Albergue Sara Rault

Albergue Sara Rault (アルベルク・サラ・ラウルト) is the current head of the Rault Household, the Acting Chairman of the Alzer Republic and the last boss in the sequel of otome game. He is also the father of Louise Sara Rault & adoptive father of Serge Sara Rault.

Appearance
He is described as a tall and muscular man in his mid-forties but looks a decade younger. His hair is cropped short and is seen most of the times wearing a finely pressed suit which makes him a handsome man for his age.

Personality
Albergue is a wise and respectable nobleman. Unlike many of his arrogant and dogmatic compatriots, Albergue is a reasonable man with a more moderate view of the Alzer Republic's power and the Sacred Tree. Albergue notably lacks the Alzer nobles' usual haughtiness; He is humble and foresighted enough to recognize the flaws of his nation and the necessity for reform. He also disapproves of many Alzer nobles, like Pierre, who abuse the power of Sacred Tree.

While other family heads, like Bellange and Lambert, treat their relatives as disposable, Albergue dearly loves his family. He is willing to protect them at any price, including fighting the rest of the Great Houses to save his daughter from being sacrificed. This is also why Albergue was deeply offended by the Lespinasse House's refusal to attend his son's funeral.

Story Overview
Original Game: Otome Game He was the last boss of the otome game sequel, turning the sacred tree into a giant monster that Noelle and her guardian had to fight.

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Background
Albergue was initially engaged to the heiress of the Lespinasse Household, the mother of Noelle and Lelia. They met each other while they were a student. Although their relationship was not bad, the engagement was ultimately annulled, and she went on to marry a commoner. Although he did resent Noelle and Lelia's mother for breaking off their engagement, Albergue gracefully stepped aside and accepted her decision.

Albergue eventually married and started a family of his own. His wife later gave birth to two children: Louise and Leon. During that period, there had been talking of an engagement between his son and Noelle, the daughter of the Lespinasse House. Despite his personal grudge, it was undeniably beneficial to his household. Thus, he decided to accept the proposal.

Sadly, the tragedy soon struck Albergue and his family. Leon suffered from a mysterious disease, and even with his best effort, Albergue's son ultimately died to Albergue and the Rault family's deep sorrow. To add insult to injury, the Lespinasse House only sent a representative to attend his son's funeral. After being offended by their action, Albergue felt suspicious and started investigating the Lespinasse House.

He eventually discovered that the Lespinasse House already lost the priestess crest and had deceived other Great Nolbes by posing as priestess and guardian. Moreover, Albergue uncovered the Lespinasse House's blasphemous action of trying to control the Sacred Tree and, by extension, other Great Nobles. Unable to forgive the Lespinasse House for their crime, Albergue and the rest of the Great Nobles joined forces and destroyed the Lespinasse House. Nonetheless, he intentionally let Noelle and Lelia escape since he deemed them innocent of their parent's crime.

After the downfall of the Lespinasse House,  Albergue became the Acting Chairman and has held the position ever since. He also adopted Serge as a son and heir of the Rault Household.

Volume 4
After Pierre from the Feivel Household had gotten into a fight with Leon and the others from Holfort Kingdom, taking Leon's ship Einhorn and Luxion by unfair means, an assembly meeting was held to discuss the aftermath of this incident with other important matters with Albergue and the other heads of the Six Noble Families present. Albergue, being the acting chairman, was disgusted while reading the report about this. He then questioned Lambert regarding his son's provocative act against the Holfort Kingdom. Lambert tried to justify this by saying that Pierre was only trying to raise the military achievements of Alzer Republic with Fernand showing his displeasure as Pierre only picked a fight due to personal reasons. The other heads discarded this matter not paying much importance as they regarded Holfort Kingdom as a third-class country. Albergue then asked Lambert about the airship which the Holfort Kingdom were demanding it to be returned back with Lambert refusing as Pierre had won it fair and square through a match under the oath to the Sacred Tree. The matter was then brushed off moving on to other topics.

During the armor duel between Pierre and Leon, Luxion had already set up a plan to attack the Lambert Household with Einhorn putting all the blame on Pierre. An emergeny meeting was held when Einhorn was single handedly able to defeat an entire fleet of the Commonweath. Albergue then asked Lambert about it as Pierre was the one who had obtained the ship. Lambert started behaving hysterically as Einhorn had caused considerable damage to their airship and military facilities. Albergue then asked Fernand about the negotiatons with Leon with him reporting that Leon was refuting as during that time the owner of the ship was Pierre, so he hadn't done anything. Leon on the other hand was demanding compensation on all the troubles he had to go for them. Albergue was confused on why his daughter, Louise was lending her help to Leon.

