Infinite Reincarnation – Arthur Hurt - Chapter 134



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Episode 134

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Arthur, who returned home, immediately wrote a letter to Recut. The content was that he had something important to discuss when they met, but he did not necessarily mention Viscount Karl Prant.

“I have to go on a business trip.”

“where?”

“I want to meet my brother-in-law in Toonmal.”

I felt bad about leaving my wife behind with a newborn baby to take care of, but I couldn’t help it.

Fortunately, although Viana was upset, she didn’t become stubborn.

“Take care on your way.”

“Yeah, I’m sorry.”

“Bring me a gift on your way back.”

Arthur smirked at her words that she would gladly lighten his mood and kissed his wife on the forehead, and Viana seemed to feel lightened by that as she smiled bashfully and hugged her husband.

***

“Long time no see!”

“Brother-in-law, how have you been? And you too.”

“Yeah. I heard you had a son too?”

Arthur went to Tunmal and reminisced with his family whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

Logan was healthy, perhaps because things were going well, and his older sister Jenny also looked bright. The baby in his older sister’s arms opened his eyes wide in curiosity at Arthur.

“Wow!”

“Yes. I am your uncle.”

It was Logan and Jenny’s eldest son, Jiyeon. The second daughter, Yana, was sleeping in her cradle.

Arthur briefly enjoyed his nephew’s weight, then handed it back to Jenny and toured the farmland and granary he and Logan had purchased.

Arthur nodded after looking around the scene. Although he said that he didn’t do business with his family, Logan was still a simple investor, so he was putting all his efforts into farming.

That’s why Arthur found it difficult to ask Logan a favor from now on. But it seemed like the best thing to do.

Logan, who heard the circumstances from his brother-in-law, nodded without difficulty.

“If that’s the case, then there’s nothing I can do.”

“I’m sorry, brother-in-law. If you were me, you could have become a large landowner.”

“Oh, don’t say that. It’s the land you bought with your own money.”

Logan waved his hand, and Arthur, having solved the difficult puzzle, met Recut with a much more relaxed mind.

“Arthur?”

“Brother Recut.”

The two met at an inn in Tunmal Village, but Recut did not immediately recognize Arthur.

Was it because he heard that he had become a semi-noble, or was it because Arthur’s mood had changed a lot? Recut greeted the unfamiliar Arthur with difficulty.

“How have you been?”

“No, thanks to you.”

When Arthur shook his head in response to his greeting, Recutt smiled bitterly. It wasn’t a good thing that they had met.

“I found out that there was someone else behind Hans.”

“… … Viscount Frant?”

“Did you know?”

“It hasn’t been that long since I found out.”

Recut narrowed his brows.

This is how it went. The village chiefs thought that the reason Hans could go crazy was because he borrowed the power of his successful younger brother, so they stopped Hans and his group from doing wild things and focused on finding out what Arthur was thinking.

But in the meantime, the Count Frant took away the rights to use agricultural water, most of the tenant farmers who had been cultivating Licut’s land went over to the Count Frant, and a lawsuit was even filed regarding the illegality of land that Licut’s father, the village chief, had acquired in the past.

They are questioning how the landowner was threatened and where the money to purchase the land came from.

Only then did Arthur realize why Count Karl Franz had called him and told him that he was behind Hans. To the meticulous Count Karl Franz, the fact that he was behind Hans was already worthless information.

Hans’s role was already over, to distract the Praed family from detecting the carefully planned fatal blow. Or perhaps he was just rushing the work that Count Karl Frant, who was having trouble communicating with Arthur, had prepared.

“It’s too bad.”

Arthur offered words of comfort. It seemed easy to dispel the misunderstanding that he was behind Hans. It was unfortunate what happened to the village chief, but wasn’t it Arthur’s fault? If you think about it, he was also a victim who was used.

Well, thanks to that, I was able to forget about the favor I had asked my brother-in-law, Logan.

“Is that really so?”

Recut’s gaze was fixed coldly on Arthur.

“First of all, there will be compensation for what Brother Hans did.”

It would not have cost a penny, but there was nothing he could do. He had no choice but to convince them that it was a misunderstanding by providing thorough compensation for the damages. Of course, because of that, the eyes of the Prad family, who had allowed the count to make a fatal move, could not help but remain suspicious.

Recut replied.

“Will Hans listen to you?”

“Even if you don’t listen to me, I’ll drag you here by force. Because you have committed a crime.”

“Well? What that kid said was different?”

Arthur’s expression hardened at Recut’s words. He thought it would end like this, but it seemed like he would have to use the method he had prepared with his brother-in-law’s help.

“Shall we go out for a moment?”

“Where?”

Arthur answered Recut’s question.

“To see the land.”

“… … ?”

Recut, who was puzzled, signed the contract Arthur handed him two days later.

And Arthur returned to the capital. As autumn approached and the cold wind blew, Johann Frant visited Arthur again.

Arthur had already guessed the reason for his visit.

“Is Count Karl Frant calling you?”

“How did you know?”

“That kind of thing happened a lot.”

“… … My father was very angry.”

Arthur bowed his head slightly at Johan’s courtesy of being careful, not knowing what on earth he had done, and faced Viscount Karl Frant.

“Welcome!”

