Edelgard & Caspar B

Edelgard
Caspar, I've been wondering something. Would you be happier if you were the heir to House Bergliez?

Caspar
Of course! My brother probably wouldn't be too happy about it though.

Caspar
I've got nothing against him, and I'd hate to cause him trouble, so I guess it wouldn't make me very happy at all.

Edelgard
You may not want to hear this, but your brother is not a good man.

Edelgard
He's lazy and greedy and has always relied on the knowledge that he would inherit a title. That's my impression of him, anyway.

Caspar
You don't hold anything back, do you? But to be honest, you're not too far off.

Caspar
He's got good reason for it though. Our grandfather was really obsessed with his second wife.

Caspar
She has a son who she really wanted to become the heir.

Caspar
In the end though, my grandfather had to step down sooner than expected, so everything went to my father instead.

Caspar
My brother is still really worried about having his future taken from him.

Edelgard
That's the price of taking your own desires into account when choosing an heir.

Edelgard
The concept of nobility is decaying, and it's dragging the Empire into the ground with it.

Caspar
Wow, this conversation is really going there. You may be right, but it's not like the world is ever going to change, right?

Edelgard
It must. I intend to create a world where the best are free to rise to the top and succeed, regardless of their bloodline.

Edelgard
The nobility as it is now could not exist in a world like that. I'll make sure of it.

Caspar
What do you think would happen to me in that kind of world?

Caspar
Would you appoint me as a general or Minister of Military Affairs?

Edelgard
If you were the best suited for that position, I would.

Caspar
Right, so my life would pretty much stay the same.

Caspar
I'd still have to train, get stronger, and use my abilities to cut my own path.

Edelgard
Is that so?

Caspar
At the base, the front lines, or wherever we might be fighting, I'll be there with all my might! Raaar!

Edelgard
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