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Leo was unpacking in his room in the Gerdinger family mansion.
smart-
“come in.”
Suddenly-
The door opened and Celia came in.
Celia narrowed her brows and sat down on the sofa on one side of the room.
And then I looked across the table.
“What are you doing?”
“To catch a thief.”
Phoenix and Fiora, who had made a pact with Leo, took on human form and glared at Kiran, who was sitting at the table, with very serious eyes.
-Haam~ Where is the chick who catches thieves?
“It’s noisy, moth.”
Tingling – Fiora glaring at Kiran.
Apparently, the stake was sweets.
‘No, what kind of phoenix and fairy are gambling with sweets?’
Celia looked at this with a bewildered expression.
On the table, not only Kiran, but also the dark spirit Elsie and the light spirit Larel were watching.
The two spirits seemed to have already finished the game as they were holding cookies the size of their heads in both hands and crunching them.
Fiora, who was staring at a card larger than Kiran’s body as if it would kill her, carefully grabbed one of the two jokers in Kiran’s hand.
“Haaaaaah!”
-Whahahaha!
Kiran burst out laughing as he saw Fiora despairing.
Meanwhile, the shape of the card changed.
Celia’s eyes narrowed when she saw that.
-my turn!
Kiran, with a triumphant expression on his face, took one of the cards that Fiora had carefully shuffled.
“Oh, no!”
-I won!
Kiran cheered and threw the card up, and Fiora held her head in frustration.
-With this, these snacks are mine… … .
“You can’t cheat.”
Fiora raised her head at Celia’s words, and the two spirits also looked at Celia with puzzled eyes.
Kiran, who was packing snacks, noticed secretly and flew away with an armful in his arms.
-aha. I thought it was strange that Kiran didn’t finish last for some reason. It was a scam!
Elsie smiled brightly, as if she finally understood.
Kiran didn’t seem very upset about being tricked.
Of course it wasn’t the other two.
“Trickster moth! “There!”
-I’ll twist your hair!
Fiora and Larelle chased Kiran with twin rays in their eyes.
Celia held her head as she looked at that.
“I don’t know why, but I feel like my image of the Great Spirit and the three great phantom beasts has been shattered.”
After roughly unpacking, Leo sat down in the seat where Fiora was.
“What made you look so dissatisfied?”
“Because I don’t like the attitude of the Presbyterian Church.”
Celia frowned.
Celia also knows that not everyone in Gerdinger welcomes Leo.
The two pillars of the Rodren Empire, which can be said to be the loser of the western continent.
In other words, it is a group that ranks among the top three in power in the western part of the continent.
Although he was a subject of the empire, the relationship was quite different from the general relationship between a monarch and a subject.
It is closer to a partnership than a relationship of absolute loyalty.
In fact, Rodren and Jerdinger from the founding of the country. And Lwalin had a relationship of helping each other.
As a result, the Rodren royal family recognizes the independence of Jerdinger’s territory.
In other words, in the land of the Gerdingers, the head of the Gerdinger family is the king.
In order to maintain such power, the direct lineage and the vassal families that follow them are not enough.
The affiliates that branched off from Gerdinger also played a part in the Gerdinger power.
As such, the influence exerted by collateral within the family was not small.
“From the collateral world’s point of view, I am a stone that has been rolled over, right?”
Leo chuckled.
“Anyway, that’s true! The things you inherit were originally things that your aunt would have called you! “Why are you being so greedy when all you want to do is return to its original owner?”
“The nature of human psychology is that you don’t want to give away what you have. “It makes my stomach hurt even more when someone else takes something that could possibly be mine.”
The Presbyterian Church is a group made up of knights of the highly renowned Gerdinger lineage, regardless of whether they are direct or collateral.
The bigger the famous hero family, such as the Gerdinger family, the more limited it is to run it with just the direct lineage.
When the head of the family made the wrong choice.
A force was needed to prevent the monopoly of the family, and Gerdinger’s Presbyterian Council was created for that reason.
As the number of collateral lineages was greater than the direct lineage, it was natural for the collateral lineage to have a stronger say within the Presbyterian Church.
Of course, the Presbyterian Council cannot directly intervene in family management.
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However, when it came to matters related to inheritance, they had a strong say.