But contrary to Johan’s words that he was angry, Count Karl Franz welcomed Arthur very warmly.

“How have you been?”

“There was something that made me a little angry, but after calming down and thinking about it, it didn’t seem like such a bad thing. Even though I feel a little uneasy.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Count Frant, who had been examining Arthur’s face with a cold gaze that was in contrast to the smile on his lips, opened his mouth.

“The land deed of the Prado family. Do you have it?”

“yes.”

“What are you going to do about it?”

“I would like to sell it to you, Your Majesty.”

At Arthur’s words, Count Karl Frant tapped the desk with his fingertips as if he were tapping the keys of a piano and asked.

“How did you convince the Prado family?”

“I advised you to move your family’s base. If you stay in Fran Village, you won’t be able to survive the Viscount’s fierce attack.”

“Teeth… … Okay. Is that convincing enough?”

Arthur responded calmly to the unfriendly smile that was showing on the teeth of Count Karl Prant.

“Thanks to that, I also lost a lot of blood.”

Arthur did not buy the land of the village chief’s family with money. He bought the land with land. The land that he had asked Logan to buy.

The peasant’s sense of money was quite different from that of the merchant. Especially for the wealthy landowner class like the Prad family, the value of land could only be exchanged for land.

That is why Count Frant also used Hans as a hunting dog and prepared to make the village chief’s family unable to move. After all, farmers are a race that cannot give up their land until it is ruined.

But there was no need to reveal such a deal to Count Karl Frant. If you are curious, then ask.

Count Karl Franz laughed in vain at Arthur’s attitude.

“Thanks to you, I have only achieved half of what I have dreamed of for twenty years. The other half may now be achieved before I die.”

It was definitely a story about the Prado family.

“It was wrong of you to involve me in the grudge between the two families.”

“Hehehe. I guess so.”

Count Karl Franz, who responded like that, recalled the past with a regretful tone.

“I can still see it clearly. My father’s face as he signed the paper that Bard handed me, bloodshot eyes. And the mean smile that the man who had been smiling and bowing in front of me to please me would make as soon as he turned around with the land deed.”

Count Karl Franz looked at Arthur and asked.

“The failure of the business was certainly my father’s fault. But where did that rascal Barthel get all that money to buy our family’s land? The answer is simple, considering that his family has been our family’s bailiff for generations.”

And then he said, gritting his teeth.

“That guy, his family has been embezzling taxes and rents that should have been coming to our family for a long time! And then he bought our family’s land with that money! If that’s not robbery, then what is it?!”

Count Karl Frant’s resentment and anger toward the village chief’s family seemed well-founded.

Of course, it had nothing to do with Arthur, but I still agreed to talk to him appropriately so that the case could end smoothly.

“There is a saying that those who curse others dig two graves. One for the person they curse, and one for themselves. It may be fortunate that it ends here. Haven’t you at least recovered everything that your predecessors lost? Only with that will future generations praise your great deeds.”

Count Karl Frant sighed, his distorted expression straightening as he was indirectly persuaded to stop, perhaps by mixing in flattery.

“Yes, that’s true. When people are consumed by hatred, their vision narrows and they are bound to make mistakes.”

He returned to the main point after speaking self-deprecatingly.

“So, how much are you willing to sell me that land for?”

“I have no intention of being greedy. Anything that is acceptable to both parties is sufficient.”

“Thoughts may differ greatly, right?”

Count Karl Franz knew very well that their dealings were not really that great. Arthur answered.

“Installment payments are also possible.”

“That’s scary.”

“If you pay with Scalon, we may be able to give you a lower interest rate than the market rate.”

At those words, Count Karl Franz looked at Arthur with a strange look and said.

“First, tell me the price.”

I’ll give you a heads up.

Arthur responded to such self-inflicted intentions.

“How much did your lord offer the Prado family?”

You take the initiative.

The two people’s eyes crossed and a heated negotiation ensued. Fortunately, the negotiation was concluded splendidly to the satisfaction of both parties.

***

“Our Charlie, are you awake?”

Kyaak!

As winter deepened, the child grew.

Viana smiled happily as she watched her husband caressing and playing with their son.

“Brother! Me too, me too!”

“Arthur, brother! Me too!”

Rel and Amelia were also captivated by the newborn’s charm.

Viana found it oddly disturbing that a pretty girl would call her husband “oppa” and extend her hand, but she accepted it for the time being because it was strange that she kept calling her husband “uncle” while Viana called him “sister.”

Such a change in title was also evidence that Amelia had become comfortable in this household. Could it be said that after the incident with Baron Kshan, Arthur had become like a father or an older brother in Amelia’s heart?

“Wash your hands and come back.”

Arthur spoke firmly to the two who were trying to hold the baby. Rel, who had not washed her hands since coming home from school, hurried to wash her hands, and Amelia, who had already washed her hands, smiled brightly and carefully received the baby.

Was it because someone who already knew her was hugging her? Charlie smiled brightly and pushed the girl to the brink of fainting.

Just then a maid came into the room.

“Your Majesty, we have a guest.”

“Who are you?”

“He is the older brother of the lord Jun Ja-jak.”

“Arthur! Arthur! Where are you, you punk!”

A shout of anger cut through the maid’s voice.