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"You seem to be quite reckless."

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"Reckless?　I haven't done anything in particular, Mr. Picha. The Percival family, one of the three great noble families, is in the situation it is in today because of the sins they committed.

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"I see. Well, let's say that's the case.

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Please do so. So what happened to you today?　Wasn't Lord Peacha supposed to have returned to the Einrad Knight Territory?"

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"Well, once the snow melted, I went back to my estate. I wanted to see for myself what the effects of the earthquake had been, even though I had been informed of it by my retainers. But something came up that concerned me, so I came back to the city of Fontana.

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"Things that bother you?　Is there something wrong?"

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"......What's going on, no. I heard that your men Vargas and Knight Bite have risen to the level of the head of the family. I'm just checking to see if that's true."

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"Oh, you mean that. Yes, that's right. We have confirmed that those two are able to invoke the spell [Summon Spirit]. It's safe to say that they are as good as the head of the family.

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"......As I thought. And is the rumor true that your power has a lot to do with it?

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"Their rise to the level of head of the family is due solely to their efforts."

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"Between you and me, can you tell me the truth? You must have used some method, right?　If you don't tell us the truth, there might be some trouble."

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"Bad thing, sir?"

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"Yes. It is good that my friend Vargas is now the head of the family. But I'm a little worried about the knight Bight. If he is not careful, the Uruk district could be in trouble.

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"The Uruk district?　What has my brother Bite done to you, Mr. Peacha?　Or have the knights who originally belonged to the House of Uruk made a move?"

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"...... No, it's not. It is not the knights of Uruk origin who are complaining about the increased power of the Knight Bite. It is Elance von Burma and others who rule the Burmese knights.

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　Why not?

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　The Bite Brother has become a powerful figure at the head of the family.

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　Some people don't like that.

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　I can understand that there are some who think so.

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　But why does that lead to the dissatisfaction of the knight of Fontana?

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　I had no idea, but after Picha explained it to me, I finally understood what he meant.

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　The reason why Elans, who rules the Burmese knight territory in the Uruk area, is very dissatisfied with his brother Bait.

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　It was because of the hierarchy and the rating.

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　Nobles and knights live in a terrible environment where powerful people compete for territory, but there are still formalities such as hierarchies and ratings.

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　The highest-ranking person in the current Fontana territory is Garrod, the child of the previous head, Carlos, who is the future head of the family, even though he is still a young child.

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　The knights of Fontana are under the head of Garod.

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　I am currently the acting head of the Fontana family, but in terms of status, I am a knight of the Fontana family who has sworn allegiance to the head of the Fontana family.

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　I am exceptionally recognized as a holy knight by the church, but let's put that aside for now.

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　On the other hand, Picha and Elance are also knights of Fontana who fought together with the previous head of the family, Carlos, on the battlefield, and are of the same rank if I step down from my position as the acting head of the family.

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　However, my brother Bite and Vargas are not knights of the Fontana.

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　They are knights of Barca, for whom I have given a name.

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　In other words, they are a step down in the hierarchy.

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　So, I suppose that the knight of Fontana named Elans, who rules the Burmese knighthood, cannot tolerate the fact that someone lower in rank than he is has become the head of the order.

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　I would say that I don't care, but Picha could understand the feeling.

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　Well, that may be true when you think about it.

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　If you think about it, since there is such a thing as a magic path, it is not so easy to be overtaken in terms of the amount of magic by a lower-ranked person.

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　However, this is often the case for the knights belonging to the great nobility.

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　This is because the internal structure of a large noble family, which has grown by absorbing other noble families, is complex, and one's ability often cannot be measured only by a simple ranking.

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　However, Fontana, until a few years ago, still had only a third of the territory that it has now, and many of them probably think like Elans.

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　It would be possible to say to the Elans, "Shut up and stop messing around.

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　However, Picha went out of his way to meet me and tell me this.

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　Perhaps this problem is not limited to Elance.

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　Maybe Ghana of the House of Ix, who rules the fortress of Palamere and other places, is thinking about something similar to Vargas, who is now the head of the Arbalest region.

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　If so, it would not be a good idea to take a too lenient approach.

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　If it is only the Burmese who are dissatisfied with me, I may be able to solve the problem with hard measures, but if the knights in the Fontana are dissatisfied with me, other nobles will have a chance to take advantage of me.

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"I understand what you are saying, Mr. Peacha. But I do not intend to casually use my newly developed strengthening methods. If you want other knights to use the same Barka method of strengthening that I have used on the knights of Barka, then you will have to pay a reasonable price.

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"Quid pro quo, huh? Well, of course we don't ask you to give it to us for free, but what kind of a price do you ask for?

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"We will ask you to provide the land we designate as a dedicated transportation route."

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"Transportation routes?　What the hell is that?　If you mean transportation routes, are you going to use Barka's [roadbed]?"

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"Well, something like that. But we're not going to lay roads, we're going to lay tracks."

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　Far to the south, the three noble families are fighting each other.

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　While gathering information about it, some people in the Fontana territory were saying all kinds of things.

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　But this might be a good opportunity.

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　I decided to take this opportunity to further reform the distribution system.

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　I demanded the right to use the land of each knight's territory by showing the knights of Fontana who own the territory a method to strengthen the magic stone implantation technique, which might make them the head of the territory.

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　Then I decided to build a railroad line there.

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