The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

"I apologize for inviting you to the hall to take me out early, Lord Courta"

"No, I don't mind that..."

After that.

Having finished his tea in the hall, Kota was walking again on Viscount Notesfield territory accepting Randolph's words, "Talk to you two". In Port Town, there would be a few words, but the hustle and noise overflowing from the whole town with the unique tidal breeze presented no other appearance than to correctly describe it that way.

"It's very different, isn't it? What is Terra?"

"Right. I thought earlier when I arrived… Is this different in the same harbour town"

"The Viscount Notesfield family has lived with the sea for generations. Do you know anything about Viscount Territory?

"No... I don't know it as an oligarchy. Professor, could you please?

"It's not as big a deal as your professor...... right. Originally, Viscount Notesfield was a pirate."

"... pirate, is it?

Kota looks out for the wind just a little surprised. Looking funny at the trick, Randolph shook his head vertically.

"Pirate, I have a point... well, is it like the parent who was putting this coastal territory together?

"... the reticle, is that it?

"Thank you."

A network is a fishery manager who owns a fishing vessel or net. In contrast, human beings who work under the mesh are called mesh. It is, to put it bluntly, a relationship between the president and the employee. Home Gurumi's.

"The Notesfilt family is a house that was largely networked in the coastal areas of Notesfilt territory. I'm honestly not sure of the origin… well, it seems we've been doing the reticle for a long time."

……

"Fishermen...... well, there are a bunch of people who are hard to say that temperament is calm one way or the other. Fortunately, we can take a lot of fish around here, and we don't have enough people. So a lot of people have flown into this city that have been stuffed around Larchia. Of course, security is worse, so it seems that our ancestors kept the city together because of their vigilance."

"Isn't that piracy?

"But there is still a deterioration in security, too. Quarantine, I know it's a bad way to say it, but it looks like he was also packing up a group of criminals and putting them on a boat to vandalize a nearby port. As long as the coast continues, there is a port town everywhere, and that port town has a net and a net for that port town. If I tell you, there's no way we can solve anything with rivals, friendliness..."

"... Yep, I can understand"

"Thank you. For once, it is assumed that he had a navy that he had organized in self-defense as a precursor to the nobility, but actually he would have done the dark things behind him, too. I know it's not a praiseworthy act."

That's what makes Randolph smile small and bitter.

"The 'reticulum' Notesfilt family, which grew inside. Its forces have become something that the royal family cannot ignore either. Well, I wasn't afraid to say I couldn't ignore you. As I said earlier, this is the kind of city that brings together people who have committed crimes in the Wang capital. Giving it to someone is also just a little problematic land, and that would have been the decision that it would be more likely to maintain law and order by giving it a title and allowing it to govern on the reticle, which would have effectively ruled. Expect that naval power, because there is."

"... I see. I get it. Thank you."

Thank you, though.

"... why are we talking about that now?

"As we speak now, the question remains if we are asked if we are a true Flame kingdom aristocrat, although we are one end of the Flame aristocracy. Separately, if your ancestors were not houses where martial arts were erected and erected, they would not have made a contribution to the state by making policy decisions in the King's Palace. Whether in the honorable position of a royal twig"

Originally, you're a yakuza, and laugh.

"If it does, it will be if nobility is said to be noble, but to be honest, my Notesfilt family is not that loyal to the royal family. Regardless, thanks, but I'm not going to do anything more. Just to be clear, if Erica hadn't been reinstated in the Reich, I wouldn't have thrown up on the side of the Reich."

"Thanks to Erica, is it?

"My father and Erica's mother, Lady Lieselotte, are childhood friendly. In addition, because Emili, my real sister, is a maid of honor with Erica. Well, if it comes with you, you'll be on the Imperial side. We don't know each other."

Tell him so. Tell him to shake his head to the left and right to show it.

"If you mean it, it's best to have them do a dong patch on both sides appropriately and follow those who win with it. If they say, 'That's not right,' that's fine. Just give the title back quickly and live as a reticle."

