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"What?　I thought you were planning to take many wives, but you are not?"

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　Laura's mansion in the Orient.

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　When I talked to Laura who was working there, she told me something like that.

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　She said that she was going to marry Theon after marrying Elizabeth, and I wondered if that was what Laura had in mind.

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"I didn't really intend it that way. ......"

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"Then what are you going to do about Mee and the others, Mr. Alphonse?　I'm sure she would love to marry you, Mr. Alphonse, don't you think?"

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"Mee?　Am I going to marry Mee too?"

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"If you weren't going to marry Mr. Alphonse, who were you going to have me marry?　Maybe they could bring in a strong mercenary from somewhere like Hannah and have her marry him?　If you do that, she'll probably be very sad, won't she, Mee?"

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　Mitya.

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　It's true that when I returned to the new Barca town, she was very attached to me and often followed me around, but was she going to marry me?

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　Well, it's true that I don't have much of a chance to get to know anyone else as long as I live in my current home, Barca Palace.

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　If you don't marry me, why should I find someone to marry you, since you are an ex-orphan?

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　I never thought about it.

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"I mean, is it okay for you to marry so many people?"

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"The Orient is a country of laws. There is no prohibition against bigamy in its laws. And you are from a foreign country, aren't you, Mr. Alphonse?　I thought that was the culture over there. It's not normal for little boys to take on prostitutes in large numbers.

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　I see.

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　I don't know what I would do coming from a place I don't know at all.

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　That's what they feel in many areas.

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　So that's why your view of marriage was unknown to me.

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　I guess the fact that I seemed to have a lot of women by my side means that I was seen as a man who is planning to have many wives in the future.

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　That was not my intention.

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　But it happens in the United Kingdom of Fontana.

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　Originally, by performing the rite of succession, there is a clear division between those who are born with the right of succession and those who are not.

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　No matter how many children you have, if they do not have the right of inheritance, they cannot inherit the family.

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　That is why, for example, a part-time worker has children with many people.

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"But, I think it might be a good idea to have more people to marry."

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"What do you mean?　Legally, you don't have a problem with that, right?"

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"Yes. You can be married to as many people as you like and it will not be against the law. However, I think it is necessary to think about other laws carefully.

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"What do you mean by 'other laws'?"

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It's about property rights. After Mr. Alphonse's death, his property will be inherited by his family, but the more wives he has, the more it will be divided. In the current situation, the new Barca town, which was built by Mr. Alphonse after he acquired the land, will be divided. There will be trouble, I'm sure.

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"I see. ......, property. I think you and Elizabeth should have a good talk about that too. I think it's a good idea to have that kind of discussion with Elizabeth.

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"That's true, too. There may be arrangements to be made at the time of marriage, and it may be a good idea to find out what Senator Banerjee has talked about to finalize the engagement."

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　Hmmm.

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　It seems that the marriage, which started partly as a means of forming an alliance with the nobility of the Bryllian Magical State, was something that had to be properly considered more than I had expected.

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　Well, of course.

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　But we were the ones who left it to Banagher without thinking too much about it.

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　I mean, they don't know how to divide the property after their death.

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　If there's a dispute, it will be a problem for future generations.

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　That's what I thought, but it seems that I was quite naive.

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　The Orient was just one city-state among many small nations.

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　But the Vandenburgs were different.

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　It is a respectable family with the rank of a count even in the land of Bryria, a country with a large land area and called a great country.

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　And such a house has something to inherit apart from its actual wealth.

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"Claims?　That's the one, Elizabeth. That right to say, "I own the land," right?

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"Yes. As a daughter of the Vandenburgs, I have a claim to the Vandenburg count's lands. Therefore, any child I bear will be the heir to the Vandenburg family.

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"Does that mean that a child of mine and Elizabeth's can act for the Vandenburg lands? Is that going to be a source of conflict?

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"Well, that can happen. But that is the custom of the nobility. There will never be an end to disputes over claims.

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　In the Orient, there is a system of property divided by law.

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　In Brillia, it seems that property is divided among children in the same way.

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　However, it is said that a right of claim is attached to the division of property.

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　It is a right to claim that the property divided to other siblings belongs to one's own.

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　There are cases where the family members fight each other by invoking the right of claim.

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　I didn't know this because I had no interest in the House of Lords because I thought it had nothing to do with me.

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　Once again, he decided to ask Elizabeth about the claim.

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