Thread:Logarithma/@comment-33558089-20171204145736/@comment-27168967-20171231073813

The author is likely putting a throwback to another anime/game/ novel series which use the term 公王 and 公国 together, The Record of Lodoss War, pretty much is the progenitor of the use of these two terms in anime history as far as I can search about. In that franchise 公王 is merely the High King/Emperor of the situation as place it is used, Moss, functions like a Republic of sovereign countries where a King of the highest power is chosen from all available Kings through an united conference to become the one that would ultimately influence all the countries involved; something that mirrors the entire Brunhild situation in this franchise. Taking how the entire Smartphone franchise is a pile of cliche molded together, I think is not exactly impossible. Also, Grand Duke is 大公 not 公王 which is simply leans more towards Duke or Prince. The way you simply imply that 公王 is Grand Duke makes me cringe every time you say that.

If anything, there's no way Touya can be a Grand Duke or anything equivalent. Normally, even if one Grand Duchy/Duchy is given independence (the right to govern oneself under the influence of a bigger hierarchy by default, Luxembourg being the one special case of own sovereignity) it would make Brunhild a direct connection to Belfast and the other two contries which gave the lands to Touya, something that defeat the entire sovereignity that the country Brunhild is promoted to be. Also, the title of Chapter 100 tells of founding a COUNTRY. Despite whatever you have said up to this point, a Duchy, Grand Duchy or anything is directly under the hierachy of a country's monarch. That doesn't make an ounce of sense to describe Brunhild.

僕は公国の王様、公王となるらしいが、元居た世界にはそんな地位はないらしい. This line has already told us that the entire thing is a special title which is not really found in the Touya's world, which we can deduce to mirror our own. All the rest of the phrases you put up serve that Touya's a King by role, despite himself haven't really decided on how to call himself at all times but most of the time he's merely reintroducing himself to the other side of the table because the others have known him with the title of '公王'. What really matters is when he actually sat down and pronounce his role, which evidently got pinned on a King.

"オルトリンデ公爵の「公」ともま た違うらしいからな. " simply meant that the 公 in his own title is different from the one found in Ortlinde, directly kicking all Duke/Grand Duke/Arch Duke title down the pipe.

らしい tells us that Touya himself is not well-versed in real-world politics and you have been making it sound he has known all the nooks an crannies of everything there is. He founded a country and needed a way to address himself as all the First King of a new-found country are meant to do and he simply ended up with one; 公王. That's why I sort of ended up with the idea of Sovereign King in the past as it would actually fit his idea of "not found in his world" if we take that at face value but retaining the entire role of King to a T.