Published: July 4, 2025
He is Harg, the page serving the imperial delegation and associated with the former emperor.
Before being assigned to this delegation to the Western Nations, he was doing a completely different job.
His formal title is Baron Hagen Benda.
Although he is quite unique, he is a legitimate nobleman and the head of the baron family.
Moreover, the name Baron Hagen Benda is known to all military personnel in the Central Nations.
This is because he is always attached to the Imperial Army.
And due to his unique magic.
Infinite storage and Teleportation.
Although the Central Nations are vast, these are spells that only he can use.
He thinks of them more as curses than magic.
However, even if it is a curse, the pride he feels in being one of the key members of the Imperial Army is incredibly important to him.
That magic is extremely harsh, and he has sometimes wandered on the brink of death.
Yet, even that has not diminished his pride.
Despite the difficulties, he is happy and takes pride in his work.
However...
When the delegation to the Western Nations was to be dispatched, he was instructed by the new emperor Helmut the Eighth to go to the Western Nations with this delegation.
Of course, he understands the reason for this.
His Teleportation can only take him to places he has visited before.
Therefore, the emperor probably intends to send him to the Western Nations once, and then allow him to go back and forth.
Well, that's fine.
It could help the Empire and perhaps leave a better country for his children.
It's not military supply work, but it is still a different proud task.
However, becoming a page is different.
Why does it have to be a page in the first place?
He is a baron.
Why not send him as a regular member of the delegation?
Is it a problem if they know that Baron Hagen Benda has left the Empire?
If that's the case, why not just give him a different title and let him be one of the bureaucrats?
Having been involved in military supplies for a long time, he is quite strong in the numbers related to food supplies.
He is almost on par with the people from the Ministry of Military Affairs.
And yet...
Being a page is unacceptable.
Of course, it’s not like he is being treated poorly by his fellow pages or the chief page who is his superior.
They likely do not know his formal status, but they work properly and fairly.
The issue is not there.
It’s about pride in his work.
That is everything!
Unfortunately, Harg still cannot take pride in his work as a page.
He watches his fellow pages work with pride, feeling envious.
He understands that it’s a problem within himself.
That is why he feels down...
At the same time, he wishes to return to a job where he can feel proud, and hopes that at least he can approach his work as a page with the same pride as his colleagues... he thinks this way.
The only pleasure Harg has in the Holy Capital, amidst his constant gloomy thoughts, is the cake and coffee at Café Roma, located diagonally across from the Imperial Delegation Quarters.
It is said to be quite a high-end establishment even in the Holy Capital, and the taste is worthy of its price.
While working in this delegation, Harg receives a salary as a page.
Being a page for the former emperor, it is quite a generous salary.
Of course, in the Empire, in addition to his salary as a page, he also receives his usual exorbitant pay as a special supply baron of the Imperial Army... Since taxes collected from the baronial territory also go to the Benda family, there’s no problem at all even if he spends all his salary as a page.
Therefore, he visits Café Roma at least once every three days.
This allows him to somehow relieve his stress... he understands this himself.
However, on this day, Café Roma was surprisingly crowded.
“Is it alright if I share a table?”
A cheerful, butler-like young man asked, and Harg nodded.
He was directed to a two-person table.
Across from him sat a man in his mid-thirties, about the same age as Harg.
That man also had a remarkably tired look on his face...
Even so, Harg was lucky.