Chapter 20: Theanabe Union, Independence
Theanabe was in a remote region in the north. This region, which borders the Tomis Ashinaqui Eri Kingdom and Gayuhi Dukedom, spoke the language called Theanabe and had a culture of its own. It was the last kingdom to be annexed in the Bungdalto Empire’s reconquest of the former Lothar Empire, and the aristocrats of this region were neutral and didn’t belong to the Chancellor or the Regent faction.
… Yes, they were neutral. Three months after Count Palatine Vedett visited my room in the middle of the night the news of their independence reached the Imperial Capital. In the meantime, I had turned seven. I heard they called themselves the ‘Theanabe Union’.
After this news reached the capital, the palace was in an uproar and the aristocrats acted like a beehive that was being poked at. It was satisfying to watch the Chancellor panic.
Well, it is supposed to be an alarming situation for the Emperor… but I don’t have any real power.
Lord Aquicurl was not in the Imperial Capital probably because he had gotten this information beforehand, so he retreated back to his fief. The Chancellor faction, on the other hand, didn’t seem aware of this and there was a big commotion.
By the way, the Regent didn’t know about this either… This father and daughter pair might be on worse terms than I thought.
The Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies probably predicted this would happen because his fief was close to Theanabe.
The Imperial Capital, Cardinal, was located in the centre of the Bungdalto Empire.
From the Imperial Capital, Aquicurl fief was to the southwest, and Lord Raul’s fief was to the east. The region to the northwest had become independent.