46 Episode 45: The Anxiety and Crisis of Recruiting (2/2)
We were basically pulling cages. There were also difficulties in obtaining information due to the fact that the College of Nobility was special and closed.
Or is it really okay? You're inviting international students from other countries, right? That makes me anxious, but it's my mother's jurisdiction around diplomacy.... We'll talk about it later.
”So do I have any friends?... Think I'm here?
”Let's not? Let's not reopen that, shall we? We're gonna make a sad alliance here, aren't we?
Ilia ran out with a full smile! I'm not proud of you!?
What the hell, this sad alliance! You're so sad! No, I'm not in trouble! I like being alone! Don't pull me off!
”Then we'll have to make friends.”
”No, I am...”
”Not that I can't think of a way, but you should talk to your majesty and queen first.”
”Is there any good way?
”It's royal, and the tea party should be led by Anisphere.”
”... ooh!
That was a blind spot! A tea party I lead! Speaking of which, I didn't have the idea of opening it myself because they called me and I didn't like it. If we were to make connections between nobles, we'd meet for tea. That was a classic means!
”I just don't have a handover for Master Anisphere himself, so who do we call and what do we do with the scale? That should be decided in consultation with Your Majesty and the Queen.”
”Um, yeah. I want to tell you about the spiritual contract investigation, and can you get me an appointment? I'm sorry for coming back so soon.”
”I don't mind.”
Ilia will thank you and leave the room behind again. I sighed too, dropping it off.
”... it's really not even a favor now.”
”Yes, I know, so please don't poke me with those words.”
”You've been running around, take it spoiled.”
”Yes, I'm sorry”
As always, Father and Mother's footwork is light. The night Ilia contacted me, I got some time. I want to think that's all you're worried about. So I also have to spoil and take what they say about Gucci like a sermon.... you don't like it!
This time I am away from the palace and watching everyone in the palace with my father and mother. Father sighed as he rubbed loose between his eyebrows to avoid hiding his tiredness.
”As for the investigation of the spiritual covenant, yes. Okay. Is progress tough? You were right to say no to Lord Jiltu...”
”Are you going to get your hands on the reorganization of the Ministry of Magic?
”... you'll have to. For your generation, too. I felt a lot of concern. But it's also true that the rest of the position is difficult.”
Father groans with a bitter, bitter look. My mother also looks difficult next door.
”... because even your father and mother couldn't make it out strong to the Ministry of Magic?
”As a country, I had to, rightly so. It took coordination with the Ministry of Magic to bring the country together for the rest of the generation...”
”If we got our hands on the Ministry badly, we could have gotten backlash... and then we could have cracked the country.”
You're too much trouble, Ministry of Magic. Though it is not a matter of pride to be a magically brilliant country, it is also dangerous to detain too much. What do you mean, threaten the kingdom?
”The same goes for the rampage of the Chartreuse family, which was at the head, but there are still sins in failing to grasp the status quo. I tried to run for the stability of the country, but the rest seemed to be the king of all fools...”
”Father, it's not like it's dented. If you retire, I'll ask you in my name to research plants and improve varieties, so just a few more steps.”
”You, why did you do that?... No, good. If you say so, you'll have to be very uptight.”
My father looked at me as surprised, but he quickly regained his mind and made me laugh. You can't have it crushed yet. At least I need your father to stay healthy until me and Uffi inherit it it.
”Speaking of which, is it going to come true to meet the Spirit Contractor?
”I'm just waiting for a reply. Remote and secluded, it will take time for the sentence to return.”
”... Is it remote?”
”I'm not like you again, but I'm separated from you. Wait a while.”
”Then again, is it more constructive to focus on consolidating the ground around us?”
”So tea party.”
Yeah, we finally got back to talking. My mother is putting her hand on her chin with a strange face.
”I think it would be a good idea to have a tea party. In the first place, you don't have any side connections. The question is who to call...”
”Personally, I'd like to invite Baron Cyan.”
”Huh? Get your father?