"No sign needed for the Viscount Notesfilt house," he said?

"In a tangible way. To me - it's not the grand sign 'Viscount' that matters to the Notesfilt family. What matters to us is the people of Notesfield, the" nets, "and if that people's lives are secured, it doesn't matter what the title is... well, the truth is,"

Randolph, who says so and sees Hota still.

"... Now, let's get down to business"

Keep that gaze like a shot through.

"You are - what is your 'empire' that you fight to divide this country into two parts by fulfilling and creating on it?"

- Integration, what country is it? and.

Randolph looked at Kota as he continued to stare with sincere eyes.

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"... kuku"

"... Lord Coata? Did you have any interesting stories?

Randolph's surprised gaze stabs at a laugh that leaked out of his chest unknowingly. More importantly, there was also a gaze similar to Hota's anger at his grin that came up in the middle of a serious story.

"Excuse me. No, I thought you were still Emily's brother, Aloys' brother and Bianca's brother-in-law."

"... what does that mean?

"Everyone who brings you to the Notes-Filt is very affectionate. Emily tells Erica, Aloise tells Emily, Bianca tells Aloise... well, no matter what else, you love the person you put in your nostalgia once."

……

"Is that really what you're talking about? As a" reticle, "he wants to protect the life of the" nets. "

It also stops at places, but in general the relationship between the reticle and the nets does not end in a generation. It is common practice for descendants to form a sort of subordinate relationship between the retina and the offspring as the retina. If you ask me, it's close to the relationship between the lord and his servant.

"... naturally. Because it is the 'realm' where the people are. It is our duty to ensure that food reaches all the mouths of the people who live here, even if it is not a net."

"You're right."

"But once, you've made a mistake at Terra. Aren't you eating a handached elbow iron to the 'inhabitants' you invited into your nostalgia?

"It hurts my ears when they say that...... well, that's true. I'm making a painful mistake at Terra once. Can I make an excuse?

"Go ahead."

"In that sense I did not understand your territorial management of… a kind of pseudo-family system. We only invited merchants from all over the country as business partners, and we failed."

"I had something to gain from that mouthful," he said?

"You're right, Mr. Randolph. After all, territory and country, it's people who move. If a man loves his country, his territory, his city, he will never be a nation."

Man is Ishigaki, man is Castle,.

……

"I mislooked there. I made a painful mistake. But that's why I realized. Most of all, it's hard to say that I noticed this myself."

"To what?

"'Make it a country where everyone can laugh and live,' in their dreams"

……

"This is Mr. Lotte's take-over."

"Prime Minister Lotte Baumgarden's?

"Yes, Mr. Lotte said. 'I want to make a country where everyone can laugh and live'. And I share that idea. It's easy to truncate with a dream story… but a dream that wants to come true if it's a corner, it is"

……

"And in today's 'kingdom' it is visible that it will collapse sooner or later. Then it's war. I'm sure a lot of people die, a lot of blood - a lot of tears zero. Tears, the opposite of what Mr. Lotte wished for."

"Condolences, is it?

"I'm not saying there's no such aspect. However, I think we should stop the current regime some time early. I'd like to avoid war as a means... and it's a little different."

That's what Kota said. Look straight at Randolph.

"Mine - no, the country we want to make is a 'country where everyone can live laughing'. Mr. Randolph, if you'll excuse me, your help for our dream."

Please, lend it to me.

Kota lowering his head. Over his head came a slightly frightened laugh.

"Keep your head up, Lord Coata."

"Bye."

"Originally, it's a premise to help you. For once, I was just going to ask you what kind of future expectations you were drawing and put them down... is that 'a country where everyone can laugh and live'?"

"Do you smell blue?

"No."

That's what Randolph said. Show me your best smile today.

"I think it's great. I'd love to take a bite of that dream, too."

Kota held Randolph's right hand firmly when he was offered to do so.