Infinite Reincarnation – Arthur Hurt - Chapter 186



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Infinite Reincarnation – Arthur Hurt Chapter 186

33-Crown Prince

Affairs between nations are different from those between individuals. When the means and methods cannot be chosen, assassination, which is considered dishonorable, can be an option, and if you are concerned about your reputation, you can just back off. The point is that as long as there is no clear evidence, it is okay.

Even if he were to get it, it would be treated as if he had killed a commoner. The semi-noble title was for domestic use only and was not recognized by foreign countries. Even the title of succession was sometimes ignored depending on the relationship between countries.

Balan decided not to deny Arthur’s words any longer. After all, there was war, and assassination…

“I guess I’ll have to be careful with security. I think it’s unlikely, but I don’t want anything to go wrong if something happens.”

“We need to move to a safer place.”

“I need to contact the security guard.”

At Balan’s words, Arthur’s mind flashed to the face of Viscount Cato. He was a man who could exert influence over the guards, so why would he get involved again? … Is he delusional?

Anyway, the move was hastily decided. Viana, Charlie, and Rel were delighted to hear that they were moving to a bigger house. Rel was especially happy because the mansion they were moving to was closer to the Academy.

However, Amelia was a bit ambiguous.

“Should I go with you?”

She was in a delicate position in Arthur’s house. They were not family, but they were like family. Arthur was her guardian, but he was not her father.

Rel responded with a surprised look on her face, agreeing with her words.

“Of course we’re going together, right?”

“Um… I’m a boarder.”

Amelia gave a general answer.

Yes, that is true. Arthur nodded. Form and frame are much more important than you might think. In most cases, the essence is missing and it looks like a pretense, but removing the form and frame does not bring back the essence that was not there. And in some cases, the essence contained in the form and frame is exposed and evaporates or deteriorates.

From that perspective, Amelia’s maintaining the ‘form’ of being a boarder could be seen as a means of self-control. To Viana, this seemed like nonsense.

“What are you talking about?! How can a woman live alone?!”

“but,”

“But what kind of but is that? No.”

Viana spoke firmly and began to list the difficulties of living alone as a woman. It was hard labor, even the basic household chores like laundry, cleaning, and meals. On top of that, there was the risk of chastity. A beautiful female singer living alone? There were many people in the world who would think harshly of it.

“I’ll go with you, so pack your bags.”

Although Viana’s tone as she spoke seemed almost forceful, Amelia nodded strangely, feeling relieved.

“Is Sister Amelia coming with you too?”

When asked as little Charlie came to her, she smiled and nodded. Whenever she could feel that she had a family like this, she felt a deep warmth in her heart.

She felt happy that this time she was a true member of the Hurt family.

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33-Crown Prince

Even after the post-war reconstruction project, it was not easy to return to normal life. To solve the many problems, a sufficient budget was needed, and the budget was not always abundant.

So the problem has always been the question of where and how much of the budget to allocate and the system structured around which these decisions are made.

And in the decision-making structure of the Kingdom of Skara, the treatment of defeated soldiers was given a lower priority.

Although the North-South railway project absorbed a significant number of soldiers returning from the battlefield, not all of them were willing to leave their hometowns and dig in the rough terrain.

Those who couldn’t easily believe the promise of money were like that. Compared to the hell they had experienced, the money they received was a pittance. How do you know that the North-South railway project is a trick to exploit people, even though it is said to provide jobs?

Such doubts were further heightened when the recruits from the slums returned. The absurdity of returning from a war zone without a home, and the deep sadness and anger that welled up when they learned the reason for it, were of a kind that no one who had not experienced it could possibly sympathize with.

A city sanitation improvement project! And to do this, they are redeveloping the slums! They call it redevelopment, but isn’t it a project to demolish the slums?! They are throwing out the slum residents who were living there onto the streets! Is this the right way to treat those who fought for the country for a pittance?!

Those who were dissatisfied gathered together to protest, and were suppressed by the police beating them with clubs. There was a newspaper that carried this news, but it failed to capture the public’s attention.

The Plavan Jeongwi who came to find Arthur was a little different.

“I’m glad you came back alive.”

“… … That’s what happened.”

At Arthur’s words, Plavan Jeongwi nodded with a gaunt face.

In fact, I had already heard from Hans that Plavan Jungwi had returned from the battlefield alive. It was just a greeting, and it had no particular meaning, but it must have touched Plavan Jungwi’s trauma, because his expression darkened.

Arthur continued talking, pretending not to notice the expression. Sometimes, it is more considerate to pretend not to notice something even when you see it.

“What brings you here today?”

“First of all, I came to thank you for your support at the field hospital.”

“You’re not saying that you’re only thanking me, are you?”

“No way. I already greeted Dr. Kronel. He said that if it weren’t for the Ignaqua you invented, many of the injured people might have died from infection.”

“I said it’s not an invention, it’s a discovery.”

