Resurrected Immortal 162

Chapter 162 – 162. Sentence Negotiation (2)

“This is a place where the leaders of the kingdom gather to discuss the future of the kingdom. It’s not a place you come to play privately! Be polite in your words and actions!”

Queen Diane, who had endured so much, eventually let out a roar.

“Oh, I know that too. I wonder if the queen is trying to punish the duke with something private, not public.”

The way she smiles and replies is clearly mocking herself as the mother and queen of this country.

“Dare… How safe is that… !”

“I will offer the holy sword.”

“… I beg your pardon?”

“As an apology, I will present the holy sword, Durandal, the heirloom of the ducal family. So, can’t you give me the same level of punishment as the other nobles with this?”

“Eunhyeon! The holy sword!”

Abros blocks Alex from rushing to stop Eun-hyeon from speaking.
At the same time, when he announced his willingness to give away the heirloom of the duke’s family, the nobles within the court began to murmur.

“… Even so, do you, who are not a member of the duke’s family, have the right to hand over the heirloom of the duke’s family?”

“Of course I don’t. But…”

“I agree.”

Eun-hyeon turns around and politely points to Eleanor at the entrance.

“Eleanor…”

Eleanor stared at Alex for a moment, then moved her gaze back to Queen Diane.

“In the current situation where the head of the duke’s family and the minor duke have been arrested, the next decision maker who can decide the family’s decision is my mother, the Duchess. Her mother gave me the power to make decisions. Therefore, I will beg the Queen Mother on behalf of the ducal family. I will present the holy sword, Durandal, which was bestowed directly by the royal family of Pernias in the past, to the royal family again. So… Please give me the same robbery punishment as other corrupt nobles.”

“…”

Queen Diane didn’t answer for a while and fell into trouble.
The holy sword, Durandal, is the weapon of the former royal family, which was supposed to be given to Prince Evan, the son of Queen Helena, whom Abros is supporting, to make him crown prince.
From the point of view of the duke faction, it was one of the few means to support Prince Evan, so if they could take it and give it to their son, Damian, it would almost deprive Prince Evan of the possibility of becoming crown prince, and at the same time, Damian’s position would be further strengthened. It becomes a cornerstone that hardens.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to readily accept that request.

‘Maybe it’s because that man suggested it.’

It’s very reluctant.
However, it is also true that the holy sword is coveted for Damian.
Queen Diane nodded her head and put her compromise in her mouth.

“Princess Eleanor’s request is justified. However, that does not mean that the perpetrators of corruption cannot be punished the same as others. The intensity of the aggravated punishment should be mitigated. I will change it to 200 platinum coins within a year.”

“Egg… I will…”

Eleanor barely restrained her face from contorting and nodded.
The fact that even after receiving the holy sword and eating it, she could not escape the severe punishment, almost made her teeth gnash.
However, it is also true that it is definitely better than 300 platinum coins in 6 months.

“Shit…”

Hearing the changed fine amount and deadline, Alex also swears inwardly, and while Lyod looks at Alex and Avros with a miserable face, only one man with silvery white hair continues to make a relaxed expression.

“Yes. Here it is. 200 platinum coins.”

“… What?”

“Now… What did you say?”

At Eun-hyeon’s words, which were completely unexpected for her, she looked at Eun-hyeon, who took out her purse from her bosom, even Queen Diane, who intuited her own victory as much as this moment, could not hide her companion.

“So, the fine is 200 platinum coins. I will pay. Treasury Secretary Bernard.”

“What, what… ?”

Bernard, who had been quietly observing the meeting until now, hurriedly responded to Eun-hyeon’s sudden remark.

“It’s 200 platinum coins. Please check it yourself and declare the confirmation of payment here.”

At Eun-hyeon’s request, he carefully accepts the pouch in his hand and slowly begins to check the contents.

“200 coins… You’re right.”

“You use it to manage the country’s budget accurately. How can the country go back to normal if such unsavory things happen twice?”

It was a sarcastic remark that many aristocrats, who had conspired to embezzlement of breach of trust and did not need to distinguish between factions, openly told them to listen.
Queen Diane gritted her teeth.

‘In this way…’

Considering that the royal party faction aristocrats will be punished sooner or later for misappropriation and embezzlement, the loss is not insignificant.
Besides, wasn’t she just letting go of the duke’s family without even holding a proper leash?
How on earth did an individual prepare 200 platinum coins, which is not an amount that can be paid in a lump sum?

‘Why did he spend so much money to help the duke’s family in the first place?’

I don’t understand why.
Really for Eleanor, her fiancé?
Not even that.
Until recently, Eun-hyeon had made an expression that she had never heard of about the engagement of ‘Eleanor and Eun-hyeon’ that Avros had mentioned.
Aside from the relationship between the two, it was clear that Eun-hyeon was not moving only out of affection to help the duke’s family.

‘I don’t know why…’

His sudden action confused not only Queen Diane, but also Abros.

“What the hell are you guys…”

Abros, who had experienced that the leash on his neck was released in an instant, looked at Eunhyun with a dazed expression.

