295 Where the talks are going

"Is Lyon not coming back this winter?

"Yeah, it seems so, Brother Ars. Mr. Lion has been contacted to stay in the Wang capital and watch where the Trinity Alliance talks go."

"Right. That helps, but I wonder if it's okay. We haven't even confirmed who attacked the convoy yet."

"I was worried about you, too, so that's what happened. Mr. Lyon said he was fine. This is for Fontana, too."

"... Is it possible that Master Carlos is sick of the death? Say it's your fault or something. Kyle, if that's not the case, tell him I said not to worry about it later in [reading]."

"Yeah, okay, brother Ars"

"So, what else did Lion say?

"Actually, it's a meeting of the Trinity Alliance, but they haven't come together very well. Maybe the discussion doesn't determine where we're going to take hegemony."

It's time for winter.

It's already starting to snow, so it was a good time when Lion had to be moving toward this one in time for his New Year's greeting.

But according to Kyle, who contacted me, Lyon will stay in the kings' realm, which is situated as far away as he is.

Apparently, what happens to the talks of the Trinity Alliance is becoming more opaque, and they are willing to see the end of it nearby.

The meeting of the Alliance of the Three Nobles is, of course, what Fontana chipped the Holy Sword to hold.

The Church is basically neutral.

So they tend not to want to intervene in direct events such as the battle between the Memento and Fontana families, which was, for example, during the fighting.

So the Fontana family set up so that talks between the three noble alliances would take place.

This was partly the question of where the former hegemonic aristocracy Risorte family had already been defeated by the Trinoble Alliance and all that remained was for the three aristocrats to take hegemony.

For its part, the Church merely suggested to the three great aristocrats: "How about discussing and deciding on the table of negotiations rather than warfare".

So wherever the three noblemen will take hegemony, the sacrifice of the Holy Sword that I have promised will undoubtedly be fulfilled.

If hegemonic aristocracy is to be decided in this meeting, it is easy to decide this policy.

Worst of all, if I just prioritize my own life, I just have to bow my head to the hegemonic nobility and put it under them.

There is a possibility of reducing the territory acquired once or entering into an unequal treaty, but this one has a proven track record of fighting the army of the Memento family once and for all.

I believe that some consideration will be given to it.

but apparently it has become more likely that it will not.

That involves the "death of the king".

The king, whom Fontana was supposed to protect and deliver the Memento family to the king's capital, died.

Besides, we don't know exactly where it's by who.

But anyone would think so.

Now one of the three noble alliances has motive to kill the king, he said.

That was complicating this meeting.

The three aristocrats are holding each other back, saying, "I guess your place put a sword to the king."

The royal family already has no power.

But it was still forbidden to kill the king directly.

There is no such thing as a new hegemony for something that offends such a contraindication.

That's what the three aristocrats are saying toward the other two aristocrats.

But there is something suspicious about everything.

The same goes for this one.

There are aristocrats who think they could do it, even though they offend the taboo of killing a king.

And if there is no conclusive evidence to say, there is also a voice of denial.

But among the three great aristocrats, the Memento family was in the midst of fighting the Fontana family as "demanding the surrender of the king's personality".

This was not putting out an army to kill the king, although he was trying to secure the king's stature by force.

And the Rheinzatz family, said to have the greatest force in the trinoble alliance, was most likely to become a hegemonic nobleman if the king returned to the kingdom and the discussion proceeded successfully.

It is a little unnatural to think that you would deliberately kill a king and cause confusion.

So what about the last remaining aristocrat?

It is said that the three nobles are the weakest of the alliances.

As it is, the Rheinzatz family, which boasts the greatest power if nothing is struck, may take hegemony, and then the powerful Memento family may name hegemony without waiting to discuss it if it holds down the king.

Because of this, you say you defeated the Risorte family, the former hegemonic nobility, until you formed an alliance with the other nobles, but you can't benefit from just sitting and waiting like this?

Wasn't the painful case of the king's death a crime because he thought so?

That's what opinions are coming out around the Trinity Alliance, they say.

Of course, that's not necessarily the right thing to do.

Even the reasons I just mentioned are quite insignificant.

It does not prove, for example, that the Mementos or the Rheinzatz will never kill a king.

but I guess the suspicious ghost is hard to get out of there once he falls into it.

Cracks are beginning to occur within the trinoble alliance.

By the time I reached hegemony, I was flattered, but therefore, "Whose fault is this?" I may be looking to others for a cause that doesn't work.

Three noblemen, each with a mighty force, are beginning to antagonize each of them.

But it won't erupt before winter.

If discussions were not successful in talks that would probably continue during the winter months, the spark of the king's death could burn heavily.

After all, let Rion stay in the King's Capital and report every step of the way on the talks between the three noble alliances.

Maybe next year each territory will be even rougher.

That's what I thought as I heard Lyon's report from Kyle and watched the snow fall out the window.