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The one as confirmed to be the successor was not Ryan, who had accomplished numerous exploits, or Riley, who received medal of honor from Solia Castle recently and had a skilled athered at the garden, Stein looked directly at where Lloyd was standing Stein peeked a se
"B… But…"
Having heard his father, Lloyd look around and hesitated, not knohat to do Iris looked at Lloyd and nodded with bright sh Iris looked at hi When he was being hesitant like that, he could hear so slowly
"Uh? Uh?"
Clap, clap, clap…
It started at a corner of the garden S in response, Iris also raised her hands and clapped
Sound of claps, which started with just one person, beca others The nurow
"No, I… I don’t…"
Overwhel what to do Sohtly towho it was, Lloyd turned his head around to see his back, but there was nobody there He turned to look at the platfor Lloyd to coaze again to a group of people at the garden
"…"
There were Ryan, his fiancée Anabel, and other nobilities ere supporting hi aard about it, turned his gaze away
‘Where’s Riley?’
Lloyd could not find Riley at the garden Lloyd was still just standing there vacantly As if Stein couldn’t stand to wait anymore, he extended his arm and called his second born son
"Lloyd"
"Ah, yes?!"
"How long are you going toheard his father, Lloyd tue
With e He shriveled after running into Ryan’s glaring eyes However, Stein wrapped his arht be many people who are not able to accept this result, so I would like to tell you this"
Stein looked around at the people gathered at the garden He put his hand inside the pocket and brought out a medal to show to people
"This is theat the arden started to ot thequietly to each other with their o, the unsavory incident that happened at the Solia Castle… I’m sure most of you are aware of them This medal of honor is what Lloyd earned for his active part in subduing that incident"
Lloyd merely kept his arden, ere looking up at the platforain
"Now that I think about it, I think I’ve heard about this…"
"The riot by the holy temple’s fanatics was subdued by a brave nobleman and mercenaries, so Prince Daniel bestowed him a medal of honor I heard about this"
"The situation was in such a disarray at the ti Master Lloyd?"
People were talking about it, and Stein wasa speech about how proud he was of Lloyd Meanwhile, Ryan, as standing quietly and looking at the stage, just tightened his fist
"…"
"Young Master, will you be all right?"
At theheard that Lloyd beca heard Ian’s voice from his back, Riley nodded and asked,
"What about you? You had been up in ar I should be the one to become the successor It’s not like you? You look rather cal to be cal Master Lloyd received… It should’ve been you that received it"
It was Riley who asked Nara’s group to divert Lloyd, as tailing Riley, to the Solia Castle during the day of the incident at Solia
"Is there a need to put it like that? Nara said it too, didn’t he? Lloyd ran around all over the place to save people"
"… That is…"
"Ian, I’ain, but I’ the position of the successor I can actually say I hate the idea"
It was because it was going to bring his to deal with if he was seated at the successorship
To start with, there were things he had to learn as the successor Also, there was the problem of mountain of paperworks He would be summoned often by the Solia Castle Finally, he even had to keep up the appearances and formalities with other nobilities
It was impossible for Riley
"My mother knew that as she clapped"
"Wasn’t it you that clapped first?"
"I’ to nitpick on everything?"
It see the truth when he said he was just pretending to be calrowled at Ian, but he stopped walking after hearing a voice co from over the corner
"… Why!!"
‘U Also having noticed the voice, Ian tilted his head
"I think that’s Young Master Ryan’s voice?"
Ian whispered quietly so only Riley could hear it Riley killed his presence and got close to the end of the corner He stuck close to the wall and started to listen in to the conversation
"Why did Lloyd get it instead of uests still at the mansion"
"Please tell me!"
It seemed Ryan was not the only one over there Stein’s voice could be also heard
"Why did Lloyd become the successor instead of me? I… I cannot accept this"
"As I said earlier, he received a medal…"
"Father!"
"…"
Stein was about to talk about the medal Ryan interrupted his words in the middle and raised the voice
"If that’s the case, that makes me unable to accept the outco to do with this successorship co Ryan’s shouting, Riley, as hiding behind the corner, also became certain Ryan was unfit to be the successor
"Ryan"
"…"
At the same time, Stein called his son’s na over the results of the work I have given you all, what I looked most closely was the differences What do you think is the difference between you and Lloyd that made me decided to choose Lloyd as the successor?"
"Difference?"