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"So, that Leon guy who attended the three-way meeting, is he okay, Kyle?"

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"Yes. I'm sure you'll be fine, brother Ars. The other two families are holding the Percival family accountable now. Mr. Rion said he plans to stay in King's Landing for a while and see what happens at the meeting.

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　It seems that the meeting which had changed its name from the meeting of the alliance of the three noble families to the meeting of the three heads of state had now turned into a body to hold the Percival family accountable.

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　Well, that can't be helped.

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　It was the Percival family that killed the king, Rion said, and he presented the evidence.

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　The Reinsatz and Memento families cannot ignore it.

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　Because the information has already been passed on to the royal family and others.

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　If they turn a blind eye to it, it will lead to the suspicion that other families were involved in the murder of the king.

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　The influence of the royal family is still great.

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　Or rather, the economic power of the royal sphere is influential.

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　The royal domain is not very large, and several weak nobles are clustered close to the royal territory.

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　And these noble families are still loyal to the royal family.

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　They are collectively called the royal sphere.

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　These royal spheres do not have the same military power as the great nobles.

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　Rather, they are said to be so weak that if they are attacked, they can be easily taken away in a short period of time.

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　Then, why have such weak people been able to survive even though they are united together?

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　It was because of their economic power.

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　In the past, this land was a single country united by the first king, and each noble family ruled the territory given to them by the king.

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　However, over the course of its long history, the power of the royal family declined drastically, and the nobles of each region rose to prominence and separated from the royal family.

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　The noble families began to compete with each other for territories by using their own offensive magic.

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　However, there existed noble families that did not have offensive magic.

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　No, in fact, in the stable days of long ago, there were more noble families that did.

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　Then, what kind of magic did these noble families without offensive magic have?

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　It was what is called "productive" or "cultural" magic.

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　Kili's family, astrologers in Vulcania, used to be nobles.

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　They invoked divination magic based on the movement of the stars, but there was no offensive magic.

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　In addition to such cultural magic, some of them use production-type magic.

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　This may be similar to the way I make bricks and glass with magic.

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　Or rather, if I did not have [shotgun shell] in my magic, the Barkas would have been recognized as users of production-type magic.

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　In this country that has been in a long period of upheaval, many of the noble families that did not have the power to fight directly have perished.

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　However, there are some noble families that have managed to survive to this day.

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　The way in which such noble families managed to survive was by obtaining the patronage of others.

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　In other words, the noble families with productive and cultural magic were subordinate to the noble families with offensive magic.

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　However, they are despised as lower-class magic and are not popular even among the common people.

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　Because they were treated like possessions by the noble families who possessed offensive magic and ruled their territories.

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　They were isolated from the mundane world their whole lives and treated like machines that just keep on producing things as ordered by their superiors.

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　However, some noble families were able to survive.

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　They were the aristocratic families that gathered in the King's capital area.

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　They gathered around the royal territory to govern their lands and produce goods using their own magic.

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　And they flowed to other noble families as royal property.

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　Some of them can be produced only by magic.

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　The value that cannot be obtained elsewhere is protected not by a single noble family, but by a group of nobles.

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　It is difficult for even the most powerful nobles to touch them.

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　If they kill by force the nobles who are making the unobtainable goods by magic, the loss would be immeasurable.

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　Because of this historical background, no matter what kind of power has risen to the top as the hegemonic nobility, they have only joined hands with the royal family and seized the distribution route of the products in the royal city area.

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　That is why it is a crime to kill the king.

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　By killing the king, he has proved that he can lay his hands on all the nobles in the royal city area.

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　And we do not want them to think that we are in step with the nobles who take such dangerous actions.

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　In short, House Percival is an enemy to all noble families and must not be tolerated.

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"But, Mr. Lyon, you are amazing. But, Mr. Rion is amazing...he found out who attacked the king and Mr. Carlos..."

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"Hm?　No, I don't know. Rion was forced to flee so quickly at that time that he wouldn't have known who the real culprit was. Whether the Percival family is really behind this is still in the dark."

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"Huh?　But Mr. Lyon presented evidence that the Percival family committed the Kingslayer at the Three Heads Conference, right?　That's why the other two families are admitting it and holding them accountable. ......"

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　Kyle is asking me with a pout.

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　Seeing him like that, I can't help but think that he has grown up to be a good and honest boy.

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　However, it is hard to say this to Kyle, but in reality, there was not much evidence left.

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　Because right after Carlos' death, I did not actively pursue the cause of his death.

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　This means that Rion could not have looked hard enough to find hard evidence of the Kings murder at that time.

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　Then, why did Rion conclude that the Percival family was responsible for the Kingslayer?

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　That's because that's what I was telling Leon to do.

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　Kyle probably didn't know that because I was giving him instructions not through the Reed family's [telepathic] network, but through other networks, so that the information wouldn't leak out to others by mistake.

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　Rion could have put the killers of the king and Carlos in the other two families, the Reinsatz and the Memento family.

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　Instead, he would have put the Percival family as the murderers simply because it was convenient for him.

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　They are the least powerful of the three noble families in the alliance, and he had already obtained information that they were going to make a joke about the earthquake being caused by me at the meeting of the three heads of state.

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　It was also significant that Leon only needed to persuade the royal family basically.

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　All he had to do was to report to the royal family that he had found the evidence of the Kingslayer.

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　There were only a few who survived the attack, and Rion was a valuable witness.

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　He would bring the appropriate evidence and explain it to them in accordance with the circumstances of the time.

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　If you want to refute it, the only way is for the person who is named as the murderer to find the real murderer.

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　But if he can do that, he should have found out the real culprit earlier.

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　In other words, when Rion is the culprit, there is a high probability that he will not be able to escape.

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　And once the Kings are convinced, they will be able to talk to the other two families.

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　In other words, it is Rion's proposal that the Percival family should be pursued, but it is also the will of the royal family.

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　Of course, if we ignore it, we will be suspected of complicity.

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　The Reinsatz and Memento families will not be able to refuse.

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　Thus, thanks to Rion's running around and his good behavior at a distance from me, I no longer have to deal with the cause of the earthquake.

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　Later, Rion also informed me that the Percival family has entered into a war with the Reinsatz and Memento families.

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　The Fontana family, who had been the initiators of the war, might have joined the battle, but I did not move.

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　I did not move because I had declared a year of mourning for Carlos' death.

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　Well, I'll support them as much as I can.

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　I decided to watch the battle between the three noble families from the north, while supporting the two families fighting against Percival by selling food and magic stones, respectively.

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