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"Sho, too much paperwork ......"

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"That is true, Mr. Ars. You have been neglecting your work in Fontana from the end of last fall until spring. It is only natural that there is a lot of work to be done.

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"Maybe so, but you had Leon and Kyle in Fontana, so you don't have this much paperwork piling up, do you?"

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Listen to me very carefully. Listen to me! Work is fundamentally a simple thing. Master Ars is the Prime Minister and Grand General of this country, and is effectively in charge of the country's affairs, so it is only natural that he has to do a lot of this kind of work.

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"You're right, of course. But you could have given me a little more time to work in the East and come back home to help me, Leon.

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"...... With all due respect, do you have any idea how much outrageous stuff you've done over there, Mr. Ars?"

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"Yes, well... Well, yeah, I mean, it's not that I don't know what I'm doing.

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"It must be true. If the Church gets it right about what Master Ars did in the East, he could be declared an enemy of God just like Naja.

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　The season has already turned to spring and warmer weather is on the way.

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　I thought I could finally stretch my wings after returning with the Eastern Expeditionary Force, which, like me and my brother Byte, could not return by transporter stone.

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　I was thinking of inviting Lilina to a spa resort when Rion called me back to the city of Fontana and I've been busy with work.

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　There are so many important matters to be settled in the form of documents that it almost gives me a headache.

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　Rion says to me as I look at them and grumble.

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　It is true that I did a lot of reckless work in the East as Rion said.

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　We were only there to return Thanatos home, but we had a war with a country in the East, and we even made a deal with them.

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　And I have to say that the details of the deal are as close to black as possible.

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　At any rate, they named the magic without the church's permission and spread it without permission.

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　In the East, there was no organization like the Church.

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　No, I heard that there is a religious organization.

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　But there was no organization that used the magic system such as naming or magic pass.

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　So I took advantage of that and ate the profits of the church first.

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　I am sure that the church would be very angry if they knew that.

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　That is why, for the sake of expediency, I decided that Valeant was not my territory but a frontline base in the battle for the village of Atmos, and I entrusted the local people to be the rulers.

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　It is a place for local collaborators, not our territory.

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　Therefore, the Kingdom of Fontana cannot actively cooperate with the Church's expansion to the East, nor does it have any responsibility to do so.

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　In other words, I am not involved in whatever is going on over there.

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　There are few people in the Church who know that I can name names.

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　I have made a generous donation to Archbishop Paul, one of the few exceptions, and have provided him with a manuscript of an Eastern religious book given to me by Charlotte.

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　It should be all right for now.

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　Well, it is an undeniable fact that they are doing the same thing as Naja.

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　There is no difference in the fact that they are using the magic circle of the naming ceremony without permission.

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　It is indeed a problem to be recognized as a god-enemy.

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But Nadja's a stubborn one.

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"Yes. The Mercelles of Marshell, led by Nadja, are still going strong. Since they were recognized as a divine enemy so late in the game, they seem to have fortified their defenses around the castle they control.

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"The information we passed on to them from behind the scenes has been avenged in the end, hasn't it?"

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"Yes, that's right. As a result of the fact that Nadja's [collection] would deprive them not only of magic but also of their right to inheritance, the nobles and knights seemed to shy away."

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"...... did I miss it?　I don't know if the stolen inheritance will be restored or lost if Naja is defeated. That's right, if they hear that, they won't be willing to fight on their own. It would be wiser to wait for someone brave enough to take care of Naja.

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"Besides, the Gizanians, who are the closest to the Mercenaries of Marshel, are not moving."

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　They discuss the information that Leon has gathered.

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　Naja, now an enemy of God and the Demon King, was being stared down by the church and was thought to be a lost cause.

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　In fact, however, it seems that she has managed to survive through the winter.

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　The church has declared Nadja an enemy of God and even put a bounty on her head.

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　It seems that quite a few members of the mercenary band have escaped.

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　But it also reveals another side of the story.

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　The remaining mercenaries are now only the executives, who cannot even escape as bounty hunters, and the members, who can only follow them, and it seems that they have become more united.

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　And it seems that these core members are threatening the mercenaries who are on the fence, making it impossible for them to escape.

