Thankfully, he was young again, and his mind was sharper.
A young mind really did work wonders.
These great families had already given their children a thorough lesson in Love Education.
The nobles, especially the families with vitality,
understood the meaning of family and the importance of unity all too well.
Just look at those immigrants. They brought their whole families and immediately latched onto another country.
Then look at history. When a family rooted in bloodlines occupied most of the important positions in a country, it became the elite.
The disaster next door had frightened them, too.
Olesian in particular had spread all that nonsense about Ivreya during the war.
He had tried to sow division.
But they had only sold the stuff, never touched it themselves, and then turned around and cracked down on it.
The families with centenarians among them had grown young because of the vampire affair. They had also suddenly remembered what things had been like a hundred years ago, when the nobles were even more wicked.
Back then, they had used that tactic against people from commoner backgrounds.
That was, until the West Grand Duke suffered for it.
He had a country noblewoman for a sister, and a childhood sweetheart, the daughter of his wet nurse, who later became a Saintess.
The West Grand Duke had been caught off guard by that tactic. Even a Great Noble could be brought down by it.
Only after the West Grand Duke had gone through a legendary experience when he was over twenty did he and the emperor of the time ban those methods.
It was nothing more than showering the target with praise while belittling and insulting the people around them who quietly supported them, looking down on their commoner status, but never attacking the target