Resurrected Immortal 199

Chapter 199 – 199. Negotiation Table (2)

“Ah! Hyuna! Uh… ?”

When she finds Eun-hyeon in the hallway, Erin runs over with a happy face. She finds a woman’s face that she never expected and opens her eyes wide.

“School… Sue?”

Cecilia also noticed Erin’s face, lifted her glasses slightly and put them back on, smiling.

“Oh, Erin.”

“Hello. Professor!”

“Huh. Long time no see.”

“Erin. Pigs shouldn’t run in the hallways. This isn’t the house, it’s the duke’s mansion.”

Erin slightly shook her shoulders at Eun Hyun’s attention, which she lightly gave her, and then her face blushed and put on an embarrassing expression.

“M-I’m sorry…”

“Okay. But be careful next time. Because your rash behavior, wherever you go, is also an insult to your guardian, Eun-hyeon.”

“Ugh… I’ll be careful. Sorry…”

Alex’s words, spoken with her calm expression, became a dagger and pierced Erin’s chest.

“Well, my evaluation doesn’t matter anyway. Don’t worry too much about this.”

“Sir, I hate it! That’s your assessment!”

It was more distasteful from Erinn’s point of view that her own evaluation of her Eun Hyun was reduced by her own actions than her own evaluation was reduced.
Seeing Eunhyeon and Erin squabbling over strange things, Cecilia smiled.

“You look good.”

“Ah… Yes. Lol.”

As she quit Aether, she told Cecilia that she couldn’t even say hello properly, perhaps because she came to the duchy, Erin answered with a shy smile.

“Did you come to me rather than that?”

“Huh? Oh right! I won 5 wins in Dalian with the knights. I told you before that I would give you a gift if you win 5 times!”

Hearing Erin brag about her to Eunhyun with a dog-like face eager for praise, Alex paused and hardened his expression.

“… Already?”

It is natural that the knights of Armitas are of a relatively low level compared to Krasir, the royal knights of Pernin, and Artia, led by Riod.
Most of the dukedom’s knights, unless there is a special reason, are mostly selected from the descendants of nobles who work inside the duchy.
The level was inevitably lower than that of Krasir or Aether, who had to pass strict qualification requirements such as a separate entrance exam.

“Awesome.”

But even so, the knights of Armitas were also knights who officially entered Aether and were officially knighted upon graduation, as well as adult males.
At the first sparring, even if she was caught off guard by the fact that she was a young and weak girl, no Armitas knights would ignore Erin now.
Nevertheless, the fact that she won 5 consecutive victories among knights with all her might, and that she was able to win her victory through sparring with them, shows how rapidly Erin, who is still just a young girl, is growing. It was also a measure of showing.

“Don’t praise me too much. Because we are still far away.”

He was always stoic about her evaluation of her girl’s growth, even though she was affectionate as he stroked her hair gently.
Feeling sad at Eunhyun’s words, her Erin’s lips protruded forward.

“Joe, you can compliment me a little! I really tried!”

“Okay. Good job.”

“I don’t have a heart…”

“I know how hard you tried. The promised gift… I will show you soon.”

“… Really?”

“Of course.”

“Okay!”

“And when the time comes, I’ll ask Cecilia-sama to talk to me. Me and Alex are busy preparing to welcome guests.”

“Ah, yes. Okay.”

Erin nodded her head and agreed to Eunhyun’s request.

“Miss Cecilia. I had someone from the mansion move Cecilia-sama’s luggage to the guest room. I’ll speak to you before dinnertime, so please be at ease until then. If you need anything, just let me know.”

“Huh. Thank you.”

When her public talk was over and she returned to her private relationship, Cecilia responded with a smile as if she were seeing a friend she hadn’t seen in a while.

“Then we’re done.”

Saying that, she walked down the hallway and stared at the backs of Eunhyun and Alex as they left, and soon Erin opened her mouth.

