I wanted to be the head of the family.

However, his legitimate son was his third brother.

This was because he possessed a peculiar constitution that had been

passed down in this family for generations.

And he was the only one of his siblings to inherit the peculiar constitution.

Everyone thought he would be the head of the family.

However, he voluntarily stepped down as a legitimate son in the year he

came of age.

What I really wanted, he gave away so easily.

I could not allow it.

He said.

『In this day and age, there is no need for military acumen in this

　peaceful country. So I am not fit to be the head of the family.』

He, my brother, said the right thing with impunity.

He has let go of all the efforts he had accumulated up to this point.

I don't know anyone who can make clean and right choices like he did.

I wanted to be like him, like my brother.

And I became a legitimate son.

And I became the head of the family.

I didn't know what the adults were thinking.

I certainly wanted to be the head of the family.

But I did not want to become the head of the family in this way.

Life is not always as it seems.

Still, we have to be prepared and go on living.

Perhaps that is life.

So I'm alive.

That is why I became the head of the family.

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