The new city of Lossies.
　Currently, a week-long festival is being held to celebrate the founding of the country.

　Now, I'm going to go around the festival with Julia and Tetra, including making up for not being able to stay with them because I've been busy these days.

　Follow me. I'll show you around.

　I said to my family as I dressed, ate and got ready to go.




　The newly built royal castle in this new capital is built on top of the smallest and widest of the seven hills in the capital.
　The location is almost the center of the capital.

　A royal castle, you might have the impression that it is made up of a single building, but in fact, it is not.
　This royal castle was made up of several buildings.

　Therefore, the first one is our living space. For the sake of convenience, we'll call it the palace. Well, it's a big place, so follow me.

　I start to walk away, holding Marcus in both hands.
　Julia holds Sophia with both hands and Tetra holds Flora.
　Anx and Fiona walk beside them on their own feet.

　'The biggest room here is my private room. The room on the east side is Julia's, and the room on the west side is Tetra's private room. There are other rooms of varying sizes, so Anx and Fiona can choose as they wish when they grow up.
　Yes?

　I get a cheerful reply.
　By the way, I wonder how old you would have to be to get your own room in Japan to get it?

　By the way, can I ask you one question?
　


　'What are the big rooms to the north and south?'

　Well.....
　I didn't design it, Ismea did. I mean, if you could, you should ask Ismaila.

　Who do you want?
　There will be no more, that's for the side room. No, I didn't tell you to make this. It was Raimondo. Raimondo asked Ismail to make it.

　In fact, there's not much benefit in having more side rooms.
　If you want to get married, you can just get your children married, not me.

　I don't want the domestic situation, which has stabilized since the birth of Marx, to be disrupted by an unnecessary marriage.
　Besides, the fourth one is just a bit too much physical work.

　Yeah. Good.

　Tetra's expression didn't change.
　But she seemed to be in a better mood.

　"Well, for the time being, the garden is next. Well, I'm sure you saw it yesterday when you went in.

　I lead everyone to the main gate.
　When we get out of the main gate, we find ourselves in a large garden.

　I ordered the gardener to plant plants, trees and flowers.
　I don't have any artistic sense at all, so I don't know....

　I check their expressions.

　They both have a relaxed expression on their faces.
　They seem to like it.

　'But what do I do with all the poisonous plants I'm growing and stuff?　Do you want to plant it here?
　'There's a backyard. It's not normally visible to people. Right now there's nothing growing in there but you can plant it however you want.

　I didn't want to be greeted by a field of drugs all over the garden just outside the main gate.

　If you go straight north from the palace, the first thing you'll see is a large castle.
　Built of marble, it's a castle that is more about beauty than functionality and defense.

　Wow, it's big. ''Wow, it's bigger than our last castle.''
　And it's beautiful.

　Well, they brought in a Cilician architect and engineer to build it.
　Well, I don't want it to be any shabbier than it was before.

　But we haven't worked on the carvings and all that.
　We don't have an artist who can carve enough sculptures to decorate the palace.


　This castle is the center of administration. In Japan, it would be the Cabinet Office.
　It's where I, as well as the Consul, the Solicitor General, the Tax Commissioner, and the Inspector General make important decisions.

　In other words, it's not a place to live, so....

　It's a little cold, isn't it?　Here.
　Well, it's not exactly a place for people to live.

　When you go inside the castle, the temperature is not much different from outside.
　This is because the castle was not built on the premise of living here.

　Well, if you go into a room and bring in a heater, you can get warm there.

　'We're going to live in a palace, and it doesn't matter that it's cold in here. Well, here comes the hard part.

　I open the heavy iron door in front of me.
　A staircase appears in front of me.

　'Let's climb. A little exercise.








　I'm tired...
　It's hard to be a newborn...

　Behind me, Yulia and Tetra are out of breath.
　On the other hand, Ankus and Fiona, in contrast, are climbing higher and higher as if to call it a race.