“Professor. We are leaving too.”

“Huh.”

Cecilia and Erin followed the maid who led the way to the guest room.
Soon after arriving at the guest room, Cecilia sat down on her sofa and let out a weary breath as she leaned against her.

“Whoa…”

“Are you tired?”

“Huh? Hmm… To be honest, I was a bit tired…”

Upon arrival, after days without a break in the carriage, she had met and talked with Alex.
One of the reasons she let out a sigh was that she was worried about the soon-to-be negotiating table with the aristocrats after hearing about Eun-hyeon and Alex’s plan while the accumulated fatigue was rushing in at once.
Still, the only reason I felt relieved after coming down here was.

“I’m glad you seem to be doing well.”

“Are you saying that?”

“Huh.”

Erin looked at Cecilia with her eyes wide open as she suddenly brought up her own story.

“It was always on my mind. Because she quit Aether and she left like that.”

Cecilia deals with the culprits and gangsters of the drug case in Pernin, but Erin, who made a big contribution, refuses her queen’s reward at the court meeting, and she herself gives up her aristocratic position. She had heard from her father that she had declared that she would.
Cecilia’s father, who did not belong to any faction among the aristocrats of her court and maintained her neutral attitude, saw Erin like that and praised her as a very confident girl.

“She couldn’t be her strength to Erin because she was still in her head.”

“Ah… No. Rather, I feel sorry for the professor. I couldn’t even say goodbye and suddenly left Pernin…”

Cecilia was almost the only person Erin could trust and rely on in Aither.
Despite the fact that Erin is being bullied by other students, Erin’s attitude of pretending not to know, failing to reveal the fact of abuse on her own and asking for help, as well as students’ refusal to leave clear evidence and room for Because of your vigilance, you couldn’t protect Erin.
Now, whenever she saw Erin, who was saved by her grace and smiling, she remembered the face of Erin in the past, where she was in danger of being destroyed at any moment, and one side of her heart continued to throb.
She didn’t know that Erin had met Elvin, who had become her spirit, but it was only after seeing her visibly brighter appearance that Cecilia was able to relieve the throbbing in one side of her heart. .

“Whoops, it’s okay.”

Cecilia shook her head and smiled at her.

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The nobles who were standing in the middle of the mansion, in the central hall, looked at each other with suspicious expressions.
The noisy and tumultuous atmosphere does not subside at all.
The reason is that Eunhyeon ordered Heilangdan to send them a letter, realizing that they were not the only nobles who came to negotiate with the duke’s family for a cure.

“I hope that too… ?”

“Oh, Count Orpah, too… ?”

I thought it was a negotiation that had only been proposed to me through a message sent secretly and secretly, but it turned out that it was a message sent to a number of nobles, and from the point of view of the nobles, unexpected competitors had arisen.

“Okay…”

A nobleman groaned as he intuited that the situation was going strangely.
As each of them puts the recovery of their daughters and children as their top priority, it is clear that no one will yield this time.
Even if you don’t look at the expectation that nobles with high status and considerable wealth will offer negotiations with the duke’s family that has a cure, even if you pay a premium, it’s like an obvious story.
It was a time when nobles were just looking at each other.

“You all came.”

Alex laughed inwardly at the fact that the number of messages Eunhyeon sent to the nobles matched the number of nobles.
Alex slowly came down the stairs from the upper floor to the central hall and glanced over at the aristocrats who were sitting on the chairs in the center that were arranged in advance.

“… How did this happen? Little Duke.”

Among the many nobles, it was Count Orba who first opened his mouth and questioned Alex.

“What are you talking about?”

“The Duke… Where is the duke?”

“My father was ill and could not come to this meeting. So, in this negotiation, I am the one who has the decision-making authority on our side.”

