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"Ah, Mr. Ars. Did you hear about what happened?"

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"Leon, no, I've only heard rumors. Is it true?

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Yes. Yes, I'm sure. It seems that Mr. Carlos has already accepted the offer. ...... It is a secret, but it seems that he has already been taken into custody at Carlos's castle."

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"...... seriously. I'd better stay away from Carlos' place for a while. In my case, I'll be accused of being a little ungrateful.

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　Time has passed since the beginning of a new year, and spring has arrived.

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　As the snow cover decreased, we Barca sent people to the Fontana territory to improve the farmland.

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　It is well known among the knights gathered in the city of Fontana that the wheat harvest had greatly increased in the areas that had been improved the previous year, and not many people doubted the effect of such improvements.

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　And the interest rate I had set for the Barca loan, which had shown that Carlos would intercede if anything went wrong, attracted a good number of borrowers.

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　And so, I spent my time working on the land and improving the soil in order to increase the harvest.

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　It was a very peaceful time.

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　While in the city of Fontana, I was finally able to live a calm life, although my work style was a little different from before, as I read the reports from the Barca knight territory and gave instructions, and interacted with other knights.

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　However, a drop of water fell on this peaceful life like the surface of the water without a single wave, and a ripple spread.

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　This is a story outside of Fontana territory.

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　Not Uruk in the east, not Arbalest in the west, but a territory further south.

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　But what happened there was about to affect Fontana.

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　The king had come.

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　The king came to Fontana, the northernmost territory, leaving the royal territory in the south.

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　Perhaps he did not come here of his own volition.

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　It was an escape from a life-threatening situation.

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　The king was not here of his own volition, but to flee a life-threatening situation.

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　The royal family, descendants of the first kings who once pacified the land and established the country.

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　For a long time, this country was ruled by the king and other noble families who were given fiefdoms.

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　However, the power of the royal family has fallen to a shadow of its former self.

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　During the reign of a king called the Fool King who once existed, a number of influential nobles defected.

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　As a result, the powerful magic that only the royal family could use is no longer available to the king.

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　From then on, each noble family continued to fight with the surrounding powers to increase their own territory, and the country fell into disorder.

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　But despite the long years that have passed since then, the royal family still exists.

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　Although they are no longer as powerful as they once were, they still hold their own fiefdoms and maintain their power as a royal family.

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　And as a result of this state of affairs, a mysterious phenomenon began to occur.

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　It was that the royal family formed an alliance with a powerful noble family.

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　As the power structure in the country continued to change, the royal family always made alliances with the stronger powers.

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　Although it has declined, the royal influence over the nobles is not entirely absent.

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　By forming alliances with the crown, the more powerful noble families proved their legitimacy and sometimes interfered in the actions of other noble families.

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　A hegemonic aristocracy was born.

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　Weak nobles who managed to keep their territories tried to survive by joining the alliance between the hegemonic nobles and the royal families.

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　But of course, there are some nobles who are not satisfied with it.

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　There were also some problems among the nobles in the alliance.

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　Sometimes the hegemonic aristocrats solved these problems by war and sometimes by negotiation on behalf of the royal families.

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　However, even the hegemonic nobles could not keep their power for a long time.

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　It is said that many times, for various reasons, a hegemonic noble lost his power, and another noble changed his power chart and became a new hegemonic noble.

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　However, each time, the Hereditary Nobles formed an alliance with the Royal Family, and the Royal Family survived.

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　And this history has continued to the present day.

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　That is, of course, because there existed the hegemonic aristocrats of the time, and the royal family was allied with them.

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　However, this alliance collapsed.

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　That is to say, the Hereditary Nobles were defeated in the war and could no longer maintain the alliance with the royal family.

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　Even though Fontana fought against Uruk and Arbalest, the other noble houses did not make any major moves.

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　It was because of the movements around this hegemonic noble house.

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　The great noble house of the Risortes, the current hegemony of the nobles further south than the royal domain ruled by the Kings.

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　The Resolute family was fighting against the League of Three Noble Houses.

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　It is said that a large-scale war had been going on.

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　Of course, it involved other noble families.

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　Therefore, it seems that the war between Fontana and Uruk-Urbarest, which is located in the north, was overlooked.

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　And the Risortes were defeated.

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　It seems to have been a very heavy defeat.

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　This should have led to the birth of the next new supreme aristocrat.

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　However, that did not happen.

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　It was good until the three powerful noble families jointly defeated the hegemonic noble house of Rizzolte.

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　However, each of these three noble houses was powerful, but not so powerful that any one of them was able to break away from the others.

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　In other words, the three noble alliances, which should have won the war, had trouble in forming an alliance with the royal family.

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　The question is which party will lead the alliance with the royal family.

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　The struggle for leadership, which began quietly, has grown increasingly violent and has finally reached directly to the royal family.

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　The king's family secured the king by force and became the hegemonic aristocrat.

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　But this put the king in danger.

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　And the king, sensing his personal danger, temporarily fled his kingdom.

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　He went to a place where he thought he might be strong enough to protect himself.

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　To a nobleman who could repel the attacks of several noblemen and even defeat the head of the family.

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　And so the king came to Fontana.

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