I Reincarnated But Will Try To Live Without Using My Cheat Ability

One day, the foundation of the town was just beginning to take shape.

Charles spotted me on an inspection tour and came running up to me.

I thought it was something urgent, but he asked me to choose a name for the Order.

“The name of the Order?”

“My subordinates have asked me to name the order. I think it’s a good idea, because it promotes camaraderie.”

“Then decide what you want.”

Charles smiled sarcastically, as if he didn’t like my reply.

“I don’t think so. I don’t want my lord to be indifferent to the Order.”

“It’s not indifference. That’s right! Why don’t we take a survey of all the inhabitants?”

“Even the children?”

“Yes. They might be able to come up with a good name. Above all, it could be Knights for All.”

“I see …… I understand. But, you know ……”

“What is it?”

Charles looked like he was begging for a break.

“I don’t like the name “Knights of All”. It sounds like a simple vigilante group.”

“I, I guess it does.”

Is it possible that they suspect me of using such a name?

Charles became serious for a moment.

“I’d like to talk to you about something in the future.”

“What’s your concern?”

“We can’t cover this whole settlement with the number of people we have now. We’ll have to increase our numbers to at least a thousand.”

Four thousand if you include the squires.

I don’t envision a standing army that takes time to train, like knights.

And there are indications of a permanent military force.

“Yeah. We will increase the number of knights to some extent. As a guideline, I’d say we need about a hundredth of the total population to man the military.”

Charles furrowed his brow.

“So a total population of 100,000? That’s outrageous.”

I looked at him like a naughty boy plotting a prank.

“In the future, we’re going to give military training to the citizens so that they can defend themselves. Then we won’t need a thousand knights to defend ourselves.”

As expected, Charles was surprised.

“Are you insane?”

The common sense in this world is that it is the knights’ job to fight with weapons.

It is common knowledge that the people of this world are not allowed to carry weapons.

“This is why I always say, “In everyone’s town, you are citizens”.”

If they are just being exploited, they won’t fight even if they are told to take up arms.

Instead, they would rebel.

But if the reason is to protect your town or your family, the conditions are different.

And one more point.

They can’t simply use the knights to suppress the mob.

The politicians need to have a sense of urgency in their operations.

There are times when people rise up in unreasonable demands.

In order to reduce the rate of such an uprising, I intend to create a tradition.

In addition, we will involve the people in politics.

Then they can achieve their goals by means other than rioting.

Who would want to resort to violence?

Some people do, but only if they are not overlooked by the political side.

Communism, leftists, liberals, etc., tend to be violent revolutionaries.

They are the ones who enjoy freedom only for themselves and do not allow any freedom to those who oppose them.

They tend to resort to violence and intimidation.

Fortunately, this world is still in the Middle Ages and there is no capitalism.

Even if a guy like Marx or Lenin is born ……

It’s a long time coming.

We don’t need to take that much into account now.

“Hmmm. Hmm… I guess existing common sense doesn’t apply to Lord Alfred. I see, so it’s a new frontier … That’s a deep aim.”

I nodded to Charles like a teacher.

“It’s a new land with no tradition. So you can get out of the way and leave the existing common sense behind. Also, I’m sixteen!”

Charles didn’t hide his astonished face when I reminded him.

“You’re so particular ……”

You’re obsessed!

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Later, the questionnaires that had been gathered were to be carefully examined at the usual development headquarters.

“What is this Alfred Order?”

I asked unintentionally.

Charles looked at me as if it was obvious.

“It was named in honor of Lord Alfred, wasn’t it?”

“Rejected. What would you do if there was another Mr. Alfred?”

Please don’t make my name a permanent number.

“What is the Order of the 160?””

Charles winked at me.

“Oh, that’s your actual age, my lord.”

I’m sixteen!

“Rejected. What are you going to do when I turn seventeen?”

Are you going to change the name every year?

“The Knights of the Frontier? Also rejected. We’ll make this the center of the world.”

For some reason, everyone started laughing.

Charles looked strangely impressed.

“For the first time, the lord said something that sounded like a sixteen-year-old.”

That’s none of your business.

“The Most Powerful Knights Order? What is the strongest compared to? …… Rejected. The New Knight Order? Rejected because it would be a little embarrassing in a hundred years.”

Charles now had a look of disgust on his face.

“Alfred-sama. That’s quite …… selfish of you.”

There are no good ones!

But then a piece of paper caught my eye.

“The Knights of Ravenna?”

Charles’ face looks like he remembered me of something.

“That’s the name of the place here, isn’t it?”

“Shouldn’t that be enough?”

The teacher furrowed his brow.

“Isn’t that a bit too simplistic?”

“Then why don’t we call it the Order of the Virgin?”

The teacher pointed at me.

“What are you, the Mourning Woman Silvana!”

Charles shook his head at the farcical exchange.

“I’m not that inexperienced, though. Well …… I think Knights of Ravenna are a good idea. It’s quite simple, but as it accumulates more achievements, it’ll become less simple.”

I was getting pretty tired of this, so I nodded silently.