“Grandpa is indifferent too. “Still, I hoped you wouldn’t actively take your aunt’s side this time.”
Celia pursed her lips.
Looking at Celia like that, Leo tilted his head.
“Your relationship with your mother didn’t seem that bad?”
Leo recalled what happened a moment ago.
“He was also friendly to my father.”
‘I really wanted to meet you. Let’s have a drink later in the evening.’
‘Woah, it’s an honor. The previous head of the family.’
‘Call me father-in-law.’
The image of Regas laughing and patting Dade’s shoulder came to mind.
Since Leo was born, Reina has never visited her parents’ home.
‘No, it must have been like that before I was born.’
Perhaps it was because of Leo that he contacted Gerdinger after leaving the house.
For my son who wants to enter Lumerun.
Even though they hadn’t seen each other for a long time, Regas’ eyes looking at Reina were full of affection.
He was also kind to his son-in-law whom he met for the first time.
There was also a hint of pride in the eyes looking at Leo.
‘It’s not that the relationship between father and daughter was bad, it seemed very good.’
I was surprised that I hadn’t seen it for so long.
In addition, I did not understand why, according to the wishes of the Presbyterian Council, the knights were dispatched as a check on the Plov family during their first official visit.
Celia sighed slightly at Leo’s reaction.
“Grandfather is completely neutral.”
“neutrality?”
“huh.”
Celia clenched her chin.
-Move! Move!
At that time, Kiran, who had run away from Fiora and Larelle, flew into the middle of Leo and Celia.
Elsie, who was looking at that scene, smiled and raised her hand.
Sigh-!
“Kek?”
Suddenly, the shadows of the surrounding objects caught Kiran.
“Gotcha! “You trickster fairy!”
-Tear off the wings first!
-Hey profit?
-I can’t use it if Leo interrupts me while I’m talking about something important. Go outside and do it.
As Elsie smiled and spoke, Phoenix and the Great Spirit of Light took the fairy out to the terrace.
‘Who on earth are those spirits and how do I deal with them well?’
Celia knew that Elsie was a great spirit, but she didn’t know much about it, and looked at her with curiosity.
Elsie slightly lifted the hem of her skirt and greeted Celia.
“You won’t be bored either.”
“It’s so loud it gives me a headache.”
Celia said, laughing at Leo’s words.
“If I were to continue what I said earlier. As the highest elder, my grandfather remains neutral about everything that happens in the family. The Presbyterian Church also maintains neutrality in order to coordinate between the direct line and the collateral line. That’s why you put aside your personal feelings as much as possible.”
Celia sighed softly.
“That doesn’t mean I hate you or anything. You know it when you see it. “He still loves your aunt and wants to see you and your uncle again.”
Although Leo visited Jerdinger several times, the reason he did not meet Leo was probably to strictly protect public and private affairs.
Whether Leo qualifies as Gerdinger’s direct descendant or in Manya’s situation, if the ancestral head of the family intervenes, the picture will not be good for the collateral.
“He especially wanted to meet you a lot. “Grandpa, he said his daily routine these days is to wake up in the morning and look up the newspaper.”
“newspaper?”
“huh. “My father told me that he was finding articles related to you and scraping them all.”
Of course, the same goes for Celia’s article.
“He was really looking forward to meeting your family this time.”
“You’re so generous.”
“You are very resourceful.”
Celia smiled softly.
Then, he pouted his lips.
“Then please take a more active role and take care of it!”
“You have the position of being the highest elder. “I understand.”
Leo chuckled.
Celia smiled at those words.
“If you understand, spend time with your grandfather this vacation! “Do some tricks!”
“You should do the trick.”
“I’ve already done a lot for you, haven’t I?”
“Try it again.”
“this!”
Leo, who easily dodged Celia’s attack in anger, made a puzzled expression.
“But wasn’t there a Lumerun student among the collateral lineages? “What was your name?”
Seeing Leo tilting his head, Celia made an astonished expression.
“How can you not even remember the names of people from the same family? “It’s a Baden Gerdinger.”
“Oh, was it that kind of name? “What happened?”
“… … “I was expelled from school in the first semester of this year.”
“okay? “He said he couldn’t see it for some reason.”
