Chapter 119 (1/2)

It was two weeks since I last saw Fegner.

The subjugation of the magic monsters had gone well, too, and the former activity of the town returned.

However, there was no positive result for the Grond trading company, as movement of products around the streets trickled to a halt.

Perhaps because a large amount of importing couldn’t take place until the city streets were insured safe.

There was pressured situation like this in the town before.

What else was understood was, all the talk about the reminiting of currency was all a rumor.

However, it wasn’t that there was absolutely nothing done about it.

For example, even if it were true, it was hard to even get the right to do it.

In order to finalize all the contracts by the firms that used that money, it took a lot of money to get the products purchased back in order to do so.

For Fegner, it was assumed that he had taken the money of the trade company and fled with it.

It wasn’t that they didn’t know where he had gone, but no one had time to worry about such things.

「Grond’s inspection ended without a hitch. Including those responsible, they’ve all been let go.」

「I see…return to regular business.」

In order to stop the outflow from his safe, all of the stores had been closed and regular business had been stopped, but in this condition, there was now nothing for employees to do without orders.

「Yes sir.」

The employee said little else but simply left the room.

(Those official bastards, not even going to greet me? What a mockery.)

Alone in his room, he angrily sat and drank some green tea.

「Damn, this is too thick. It’s just bitterness and little else.」

The bitter expression his mouth made over his face distorted his face more.

I guess even if you tell someone how to make tea, it’s hard for people that aren’t high class to make it regardless.

Fegner could make good tasting and bitter salted plums because of his experience all over the world.

However, Fegner’s no longer with us.

「Dammit, Fegner, did you forget the duty you had to my father, you bastard?!」

Those thoughts I tried to chase away with work came right back to my lips again.

It wasn’t good to be mulling over that, even understanding that it was impossible to suppress as I threw my cup at the wall.

Pwassshhh, the loud sound echoed, and the contents dripped down the wall.

「Man, this pisses me off! Hey! Someone!」

I called out for a maid in a loud voice, and a senior maid that had been with us a long time entered.

「You called, Master Grond?」

「Clean this. And I don’t want to drink your green tea any more. Normal black tea, now.」

「As you wish.」

I ordered the maid, and after a sigh went back to work.

After she finally finished cleaning, the same maid brought me a new cup of black tea.

「Maste Grond, why don’t you take a rest? I think you not resting at all from your work has had an effect…」

「No, I’m fine. I need this time. If I get done with this, then it will be enough, no, I will totally be able to restart this business.」

After all this, my company will go into a recession. I had to recognize that already by now.

However, I still had some power left.

It was something normal people couldn’t get, the power of money.

「Well, call me if you need me again.」

She quietly left the room, and I prepared some documents while still thinking about it in the back of my mind.

Operations in this town are over.

There was no reason to try to restart this company in Dartlas. All the copper and silver stacked, leaving the gold and large gold pieces secretly for myself, had already been paid out.

Even those damned government workers, even though they didn’t find me at fault, finished their final investigation.

Of course there was nothing I could do anyway.

After that, it was just time to leave town with the money I had.

「The imperial city, no, they used to call it that. Well, whatever, I can live anywhere I want now.」

Yes, the money I had in hand was more than the money my father left me with.

I had gotten much experience with the work I had done.

It hurt to lose connections with the queen, but she was a different person than she looked like.

With my power decreased, I can cut ties to this business and try another, or buy out another with this money.

Anyway, there was no other way to live in this kingdom.

「Because it’s the survival of the richest here, it’s easy to use this money. I just have to find someone other than the queen….I have to break the others in so they don’t take me for a sucker like Fegner, I need another head guy.」

I lost a lot in this problem, and I had to postpone many plans into the future.

However, I still had the power the masses didn’t have.