　The cold doesn't seem to bother them much.
　A child is a child of the wind, a child of energy. I guess that's why.

　The goal is in sight. I'm almost there.

　I encouraged them both to climb the stairs.
　Then I pushed the heavy iron door that reappeared.

　A strong morning sunrise caught my eye.
　This is the highest of the castle, the top floor of the spire.

　The top of the tallest man-made structure in the country, no, the Adelunian peninsula.

　"There you go. It's amazing.

　Looking down from the top of the tower, the first thing you see is a wide road that extends from the royal castle in twelve directions.
　A small road connects those roads to each other.

　On the top of the six hills, there are already buildings lining the tops of the six hills.

　Many of the buildings are much smaller than the castle but there are a few large ones inside.

　Library.
　The arena.
　The arena.
　Public bathrooms.

　Public buildings I ordered to be built.

　The city also has other paths to the city than the ones people walk.
　They are drawn from the river upstream and flow through the city to the river below.

　This is the water and sewage system.

　However, the water from the upper river is not so clean.
　It's because the water is only drawn directly from the river.

　Well, water is not a big issue in Adelunia, as we don't drink much water and our main drink is wine.

　What matters is the sewage.

　The city is surrounded by a ten-meter deep water moat and an eight-meter long wall.
　For a wall that surrounds the entire city, it must be quite high.

　Outside of that is the Great Plains the granary area that supports the population of the capital city.

　I slowly return my gaze to the center of the city.
　Then you notice that the hill on which this castle stands is also surrounded by a wall.

　Well, it's only natural since it's the center of the country's government.
　However, it's only five meters long at best, and there's no digging.

　Hence, there is no ability to intercept the enemies who have attacked this far.

　A number of large pavilions are lined up on the slope of the hill.
　It is a nobleman's house.
　Incidentally, the higher you go, the more powerful you are as a nobleman.

　At the top is ........Raimondo. Below them are Bartolo and Ial. Then Ron, Rosward, and Gram.
　Below that are mostly Rosais clan halls, and mixed in with them are the As clan halls.
　And at the bottom of the hill, the Dibel clan pavilion stood as if they were gathered together.

　I feel a little sorry for them.

　On the south side of the castle is the palace, our living space where we were earlier.
　On the east side is the Capitol building where the Senate meets.
　On the west side is the courthouse.

　And on the north side of the castle are the government offices where the bureaucrats do their miscellaneous work.
　The base of the Kingsguard under Rosward's command, the Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where witchcraft is studied, is also located here.


　''Great!　Great!　It's expensive!　I've never been this high in my life!
　'Mother, I want to see it too!
　Me too!

　Julia leans back from the wall in a big huff, looking out.
　Fiona and Anx are both standing on their tiptoes, trying to see the knowledge spreading outside the wall.

　''.........''
　What's up, Tetra?

　Tetra, on the other hand, stays attached to me and won't move away.

　'Hmm,'

　I grabbed Tetra by the shoulders and shook her lightly.

　!!!!!

　I shake my shoulders with a beak and sit down heaving.

　''No ... not the high ones.''

　Yeah, well....
　Well, if you live normally, you don't have to climb this high.

　"Hey, hey, Armes. One thing I've noticed is that you're a little hazy, don't you think?
　That's because this city is designed to accommodate 300,000 people, and the current population is 90,000.

　Considering that the population of the old capital was 30,000, 90,000 was quite a lot for an initial start.

　The Kingsguard and bureaucrats who supported most of the old capital's population have all already emigrated, plus the nobles and their vassals from all over the country have emigrated, and the merchants who were caught up in the increase in population have emigrated... in a short period of time, the number has increased.

　However, it's only natural to feel skittish because there are twenty-one thousand spaces left.

　........Remaining twenty-one thousand, will it be filled?
　I'm starting to worry.

　Well, that's besides the point.

　You see that arena over there?　Let's head over there next. Now, let's go down the stairs.
　Eh, it's a pain in the ass.
　So you wanna jump?