingdom and the pope who gives it magic is the agent of God. That is the Holy Nation.

Inevitably, the study of magic precedes the Kingdom of God by one or two steps, a country different from the Kingdom of God, which is biased towards military technology and economic operations, because of the very way it has a country.

"Unfortunately, you're right. His country raises and nurtures wizards."

"It's an enviable story. Our country surrounds the Quartet with virtual enemies, but therefore needs to grow twice as much as other countries. If you're trying to increase your national power, it's the magic research that you should invest in. However, it cannot be said that the present situation is sufficient. This is the situation in our country. I don't know, what am I saying wrong?"

"Word for word, I think you're right. Magic research is behind other countries."

The Kingdom of God is still powerful enough today, but there is no guarantee anywhere that it will remain a great power until the future.

Assuming that the four surrounding countries continue to be virtual enemies like this, and like the war ahead, those four countries concerted and fanned to the Kingdom of God. It simply becomes impossible to combat it without having four times as much national power as neighbouring countries alone.

If we want to continue to confront each other in the future, the Kingdom of God will not maintain equilibrium unless it increases the strength of the four nations while its neighbors each increase the power of one.

Could agricultural productivity and economic power, however, increase at a fourfold pace as in other countries? Of course, it is impotent. How can we make this impotent possible?

There is an alien beyond the intelligence that makes impossible in this world. We should find a way out here.

The Director is impressed by the foresight of Count Cowenbar.

"So... things are a consultation, but aren't you going to pull the best people into the lab?"

"You say talented people?

"I know who I am. A wizard born to a wizard, consistent with the director's research. Our abilities are extremely high and our track record is impeccable. Still young enough and physically and mentally fit. I hear he was born in an aristocratic house that goes on from generation to generation, both by blood and by parents. Any one of them will inherit the house and become a territorial nobleman, but now they can also bring it to the Institute"

"Is there such a delicacy?!

The director was surprised enough to jump out of the chair.

The study mentioned by the Count is about a hypothetical paper that his disciples are doing. It is called the pedigree hypothesis that the wizard is actually determined by pedigree.

The basis for this is that statistically the easiest manifestation of magic is the [firing] magic that ignites the fire, or that the chances of a wizard appearing in the nobility are higher than the chances of a wizard appearing in the civilian population.

Although it is a mainstream study nowadays, there have also been criticisms from non-mainstream sources that the research content is rough. The objection is that the fact that the magic of [fire] has also emerged from human beings who are clearly far away in descent, or that there are many wizards in the nobility simply because of the economic inequality as to whether or not there is money to do book sacraments.

Both mainstream and non-mainstream have been arguing for years without decisive arguments, and it would be comforting if there were a real example here of reinforcing the pedigree hypothesis: the Wizard of Parents and Children.

If I can make the faces of the anti-mainstream blues, it would suffice as director.

"I thought you were here. Pastry-Mil-Morthern, son of the Mortairn family. Haven't you ever heard of the Mortairns?

"Of course, I have heard the family name because it is a hero of salvation. For two generations, the wizard means that the son of Sir Casserole-Mortellen is the wizard?"

"Dear Left, I didn't seem to know the director because he couldn't afford to socialize, but he says he's one brilliant and famous prodigy every hundred years."

A place called the Institute is also a kind of information clandestine world. Although it is a treasure trove of extremely valuable knowledge, people who come into contact also need cumbersome procedures, and strict protection is also exercised when people in the laboratory go outside. It's boxed in a way.

It protects the research content and the researchers themselves by limiting contact with others, but at the same time it becomes extremely neglectful of information from outside. That's what creatures are called researchers in the kingdom of God.

"Hmm, if you are such a person, there will be no shortage to invite you to the institute. But then I wonder where I put my place this time. Excellent people will want laboratories everywhere."

"That's it there. As a matter of fact, this son of the Mortairn family had an interesting story to tell."

"Ho."

"Now this boy is a boarding officer school instructor."

"Holy shit!!

A good wizard, for some reason, is a boarding officer school instructor. Some interesting stories, the director laughed. Because if you are a wizard, there will be many more ways you can have fun and make money without having to work there on purpose.

"I have a reputation for giving great lectures. The rest of the faculty picked up just a few of the inferior students in their hands, and graduated all the students they picked up in just one year at the top. Besides, one is the chief."

"Chief, that's unbelievable again..."

"There are also many laboratories in this laboratory that do not yield results. If it's his boy, he must necessarily rebuild such a lab as well.... yes, let me introduce you to some labs if that's what it is. How about a general purpose magic lab or something?

"Nah!! There..."

General purpose magic lab. The name is splendid, but within this laboratory the windows are also windows and the bottom lab.

Originally, magic research is a shade study in itself, and among them, a place where research is even more hated by wizards. The laboratory is also said to be the destination of the left transition.

"I understand. Yes, I understand. But, Chief, do you understand what I just said?

Come here, the Director realizes what Count Cowenbar wanted to say. Magic research and promotion and so on. I guess the real thing is, if you're a wizard, let the research you absolutely hate be a wizard.

"... is that what you mean? I understand. Let's hope“ talented people "rebuild the lab."

"The boulder is the best sage lord in the country. Sorry to take so long. I beg your pardon around here."

Let me drop you off.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no See you later."

Just that the purpose has been achieved, the Count takes his seat.

I just left the room and squealed a word of blush.

"Now it's time for that kid to grow up too"

Count Cowenbar laughed invincibly.