57 The gray clown. (1/2)

”This country is sick.”

I grew up one day being told enough to have an octopus in my ear.

This country is sick. As a child, I thought that was a big deal.

It's painful if you get sick. It was a mistake because it was something that everyone knew.

The country is sick. That means everyone gets sick. That's why I thought it was so hard.

”Nobody's gonna cure you?

I asked him that, but the answer never came back.

Bony hands like dead trees stroke his head. Hands like Oki that I don't feel I can rely on though.

'I'll find out someday. Learn well by then and think carefully'

It wasn't until a few years later that I understood Grandpa's words.

This country is sick. I hope the miracle of the past comes back, to such a disease.

Proceed lightly down the hallway to cross noses. No one can blame you. But the gaze that can be directed is the gaze itself that can be directed at the rest of us. Not at all. The same gaze as today, “he” walks down the hall laughing inside, with his nose.

A cave of wisdom that houses a number of materials and papers for the country's proud research institute. The knee of the Ministry of Magic, which also boasts authority as your opinion number for governance. Those gathered here are the nationally recognized elites.

It may therefore be the natural make-up that has an exclusive side. I guess the unfriendly gaze at the rest of us ”he” has such a physique.

The development of the Kingdom of Palletia is greatly influenced by the magical faith, with the Spirit as its friend. Extensive spiritual resources for the production of competent wizards. Let us also say that that is the backbone that underpins the national power of the Kingdom of Palletia.

I remember someone saying that the Ministry of Magic is such a glorious place to symbolize the glory of the Kingdom of Palettia. That's a fact, I guess it's right. If we rise to this status, we can give our opinions on politics. It is promised that he will be chosen for the narrow gate.

(Well, whether that's right or not)

“He” laughs inside, with his nose. Indeed, the Kingdom of Palletia is a country that has developed around magic. But that is not the case when it comes to whether everything in the country is supported only by magical benefits.

It is the role of royalty and nobility to lead the country. But it is the people who are building the foundations of the country. The people cultivate the land, recover the resources, and spread them both inside and outside the country.

Not in the country without the people. The people are many who cannot use magic. I can't handle magic without being the bastard son of an aristocrat.

It is therefore true that there are aristocrats who look down on the civilian population. That number is by no means small. Still, I suppose the relationship between civilians and nobles has persisted to this day, painstakingly, because the magic benefits are still enormous.

Power is power. And magic can be a power that leads to power. That is why nobility seeks to be a competent wizard. To myself, and to my child. And to descendants who inherit their own blood.

Protect the people because nobility has power, and the people devote themselves to nobility because they are protected. At the end of the day, it can't be done without one or the other.

Still, nobility is above us. Few people work tyranny because they protect them. That is creating a deep gulf between the twitch and the people and nobility.

(This country is sick)

That's what “he” 's grandfather said. Tell them to learn well and think hard until the day they know what that word means. And he thinks this country is sick right now.

The beginning was more than a decade ago. Around that time, the Kingdom of Palletia was falling into a sloping sun. That was due to the rebellion planned by the nobles who accumulated resentment against the king at the time.

At the time, it was the father of His Majesty Orphans, now king, who was on the throne. It was a policy of preference for the adventurers and the civilian population that was well remembered by its predecessor.

The nobility has the absolute power of magic, but it was also dangerous to go to the front line because of its position. Even if the immense power of magic, for example, could be wielded on the battlefield, he was pregnant with the risk that if he lost his life on that battlefield, there would be no one to rule the territory.

With the war against other countries at stake, it is the policy of preferential treatment of civilians that was carried out by the Predecessor in order to protect the status and personality of the nobility.

Naturally there exists in the long lasting Kingdom of Palletia the luxury and decline of the noble house with its length of history. And it was not uncommon for people in declining houses to interact with civilians. More and more civilians with potentially magical talents have been gaining ground since this time.

It would have been nice if this would have made me a knight serving adventurers and nations. But those who used their talents to work evil appeared.

A wizard without nobility. Taking advantage of that notoriety and the spread of damage, the Predecessor decided to launch a policy to pick up potentially magical talented civilians.

That was the support for the adventurers and the new system of holding them as nobles because of their civilian status. Support for adventurers who can reach out to those who cannot be saved, which cannot be reached solely by aristocratic authority. And he tried to take a remarkably active civilian as a nobleman and re-take potential wilderness talents into the country.

This will result in heavy rebellion from conservative nobles who value blood and a long tradition.

It was distracted from the honor of protecting the country, and once and for all, my dissatisfaction with the Predecessor, who favoured the civilian population, grew. The policy put in place to protect his body led to rebellion from those he should have followed, and his mind and body were weakened.

Where radical nobility gained momentum to the verge of beeping in line with the weakness of the Predecessor, those who settled this situation appeared.

That was the king-partisan faction led by the current king, Orphans.

At the time, as a depressed royalty, Orphans, who was a stranger to working in the dirt, showed sudden martial arts. It is said that few nobles were not surprised by this activity.

Orphans' real brother, who had the right to inherit the first throne, which had become the flag of the anti-Predecessor faction, would be taken over in the midst of the battle to suppress this uprising. It was the moment when the death of his brother decided that Orphanth, who had the right to inherit the throne by rolling up, would become the next king.

It was the Marquis de Silphine Mays who welcomed such an Orphance as queen. She was the daughter of a leading nobleman who participated in a faction of anti-Predecessors, yet a war maiden who destroyed her own house.

For the atonement of his own house, which was a queen but sinned against his predecessor, he did everything in his power to embark himself on diplomacy and retreat from external illness.

Grants Magenta, the next owner of the Duke of Magenta family, who had long served the royal family beside the king, tried to stabilise his internal affairs by refraining.