The Best Choice a Father Can Make

First, there's one thing I need to clear up before moving on.

For starters, I had no particular intention of squeezing an enormous amount of compensation out of Duke Stellaraim over this incident.

I was simply thinking of asking for twice the cigars burned by the antics of Wilhelm and Kairun.

If they compensated me with roughly twice that amount, I was willing to let it go.

A matter between two houses.

Moreover, one side was one of the four great ducal houses of the Empire, while the other was the Kingdom of Berlaim, not as powerful as the Empire but still fully deserving of being called a major power.

When friction arose between families and kingdoms of this scale, trying to extract the maximum compensation possible was dangerous.

Especially since magic and science were currently synergizing to produce war magic with power comparable to [Little Boy] by the standards of my previous life.

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