It is a lie that Abros could not appear in front of nobles because he was not feeling well.
However, it was true that he entrusted Alex with the authority to decide on the management of the future estate and important matters of the ducal family.
It’s just that it wasn’t announced as an official stone statue.
Abros lost confidence in further politics and management of the territory due to Ashton’s incident last time, and was in a state of disappointment.
That’s why he delegated future authority to Alex and was spending time on vacation now.
He originally tried to succeed to the family title, but Alex refused.

“I am… I’m here to negotiate the cure. But what the hell is the number of nobles here? Could it be that you tricked me?”

“You’re cheating. I have never cheated on Count Orpah. I remember not writing down a single word in my letter to the Count saying that he would only call the Count?”

It was Eunhyeon’s action to have Heilangdan write down the exact contents of the letter and send a message to many nobles, but in the current situation, that wasn’t that important.

“… What on earth do you want us to do together?”

A nobleman who felt frustrated with Alex’s attitude of not getting into the main topic while taking a relaxed attitude after calling many aristocrats couldn’t stand it and shouted at Alex.

“Out of the ten people gathered here, I will only sell the cure to five people.”

“What is that… !”

“Nonsense!”

“The conditions for entering those five minutes are simple. The 10 nobles gathered here have one thing in common. Has anyone noticed what it is?”

“That… Royalist…”

As one aristocrat murmured, all ten of them were nobles from the royal party faction, and core nobles who tried to bring down the entire family by blaming Ashton’s personal sins on the entire ducal family.
The starting point of the incident was made by Ashton, but even the nobles of the Royal Party faction, who used it as an opportunity to point their teeth at the duke’s family, could not forgive it.
Alex, of course, had no intention of forgiving them, and this was a process to thoroughly bite them off on the board Eun-hyeon had laid.

“Hey little duke. Forget everything we’ve done…”

“Forget?”

Alex’s expression hardened as he looked at the aristocrat who had uttered a remark he couldn’t let go.

“How can I forget the humiliation and humiliation I went through then?”

It is unbelievable that he would forgive those men who put him and his father in the center, surrounded them on all sides, and tried to rip out his entire family.

“…”

“Ha, but the former minor duke, Ashton, was not right! According to the laws of the kingdom, we held the duke’s family responsible for leading the embezzlement!”

At the cry of a nobleman, several nobles shook their shoulders, turned their heads, and averted their gaze.
They are the aristocrats of the Royal Party faction who participated in Ashton’s corruption.

“Yes. Ashton’s corruption will be recorded as a shame that will remain in our ducal family for the rest of our lives. But”

Alex opened his words, staring at some nobles staring at him.

“According to that logic, you who participated in the corruption led by Ashton in the court meeting hall at that time, rather pretended that you had nothing to do with it, and what shame did those who questioned me and my father like that came to me? I just don’t get it.”

“That, it is… !”

“Then leave the authors out, and sell me the cure!”

“What do you mean by that!”

“It’s not possible! My son is also in a very critical condition right now… !”

A few weeks ago, the nobility of the royal faction, who had been elated and frantic to gather together in the court meeting hall and eat the congo water dripping from the duke’s family, began to divide.
In order to save his own lineage, he puts down the nobles of the same faction, stands on the upper hand, and struggles to be among the five people who offered to sell the cure is very funny.

And apart from that funny thought, I was even angry at the same time.
Aristocrats who were pointed out at Alex’s words, who were glaring at him with angry eyes burning in his cold expression, turned pale and lost their words.
Soon, one of the nobles got down on his knees and cried out to Alex earnestly.

“I… I was wrong! So, so please… Sell ​​me a cure that can save my son’s life!”

Alex stared at him and said nothing at the aristocrat’s attitude of throwing away his pride and dignity by kneeling down to save his child.
As he kept his mouth shut and stared at him, the nobleman who knelt on his knees added his words out of urgency.

“From now on… From now on, I will never do anything wrong with the duke’s family! Promise!”

Alex did not immediately respond to the aristocrat’s earnest plea.