NOVEL SIMPLE с24
There's a bit of a good vibe with a servant I hired recently,"
"Maybe it's a bit much to say that she's in love with him, but I'm sure he's someone she's interested in."
"I see."
I've told her many times that as a nobleman it is her duty to get engaged in order to strengthen the ties between us, but she is still young.
After speaking quickly as if misrepresenting something, he fell silent.
It may be so, now the duke thinks that I am aware of the existence of those who are called the descendants of heroes.
The reason is simple: the ones who are called "heroes" are heroes to the commoners, and to the country, they are merely beings who have too much power to ignore the word.
The reason why they were called "heroes" in the first place is that in the past, the commoners' position was worse than it is now and they were simply exploited.
The man who defeated many guards and spoke directly with the king is the hero,
{Acknowledge me as a man?
Then shut up all the nobles and make them admit that they are only men and never gods.}
The king did exactly as he said.
Just as he had done when he stormed the castle, he attacked all the nobles in the kingdom and brought them to their knees with his own arm.
The king, who did not think he would go through with it, could not ignore it, and the people living in the kingdom came to live in much greater affluence.
These are the heroes of the commoners.
The growth of the kingdom shows that this event was necessary for its growth, and many of the nobles agree.
But an individual who was too powerful was a curse to the country.
What followed, little known outside of the nobility, was that the kingdom was essentially at the mercy of its heroes.
There were times when the hero's actions on behalf of the commoners weakened the kingdom, and when the noble families pointed this out, they were crushed.
"You're going to oppress the people again."
These are the magic words.
If they did not admit this, their houses were crushed. The relatively decent aristocrats who were thinking about the country pointed this out and were crushed.
This is also the reason why many of the current surviving noble families are corrupt.
The aristocrats who were better at defending themselves than the aristocrats who were serving the country survived.
After the death of a hero, the hero's sons and daughters were not so strong, and the kingdom gave them a large sum of money and drove them out of the country.
The kingdom finally began to operate as a nation, but most of the influential nobles had been crushed, and the country was in shambles for a while.
From the aristocrats' perspective, this was the result of the heroes doing as they pleased, but from the commoners' perspective, it was a negative cycle, with the aristocrats believing that the aristocrats were incompetent after seeing their country begin to fall apart after the heroes' deaths.
A revolution could break out at any time.
In order to suppress such a bad situation, the disgruntled elements were thoroughly eliminated, and the kingdom was somehow restored to its current state.
The nobles of the kingdom are bound by contractual magic to pass on the truth of the heroes to their descendants without lying.
It is not only the facts about the heroes, but also the ugliness of the nobles.
As a result, the existence of heroes was recognized as an obstacle by the nobility.
The nobility hates them so much that some extremists even try to find their descendants to end their bloodline.
Even the duke, a family with immense power, may not be able to suppress other noble families, because some members of the duke's faction have more radical views on heroes.
The descendants of such heroes are like land mines, but in my knowledge, they were welcomed into the duke's family as a thank-you for conquering the dungeon.
However, the explanation in the knowledge is only a convenient part of the story, and it is unclear what steps the duke took and how the other nobles reacted when he welcomed them into the family.
It occurred to me, did the duke's daughter accept the hero after hearing all this?
That seems insane.
"I'm going to give my daughter a bit of a strong warning from my side as well."
After saying this, we walked in silence to the duke's carriage without speaking to each other, and just as the duke moved to get into the carriage, he told her something decisive.
It must be some circumstance for that servant not to turn away a servant who tries to get close to my daughter, just like the two people targeted by the church I protected."
[......]"
'For example, a hero who is ostracized by the nobility...'
"......!"
For a moment, the movement to get into the carriage slowed down.
Now even, the duke can't use my weakness.
The Count and the Duke, both families, have no choice but to choose to keep the status quo with each other.
I can't request support or anything else by letter after this to increase it; we will just have to be wary of each other and fight to see which of us overcomes our weaknesses first.
"You have truly come to look like the head of a noble family."
As the carriage started to drive off, a small window opened and the duke said.
'It has been a good experience, Duke Ewell."
The window closed.
This time it really was a good experience.
The duke's side had many blunders to be beaten, and the support relationship for the dukedom, which was likely to lose, was handed over to the counts, while the engagement, which the duke did not want to give up for reasons unknown, could not be fulfilled.
But in the end, the draw was achieved because of my knowledge of this world.
Without it, I, the Countess, would have been completely defeated.
"Let's see..."
This is no time for sentiment.
When the duke told me about the Berthona family that was protected by the Countess, he said, 'I knew that they were in the Count's residence".
How did the duke know?
Small fish created with the ability of jealousy are set up around the Count's residence to watch for suspicious people, and he is not being followed when he returns from the Duke's estate.
And the count's servants and guards have been asked to identify themselves as Noor and Naamis, not Bertna and her children under their real names, and to ensure that their presence is a secret. ......
'A spy huh? ......'
That's about all I can think of.
Not everyone is as loyal as Bosco and Mina, some will leak information in exchange for money.
"Another betrayal ......"
I felt depressed, remembering my early days as head of the family, when spies were sneaking in in large numbers.