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"I'm home. You've grown up in a short time, haven't you, Alphonse?"

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"Ah, welcome back, Charles."

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"Oh, my God. I told you to call me big sister Charles, didn't I?　Als-chan called me that honestly, but Alphonse-chan was wrong."

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　I've been training all day, every day.

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　It's getting pretty cold by now.

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　But we didn't care about that, we were out in the garden.

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　I watched and practiced Ai's swordsmanship, and I wielded my own sword to make the magic flow.

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　While I was living like that, Charles came back to the house.

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　Charles, the second prince of Brillia, had accepted a foreign student from Fontana and rented out his house to him.

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　But Charles himself has not been in this mansion for a while.

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　Because he was out near the border for a while, commanding one of the army of Brillia.

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　It seems that Charles had returned to King's Landing just as that army came back to replace the other ones.

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"I heard something else, Alphonse. I heard that you haven't been to the House of Lords lately.　Is that true?"

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"Yeah. Ai is teaching me how to study here, so I'm doing well."

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"Hmmm. Studying is not the only reason to go to the House of Lords. It's also your job to make friends, right, Alphonse?　Do you have any friends?

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"......I'll have someone to talk to when I see you."

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"That's not good enough. You are here as exchange students, and it is important for you to learn what you can in this country and to bring that knowledge back to your own country.　But it is even more important to get to know the nobles and knights of this country and make contacts with them.

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"...... I know, but..."

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"Huh. Well, we've heard all about it. Some of the girls were saying strange things to you, weren't they?　My country is bigger than others, and I am sure there are aristocrats who look down on people from other countries. Sometimes these families mess with foreign students. I'm sorry."

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"Oh, no. It's not for you to apologize, Charles.

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"No. It's just that it's hard for me too that Alphonse will be sad and won't go to the House of Lords. I'll give her a warning too, so I hope she'll go back to the House of Lords."

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　......The House of Lords.

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　I haven't been to the House of Lords at all, come to think of it.

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　I'm sorry I worried you Charles.

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　But it wasn't because of what Clement and the others said to me or because we had a quarrel.

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　It was simply that it was more interesting to receive training from Ai.

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　Reading books and learning swordsmanship were much better than going to the House of Lords.

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　So I spent most of my time in this house.

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　And I was not the only foreign student.

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　There were other foreign students from the United Kingdom of Fontana who came to Brillia.

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　They came here because the city of Fontana sends out selected talented people.

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　Most of them, unlike me, are attending an academy of nobility.

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　Well, some of them don't.

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"More importantly, Charles. You led the army to the border, didn't you?　I'd like to hear what happened."

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"Oh, are you interested, Alphonse?"

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"Of course. I'd like to join the army someday.

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"Oh, dear. Well then, let's talk. I was just out here as part of the border patrol, but there wasn't much going on.

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"Really?　I heard there was some kind of movement in the sub-national group."

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"I'm surprised. You know all that. I guess it's true that you don't go to the House of Lords, but you do study there. That's right. There's a growing power struggle among the smaller states these days. They're among the big powers, aren't they?　In our case, it serves as a buffer zone between the Church and the Church, but the movements there could be a big problem. I've done some research on that.

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"Is there going to be a big fight or something?"

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"I don't think we're there yet. The small states are really just a bunch of small powers. I think the intensity has been more sporadic skirmishes.

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"I see. So that's how it is.

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"Hmm. You look disappointed. Still, you've grown quite strong, haven't you, Alphonse?　You're even bigger than the last time I saw you."

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"Really?　Is it because you eat well and sleep well every day?"

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"That's good. If you want to be a soldier, you need to be healthy and strong. It's a tough job that requires a person who is not prone to illness or injury.

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　After that, I continued talking with Master Charles.

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　Charles is the royalty of this big country, but he speaks to me without hesitation.

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　He also told me to feel free to talk to him in private.

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　So in this house, I can talk to him as if I were talking to my family.

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　I don't want to worry you like that.

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　I'll go to the House of Lords somewhere in the near future.

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　While thinking about such things, I continued talking with Charles about various things for a while after that.

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