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　They make them emotionally unable to leave with immediate benefits such as money and alcohol, or they use the mercenaries' family members as threats to create a situation where they cannot escape.

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　Thus, the Mercenaries of Marshel, though reduced in size, were forced into a backwater position and united to fight against the forces that attacked them.

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　But what made it even more difficult to defeat them was Naja's [collecting] characteristic.

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　Why do nobles and knights fight?

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　It is to protect their vested interests.

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　Status and prestige are important, but what is especially important is the power itself, which is handed down through the rites of succession.

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　This power is taken away from them when they are defeated by Naja.

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　As this became known, there were no more and more noblemen who were willing to fight against the Mercenaries of Marshel.

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　They may have thought that someone else would do it for them, so they would not have to take the risk themselves.

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　And there was an additional support.

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　The Heckail family, whose lands the Mercenaries first destroyed and then acquired.

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　The Gizania family, which was next to the Hekail family, had many of its knights killed by the mercenaries.

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　Normally, the Gizanians would have been furious and fought against Naja.

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　But for some reason, the head of the Guizania family does not move.

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　It is related to the fact that the head of the Gizania family seems to have a much higher magical power than before.

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　This is probably another characteristic of Nadja's [collection].

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　Nadja is able to overthrow the leader of a noble family and seize his power.

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　But the House of Gizania is not the head of a noble family, but a subordinate knight whom she named after herself, and who was overthrown by Nadja.

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　This means that Naja is the heir of the knight of the House of Gizania.

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　It is a complicated story, but Nadja's taking the knight of the House of Gizania connected her magic path to the head of the House of Gizania as well.

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　The head of the House of Gizania is Nadja's parent.

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　This meant that the stronger Nadja became, the stronger the head of the House of Gizania became.

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　The head of the House of Gizania was the first to realize this.

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　It was only natural, since it was his body.

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　And he must have thought.

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　If Nadja would become stronger, and he would become stronger, then that might be the way it would be.

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　The reason why Nadja, who originally led a mere mercenary band, targeted the Hekail family is partly because the Hekail family was not a powerful noble family, but rather a low-level one.

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　And you can imagine the Gizania family next to them.

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　In other words, the House of Guizania was not a very powerful family, but it had to weather the recent major conflicts among the Mementos, the Reinsatz, and the Kingdom of Rizzolte.

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　It is better to leave the Mercenaries alone than to take risks and fight with the Mercenaries.

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　So they declared to the people around them.

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　We will strive to defend the House of Gizania exclusively.

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　It was as if he implicitly said that he would not attack the Mercenaries of Marshel.

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　Naja understood this correctly.

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　She declared that if the Mercenaries of Marshel did not attack the territory of Gizania, they would do nothing.

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　It would at least be a relief to not have to fight with the neighboring territories, since they were surrounded by enemies all around.

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　Thus, the Mercenaries of Marshel and the House of Gizania, who were supposed to be the divine enemies of the Gizanians, entered into an alliance of non-war without making any deals with each other.

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　This makes it even more difficult for the other nobles to send out their armies to defeat the Mercenaries of Marshel.

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　If they cooperate with Naja, whom the Church has declared an enemy of God, they will become an enemy of God as well, but if they do not cooperate with Naja, they will not become an enemy of God.

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　This is the reason why Naja is still alive even though the winter is over.

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"The church would never allow such a thing, though. What will they do?"

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"I don't know. But the Church does not have the strength to fight. Isn't there somewhere we can send a request to avenge the enemies of God?"

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"...... I hope I don't say anything weird. Anyway, let's go ahead and declare this one. Let's tell Archbishop Paul that the Kingdom of Fontana will focus on domestic affairs."

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"I think that's a good idea."

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　I don't think Archbishop Paul knows me and won't be reckless, but I don't know how the Church organization will react.

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　So I will take the initiative and declare that Fontana will concentrate his efforts on his own country.

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　Since they are currently putting an economic blockade on the Mercenaries of Marshel, there is a possibility that they will dry up sooner or later.

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　Thus, with information from Rion and others, I set about my work in the Kingdom of Fontana once again.

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