Our deceased dad had still settled for my elder brother to become the next family head.
Therefore it was necessary for me to tell elder brother, who was resting in the sickbed with his fatal disease, about the failure of the expedition.
Even if for example it caused large damage to elder brother health condition.
『I see… In my authority as next family head, I order you. Amadeus, because you can see the state I’m in, you have to deal with the aftermath.』 (Brother)
My elder brother, with a ghastly pale face color, somehow sat up on the bed.
He ordered me to lead the Margrave Breithilde household after our dad’s death.
In the face of elder brother the color of anguish was visible.
But because it was elder brother, he probably didn’t want to do something like sleeping in bed leaving everything to me.
『Father was foolish… It would have been fine, if he had forsaken such a thing like my troubles…』 (Brother)
Next day, when the maid went to my elder brother’s room carrying his breakfast, he had already passed away.
It seems that the society was gossiping that elder brother died in a fit of anger or something like that, but in fact that was actually the reason.
I have no doubt that elder brother was enraged within his mind. Due to that reason the scarce remaining life was burned down and he ended up exhausting it.
After that I had immense hardships.
To start with I first reported the death of dad and elder brother to our relatives and the branch families. Then I announced myself becoming the next family head.
Thereupon there was even a relative amongst them who regarded himself as appropriate to be the next family head.
There were also several people planning to hold the power themselves and have the young me act as puppet.
I couldn’t underestimate them.
Even so, all of the talented personnel necessary for shouldering this had been taken away to the netherworld by dad.
The 2’000 people, participating in the expedition, were only a part of the entire Margravate Breithilde’s Lord’s army, but the quality of the staff leading them was high.
Moreover, we had to accept it at last.
The death of Alfred who was a magician rivaling Armstrong-doushi, who had just recently become the Royal Head Magician in the capital at that time.
His death drove me, the new family head, even further into the corner.
『(Anyway, for now I have to do the things I’m capable of one after the other…)』 (Amadeus)
I carried out the funeral of dad and elder brother without omission.
Then I headed towards the capital in order to receive ceremony of succession to the peerage by His Majesty as formal process of inheriting the Margrave Breithilde household.
I spent an increased amount of monetary reparations for the bereaved families of the soldiers killed in action. Same was also required for the Knight Baumeister household.
Especially for the latter, it was impossible going by the usual estimation as expected.
Notwithstanding the side of the Margrave Breithilde household was obviously to blame, it was reasonable and indispensable to have them swallow their tears.
If you want to know why, the Margrave Browig household, controlling the eastern part, maneuvered to incite the smaller feudal lords, being their vassals, at the boundary of the eastern border using the chaos which occurred after the death of dad and elder brother.
The vassals on Margrave Browig side bordered with our vassals.
As it was the same with any noble, if their territory was adjacent, there would be some kind of quarrels.
The shares of such things as controlling the land with its forests and mines and the ownership of water rights crossing the border were settled after genuine territory disputes.
Because Margrave Browig saw the potentiality of having favorable conditions for negotiations if he attacked us in this situation, he ordered his vassals to stir.
He is a really detestable man who does such things at such times.