I blinked my eyes like Raini said it was my first ear. I didn't say either.
”In the future, if you want to spread your magic props, you had an idea to ask Baron Cyan to be the tester for your magic props. Mana Blade also saw the form of the development system in my Celestial and Uffi arcane shell. I'd like to hear from the former adventurer's point of view.”
”Ha, I see”
”But if you speak too much to a less stately nobleman, you're going to get backlash too...”
I don't think it's possible to invite Raini because he's still here. Otherwise, I don't know.
”My impression is that as you become a senior aristocrat, you feel like you're breathing in the Ministry of Magic.”
”... you can't deny it.”
My mother squeaks as she narrows her eyes. I knew it. Though it was a matter of concern because I also heard about the fact that he was chewing heavily on the education of the Aristocratic College.
”Of course, we weren't left alone by the Ministry of Magic with cold talent, but it was the best we could do with good offices to the Knights everywhere, or soliciting them to my mission.”
”Were you so powerful in the Ministry of Magic?
”Regardless, I'm not saying it's better than royalty. But when they hold the thought and the faith... Sometimes being too prestigious and crossing spears makes me suspicious, and it's true that I avoided it.”
”In that respect, you've been the good one so far. If I blamed you, I wouldn't have made a difference from the Ministry of Magic.”
”That!? I was being shielded!?”
The strong hit on me by the Ministry of Magic was possibly something like that!? No, I was noticeable too. Father also showed an attitude that he was in tune with the Ministry of Magic by tightening it up, regardless of the bottom of his belly.
”Still moving politics. Many of the nobles have had the breath of the Ministry of Magic?
”I'm letting antagonism. Grants is making good adjustments to that...”
”... that you could do it if you tried to smash it?
”If you want to lay down a dictatorship,”
”Me and Grants will follow your majesty. There may be a lot of blood, but make sure you give up your victory.”
What's scary about it? It's a nightmare at a time when they say you're still the strongest mother and Lord Grants said you were as strong as your mother before you left the line.
”... the rest didn't make it any better. He said that there was less blood to shed and that he should drink the rest of the mud. Now I wonder if that's right.”
”I'm a good king, and I think I'm a proud father. I'm not good at it. I'm good at surviving rough waves, but not at quenching rough waves.”
”... it's uncomfortable when you say something decent.”
”It's not terrible!?”
Truth is, your father still has a cluttered perception of me! I don't care!
”Taken together, does the force map mean that we're splitting up between the Kings and the Ministry of Magic?
”There are some neutrals out there, but if we split them up as a faction, we will.”
”So, in terms of force, the Kings win, but in terms of political influence, the Ministry of Magic wins. If you want to do it, you can suppress it, but then the blood will flow and you will have trouble processing it?
”Uhm... Magic minister, huh. That's what I call it. He understands that. That is why it is possible that he was caught up in the future seizure of hegemony with ideological guidance, etc. It was the College of Aristocrats that was heavily affected by it... but as you know, it's close to a closed environment, hard to get information to your ears.”
Mm-hmm. I can see the schematics, mostly, but now what?
When that happens, I should be a nobleman without the breath of the Ministry of Magic, but given the influence of politics, I can't even say that.
”I intend to have raised my successor, too. You're still anxious in terms of numbers...”
”Hmmm...... then again, let's start there”
”? Over there?
”It's not white or black. There is a house of nobility to be called the head of the neutrals”
”... are you a graphite family?
Yufi, who had been silent until now, visited him in a quiet voice. Father and mother gaze at Uffi and nod at each other with a full smile after a little surprise.
The Graphite family is the home of Jiltu's grandfather, who is now acting head of the Ministry of Magic?
”Yufi's getting more reliable these days.”
”Yeah, really.”
”The Graphite family is Jiltu's grandfather's home, isn't it?
”Right. For more information... Was it Miguel, the next owner? You should hear it from him. That's what it takes to earn the loyalty of that house.”
Those grassless people headed the Neutralists? I'm a little bit uncomfortable with it, hmm. Then why don't we meet?