Arthur replied so that there would be no misunderstanding. After all, he had ‘discovered’ a forgotten technique through the alchemist’s secretary. He just didn’t mention that the place was in his head.

In response to Arthur’s question, Plafan Jeongwi had a dark expression on his face and a sly smile on his face before getting back to the main point.

“You must have heard that there have been a lot of riots lately.”

“Well… I’ve heard of things like that in the slums.”

“Where else would something like that happen in this capital city?”

There is a gap between the rich and the poor. The soldiers who were drafted went to war for money, but their hopes that something would change when they returned alive, that they would have a better life, were shattered. This created anger, and the returning soldiers were left with only two choices: live with anger, or live with resignation.

Plavan Jeongwi said.

“I’m worried. If there’s another war, it won’t be as easy to recruit as it was this time. But if there’s a draft, people won’t be willing to be drafted easily.”

“Aren’t you still lacking in national awareness?”

“A national treasure?”

At Arthur’s words, Plavan Jeongwi tilted his head.

“So, it’s a sense of belonging that we are from the Kingdom of Skara.”

Was it the strange sense of discomfort that Arthur often felt? Was it a remnant of feudalism? The further from the education level, the weaker the consciousness of being a citizen of the Kingdom of Skara. So, it was like, ‘Oh, I can say I’m a citizen of the Kingdom of Skara. People around me say that.’

Rather, there was a stronger sense that one’s ties to the region in which one lives were more important. There was a stronger sense of regionalism.

It was not strange. It was a feeling that people could naturally have. And if such regionalism and patriotism expanded, it could soon become nationalism or patriotism.

However, such feelings were closely related to the individual’s scope of activity.

If you can easily get to a place, if you can easily communicate with the people you go to, and if it feels familiar rather than unfamiliar, then you can say that it is ‘our area’. If not, then it is not ‘our area’.

The reason for this is that, although it is an instinct, it is different in nature from dogs marking their territory with urine.

Because urinating doesn’t guarantee the safety of any individual in that area. And to do that, more factors than you might think are needed.

It was not simply a matter of security. People could enjoy not only practical security but also emotional security if they had homogeneity of language and thought, freedom of survival, movement, and action. In that sense, the kingdom of Skara was not mentally integrated enough for anyone to feel that kind of security.

Although absolute monarchy was completed during the reign of the previous king, it was lacking in terms of national integration.

However, as time passed and society developed, such a national consciousness could naturally take hold. The larger the country, the better the institutional arrangements, and the stronger the national power, the more the individual’s safety was guaranteed from various threats such as war and crime.

However, the Kingdom of Skara had several insufficient elements for that. First of all, there was the bias in transportation. In particular, transportation between the south and the north was not smooth. The sense that our land was ours also had to be a place where we could go whenever we wanted. Otherwise, it was not our land, or at best, it was just an old land that had to be recovered someday.

In addition, not everyone was free to travel. In some rural areas, it was still considered morally wrong to leave the place where one lived without permission. It was a remnant of the custom of the feudal era, when freedom of residence was restricted.

This practically unreliable freedom of movement weakened the sense of belonging to the Skara Kingdom and became the cause of territoriality. Even fellow Skara Kingdom citizens are considered foreigners and feel a sense of rejection.

Even the now large Tsuraz Craft Guild sometimes feels alienated from the capital, St. Scal, so how much alienation and alienation must the southern residents feel when they go north? No wonder the Tsuraz Craft Guild is seriously pushing to change the title of the Tsuraz Craft Guild to something else. Is it because the regional identity is so strong that alienation is particularly severe in other regions?

These were not the only factors that were insufficient for the people of the Kingdom of Skara to have patriotism. The divisions caused by the caste system, the divisions caused by the gap between the rich and the poor, and the absence of a national feat that could seal or cover up these divisions.

If we had definitely won the previous Trava Basin War and recovered the old territory of Trava Basin, then it would have been different, but we lost even the Second Trava Basin War. This was enough to stimulate the internal contradictions that had been building up.

At Arthur’s words, Plavan Jeongwi spoke with a stern expression.

“Then how can we develop that national view?”

Plavan Jeongwi, who understood Arthur’s words superficially, thought this way. If he could develop that sense of nationalism, he could probably reform the current uneasy atmosphere at the bottom that he was worried about.

In fact, the reason I came to see Arthur was to talk to him about it and get advice, but it seemed like Arthur had given me a clue to the solution before I could even ask him for it.

But Arthur just laughed.

“If the people above lack such a sense of nationalism, it is unreasonable to expect the same from those below. If the waters above are clean, the waters below will also be clean.”

As always, culture and ideas started from the top and flowed downward.

Because everyone admires the ‘above’ and not the ‘below’. Of course, a culture of resistance to the mainstream culture sprouts from below, but it is difficult for the mainstream culture to be overturned without some kind of contradiction or incident. In order for an antithesis to become a thesis, a shock is needed to bring about a reversal of that magnitude.

Arthur continued.

“The idea of ​​‘us’ must first be had by those above us before those below us can have it too.”