“What… Think of it as a dowry for a wedding. And now there are more important things than this.”

At the same time as Eun-hyeon started to rush.

“Excuse me! Queen Mama!”

“… What happened?”

“The Archbishop of the Temple of Vesta has requested to attend the court meeting!”

At the appearance of a young girl entering the conference room, numerous aristocrats who attended the meeting lost their words and stared blankly at the blonde-haired girl.
In order to keep her hair long enough to reach the floor from dragging on the floor, two priestesses acted as maids to tidy up the ends of the girl’s hair and keep it from touching the floor.
And two paladins following the two priests of the bridesmaid.
The appearance of a young girl wearing the highest-ranking priestly clothes creating a holy atmosphere, in harmony with the aura of divine power flowing naturally from her body, is foreign to anyone who sees it.

“Like that… A little girl is an archbishop… ?”

No matter how much he is in the position of the nobility of the kingdom, seeing the archbishop standing above all the bishops of the Temple of Vesta, who has influence over the entire continent, is like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The fact that the Archbishop, who is located directly below the pope who rules the Holy Land that serves the god Vesta, is a young girl with a fragile body that just needs to be admitted to her child Terre in her prime, makes the eyes and ears of many aristocrats staring at her suspicious. Make

“Greetings from Vesta’s priest, Archbishop Anies Yersaleca, to the Queen Mother of Pernias.”

“… We welcome the visit of the Archbishop.”

Queen Diane could not prevent Agies from attending her court meetings.
As a noble of this country, it is different from Riod, who is practically a servant of the royal family, and Agies is a woman who cannot be easily touched, like Illyana, who is treated specially in this country.
The reason for this is that her position as Archbishop, which she has, is due to the Pope, the owner of the Holy Kingdom of Erenia behind her back.
If Agies was treated rudely and negligently, there was a possibility that it would immediately become an international issue between the Holy Kingdom of Erenia and the Kingdom of Pernias.

‘Heroes are, really… They’re just as annoying.’

Queen Diane thought to herself.
‘Illyana’, a high-ranking sorceress, who, despite her arrogant disrespect towards the royal family, is something she cannot fault for it.
Although she is a servant of the royal family, she does not show respect for the royal family, insists only on ‘protection of the kingdom’, and is the best knight in the kingdom, ‘Leod’, who does not belong to any faction and takes a neutral attitude.
‘Anes’, who has the title of archbishop of the Temple of Vesta along with the title of spokesperson of the goddess or saint.
Each of the heroes is uncontrollable, annoying, irritating, and a thorn in the side of Queen Diane.
Nevertheless, the reason why they cannot be removed from the kingdom is that their reputation and usefulness are too high.

“Even though I entered this country due to circumstances, I am really sorry for not letting the kingdom know about my arrival.”

Unlike Anies, who used to use light and harsh profanity, the appearance of showing a calm and delicate impression is truly a saint herself.

“It couldn’t have been helped. I have also heard about the corruption of Bishop Harkan and his followers.”

The fact that a high-ranking official, such as the Archbishop of the Temple of Vesta, secretly entered the kingdom of Pernias without any prior notice was an issue that the kingdom could not pass over quietly.
Originally, it was transferred to Pernin in an instant through Illyana’s sudden teleportation, but externally, Agies’ visit to the temple of the secret Pernin branch ended up as a covert investigation to uncover the corruption of Bishop Harkan.

“You must be busy with the temple’s personnel and reorganization, so may I ask about the business that the archbishop has taken a heavy step on?”

“It is an extension of the work of uncovering former Bishop Harkan’s corruption.”

“On the extension line… ?”

Agies slowly shifted his gaze and stared at Barque, a huge man who passed out with crab foam in front of Eun-hyeon.

“Now then, since the Archbishop is here, shall we start talking again?”

I interrupted the conversation between Diane and I, who were feeling a lot of reluctance.

“… What do you want to say?”

Queen Diane frowned at the face of Eun-hyeon, who suddenly interrupted the conversation and caught the flow of the conversation again.

“Didn’t I give it to you earlier? Talk about who the hell planned the trick to kidnap ‘Eleanor Armitas’ and why I brought Lee Ja, the son of former Bishop Harkan.”

When Eunhyeon touched Barque’s body lying on the floor with her foot, many people, including Queen Diane, stared at Barque.

“No way… Among those who kidnapped the princess, the Temple of Vesta led by Bishop Harkan is intertwined?”

“Look! How could you say such an eerie word!”

Hearing the murmur of a nobleman who had formulated a hypothesis, another nobleman urged him on.
The nobleman, who realized what he was muttering, looked at Agnes in amazement.
It was because he faced directly that he had made a remark that could cause a great discord between the Kingdom and the Holy Kingdom if he was wrong.

“It is not unrelated at all.”

Eun-hyeon, standing in the center, spat out the words she couldn’t bear to say while all the nobles thought of them.

“That, what is that!”

“I have something to say! Can’t say… !”

“Explain.”

