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"...... That's what you mean. In short, I've become an obstacle for the others. So you wanted to get rid of me by shutting me out of the country.

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"I don't know about that. It may be that he genuinely wants to recognize you as a king and put you in your place. If that is the case, however, he should have consulted you in private first. If that is the case, then you should have been consulted in private first, but if you did not, and the matter was brought to the Church, then it is possible that this is not the case.

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　I was talking to Pope Paul about the return of the throne to Sigma Dorien, and I heard the most extraordinary story.

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　I will be king," he said.

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　It was too sudden, but I couldn't leave it at that, so I went to Pope Paul to find out what was going on.

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　Then, I got a rough idea of what was going on.

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　This story is a political one.

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　I guessed that the main purpose of the people who came up with this story was to eliminate my influence in the Kingdom of Fontana, even if only temporarily.

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　I am now the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Fontana, an unfamiliar position that has never existed before.

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　This is because I have left the position of Prime Minister and Grand General and created a new one.

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　The Minister of Finance is basically responsible for the financial affairs of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　However, the reality of the position is very vague.

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　He has accompanied Kyle Reed in the land grab by the Minister of Finance, he has claimed the site of the Holy City as his own by calling it the Cemetery of the Sky, and he has brought the interim king back to the city of Fontana while claiming that he has found the body of the previous King Doren and will hold a funeral service for him.

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　All of these are his own arbitrary decisions, and all external negotiations are reported after the fact to his vizier, Leon.

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　In other words, the current Ars Varka's authority within the Kingdom of Fontana is almost unknown.

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　Naturally, there are those who do not like it.

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　There are also those who consider it an obstacle.

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　And several of them have been meeting together on a daily basis to discuss the matter.

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　It was a council in the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　The council is a group of nobles and knights who belong to the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　However, the council itself has no direct authority.

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　This is because of the history of Fontana when it was still a noble domain.

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　When Carlos, the head of the Fontana family, passed away, I immediately took action to suppress the next head of the family, Garod, and became the acting head of the family.

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　And I forced the numerous knights to unite.

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　After that, the Fontana family expanded by capturing a number of noble territories.

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　However, this left me, the acting head of the family, a mere knight from a peasant background, standing above those who had previously been nobles.

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　This was a very dangerous balance, although I was recognized because of my achievements on the battlefield.

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　So the council was created as a way of venting and has been in existence up to now.

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　Whenever I tried to do something in the Kingdom of Fontana, I would put it on the agenda of the council, which had no authority, and let it deliberate.

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　And if there was an opinion that I could not agree with from the viewpoint of a nobleman or a knight, I would yield to it as much as possible.

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　In other words, I used the council as a checking function, like a sounding board.

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　In other words, I used the council as a check, a sort of a sounding board. This also allowed me to respect, to some extent, the faces of those who had held power as nobles other than Fontana.

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　I do not know if this worked or not, but at least until I retired from the Prime Minister's office, no major problems occurred.

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　It seems that this council is the main source of this problem.

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　It was suggested that Ars Varka be made king in my absence.

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　And for some reason, such an unthinkable opinion was passed, and here we are today.

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　The aim was to make Ars Valka a king with a few conditions attached.

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　Ars Varka is recognized as King of Varka.

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　However, Ars Barka has already given the reigns of the House of Barka to his son, Alford, and is now in retirement.

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　In other words, the territory of Barka is not the land of Ars Barka.

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　Therefore, only Vulcania and the Cemetery of the Sky are specially recognized as the lands of King Barka.

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　This throne is a special exception in recognition of the merits of Ars Barka, and is different from the ordinary throne.

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　The throne of King Barka shall remain the personal property of Ars Barka and shall not pass to his descendants after his death.

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　Therefore, the lands of Barca after the death of King Barca shall belong to the Kingdom of Fontana as the property of the King of Fontana.

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　As far as I have heard from Pope Paul, this is the approximate situation.

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　In addition, he said that if he becomes king, he will not be allowed to work as the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Fontana, so he will have to retire from his position.

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　Furthermore, the Barca family, of which Alford is the current head, is not recognized as royalty.

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　In other words, he would like to give me the prestigious position of the throne and tell me to stay out of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　And when he dies, he will take all his property with him.

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"This story was conceived and put together by Brams and Gary and the others. I guess I bullied them a little too much."

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　And the ringleaders are the nobles whom I once conquered as a general and brought into the Kingdom of Fontana.

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　The Lubiches of Bramus von Lubitsch, descendants of the swordsmith Bramus von Lubitsch.

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　And the Hermes family, including Gary Von Hermes, who uses [hijinks] and [stealth].

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　Especially, these two noble families seem to have made a big move.

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　When the Fontana took these families into their hands, they did not give them territories so that they would not be able to gain power.

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　Instead, they proposed to have the soldiers of Fontana's army to be named and paid according to the number of their names.

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　In other words, the Lubitschs and Hermes were recognized as nobles in the Kingdom of Fontana, but they did not hold any fiefs.

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　They must have been dissatisfied with this.

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　But even if they were dissatisfied, it was difficult for them to act on their dissatisfaction openly.

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　After all, I had the impression of being a fighter, even though I really wasn't.

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　If I complained, they might destroy my house.

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　That's what he must have thought.

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　That's why he was vigilantly watching for an opportunity.

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　Not to defeat me, but to cut off my influence from the Kingdom of Fontana, even if only temporarily.

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　Then they may have thought that they would have a chance to gain power again.

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　And now the perfect opportunity has presented itself.

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　I'm in the war helping the Reeds.

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　And after that Rion led Fontana's army to the capital.

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　In other words, they were the most powerful noblemen left in the city of Fontana, the capital of the Kingdom of Fontana, and they were the only ones close to the city.

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　Seeing this situation as an opportunity, they submitted an agenda to the council.

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　He launched a plan to remove me from the center of the kingdom under the guise of making me king.

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　And it seems to be going well.

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　Because it seems that Garoad, King of Fontana, has approved of it.

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　Pope Paul's explanation to Garoad is that he might have said that it was a reward for me.

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　In other words, it is possible that he used the story about how to reward me for helping the Reeds to defeat the Reinsatz, a noble or hegemonic family from King's Landing or from King's Landing to the northern nobility or the Reinsatz.

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　It is becoming quite difficult to give me a normal reward for my great achievement.

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　If I were to give him a fief that is commensurate with his achievements, it might lead to a discussion about whose fief I should take away.

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　But if the position of King of Vulcania, which made Vulcania and other lands into a kingdom, is itself a reward, the Fontana family would have no reward to offer.

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　Would they be asked to endure a reward in exchange for a lifetime honor?

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　They would be cut off from the affairs of state without giving them the lands they should have given them.

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　They may be trying to gain more power in the country so that they can eventually get the territory.

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　In our discussion with Pope Paul, we both concluded that it was probably something like that.

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"What are you going to do, Ars?　If you don't agree with this story, the time to move is now. If you refuse the offer after it has been formally presented to you, you will be disobeying the orders of King Fontana."

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"Hmmm. Hmmm... ...... Okay, I'll go talk to Leon. I need to see if he knows about this."

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"Yes, that's right. I am not in a position to get involved in the inner workings of the Kingdom of Fontana. It would be better to confirm my story as a rumor.

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"Yes. But thank you, Pope Paul. It is good to know this story. Thank you very much.

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　And so I bow my head.

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　Oh, dear.

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　Scratching my head, I left the big church and moved back to the capital to meet with Leon.

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