The current head of the family, Count Carlyle Latreia.
His wife, Countess Claire Latreia.
The eldest son, Temple Knight Edgar Latreia.
The third daughter, Temple Knight Therese Latreia.
The eldest daughter Anise has married into the family of Marquis Birnkrant.[8]
The household of Marquis Birnkrant is around one day to the west of Milishion.
Hence, she is currently not in Milishion.
The same goes for the eldest son Edgar.
As a platoon leader in the Order of the Temple, he seems to have moved to the same town as Anise.
The head of the family, Carlyle, is a battalion commander in the Order of the Temple.
It's quite a busy post, so he usually stays at the Order's lodging house while working, and only returns to the household around once every 10 days.
As I found out the other day, Therese usually stays at the headquarters as the miko's guard.
She basically doesn't even return home for holidays.
In other words, Claire is essentially managing the estate on her own.
I also asked Orsted about Claire.
Claire Latreia:
Eldest daughter of the Latreia family; stubborn from the moment she was born; the house's education raised her to be a person strict with both herself and others; once she decides something, she will never yield and will keep the same opinion until the day she dies.
Her husband Carlyle married into the family.
She has one son, and three daughters.
As far as Orsted knows, she doesn't particularly leave her name in history and doesn't have any large accomplishments, just a regular noblewoman you can find anywhere.
She likes people that are fair and righteous, and hates crimes.
Orsted also judged her not to be someone who would kidnap someone by force.
Furthermore, he gave me the details about the power struggle in the Church of Milis.
As I already knew, the Church of Milis is split into the Pope's faction and the Cardinal's faction.
They split around 300 years ago.
Until then the Church of Milis followed the scripture saying that 'all Demons should be destroyed' and rejected the Demon Race.
However, when a certain priest read the scripture that said 'all races are equal under Milis', he said 'then are the Demon Race equal as well?' and caused a division in the clergy.
Ever since, the Demon Race Acceptance faction and Demon Race Expulsion faction have been continually in conflict.
Presently, it's something like this:
The Pope's faction: the Demon Race Acceptance faction. Currently the larger faction. Cliff's grandfather is the Pope. The majority of the general populace in the Kingdom of Milis and the Order of Instruction belong to this faction. (The Pope's faction, the Acceptance faction)
The Cardinal's faction: the Demon Race Expulsion faction. The faction that the miko belongs to. The Latreia house and the majority of the other old noble families and the Order of the Temple belong to this faction.
The royalty and the Order of the Church are neutral.
Until 50 years ago, the Expulsion faction was in control, and non-human races in Milishion were strongly oppressed, and there were many quarrels with the inhabitants of the Great Forest.
However, after they put an end to the escalating conflicts with the Beast Race, the Acceptance faction's influence rose.
For the following 30 years, the Acceptance faction had complete control, but then the miko was born, and gave her support to the Expulsion faction. The archbishop that was part of the Expulsion faction rose to Cardinal, and the Expulsion faction is currently rising back up.
That about sums it up.
Lastly, about Hitogami's involvement.
From what Orsted said, there don't seem to be any people of importance currently in Milis.
No matter how much the Kingdom of Milis falls, they won't side with the Demon Race when Laplace starts a war.
To both Hitogami and Orsted, which faction wins out doesn't matter at all.
But then, the most ideal situation for me is if Cliff becomes Pope.
There is the possibility of Hitogami acting to prevent that.
However, even considering that the recent development is strange.
I can't see the meaning in kidnapping Zenith.
Honestly, it seems fine to consider Hitogami's involvement to be minimal.
"If you're not sure about someone, kill them. It may thwart Hitogami's predictions."[9]
is what Orsted always says.
This time, I'm starting to get the feeling that I should really do that.
So far, that's all we have.
I probably should have gathered this much information beforehand.
Well, this visit to Milis was rather abrupt, and I was optimistically thinking that I would just arrive, give my greetings and shortly depart.
When I go to the Kingdom of the Dragon King, I'll make sure to do a better job preparing.