Chapter 593 (1/2)

Having unexpectedly learned some valuable information from Khanna, we returned to Sheftent and met up with Lovren.

There, we also gave him the information we had received from Khanna.

「The Merchant Association has ties to the Kingdom of Raidos? It’s kinda hard to believe…」

Lovren was also quite surprised. He said that the Mesther Merchant Association, which was selling the Scarlet Waterweed medicine, was a very old merchant association with a high reputation in this country.

「We’ll need to double-check that first」

「Nn. But, Lovren didn’t notice it? That the disease wasn’t really an epidemic」

Indeed. That was what we were most curious about. Anyone who did a little research would know that the epidemic was false information, but was anyone else in the country aware of it?

「Well, yeah. In the first place, we don’t have anyone who’d investigated such things」

「Why?」

「Because there’s no one in trouble」

Although it was said that there was a shortage of Scarlet Waterweed medicine, it didn’t mean that there was no distribution at all. There was always a certain amount of it available in the country. But still, it was thought that there was not enough for everyone…

「Actually, even if the disease was not endemic, I’m sure it would have been properly distributed to all patients. So, no one would be making a fuss about the shortage」

「Nn」

「And its price was still the same as in the previous years」

Furthermore, the distribution was being handled by the Mesther Merchant Association, a relatively big merchant association. If the source of the rumor was the Mesther Merchant Association, no one could point out anything strange about the distribution.

After all, although it was being said that there is a “shortage of scarlet water pills,” not many people had been affected by this. The only people who had suffered were the adventurers near the lake, who had to collect more Scarlet Waterweed than usual.

「But why would they spread such rumors?」

「Well. I could understand if they wanted to raise the price of Scarlet Waterweed medicine by spreading false rumors that the disease that was not actually an epidemic had become an epidemic… But if that was not their aim, maybe they were actually aiming at the Scarlet Waterweed medicine itself」

「What do you mean?」

「They could disguise it as a domestic sale and ship it elsewhere. Like the Kingdom of Raidos for example. But I don’t know what their purpose is though」

In other words, there was a high possibility that their objective was to obtain the medicine.

「How should we investigate it then?」

「Well, I guess our best bet would be to ask around to the people in the merchant association」

Well, he was right. I would also like to hear from their top brass if possible.

「Where is the merchant association?」

「Its headquarters is in the Commercial Fleet」

It seemed that both the atelier and the headquarters of the merchant association were located in the Commercial Fleet.

「The problem is that we can’t just barge in without an appointment and expect them to listen to us」

「Don’t worry」

「You got a secret plan?」

「Just give them Weena Rhyn’s name」

Both Fran and I already witnessed the tremendous influence Weena Rhyn had in this country.

I didn’t think there was anyone who would dare to defy us with Weena Rhyn’s name. We were already at Komon-sama level, weren’t we?