Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

Year 7446, Month 7, Day 8

Zulu and I, the two of us continue walking down the halls of the 2nd floor.

"Recently, there's been an increase in people like that right."

"Yeah, ever since we went to the 8th floor..Right~"

"They probably just want to get close to master for the fame but there's no need to deal with them all so politely."

"Hn..Well, I guess that's true."

"In the first place, that group from back there were just pretending to show interest in the armor like that.."

"Yeah, they were saying "young mistress" or whatever."

"Since their equipment was considerably good, I'm sure they have plenty of money. They were completely transparent."

Though that can be said, even though that sir Nokkufyuri received investiture as a true knight of one of the kingdom's knight groups, he was talking considerably politely towards someone with unknown background(it didn't seem like he realized I was the president of Greed Company Alan.Greed after all) like myself.

In some meanings it's only obvious for a noble child who was properly raised from infancy, received plenty of education, and is aware of common sense but it felt a bit unusual for what could be considered a commoner that managed to win their rank. Judging from identify and the conversation it seems he received investiture from either the third or fourth knight groups. He was too young for the first knight group and it's unlikely that he wouldn't know about me. He said something like even the second knight group would be difficult so it must have been either the third or fourth knight groups.

Since he's at the level where he's come to the dungeon he might be from the fourth knight group which has a large scale infantry and combat engineer squad. If it's there then it's not very strange for there to be a knight that retires at the age of 20. Ah, No, there are a lot of knights who originated as commoners in the fourth knight group but there's also a lot that originated as slaves as well. It might have actually been the third knight group which is almost like a territory's knight group made even larger scale, a lot of their duties involve in security and patrolling around in territories like police.

Whatever the case, he was a Duke Rombert's Knight. That title is something that only the knights in a knight group of a territory directly ruled by the King, Duke Rombert can receive. In other words, only the first to fourth knight groups with headquarters in the capital Rombertia or the knight group of Baldukk. Obviously the only knights of the Baldukk knight group(there's at most around 100 true knights) that don't know me would be newcomers so this is fine to exclude from the start.

The Royal territories are largely divided into the territory of Duke Rombert which surrounds the Capital, the territory of Duke Ronbarudo in the North, the territory of Duke Baguweru in the Southeast, the territory of Duke Rondoru in the Southwest, and then there's several other small ones. In essence the King owns of all of those noble Duke titles and while acting as the King just "loans" those titles of Duke to his children or close relatives of the royal family. Well, something like governors. He leaves the governing to those governors to govern(it's a weird way of putting it though).

And in each of the high ranking noble territories it's only obvious but they have their own knight group. Obviously, since they're only being "loaned" the territory and peerage so those knight groups belong to the King as well. The regional knight groups of Duke Rombert's territory are close to a portion of the third and fourth knight groups as well as close to the knight group of Baldukk and the remaining knight groups are closer to a formal permanent army. Putting it simply the territory knight groups are like the National Reserve of the American Army and the four armies of Land, Sea, and Air as well as marines(excluding coastal defense units) are basically the first, second, third, and fourth knight groups. Though there's nothing but a land army.

The following is digressing a bit but other than the Royalty there's about 5 Duke titles that exist. However, only 2 of those are "true Dukes" with a proper territory of their own and the rest are just nobles who have th qualifications and peerage but not territory, the so-called political nobles. My mother was a part of the branch family, the fourth daughter of the third son of Duke Sandak one of those political nobles.

Just even if I say they "don't have a territory" it's normal for them to at least have one village or town. The representatives of the Northeastern area of the Royal territory are the territories of Marquis Goruttsu and Marquis Berittsu(obviously these two Marquis rankings are both owned by the King as well and just the same he has various Count and Viscount territories all over the place as well) but around half of the villages and towns under their affiliation are said to have been loaned to political nobles and the political nobles send a governor out to manage their own small territory. They live on the salary paid based on their duties or an annuity from the King as well as the taxes they gain as income from these territories they rule.