Albergue called Louise to his office in their mansion. criticizing her actions which led Republic to quite a poor position. Louise replied that he would understand her actions when he meets Leon. Albergue hearing this becomes a bit angry and tells her that it was due to this attitude of her which had pushed Serge to a corner and also said that Leon was already dead. He then tells her to leave. Albergue then takes out a picture from a locked drawer and looks at the picture of his deceased son, Leon. He also grumbled a bit as his adopted son, Serge hadn't returned to the academy and returns the photo back to the drawer.

Next day during the negotiations with Leon about the incident, Albergue was a bit shocked as Leon's appearance was just like his son if he grew up to that age. Lambert tried to force Leon to give compensation for the damage Einhorn had caused to their household but Leon didn't agree to it and questioned if they really should let him take responsibility for this incident as this would signify that Alzer's first lost in a defensive battle. Fernand replied that Leon wasn't even there and the battle was stopped even before it concluded so it was mostly a draw. Leon then asked how many ships were shot down by Einhorn or even if there was one airship which managed to scratch it, threatening that the Kingdom has more than one Einhorn. Albergue then asked Leon what he was demanding from them to which Leon replied that he would need some monetary compensation or even goods and some hush money as well so he would report this incident as a mere quarrel between themselves to the kingdom. And they would also have to give a formal apology to Leon for this incident. Albergue agreed to Leon's demand even though most of the heads of the Six Noble Families were against this with Leon being a bit confused as he had expected some resistance to his demand. Albergue also invited Leon to come and visit their mansion a few days later. When returning Fernand asked if this was a wise action or not as this would make the Holfort Kingdom more bold. Albergue replied that it was because it was to make them aware that they won't be prosperous forever by relying on the sacred tree's power and regain a sense of danger towards other countries. Fernand then asked if it was okay for him to invite Leon to their household with Albergue saying that as Leon was in the possession of the sacred tree sapling he needed another angle to negotiate with him about it and it was also due to some personal reasons as well.

After a few days when Leon came to their mansion for dinner, Albergue with his wife and Louise were present. During the dinner when Leon made an expression while eating a bitter vegetable, the other three were staring at him when he was doing that and asked if he had made any mistakes in his manner or not. Albergue then asked if Leon disliked that vegetable to which Leon replied that as he had never eaten this vegetable, he disliked its peculiar bitterness but he can eat just fine. Albergue's wife began to cry a bit and excused herself from the table. Leon then asked what was the matter to which Albergue replied that he had a son, that is, his biological son, whose name was also Leon who had quite a similar appearance with Leon and had died when he was five-years old. Louise then said that her brother also used to make that expression, which Leon made, when he used to eat the exact same vegetable which must have caused her mother to remember many things. Leon then asked about Serge to which Albergue replying that he had gone out during the spring break and hasn't returned yet. Albergue explained that Serge wanted to be an adventurer so when holiday came he had gone out for an adventure on an airship. Louise showed her displeasure about it as Serge was going to be the next head of the household but Albergue rebuked about it as Louise was being a bit rude towards Leon, while Leon had became a noble through his adventure achievements. Albergue then apologized about ruining his dinner even though he had invited Leon for it to Leon replied it was okay and everyone resumed their meal then.

Volume 5
The engagement between Louise from Rault Household with Hugh from the Druille Household by the two house heads Albergue and Fernand and a party was held during the summer vacation. In a break room during the party, Albergue and Lousie were talking with each other. Albergue was trouble as Hugh is still going around womanizing even though he has a fiancée now. Louise hearing this replied that she was not seeking love in the political marriage and was marrying for the sake of her household. Hearing this he was sad as he wished for his daughter's happiness and suddenly asked her if she wanted to marry Earl Leon. Hearing this Louise's face flushed red with embarrassment and telling Albergue that it was impossible to marry Leon as he just looked like her little brother. Albergue hearing this sighed and changing the conversation topic told her that the marriage will take place after graduation but she should still live with Hugh for the time being. Albergue then again apologized for using her as a political tool even though he sincerely wished for her happiness and told her that she should accept Serge as he had become his son after Leon's death and also Louise's little brother before leaving the room.