“Big…”

Eun-hyeon touched Ashton’s shoulder, who was kneeling in front of her, and urged him to explain.
While feeling the pain of the wound, Ashton recalled Eun-hyeon’s warning sharp voice, recalled the horror of that time, and confessed to all of his ugly atrocities.
He first kidnapped Eleanor, and in the midst of the chaos, he used his hand to flow the rigged ledger to the royalist bee nobles to fuck Avros and Alex in the intelligence guild.
Afterwards, he kept Eleanor in custody in the Viscount Lindewald’s territory, fed her aphrodisiac, and gang-raped her by gang-rape by gangsters living in her ruined estate, to the point of forcibly impregnating her.

“This bitch!”

Alex, who was listening to Ashton’s confession, contorted her face as he imagined the agony his sister had gone through.
Lyod quickly stopped Alex from getting up and trying to run at Ashton.

“Stop it.”

“Marquis! Let go! A son of a bitch who tried to ruin my sister, no matter how different the boat, her sister’s life! I myself… “

“Do you think that being a duke would feel different from you?”

“Nice… Ugh!”

Alex gritted his teeth and looked at Avros, who felt the same way as himself.
Avros was still staring at Ashton’s back.

“…”

He just looked at him without saying anything, but Alex could read the many emotions contained in that gaze.
The anger, betrayal, and disappointment in Avros’ eyes, and finally the contempt for doing something he shouldn’t have done as a human being, his fists filled with those emotions are shaking.
Seeing her father desperately resisting the urge to get up and punish Ashton with his own hands even now, the distraught Alex also released her strength.
The same goes for the fact that most of the aristocrats frowned upon hearing Ashton’s confession.
All of them are looking at Ashton at her with sneering and contemptuous glances.

“Okay, I think you understand the whole story. Here, the part where the Archbishop of Vesta Temple has to take responsibility for this case is the reinvestigation of the ‘Viscounty of Lindebald’.”

After Ashton finished her words, Eunhyun opened her mouth as if she had been waiting.

“… Review?”

“The cause of the fall of Viscount Lindebald was the rumor that Viscount Lindebald and his family were pagans, and they were purged by the Holy Knights under the control of Bishop Harkan. Even though the land belonged to the territory of the Kingdom of Pernias, it happened under the leadership of the temple, not the kingdom.”

“…”

Queen Diane’s face hardened.
At first glance, it was an external interference by temple powers that was no different from a foreign country, but this was an issue that the king directly approved when King Pernias was still alive at the time.
That’s why she only knew it as a fact, and even Queen Diane didn’t know what was going on between Bishop Har Khan and the king and she approved it.

“Well, I don’t know what kind of talk was exchanged between the King and former Bishop Harkan at the time, but his son, Bark, openly took the closed temple of Viscount Lindebald as a place where Ashton could abduct and imprison Princess Eleanor. At the point of provision, the temple is probably not irrelevant. Yes. Archbishop?”

Eun-hyeon smiled and checked and asked questions so thick that Agnes managed to endure the fact that tendons almost stood out on his forehead.

“… You’re right. The reason why I dared to come to the court meeting of Fernias was to interrogate those two lying down there, to uncover the connection with Viscount Lindewald, and to find out about the corruption that Bark’s father, the exiled Harkan, had committed in the past. It is to earnestly request the transfer of the personal affairs of the two to the Queen Mother in order to uncover all of them.”

“…”

When Queen Diane heard Agnes’ polite request, she wondered whether to accept or reject it.
Ashton’s embezzlement of breach of trust case was purely an internal matter within the kingdom, and to his displeasure, Eun-hyeon suddenly presented Bernard with a bag of platinum coins, and the plan to put a leash around Abros’s neck collapsed spectacularly.
Ashton and Bark, the main culprits of Eleanor’s kidnapping, were also involved in Bark and the Lindewald territory, so Agies’ request was not absurd either.
The reason why Queen Diane was worried…

‘Why are you so reluctant?’

An alarm bell was ringing in my head with anxiety that I should not hand them over to the temple.

“Princess Eleanor is also a priest of Vesta, but before that, she is an aristocratic daughter of this country. You can’t just hand them over…”

“As far as I understood, I remember that the queen neglected the kidnapping of Princess Eleanor.”

“…”

“Since you seem very busy, we are going to proceed with the interrogation of Lee Geun. This is because it is an urgent matter that cannot be tailored to the circumstances and schedule of the kingdom.”

“Rio de, didn’t you say that the investigation into the murder of Princess Eleanor’s escort knight and the pursuit of her kidnapped princess was blocked by the kingdom?”

“It is true. It came down to prioritize the order to investigate the corruption of the Armitas family.”

Pudeuk

Without hesitation, she nodded her head and responded to the conversation between Eunhyeon and Riod. Queen Diane broke the fan she was holding in her hand and glared at the two with her fevered face.
Receiving the queen’s blatantly angry stare, Lyod rather just sat with his arms crossed and did not show any reaction.
Anyes stared at Queen Diane slowly, and with her final blow announced her temple’s intention and drove a wedge.

“It seemed that the Kingdom put more emphasis on investigating corruption. We will thoroughly interrogate the two of them at our temple.”