Chapter 16 However, hanging out won't help you turn things around

"You, you, you untouchable!"

If your first impression of Anthea will be that she must be the eldest lady of a noble family or at least a lady from a well-educated rich family, then you will keep this impression in the end and quickly turn away, because it won't be long before Anthea will show her true face hidden under his mask in front of you, completely destroying your original three views.

Louise, who was sitting on the black horse, watched Ancia push open the door of the tavern stupidly, pointing at the other party's very elegant back, stammering and not knowing what to say. Although she is arrogant and willful, Louise is a real lady who grew up in a noble family with a long history and good upbringing. She almost couldn't imagine that a girl who looked so ladylike could call herself "old lady" so naturally, and she couldn't imagine how the other party could make such a vulgar gesture as comparing her middle finger in public, if she were to replace herself, she would definitely feel ashamed to see her ancestors under the nine springs and poke her eyes blind and choose to die, just like King Oedipus in ancient Greece.

If she was just a vulgar pariah, Louise could not have taken the other party to heart, but Ancia was a contender for the Holy Fruit chosen by the same inhibition as her, and she said things that Louise had never thought of before, as Ancia said, whether it was a fine steak cooked to the right temperature or a bread with sugar and fine salt made from fine flour that had been dried three times, these things were not made by the magic of the nobility, they were the fruits of the labor of the industrious hands of the lowly peasants whom she despised her。

There is reason and evidence to convince people, and I am speechless. This was the thought in Louise's mind at the moment, and perhaps in a dozen years she would grow up to be like Count Fogg as a new aristocrat who experienced the suffering of the lower classes, or perhaps she would be as open to such things as her father and her ancestors had done for generations, and take her own exploitation of others for granted. However, Louise is now a young girl who is not more than fourteen years old, and she should have lived a carefree life in an ivory tower in the shadow of her father, dreaming of a happy life where Prince Charming would break into her boudoir and confess to her. However, the cruel fate has put her under too many burdens that she should not bear, and unlike Joan, who was born in the slums, Louise's experience in just a few months is as unacceptable as a person falling from heaven to hell. She couldn't even be a very ordinary rice bucket aristocrat who just ate and waited for death, let alone think about so many questions she had never accepted.

"Louise, the eldest princess who was exiled by His Majesty George I, and later Queen Elizabeth, when she was cut off from water and food in the territory of the northern snowfields, she personally led her subordinates to hunt hibernating bears in a snowstorm, and we remember that it was recorded in the book that she personally melted the snow to wash the feet of the hunters who helped them lead the way but were frostbitten, and then distributed her fur coats to her subordinates who did not have winter coats to wear. In such difficult circumstances, Elizabeth persevered for ten years before finally attaining orthodoxy with the help of Mr. St. Lawrence, and what about you, Louise, is the glory of your family one of arrogant evasion and ignorance of current affairs?"

Nagi let go of the reins in her hand and said to Louise in a questioning tone, if Louise just wanted a peaceful life, Nagi felt that it would not be difficult, such as helping her get a position as an accountant in Mr. Edward's Ministry of Magic. However, in these days of coexistence, Nagi can see the real reason why Louise, who doesn't like to talk too much in front of her, is so stubborn.

"You're trying to revive your family, are you? Louise?"

Is it really because Louise would rather die than stay in the county of Glamorgan just because she wants to die to save face? From the moment Louise was stripped of her ancestral domain and came to the county of Glamorgan with a handful of retinue, she had effectively lost all her glory as a nobleman. The greatest reliance of the aristocracy of the feudal landlord class is the ownership of the land and the people, that is to say, the ownership of the land is the final bottom line of the aristocracy. You can reduce my title from earl to viscount, but you must not take any piece of land that belongs to me from my name, land equals resources, resources equals strength, and strength is the real glory, glory without strength support is like a mirror, just a useless waste. Even if Louise is ignorant of the world, this most basic truth is definitely permeated in her childhood upbringing, and it is one thing she absolutely understands. So why did she have to insist on this kind of glory that no longer exists? In Nagi's opinion, although Louise is stupid and cute, it does not mean that she is stupid, but just because she has too little knowledge and practice. Louise couldn't be stupid enough to give up her life for something that didn't exist, so what was she insisting on? Nagi felt that the reason for Louise's insistence was probably an indelible obsession in her heart - reviving the family. Being nicknamed Louise Zero is indeed an insult to Louise's person, but it is only ridiculous and insignificant. But if she submits to the royal family and voluntarily renounces her title of nobility, for a nobleman, this is the greatest shame that cannot be washed away in a lifetime, and people will laugh at her, and even more so at her family. The only thing Louise can do to wash away the stain on her body is to regain her original territory and revive her ruined family, but if she gives up the title, it is equivalent to losing her political = political power, no matter how rich and good she is, unless the royal family opens her eyes and canonizes her again, it is meaningless.

However, if this is Louise's desire, Nagi must help her learn to stand on her own feet, because even if she asks Elizabeth to restore Louise's title, a nobleman who does not know how to buy people's hearts and minds will not live long, and it will not be long before her land is usurped by other relatives or her territory is swallowed up by a neighboring noble.

"It's just not a servant ......"

Louise was annoyed by Nagi's sight, yes, she did want to revive her family no matter what, but the only way she could do it was to hold on to her title, and this stupid war of attrition with the royal family in the Earldom of Glamorgan, which was not, was undoubtedly stupid and impossible to succeed. But the more this happened, the more Louise didn't want to be reminded of her bloody scar in the depths of her heart.

"What's the matter, Soul Fade, and that pariah, rot in this filthy tavern!

Waving her right hand, Louise's unintentional order conflicted with the previous order that Nagi had been by her side, so she automatically used a new spell to achieve it, and with the flash of gold in her hand, Louise wiped the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, kicked the black horse's stomach with her foot, and quickly escaped on the horse's back like a racehorse.

"Hey, you didn't use the spell like that, Soul Fade!"

Such a precious thing as the Spell was used twice in a row by Louise for inconsequential things, but this kind of thing was originally a good thing for the Servant, but Nagi, who slapped the dust hanging on her body after being raised by the black horse, only felt a faint sadness.