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　The year will soon be over.

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　Winter has come and the snow has piled up.

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　Looking back, many things have happened this year.

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　The biggest change of all was the independence of Fontana as a kingdom.

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　Probably, none of us had expected such a thing to happen.

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　That includes me, of course.

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　I never thought it would happen.

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　It was a year of great social changes, but it was also a year of great personal changes.

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　I think it was the fact that I had a child.

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　And it was an unexpected twin.

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　After the twins were born, Lilina was very distraught, which I did not expect, and she kept apologizing to me.

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　In the end, it was decided that it was not a good idea to raise the twins as they were, so I decided to raise one of them on my own, but leave the other one with my mother as if he were dead and raise him as my younger brother.

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　I guess the best thing was that Lilina became mentally calm.

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　I am relieved to know that both of them are growing up well.

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　There have been many other things to do, such as building a clock tower, building a railroad track, and making Barka silver coins.

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　I think I am working too hard.

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　But it seems that my work is not done yet.

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"Are you here again?"

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"Yes, Mr. Ars. Several knights have offered to serve the Kingdom of Fontana and swear fealty to the king.

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"...... In exchange, as a knight, you will give me the relief of my lands. I don't know what to do."

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"It's a bit of a quandary, isn't it? The knights of several lands have made separate offers, which means that their lands are located all over the place. Moreover, they are in the territories ruled by other nobles. It is difficult to relieve them of their lands.

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"Right. At least we'd have a noble family to vassal us instead of a knight."

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　Fontana became an independent kingdom, which was recognized by the Church and the royal house of Doren.

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　The rest of Fontana is now in a very unstable state.

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　The surrounding forces have been forced to adapt to this situation.

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　It was not the stoic noble families that took action to survive, but the knights.

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　Especially the knightly families in the northern noble lands.

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　They are sworn to the northern nobles and rule their lands as knights.

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　However, some parts of the north were heavily damaged by the allied forces of Memento's camp.

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　And the Memento family, having secured the royal city and the royal family, is now trying to extend its reach further into the surrounding areas.

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　The anti-Memento coalition to deal with this situation is not completely monolithic, and what will happen in the future is not at all predictable.

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　Then, what should the small knightly house, a minor force, do?

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　Continue to work together with the noble families to which they have originally pledged their allegiance?

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　Or, they should leave the noble families and join another to defend their lands.

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　A choice had to be made.

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　And some of them turned to the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　They would join the Kingdom of Fontana as knights and make their lands a part of Fontana, so that they would have the backing to defend their lands.

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　But it is not that simple.

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　The noble families, who were the original owners of the land, would not allow the knights to serve elsewhere.

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　Or they might strip the knight of his status and take away his lands.

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　Then there were those who tried to send their second or third sons, who would not succeed to the knighthood, to the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　If they are capable of fighting as knights, they will be much more powerful than if they gather several ordinary people.

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　As for the knight families, they might be able to serve their current masters, and their blood relatives might be able to survive if their children who are not heirs to the family are recognized for their strength in Fontana and are treated as knights.

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　Or the second and third sons may be given lands for their military merit.

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　Or, if the main family is crushed by the Memento family, it may be a foothold to claim that the land belonged to our family and take it back.

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　With this in mind, various northern powers were gathering in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Whether we accept them or not.

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　I don't want to get involved in a family feud by accepting them.

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　But I could not do nothing.

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　If we neglected those who had offered their loyalty to us, we would reduce the number of those who would come to us in the same way in the future.

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　Considering the future, it would be better to accept them to some extent.

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　When I began to think about such things, I could not give an easy answer as to whom and to what extent I would accept.

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"But, I'm talking about you. You're going to attack them anyway, aren't you, Ars?"

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"Well, yeah. I can't just sit here and do nothing, and if I don't take what I can get, I might regret it later. Then we can't throw away the chance to get it."

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"That's the way it's got to be. So when are you going to attack?

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Maybe after the new year.

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"After the new year, that means early spring at the earliest, right?"

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"No, no, no, brother Bite. We're going to attack the Northern Lords. It will be right after the new year.

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"What?　How are you going to greet the new year so soon after the new year?"

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"Maybe later. Or rather, we'll attack when all the other nobles and knights are gathered in one place for New Year's greetings."

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"......Wow, come on, seriously. You're still thinking crazy shit, you know that? But you gotta be. All right, all right. I'll make sure I gather the troops now."

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"Yeah. Nice to meet you, brother Bite.

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　Fontana became an independent kingdom.

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　However, this only means that its title has been recognized.

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　In terms of actual strength, the other noble families, the great nobles, are more powerful.

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　If this is the case, the Kingdom of Fontana could not be content with the status quo and stop moving forward.

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　When knights belonging to several noble families offered to vassal Fontana, I had my doubts about what to do, but it was a good opportunity for me.

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　I would have these knights send a request to Fontana for help.

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　It does not matter what it is.

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　Anyway, let them say that there is a problem with their lord's nobles and that the knight's lands are in danger and that they need help.

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　Then you will have a good reason to attack the noble's territory.

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　We will capture the noble families in the north and bring their lands into Fontana.

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　The most likely to complain about this would be the Memento family.

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　However, the Memento family has promised not to interfere in the northern part of Fontana when it has given the labyrinthine city to the Memento family in the past.

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　This is not only true for the Carmas family, but for others as well.

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　Moreover, no time limit has been set.

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　In other words, one could argue that the promise is still ongoing.

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　So I decided to attack the three noble families in the northern part of the country.

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　The timing of the attack is at the dawn of the new year.

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　Why the timing?

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　It is because it is the custom for the knights of the noble houses to gather together in the capital of the noble house to greet the New Year.

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　The ruling class that governs the territory is gathered in one place in a land closed to the snow.

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　Moreover, there is no army to move and no way to gather peasants as soldiers.

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　Such a situation is rare.

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　That's why they are going for it.

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　Thus, Fontana's army secretly began to prepare for the snow march.

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