Albergue was in the office of his mansion doing paperwork when a subordinate came telling him that Noelle has got the priestess crest on her hand and Loic has taken her to their house with plans to hold their marriage ceremony as soon as possible. Hearing this Albergue was troubled as Bellange was always against Albergue being the acting chairman and might be planning to take his position with this. He decided to contact Fernand to discuss with him what to do.

A party was held by the Barielle Household to announce the marriage between Loic and Noelle. Albergue was a bit surprised when he met Leon and Marie there as he could not imagine Bellange inviting him. Then Loic went up to the stage awith Noelle and officially declares their marriage tomorrow with Nolle being one of the sole survivors of the Lespinasse Household with the pristess crest on her hand and Loic by marrying her will get the guardian crest and became the guardian of the priestess. Albergue face became very grim hearing this announcement when suddenly Louise came to take Leon to a room to talk about Noelle. Albergue seeing this realised that Louise was the the who invited Leon and followed Leon, Louise and Marie to the room she had prepared beforehand. Louise then told them how she was kept confined at the Druille Household with servants watching her every move whenever she was inside the mansion or outside. Albergue hearing this was furious and immediately went to talk with Fernand about this.

The next day, the marriage was going to be held at the sacred tree temple with all the heads and promoinient members of the Six Noble Families present. During the ceremony when Bellange asked Noelle to grant Loic the guardian crest, Noelle replied that even though she prayed for the guardian crest to appear on Loic but she was rejected by the sacred tree. Loic in his fury was going to kill Noelle when Leon appeared in a white tuxedo declaring to return his bride and showing his guardian crest. Loic pulls out his sword and went to fight him but Leon easily defeats him using his sword from Arroganz and cuts his right arm. Fernand seeing this was furious as he had already betrayed Albergue and was planning to stop Leon from leaving using their weapons, crests and armors. But Arroganz, without any pilot, can opearte and made short work of the Repulic's armors. Fernand seeing this was baffled but still refused Leon to go. Albergue then suddenly came and told them to drop their weapons as he would not permit this rudeness to the guardian. Albergue then asked the doctor who came to treat Loic's wound to which he replied that after reattaching his Loic went outside. Loic then came with a customised armor which could use abundant energy from the sacred tree and wreaked havoc. Leon, in Arroganz, came to fight with Loic. At first it seemed Loic had the upper-hand in the battle, but it was Leon who was taking it easy on him and easily defeated him.

After the fight, the engagement between Louise and Hugh was broken by Albergue as Fernand had betrayed him, but as this information could not be made public, Hugh leaving Louise and fleeing during the incident was used as the excuse.

Volume 6
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Volume 7
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Family
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 * Louise Sara Rault (Daughter)

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 * Leon Sara Rault (Son)

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 * Serge Sara Rault (Adopted Son)

Alzer Republic
Albergue was originally on the amicable term with Fernand. After the previous head of the Druille family died, Albergue supported Fernand's bid to take over the position despite his young age. Albergue even engaged his daughter with Fernand's younger brother, Hugh, hoping to strengthen the tie between the Rault and Druille Household.
 * Fernand Tola Druille

However, their relationship turned south when Fernand double-crossed Albergue by backing Loic's plan to marry Noelle. Fernand was dissatisfied with Albergue's decision in the Holfort Kingdom's matter and felt that his lenient attitude would disadvantage the Alzer Republic. As a result, Loic persuaded Fernand to support him in exchange for having Hugh become the head of the Rault Household.

After Loic and the Barielle Household's plan failed, the furious Albergue subsequently canceled the engagement between Louise and Hugh in retaliation.

Others
Like his daughter, Albergue was surprised by Leon's striking resemblance to his late son, who also shared the same name. Thanks to this connection, Albergue quickly established a friendly relationship with Leon and was noticeably biased in favor of him on multiple occasions despite being a foreigner.
 * Leon Fou Bartfort

Their tie was strengthened even further after Leon rescued Louise from being sacrificed, helped suppress the rebellion, and saved the Alzer Republic from destruction. Feeling indebted to Leon, Albergue even gave Leon a portion of the former Feivel family's lands after Roland misled him into thinking Leon were in trouble.

Trivia
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