Chapter 7 (1/2)
Third person view, after a long time
”So then… What method do you have?”
The dinner filled with various aggressive words finally over
Erika talks with Kota while drinking black tea prepared by E at Kota as if he was the swore enemy of her parents
”To say it concretely, it would be difficult… Let see First of all, let us start with ement breakdown”
Saying that he put the cup on the table and turn his eyes toward Erika
”As a company… Well, it is similar to a country or territory… Anyway, there are two factors that causing the …”
”Two? What is that?”
”It is just sohly External factor and internal factor, those two”
”… That is… Well, I guess that is obvious…”
”The current cause of the territory suffering is because of internal factors Despite having a land where agricultural corps are difficult to grown, the territory still uses agriculture as athat 'the uess?”
”… Yes, that is right Due to the sea breeze, it caused the harvest to fail Ever since the dawn of this country's history, Terra is chronically faced such problem”
”… I'”
”It is fine”
”This ht be a hard and rude question to answer but, why Eriksan choose to be the lord of this land? Since you're the elder sister of a Queen, could you choose a 'better' place instead?”
”I guess so But on the contrary, isn't this kind of territory that no one wants should be the one given to the royalty?”
”… Which meant?”
”The custo territory was usually carried out as a prize to someone who perforiven a territory where the corps could not groell?”
”… I guess I will take it as a harassment instead”
”For e, there was no territory that could be given in the first place If that the case then, why not giving the unprofitable Terra… Well, that is Lotte strategy I guess?”
”Lotte-san, huh?”
Inside Kota's head, Lotte looked like a gentleuess someone by the appearance, which turns out, he was quite the sly man
”… In the first place, since I didn't notice his personality is also a proof that he is quite the sly man indeed”
”Did you say so?”
”No Nothing really My ot derailed a bit, let us return to the main subject First, we have confirrow”
”Right Even when I tried to grow crops that could grow on such land, the result is…”
”Not much is it?”
”I row them… But, I was unable to sell much of it”
'… I see”
Kota hie, but this proble with it
”… Such typical failure huh?”
”… What do you mean?”
”When ement often takes about three actions One was fixed cost reduction”
”Fixed cost reduction?”
”Reducing rent, returning land, afterwardassociation?”
Personal expenses, real estate rental fees, entertain the many fixed costs ite that cannot be restructured easily, and since the erous situation, they need to quit renting, nothing can be done norreement when it comes to that… But for entertainment expenses…
”… To some extent, we still need association”
”I understand After all, you're a noble”
That's it
”… So then? What about the other two?”
”Another one is an action of extending sales of the oods, or add value to the product itself to increase the price of the product”
The former was thin profit business, while the latter was called value-added commercial law But,
”… isn't that method what I did?”
”No”
Maybe because he felt his throat dry after talking too ain
”What Eriksa to the adjacent industry”
”Adjacent industry?”
”Yes If we brought up crops which we didn't bring up until now… Even if we e to increase product, the profession was still the sariculture, which hborhood”
Saying so, he sighed
”… Andto the adjacent industry”
”Is that so?”