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"This is a serious problem."

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Yes, it is. The Burmese frontier count has asked us to do something about it. It's not good to leave it unattended, Mr. Ars.

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"Right. I've sent Payne and the others to help, but it looks like they're getting burned. I don't know what to do.

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　It was supposed to be a happy ending with the successful recognition as the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　However, problems kept arising one after another.

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　Or rather, this problem has been emerging even before that time, but now it is getting to the point where we can no longer cope with it.

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　It was caused by the movement of people.

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　It's a rough situation outside of our country now.

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　The royal city area has been overrun by overwhelming violence and has become a hunting ground.

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　And the Memento family sits there.

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　But the Memento family is not a traditional high nobility... and even though they are feared by the nobles around them for their power... they are not recognized as our allies.

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　The reason is that it is not the Memento family but the Reinsatz family that the royal families have actually allied with to become the hegemonic nobility, as is the case with their many failures.

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　However, the Reinisatz are currently at war with the Kingdom of Risolute.

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　The Rizzolte family, which was originally a former high aristocrat family, is not only the Reinisatz family, but also the Memento family and the Percival family, with whom the three noble families had formed an alliance to fight.

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　And among them, it was not the Reinisatz family nor the Memento family that had the advantage in the battle against the Resolute family.

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　It was the Percival family, which possessed extremely dangerous magic such as the "poisonous magic bullet," that was the major force that led the Resolute family to fall from the hegemony of the aristocracy.

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　However, the Percival family has greatly decreased its power one year ago.

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　The reason for this was the battle to defeat the Percival family in which the Reinsatz family also participated.

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　Therefore, the Reinisatz family cannot ask the Percival family for help when they are attacked by the Kingdom of Risorthe.

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　Of course, it cannot be said that the Reinisatz will be defeated, but the battle will continue at least for a while.

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　Therefore, the Reinisatz family, which is in fact the current hegemonic aristocracy, is in a situation where it is unable to turn its hand against other aristocratic families.

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　Normally, the Hegemonic Nobility would have called the various noble houses together and arbitrated on various issues.

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　However, few noble houses would bother to lend a hand to the Reinsatz family, which is unable to play such a role as an ally.

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　Rather, they had their own pressing problems at hand.

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　The royalist-led allied forces that aimed to defeat Fontana split in two, and the allied forces of Memento's camp entered the royal capital area.

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　However, the allied forces of Memento split afterwards due to a disagreement over the treasure of the capital.

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　The Memento family continued to occupy the capital after King Dorren's escape, and even seized the other royal families and moved to grant Fontana recognition of independence.

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　However, few noble families were convinced by this move.

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　The anti-Memento coalition was rallying around the northern noble families who had first deserted from the coalition forces.

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　However, the anti-Memento coalition was not monolithic.

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　Some noble families joined the anti-Memento coalition, while others did not.

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　In other words, although they were united to some extent as the Anti-Memento Coalition, if they sent out an army to fight against the Memento family, they might be attacked by other noble families who had not joined the Coalition and were away from their territories.

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　The anti-Memento coalition was growing in numbers, but this kind of mindset prevented them from actually making any moves.

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　There is no longer any place of peace in this land.

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　Even an uneducated peasant understood that we were entering a difficult time.

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　It was at this uneasy time that the sound of laughter came over the radio.

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　Mysterious sound-generating devices donated to churches in the royal capital area and several other noble lands.

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　The radio, a mysterious device, played joyful music, church sermons, and tomorrow's horoscope.

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　One wonders what the listeners to these radio broadcasts must have been thinking.

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　The Kingdom of Fontana has built a long wall along its borders and has an iron wall defense system to prevent any invasion from outside.

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　They even started to coin new coins called Barca silver coins and started a deposit business to keep people's money safe.

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　Depositing money is a concern, but the depositors are not just greedy loan sharks.

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　It is the head of the Barca family, an aristocratic family in Fontana that holds the top position of Prime Minister and Grand General in the newly established kingdom, both in terms of civil and military affairs.

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　The radio talk is a carefree story that is hard to believe in this day and age: "His wife made him deposit money because she was angry with him for gambling.

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　There was also a broadcast about how to use holy salt, which is different from the conventional salt sold by the church, to cook delicious dishes.

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　However, the amount of food used for a single serving is different from that of their own land.

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　Is the Kingdom of Fontana so safe?

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　Can you live without worrying that you will lose everything because of a break-in at your house by a bandit?

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　More importantly, is there really that much food?

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　That's what people who heard the radio broadcast thought.

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　Not a few people thought so.

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　And there were many who thought that they might as well abandon this dangerous life and go to the north.

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　Peasants are reluctant to abandon their lands, but perhaps they heard somewhere about the achievements of the town of Dreslina that they were willing to leave their deserted fields behind.

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　When the people who lost their homes due to the great earthquake suddenly came to Fontana, Fontana built a new town and even provided them with jobs and housing.

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　Then, I want to do the same.

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　So, they moved to the north.

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　Every day, would-be emigrants arrive at the defensive wall of Carmas, the border of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Fortunately, the construction of the border wall has allowed people to move through the gated fortress to enter the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　However, anyone can understand the difficulty of dealing with the large number of people coming through the limited gates every day.

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　Elance, the frontier count who governs the border area, has been diligently dealing with the situation, but it seems that he has finally reached his limit.

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　I was forced to deal with the problem of emigration to the Kingdom of Fontana.

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