1. Your Majesty, Gloucester has yielded his land and [cdb]titles to his firstborn son, Lorenz.
  2. This new Count Gloucester has expressed a desire to [cdb]join the Empire.
  3. However, the new Count Gloucester sustained [cdb]grievous wounds during the battle.
  4. There is a chance he will never be able to take the [cdb]field again.
  5. As such, he claims he will focus on ruling Gloucester [cdb]territory with the counsel of his father and younger [cdb]siblings.
  6. In his stead, he will offer us soldiers for the war effort [cdb]and expresses his immense desire to join the Empire.
  7. No doubt he wishes to make his loyalty plain by [cdb]taking a clear stand against House Riegan.
  8. It's a shame what happened to him.
  9. Well, I see no reason to reject his offer. See that his [cdb]soldiers are properly integrated.
  10. As you wish, Your Majesty.
  11. Sometimes I have no idea what goes through your [cdb]noble heads.
  12. Sometimes I have no idea what goes through your [cdb]noble heads.
  13. How can you possibly trust a house that just plunged [cdb]a knife into your back?
  14. How can you possibly trust a house that just plunged [cdb]a knife into your back?
  15. If a merc pulled a stunt like that, they'd either be cast [cdb]aside or cut down where they stood.
  16. If a merc pulled a stunt like that, they'd either be cast [cdb]aside or cut down where they stood.
  17. I believe it—and I'd like to do the same.
  18. But not just anyone can hold Gloucester territory [cdb]together, and I have no one else to take Lorenz's place.
  19. Retort sarcastically.
  20. Grudgingly agree.
  21. Oh, right. I forgot that only mercs are replaceable.
  22. Oh, right. I forgot that only mercs are replaceable.
  23. I did not think your feelings would be so easily hurt. Regardless, that's just the way of things in Fódlan.
  24. I suppose no one would put up with the aristocracy if [cdb]it didn't afford some sort of stability.
  25. I suppose no one would put up with the aristocracy if [cdb]it didn't afford some sort of stability.
  26. Yes, that is simply the way of things in Fódlan now.
  27. But as I've told you, I intend to change this.
  28. The age of deciding our rulers by blood must end.
  29. A day will come when anyone can vie for the right to [cdb]rule, and then we will be free of this wretched system.
  30. So stand with me. Help me make it so.