episode_0008

“Franz. I have money to give you.”

One day, my father suddenly said this.

“Money?”

“Henrik von Sepia granted money and territory to the Meyer family.”

“What… He told me to climb up the mountain, so it’s not strange that he gave me a reward.”

“The territory will belong to the family, but the entire money will be passed on to you.”

That statement surprised me a little. Although I don’t know much about my father, I thought it would be used at the family level since it is an award passed down to the family.

“Is it really okay for me to use it?”

“Of course. Feel free to use it wherever you want.”

“If you say so… ”

Asilia came up to me and handed me a box full of gold coins, and although I lost my balance slightly due to the heaviness of it, I returned to the room holding the gold coins with a proud heart.

—–

“Where should I use the gold coins… ”

I counted the gold coins in the box. 500 ducats. It was a huge amount of money.

Where should I use this? I could probably buy 20 years worth of pretzels just by eating them. Of course, if you only ate real pretzels, you would be known as an asshole. This is because he is a noble who is sensitive to face.

“It’s too much to write alone… ”

for a moment. Too much to write alone? then…

—–

After a while, the place I went to was Lucille’s room.

-Knock knock knock.

“Please come in.”

The door opened with Lucille’s words. Lucille, unusually, was not reading a book. instead…

-Drur, murmur.

I was playing with a cube.

“What is that? Toy?”

When I asked this question, pretending not to know, Lucille answered like this.

“It’s a cube. It helps with brainstorming. It’s good when you’re thinking about something else.”

Normally, you wouldn’t think about anything else while playing Cube.

After saying that, in an instant, the different colors were aligned into the same color. That was the moment when Lucille decided to stop playing with cubes.

‘What can’t he do?’

As I watched Lucille solve the cube in an instant, I sat down in my chair, feeling dumbfounded.

“What’s going on?”

Lucille, who quickly solved the cube and placed it on the table, sat down on the other side of the table. I asked Lucille.

“When you get money, what do you want to spend it on first?”

“The family library.”

“Yes.”

“There are a lot of old books. I made a list, but first I’m going to replace it all with a new book.”

“Then, is it so?”

Then Lucille was visibly surprised.

“Yes?”

“Let’s replace the family’s old books with new ones.”

“… Did you get money?”

“Yes. The lord came down.”

“To your brother directly?”

“No? At the family level.”

“But why did that money end up in your hands?”

“I think my father gave it to me as my major.”

“… ”

Lucille lowered her head for a moment and began to think seriously. I was momentarily overwhelmed by that serious expression. It was the first time Lucille had made an expression like this. Even in the last battle, Lucille had an expressionless expression.

“What’s wrong?”

“Unfortunately, I have to give up my dream of a new library.”

“What? Why?”

“Brother, when do you want to inherit Gadog?”

Suddenly it’s a story about reading. How should I answer here? No, more than that, why are you suddenly asking this question? Did your father tell you to ask?

No, first of all, there is no possibility that Lucille is her father’s liaison. Lucille is completely on my side. Maybe I just wanted to believe that, but I didn’t want to believe that Lucille, my sister, was testing me by sticking with my father. That’s why I spoke honestly.

“The faster the better?”

“Yes. In my opinion, the faster the better. My brother is a capable person and a person of character in his own way.”

What is it in its own way? Anyway, it feels good because it’s a compliment.

“But what is that?”

“If I use this money to change the contents of the library, my father will put off passing the reading to my brother as long as possible.”

“What? Why?”

“In the first place, this money was given to you to test how you spend money.”

ah.

Only then did I realize my stupidity. I was so relieved that the crisis had passed that I didn’t realize that I was the eldest son of a nobleman. The fact that you are being tested anytime, anywhere…

“If you use this money for Mayer, your father will give you a passing grade. But not for the family library. That’s not for Mayer, it’s for Lucille.”

“What… That’s right.”

“If I were to use it for the library, my father would probably put it off as long as possible, thinking that it was still a long way from passing it on to my brother. You probably try to push yourself until your body allows it.”

“… I guess so?”

“So what are you going to do now?”

I looked up at the empty sky for a moment. All I could see was the ceiling. But it calmed down.

