Chapter 119 (2/2)

Money, money, money.

I guess I was satisfied, I had real power.

「However, it is ironic, my confusion teaching me after a teacher like Fegner betrayed me.」

The words spilled from my mouth.

Fegner took the money and ran. That was because money means power.

That’s why I remembered.

For money to lose power like that was an impossible thing.

「When we went to the imperial city again, maybe I should make my workers be slaves…」

From the beginning, my father used agents, and he trusted them too much with money they could never have.

Employees should just do what I tell them, that’s it.

In a place of power rules like the imperial city, because of that there are many slaves. Slaves are very easy to train.

「Hm, that’s right. If I expected for Fegner to raise up my troops, and was stingy with my money for those orphans, perhaps now I should consider using slaves.」

With those silly orphans crushed, I could buy some more, and train them to work in other plans I have.

Fegner was the one that stopped me in thinking about slaves in the first place.

They were easier to train if you raised them from youth, Fegner said, if you brainwashed and trained them you could use them much easier as pawns than some slaves, and even more, they were far cheaper than slaves to purchase.

I gave my consent, but now it seems impudent.

「Well, either way, it all came to nothing. I just have to rethink it all.」

Training orphans by putting them all in a school, and then getting them all to work for me was a great idea.

Fegner was necessary, so because he was incomplete in brainwashing all of them, he used the Ramune on them to get them to become stronger.

Well, they were crushed before I left the town anyway.

Even though I was making my own force, I looked for a place that I could build a place without prying eyes seeing what I was doing.

I should have put a bit more money into the plan I was putting together. However, many of the plans that I carried out for this town had come back fruitless.

(I really used a bunch of money for nothing. I trusted money a bit too much.)

I drew a breath in, and looked out the window.

Far in the distance, I could see the imperial city.

If I got a few more documents in order, I just then had to get my bag out and then ride my horse and wagon to that city.

I can’t use my money in this city, and there’s no reason to hang my signboard here any longer.

Just thinking about everything makes me seethe with anger again, and there was little that I actually knew what had happened.

Nonorik didn’t return in this important time, and if I’m not careful, an unknown enemy could attack while I’m not ready.

After all, Nonorik was the one that sensed an enemy at first.

As soon as I cut off my relationship with him, some other trading company will grab him up quickly.

「That damn little bug… As soon as I rebuild my business, I’ll crush you.」

I pushed down my pen so hard it made a grinding sound on the paper, as I was about to shout out more curses at him.

I’ll leave this town. The next place I put my feet, my business will take that city over completely.

I’ll suck every penny out of that town.

「All the people I fooled, all those idiots that looked angrily at me, all are guilty. I’ll send them all to hell!」

Just thinking about that day made my pen fly quickly.

I’ll leave in three days.

I have security for the road as well.

First, as a gift I have the 『Stone-Leaf Sword』、which I will give to a royal family in the city.

I had already loosened the ribbon around the bag on my body.

Inside was 50 coins of mithril, just in case I need emergency reserves.

I don’t have the gold my father gave me inside, only the money that I hid from my own money-making.

I’ve never shown anyone that, as it’s the only traces of all I’ve made.

I would never show anyone, but it was hidden far away inside a safe, but lately it’s accompanied me wherever I’ve gone.

That mithril used in the white silver has the power of magic resistance and dispelling.

With this amount, even in a bag at my side, it functions as a magic and poison dispeller.

However, there’s even something more I desire for its special abilities.

「Yes, this feeling, this feeling…」

The thing that fills my heart.

The thing I touched with a clink with my finger, cold, shimmering in a way that nothing else can get close to.

It has the feeling of metal, but fills my heart with the greatest sweetness.

「Yes, I’ll do it. Money has limits, but even so I’ll be fine.」

I closed my mouth and put clothes in my bag, and above the clothes I tied my bag shut.