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"Why!　How did this happen?"

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　I was so overwhelmed by the events that I could not stop thinking.

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　The Fontana family had named a new king and established a new kingdom.

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　I had never imagined that this would happen.

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　I had been in the Fontana lands with the previous king until just a few years ago.

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　It was on the way back to the capital from Fontana that the incident happened.

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　The attack on the king.

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　I was on my way to the capital with the king, but fortunately I escaped from the incident and survived.

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　However, during the incident, the king and his escort, Carlos de Fontana, lost their lives.

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　The assailants were so careful that they succeeded in their attack almost without provoking any counterattack.

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　I might have lost my life on the spot.

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　However, I was lucky enough to meet up with Carlos' knight, Leon von Graham, and we managed to escape from the attack.

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　I never thought that the king would be killed in this way.

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　Do you not understand how sinful it is to point a sword at the king?

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　However, my thoughts were occupied with other things when I returned to King's Landing.

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　That is because the question of whether we, the entourage, really made the right choice in order to protect the king has begun to be pursued.

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　This is ridiculous.

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　In the first place, the king went to Fontana only because he himself was in danger.

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　The Risortes have been defeated by the League of the Three Nobles and have fallen from their position as the hegemonic aristocracy.

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　However, the three noble alliances were good until they defeated the great enemy, the House of Rizzolte, but since then, they have been engaged in a bitter dispute behind the scenes.

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　Because the situation could not be settled properly, the king took refuge with the Fontana family, which was judged to have a chance to oppose the alliance of the three noble families.

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　In fact, the Fontanas helped the king a lot.

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　They successfully managed the difficult task of protecting the king, which no other noble family could do, and the head of the family himself risked his life to fight for it.

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　It would be too much to say that our decision to rely on the Fontanas was a mistake.

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　That is why we, who had accompanied the previous king to the Fontana lands, made desperate efforts to persuade them.

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　We were convinced of the work of the Fontana and how rich it was.

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　I was born and raised in the Royal Domain, and I can say that until now I knew almost nothing about the Fontana, the northernmost noble territory.

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　I only knew in general that the area is colder and snowier than the metropolitan area, that the crop yields are lower, and that therefore the number of inhabitants is small compared to the area of the territory.

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　The same is true for those who have been pursuing us.

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　But they were wrong.

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　The Fontana was very rich.

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　The fields were well cultivated and the harvest was plentiful.

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　It had strong buildings and the most solid roads I had ever seen.

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　The roads were especially good.

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　I have never seen such roads before.

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　Even in the royal city area, the quality of roads in Fontana is unmatched.

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　Normally, the ground vibrations would shake the rider's chariot, but this was not the case.

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　Moreover, it seems that Fontana is also good at utilizing its merchants.

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　Many merchants come and go, selling and buying with great vigor.

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　The scene was very energetic.

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　I felt that it was worth visiting Fontana just to see them.

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　The recent victory of Fontana over the neighboring nobility is not only due to the fact that Fontana is a good fighter.

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　It is because they rule their lands well that they are able to become so powerful.

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　I tried my best to explain this to him when we returned to the capital.

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　And this is the result.

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　The desperate persuasion of the surviving companions of the previous king took an unexpected turn.

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　The king who became the next king when the previous king went into hiding said

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　If Fontana is so good at land maintenance, why don't you do the same here in the royal city area?

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　Perhaps this was just a thought that leaked out to the king as he listened to the conversation.

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　The roads in the capital are also in bad shape.

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　Maybe it was just a matter of "it would be nice if they could fix it up a little.

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　But shortly after that, information about the Fontana family came to the capital again.

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　It was about the defeat of the Percival family, which might have been behind the attack on the previous king.

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　A coalition of noble families, mainly the Reinsatz and Memento families, was supposed to have attacked the Percival family.

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　However, it was not the Reinisatz and Memento families but the Fontana family that decided the outcome of the battle to defeat the Percival family.

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　The Fontana army swooped in from the north to mourn the loss of the previous head of the family, Carlos, and the labyrinthine city fell.

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　Everyone was aware that the labyrinthine city of the Percival family was an important place that would play a major role in the future power struggle.

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　However, it was very difficult just to reach the labyrinthine city, because there were several defensive fortresses and towns even before approaching the labyrinthine city.

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　This was the thinking of all the nobles and the royal city.

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　However, the labyrinthine city fell in no time.

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　The elite hexenbiest forces in Fontana had conquered it in no time at all.

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　This information sent shock waves through the city.

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　And before they knew it, they had come to that conclusion.

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　Why don't we make Fontana a high ranking noble and let her protect the royal city area?

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　And if Fontana could also improve the roads and fields in the capital, it would kill two birds with one stone, I thought.

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　......Why is that so?

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　The late Carlos certainly placed great importance on the relationship with the royal family.

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　However, it was only for practical purposes, such as the reliable trade of salt and other goods due to the distance from the capital, and he was not acting for the position of a hegemonic aristocrat.

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　In fact, when I talked with Carlos during the king's escort, he clearly said that the Fontana family does not have the power to become a high noble family.

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　If they want to ask for road maintenance, they should just make a request in the usual way.

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　But what about the people around the new king?

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　They are trying to get the King's favor by saying all kinds of things that are convenient for the King.

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　They must have advised the king without thinking about whether the Fontana family could actually become a high aristocrat or not.

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　Well, maybe it is to check the other great nobles whose power has increased due to the retreat of the Percival family.

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　But it would not work.

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　Was I right?

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　Or should I say that I was very wrong?

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　The messenger who went to Fontana did not return.

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　And that's not all.

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　Fontana sent a messenger with this reply.

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　The Fontana family is crowned as a new royal family and the Kingdom of Fontana is established.

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　...... Why would they do that?

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　What kind of story would a messenger to Fontana have to tell to come to this conclusion?

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　I don't understand.

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　But even more surprising was the move of the Church.

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　The church was going to perform the coronation ceremony for Fontana to be crowned king.

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　At the same time, the church started to sell salt.

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　What is really going on?

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　The situation is further complicated.

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　It was learned during the request for explanation from the royal family to the Church that not only the Fontanas, but also the Reinsatz and the Risorte families are talking about having a coronation ceremony.

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　...... What will happen if this is true?

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　I had never thought that anyone other than the royal house of Doren would try to be king.

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　No matter how powerful the great nobles became, it was a given that they would form an alliance with the royal family to become a hegemonic aristocrat.

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　However, I feel that a new wave of the times is coming to break the trend.

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　......I have a bad feeling about this.

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　I even have a feeling that my footing is unsteady, as if heaven and earth are about to be turned upside down.

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　The royal family has announced to the nobles that they will never allow the Fontana family to become king anyway.

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　After the Percival family, the royal family has now issued a decree to defeat the Fontana family.

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　But will it really work?

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　I remembered the boy I had seen only once in the Fontana territory, and I could not stop shaking.

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