“I have an idea.”

Actually, it wasn’t my idea, but didn’t people often say that there is no copyright in history? I was thinking of copying ideas from history.

—–

The next day. A merchant stopped by Myer Castle.

“Thank you for your purchase.”

What the merchant who said so left behind were 1,000 long spears, bows, common spears, halberts, and other weapons.

Yes. Replaced with my 500 ducat weapon.

I called a merchant who had an exclusive contract with the family and purchased a large quantity of weapons. Focusing on long spears.

“Large spear… ?”

Lucille looked surprised.

“Yes. Long spear. How about it?”

“The long spear is a weapon that appears mainly in ancient imperial history. It is said that most infantry at that time were long spear soldiers.”

“Right?”

“But in this day and age, a long spear… You’ll think I’m crazy about ancient imperial history.”

I chuckled at those words.

The long spear soldier was definitely a type of soldier that appeared in ancient times. but…

“You will understand my thoughts in about two years.”

It rears its head again in the Renaissance era.

None other than the appearance of the musket.

—–

The family’s soldiers practiced hitting each other with long spears filled with cotton instead of spear blades.

1,000 long spears suddenly purchased by the family heir. In the aristocratic society, there were reactions such as [Are the long spears that were used 1,000 years ago coming from here?] or [Are they just reading books and being overly immersed in ancient history?].

The head of the family, Georg Mayer, my father also looked a little worried. However, the long spear had already been purchased, and since it was the opinion of the next head of the family who had made a contribution in battle, the mood was that they would follow suit.

“It is said that there is a famous mercenary group that uses long spear soldiers in the mountainous region of the western part of the empire.”

“Yes, father.”

“Did you borrow the idea from there?”

“That’s true, but I have a separate thought.”

“What were you thinking about?”

“You will find out in two years.”

“2 years later… ?”

He gave a puzzled look.

I have no choice but to know. The fact that two years from now, long spears will become the main type of soldier on the battlefield.

In any case, the training of pikemen was progressing steadily. It wasn’t a bad training session.

—–

Two years have passed since then. Lucille turned 13 and I turned 19.

And, the long-awaited day has arrived.

“Three, two, one.”

The clock showed midnight. The date passed like that. Today is the day.

“Leona’s coming-of-age ceremony.”

The day when the first scenario of ‘Arcadia Biography’ begins. January 26, 547. Coming-of-age ceremony for the main character of this game, ‘Leona von Krusenstein’.

Arcadia Electric is a game with 1,000 characters. However, the main character was decided separately. Leona von Krusenstein was ‘everyone’s first character’ and the only character you could choose right from the start.

Leona von Krusenstein. Where haven’t you heard this before? He is the successor of the Krusenstein family, which was at war with us not long ago.

And today was the day when the heir of the family had his coming-of-age ceremony, and it was also the time when the game began.

“The game has started.”

From now on, all information was in my hands.

Now my time had come.

—–

3 days later.

The Meyer family was having a party.

“I think peace will come for a while now.”

“That’s right, matriarch.”

I saw my father smiling for the first time in a while. And the mood of the retainers was also quite relaxed.

It had to be that way. This is because the Setia family’s rival family, the Krusenstein family, split three days ago.

“Never would have thought that Krusenstein’s white lion would do something like that!”

My father smiled happily.

“You are blinded by love for your wife and love for your children.”

The retainers also laughed happily.

I couldn’t help but laugh. This is because the enemy’s mistake was the ally’s advantage.

January 26, 547, the coming-of-age ceremony and coronation ceremony of Leona von Krusenstein, successor to the Krusenstein family. Leona von Krusenstein was the eldest daughter of the Krusenstein family, so she deserved to inherit all the estates. However, the head of the Krusenstein family divided the family name half and half between Leona von Krusenstein and her younger sister Clozel von Krusenstein.

Would you rule half-and-half even if you give it half-and-half? It’s obvious that they’ll fight to the death to eat everything.

The Krusenstein family will soon be in civil war. He believed that and decided to enjoy peace for a while. The people of the Mayer family.

I don’t even know what kind of person Leona von Krusenstein is.