Chapter 53: Records of settling the case of attempted assassination on Baron Baumeister

Plot
In the aftermath of Kurt failed assassination attempt Burkhart contacts Amadeus to have him contact the King Helmut, Finance Minister Rückner and Cardinal Hohenheim to warn them about the attack and the grudges. As they are taking about Kurt Armstrong makes the comment that if he was my younger brother he would have meet with an accident by drawing his hand across his throat. Wend realized Armstrong would have no problem assassinating someone. After this they then head to inform Artur and the rest about Kurt's actions. Once they arrive, Armstrong explains everything that has happen and Artur can only say"That idiot has…". Artur then asks if he will be dismissed with Armstrong telling him he will retire. Before he arrived in the Baumeister Knight Territory, King Helmut, had already given Armstrong instructions on how to handle the situation. Armstrong then explains that Hermann will become the new lord of the territory and become a Baronet, Wend will get the Savage lands and will start it development.d Paul will be given a peerage and some of the territory. He further explains that the Baumeister peerage will be raised to a Baron with Hermann heir. Paul will be made a Baronet and given some of the territory due to his actions. Paul is stunned as all he did was hide behind the barrier. Wend is thinking about how he will leave the management of the territory to Rodrich and will come back when he retires as an adventurer. Armstrong then informs Wend his peerage will be raised to and Earl. Later, Wend asks Klaus if he was satisfied to which Klaus tells him he just didn't think Kurt was good for the territory and wanted one of the other brothers to inherit. Klaus explains his reasoning behind his desire to have one of the other brothers inherit and at the end Artur says to him its about that incident even though its been a long time. Artur finally explains to Klaus that his son and Leila's fiance hated each other due to Leila's fiance wanting to become the next village head. He had taking them hunting to try and work out the problems, but before he new it they were trying kill each other and fell of the cliff fighting. He then took Leila as a wife to stop anyone else from having the same idea. Klaus tried to says he doesn't believe it, but Artur tells him your not stupid to not have seen it and says I don't care anymore as I'm now retired.

Artur has Johanna and Amalie brought in so he can inform them of what has happened. Johanna says she will retire with Artur and Amalie says she was already prepared to this. Amalie doesn't ask for anything but asks Wend to take care of her children in the future and Wend agrees. The next day Wend and his group head back out to the Savage Lands and are collecting fruits and vegetables when Burkhart shows up and informs him that Kurt's grudge has killed Baron Rückner and his family plus all the allies who were attending his celebration party for attaining right in the Savage Lands. Since Burkhart had warned the Capitol in advance Cardinal Hohenheim had priest on the ready and once the grudge was detected it was purified. Wend now gets suspicious and Finance Minister Rückner and tells Burkhart to to give him any information. Some of the deceased nobles families will want Wend to give them concessions to the Savage Lands so he will need to head to the Capitol to some such talk. Wend then muses that Amalie will need to go by her surname to stop future grudges of Kurt from effecting her.

Characters
Wendelin von Benno Baumeister

Elise Katharina von Hohenheim

Klimt Kristoff von Armstrong

Burkhart Ringstat

Artur von Benno Baumeister

Johanna

Amalie Mainbach

Louise Yorande Aorelia Oufelbeik

Iina Suzane Hirenbrant

Erwin von Arnim

Wilmal Etol von Asgahan

Locations
Baumeister Knight Territory