Chapter 346 - 344 Negotiation (1/2)
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”...What are you doing here boy?”
”Of course that I came to see you, Balalaika-onesan~”
”…Stop the nonsense. You can't come to this place just saying that you are known to someone else! ”
”Well... I have some deals to make with some people here.”
”Alexander-san, here is a chair”
”Oh~ Good job, worker-kun”
”” ... ””
I wanted to observe things on this Island a little while to wait to receive some message from Eda's companions, but since Balalaika is here, it was much better to spend time just being with her.
On the other hand… I didn't know whether to praise the man Vin had hired for, who not caring about the stares of the Russian soldiers as he takes a chair and brings it to me, or to worry about him a bit.
If you can't read the atmosphere in Ruananpur, then you will surely end up dying soon... well, since he seemed quite attentive to me, I decided to just do the first thing.
” And you, Balalaika-onesan? What did you come to this place for? ”
”…I got some military vehicles and so I came to sell them. Are you don't be interested in these, boy? ”
Noting some tanks, planes, and helicopters her group was displaying here, I could only shake my head as I answered her.
”… Sorry, I'm not interested in buying things that your country is trying to get rid of. Don't worry, surely you will find some unwary person in this place who will buy them for you… no offense. ”
”...”
The things that she wanted to sell were not so important to me and the people under my command now... surely for some small country they would be attractive, but for our group, for now it was more necessary basic things such as the ones I bought from the church of violence by Eda.
On the other hand, if I ask Balalaika for things on a larger scale as well, surely that would only complicate things even more since there would be a conflict of interest between various countries… Eda already seemed quite uncomfortable with the fact that we were conversing with her.
”T-This… B-Balalaika-san, you seem to be busy now. Let's talk another time ”
” ” ... ” ”
Maybe I shouldn't have said it like that, but… it was late when I realized that those other people were here too! So stop looking at me like this, Balalaika-onesan! Also, if you can't speak to refute my words, you can't blame me that much either!!
”...didn't you have some things to do?”
”Umu, it seems that the person we were hoping to contact us now they have already done it. I'll see you later, Balalaika-onesan ~ ”
”Please don't come back...”
”Heee~ Shall we go? Won't we play with Balalaika-onesan?~”
”We will do it later”
Seeing that Eda had started talking to someone on the phone and that Balalaika would be busy, I get up from my chair to leave. It's a bit sad that she breathes a sigh of relief when she sees me getting up...
Well, not everything is so bad. It seems that now she and her soldiers have forgotten the matter about the twins… they don't pay as much attention to them as before. That is certainly good as it saves me some trouble.
…It's a shame that their attention is now focused on me. Also, I'm sure it's not for good reasons. Every time I made a move, all the soldiers around Balalaika immediately got a little nervous!!
”Alexander, it seems that everything is ready... now we just have to go back to the boat to meet them”
”Damn nun, why did you want us to get an invitation to this place if we would make the deal somewhere else in the end!?”
”What do you want me to do? I Only receive instructions from them!”
”It doesn't matter, let's just go...”
Well, this was surely some kind of proof of her government or something and so we can't blame Eda too much either. Also, they are surely watching us… I don't think it's a coincidence that they quickly contacted her once they saw us talking to Russian people.
Also… as influential as these people here are, surely not even the one in charge of carrying out the event would want to burn their hands for harboring weapons of mass destruction.
So, with the gaze of several people on us, we all return to the boat and immediately we go to some point in the sea indicated by Eda.
”Wow… Sh-Shit… are they really just thinking about going through with the deal ?! They are not planning anything strange, right? ”
”What did you want, bitch? What the boy asked is not that it could precisely be transported in a FedEx truck!! ”
”” ... ””
Revy's nervousness when arriving at the meeting point was quite understandable… there what was waiting for us was a damn American aircraft carrier!! Even I could only frown at seeing this one... not for nothing a vessel like that, if it can still be called this, it was one of the emblems of power of some countries after all!
…Just Vin's little boat was like a toy compared to that thing! If they wanted to blow us up, it would probably be as easy as pressing a button!!
While it's certainly not like I need such a vehicle, I couldn't help but want to have one of these too… now I was a little more nervous that the conversations wouldn't end well. Well, if things get bad, then I'll just follow my plan in my head… I shouldn't have a problem escaping from here with everyone.
”Oh~ We finally see each other... so are you the little Alexander, right?”
”...”
”A-Alexander, this is...”
Unlike them, a man in a suit is the one who speaks to us... he seemed to be between 30-40 years old, quite young to be someone who makes important decisions I would say...
”Yes, I am... pointing a gun at me makes me a little nervous, so you could make your men stop that?”
”…sorry, sorry. It's the custom~ Don't worry about it ”
”...”
Still, since he seemed like the one in charge, I turn to him after looking around a bit. But while the guy apologizes, he doesn't make those men stop targeting us...
Well, we won't know how things will play out unless we start the exchange. With that thought in mind, I have Vin, Benny, and Leona display several small suitcases that they were carried from before.
”Here are the things I agree to deliver… I guess those things are what I asked for, right? ”
”Yes, of course.”
Things seemed a bit tense, but after I show the BIMs and various doc_u_ments and memory devices, they also open some boxes to show me what was inside after being asked to pick a few at random.
Probably neither we nor they wanted to prolong this very much, so I couldn't take my time examining each of those boxes… well, it doesn't matter very much if some are empty. The truth is that just 50% of the deal would be enough for me, and still with that amount I would think I made a good deal.