Celia looked dumbfounded.
“What about Brother Reese?”
“Oppa Lis has now gone to suppress the eastern rebellion.”
Celia sighed.
A few months ago, a rebellion broke out in the eastern part of the Rodren Empire.
Sudden rebellion.
It was understandable if the empire called for tyranny or excessive taxation.
But that’s not the case.
“There is no need for Brother Reese to participate in a small rebellion, but… … “There were several suspicious things, so the imperial family dispatched Brother Lis.”
“It shouldn’t have been anything special.”
“Of course nothing happens! “Are you Reese’s brother?”
Celia spread out her chest and made a proud expression.
“Don’t worry about Reese, just worry about yourself. “Because the Presbyterian Council will rush in with their eyes lit, trying to reduce what you will receive in some way.”
Leo chuckled at Celia’s words.
“Don’t worry about that.”
Leo squeezed his hands.
“Actually, it didn’t really matter whether there was a lot of territory or not. So, if possible, I also tried to avoid major friction. But when I saw what I was doing to my father and mother, I thought it wouldn’t work.”
Leo curled the corner of his mouth.
When Celia saw that, she felt goosebumps all over her body.
‘Oh right.’
When I first met her, I suddenly remembered how she treated me as a maid.
‘He had a bad personality, didn’t he?’
First of all, the opponent who starts an argument is punished thoroughly.
I had forgotten that fact.
***
“Lis! A rebel cavalry unit was discovered ahead.”
Reiss, who arrived in the area occupied by the rebels in the east with Gerdinger’s knights, stood up after hearing the news delivered by the messenger.
“I will go alone.”
“yes? but… … .”
“Are you worried?”
When Reese asked with a grin, the driver was shocked and shook his head.
“It’s not even possible.”
The opponent is the next master to lead the strongest knights of Rodren.
Moreover, he is the former student council president of Rumern.
He is a great knight who was even active there when the Erebos fragment was revived last summer.
A man who has achieved feats worthy of being called a hero.
It was not an opponent that the rebels’ cavalry could do anything about.
Reese, who set out alone on the wide plain, headed forward without drawing his sword.
‘The first thing to do is to subdue them without fighting.’
Reese came to suppress the rebellion, but he did not come to kill all the rebels.
In fact, in every country there are forces that are dissatisfied with the state.
The current Emperor of Rodren is excellent.
But that is not a reason for all subjects and people to follow the emperor.
Depending on the interests, there will be political enemies who are anti-emperor among the imperial nobility, and there will inevitably be people among the people who criticize the emperor.
Therefore, small-scale rebellions often occur.
‘But this rebellion is definitely strange.’
It was only a small-scale rebellion.
The rebellion has continued for several months, neither growing nor diminishing.
As soon as the lords of the surrounding territories who had gone to stop the rebellion under the emperor’s orders received news of the suppression, the rebellion broke out again.
‘The lord who started the rebellion died early in the rebellion.’
Nevertheless, the residents of the area around the territory continued to revolt.
‘You have no head, but you’re rebelling.’
It’s so strange.
Even in the imperial family, I felt something strange.
That is why he asked Gerdinger, who had territory in the east, to suppress the rebellion.
‘First, let’s find out why the rebellion occurs.’
To do that, we need people who will speak out.
Even if they are rebels, there is no need to kill them.
If it had been a mob that looted another territory or killed civilians, the story would have been different.
At least, if you look at their actions up to now, they were people who had something to say and had no choice but to take up arms.
In that case, all you have to do is make them lose their will to fight due to the overwhelming difference in power.
Doo doo doo doo!
In the distance, a rebel cavalry unit charged.
‘It looks awkward riding a horse or holding a weapon. ‘They are not properly trained cavalrymen.’
Thinking so, Reese raised his hand.
Grumbling!
Gerdinger’s bright red flames soared.
That moment.
“Heeeeeeeek!”
“Ah, devil! “It’s the devil’s flame!”
“The Empire has sent someone who uses the devil’s flame to slaughter us again!”
The cavalrymen who were charging Reese fell into panic and began to scatter in all directions.
Seeing that, Reese withdrew his spark and narrowed his eyes.
“Devil’s flame? And again?”
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