Jin and the others hurry back to the reception hall in Leuthart and successfully switch places with the doppelg?nger.

Fortunately, Matheus and the Randalls, who were still acquainted with each other, were still to come.

They managed to fulfill their duty just in time.

They spent the rest of the evening half-enjoyed and half-suffocated.

"I hope ...... these hardships will become a funny story ...... in time. ......"

"Hmm."

After the reception, Jin and his friends decided to go back to the <> instead of staying the night at Miyagi.

They wanted to get a good night's rest at least.

The next day, August 27th.

The next day, August 27th.

Jin and Erza are relaxing in the house.

"Wasn't it a leisurely luncheon today?

"Yes.

Then Butler's voice announces a visitor.

"Who is it?"

It was not yet 8:00 a.m. Jin and Elsa went to the front door together.

Jin and Elsa went out the front door together,

"Hey, you two, good morning."

Standing there was Elsa's brother, Fritz.

He had not been at the reception yesterday, so it had been a while since they had seen each other.

"Brother..."

I know it's early in the morning, but I have some urgent business to attend to.

Anyway, please come in. Come in anyway. ......

Yes, I'll come in.

So what's so urgent?

Elsa brewed a pot of tea and offered it to him. Fritz took a sip and slowly opened his mouth.

"Actually, I have a proposal for you."

"Yes?"

"...... is that ...... congratulations?"

Jin, flustered, uttered a line that sounded like a follow-up.

Fritz, however, looks as if he's biting a bitter bug.

"That's why I'm not so happy," he says.

"......Who are you with?"

"...... Karen."

What?

The name Karen sounded familiar to Jin.

"Uh, she's Saki's aunt, isn't she?"

Fritz nodded to Jin.

"Yes, that's right. Karen Theodoric von Banners. Fourth daughter of the Marquise."

"Karen is your brother's prospective bride?"

Yes. Or rather, I'm supposed to be his son-in-law."

"......"

Elsa thought for a moment and then spoke up with a question.

"Karen-san is 17 or 18, isn't that about right for you and my brother?"

As an aristocrat, this kind of arranged marriage is bound to happen. It was not Fritz who did not understand this, Elsa thought.

"Well, yes, I suppose it is. ......"

Fritz was as uncomfortable as ever.

"......Maybe there's someone else you like?"

"......"

Fritz looks down deeply at Elsa's words.

What is it, Erza thinks. This is a new reaction from her brother.

"Who is he with?"

"......"

But no answer comes back.

"Are you from another country?"

Fritz's face finally lit up at the question.

"......What country are you from?"

Elsa asked, remembering the country where she had a connection with her brother.

"...... the Kingdom of Klein?"

Fritz nodded silently at the question.

"Are you Gloria, by any chance?"

Fritz nodded again silently.

"Gloria-san or ......."

Jin also said to himself.

Gloria Allstadt.

Vice-captain of the Kingsguard of the Kingdom of Klein. She is also an instructor.

Her light brown hair had recently been grown out, from a very short length to a short bob.

Her steeple-colored eyes suggest vivacity, and she is well styled.

Jin's impression of Gloria is that she has a fetish for swords and does not seem to have much of a lifestyle.

"I thought she didn't have any brothers or sisters.

I remember that she was an only child.

"Is that so?"

Fritz, with a slightly surprised look on his face, approached Jin.

"Yes, yes. I thought so."

"Oh, really? I'm the second son, and my brother is the one who inherited the house. ......"

"Brother, brother."

Fritz was about to go off the rails when Elsa stopped him.

"......What about Gloria's feelings?"

"...... what?"

The look of dismay on his face made Erza's shoulders relax.

"I knew it, you didn't confirm it?

"Well, well, well..."

Erza sighed. This is the kind of thing that makes me smile, because I feel that he is still the same old brother, but this time it is the content.

"Gloria is a knight of the Kingsguard. You are a soldier. Worst case scenario, one of us will have to quit."

Erza continues, "I don't think it would be easy for either of us to quit, since they would know the secrets of the country.

"That's what I thought too. I think it's a difficult problem. That's why I'm here.

"You mean you're going to ask <> to help you?"

Jin was inwardly surprised to hear the words <> come out of Erza's mouth, but Erza seemed even more surprised and blushed.

Erza glared at her own brother for bringing up such a difficult issue so early in the morning.

Jin is thinking about how to make his brother-in-law's love come true.

Gloria asked him about his feelings for Fritz during the World Congress, so he knows that she likes him too.

But there are many obstacles to go further.

It is not always the case that they are together because they like each other.

"In the first place, do you really dislike the idea of Karen becoming your wife?"

Karen is a different type of beautiful woman from Gloria, and she comes from a good family.

She has a winning personality, but so does Gloria.

"No, I have a feeling that she's going to be the heir to the family.

"......"

The Marquise Theoderic has no male heir.

The eldest daughter is Saki's mother, who is no longer a member of this world, and the second and third daughters have already been married, according to Jin.

At least, when I met him at Reinhardt's wedding, I remembered that he told me that if I became her son-in-law, I would be the heir to the marquis's family.

"I think the Marquis is also a former military man and that's why he's taken an interest in you."

"...... thank God for that."

Jin felt that this problem could not be solved overnight.