071. Hexa Medical (1)
“One on the shelf in the back. One at the entrance. one on the right. Three in total.”
“Shall we do it right here?”
“Look. If the purpose was to attack us, we would have done it earlier when we were passing the alley.”
A few calculations ran through my mind.
Have you been able to locate the mansion?
Chances are low.
For several days, no suspicious movement was found in the vicinity of the evening.
The presence was felt from a certain distance away from the mansion.
That means there is a high probability that the other person stumbled upon us in the middle and started chasing us.
It was because rumors were already circulating about the color of the hair and how tall he was.
“Is it a Blue Serpent? Or Putilland?”
“It doesn’t matter either way.”
After checking out the items, I went out of the store.
Instead of heading straight to the mansion, he entered an alley with few people and went round and round the road.
As if bewildered by our fast pace, we could feel the followers hurriedly following us.
“This place seems to be enough, so come out.”
There was no reaction.
“Tell me again. come out Otherwise, I will kill them all.”
Then three men showed up.
It looked like it was crouching, not approaching it hastily.
“Don’t you think that’s right?”
“Once a man and a woman, one union… . Hair color… .”
My purpose is to prolong the war.
The longer the battle, the more time I have to plan and act.
Because of this, my muzzle was also directed at Puttyland depending on the battle situation.
Not a sure ally.
You may even die in return for following an unidentified powerful person.
That would be the mentality.
“What is the purpose of following me?”
“Ah, that… .”
“I will count to three. three.”
“Come on, wait a minute!”
“two.”
“We are mercenaries belonging to Fertilland! Maybe it’s not the sorceress who appeared in various battles recently… .”
“one. Tell me your purpose.”
Hwareuk.
I created a fireball on the palm of my hand.
The boys took a stance to run back and shouted urgently.
“Sir, I have been instructed to bring you along when you find the wizard at the top!”
“Are you the boss?”
“Yes, yes!”
I threw a fireball towards the floor.
bang!
The fireball hit the floor, causing a small explosion.
The guys managed to avoid getting caught up in the explosion by blowing themselves up.
“Don’t you think the sentence should include who is looking for me and why?”
“Hey, we haven’t heard anything! I just want you to come with me… .”
I turned to Estelle and said.
“What do you think?”
“I do not know. I think the first thing to do when inviting someone is to clearly identify yourself first.”
I nodded my head slightly and walked over to the guys lying on the floor.
shudder.
Pulling out a pistol and pointing a gun at it.
The guys who saw it turned white and moved their bodies behind them.
bang! bang! bang!
They closed their eyes tightly and opened their eyes as soon as they felt no pain.
Next to the bridge, smoke was rising from the bullet marks on the floor.
“Go and tell him. If you want to talk to me, you have to come see me in person. If you are willing to do that, please tell the story to the intelligence guild in Area 45.”
All bullets were lodged in the ground between their legs.
Smoke rose from three round holes in the concrete.
“good. Before you change your mind and kill me.”
The guys got up from their seats and ran away.
Estelle said as she looked at her disappearing back.
“I’m not worried, but maybe retaliation might come?”
“The possibility exists. But if I were a Putiland practitioner, I wouldn’t make that choice.”
The reason you wanted to see me had to be one of two things.
remission or removal.
There are no other options, and the former is highly likely in the situation.
Even if the pia is not certain, the charter is not leaning to either side because of the existence of the country.
Putilland would want to somehow attract him and make him his ally.
“It’s a pity that the Blue Serpent didn’t find me first.”
“Iknow, right. Then we would be able to reduce the number of enemies without having to visit them.”
As they returned to the mansion, the presence of someone following was no longer felt.
As I opened the huge grate gate and entered, a man in a suit who had just gotten out of the car found me and bowed his head.
“I came under Pieta-sama’s orders.”
“You recognize me right away.”
“We met face to face a few times while staying at the head office.”
He unlocked the lock on the briefcase, took out the envelope inside, and handed it over.
“This is the material you requested. And you asked me to tell you. I’m sorry that I couldn’t come in person because I was busy with work.”
He nodded again, got into the car and disappeared.
Estelle and I entered the mansion, climbed the stairs, and headed to our respective rooms.
After lying on the armchair, I opened the seal of the envelope and took out the contents.
It was a report analyzing trends in the pharmaceutical industry.
From small venture companies to large corporations that you can recognize just by hearing their names, they were organized in every detail.
I quickly turned the page and found the keyword I was looking for.
「Hexa Medical」
A medium-sized company that uses a hexagonal star similar to the denomination’s logo as its logo.
At the bottom of the page, related newspaper articles and stock price fluctuations were clipped and attached.
“The treatment of demons. Is the impossible wall falling down?”
“Attracting large-scale investment. The winds of change are blowing in the pharmaceutical industry rankings.”
It was a company whose stock price was skyrocketing as it announced a new drug that could cure horse disease a month ago.
The new drug is effective in actual treatment, and even a report has been published that some of the clinical investigators have been cured.
‘Are the settings reflected like this at this point? It’s been fun.’
Then Estelle opened the door and came in. In his hand was a plate of fruit.
“Would you like to eat? There are fruits that are only grown in this area.”
Black Lapotte.
As a fruit of the grape family, it was known to be very difficult to cultivate because it grows only on specific soils and in a certain climate.
When I didn’t take my eyes off the paperwork and didn’t answer, she came over and set the bowl down on the desk.
“I used to eat a lot. Because it is effective in improving the horse disease. In the end, it was a baseless rumor. Can I read it too?”
She said looking at the papers scattered on the desk, and I nodded.
“If there is a cure for horse disease, what kind of specific form or method would it be?”
“… I’m not going to tell you the answer anyway. I do not know. Wouldn’t drugs or surgery be more convincing than these foods or folk remedies?”
I handed her the papers I was reading.
Her face hardened as she read the article.
“New drug development… . There are cases of cure… ? What is this?”
“It is what you see.”
“Even if the cause is unknown, is it curable? So far, no progress has been made in research?”
“The world is overflowing with idiots who want to turn someone’s earnestness into money.”
“ah.”
Her trembling eyes slowly subsided.
It was because he understood the meaning of my words.
“Are you talking about fakes?”
“okay. it’s fake All of the test results have been tampered with.”
“I heard that censorship is very difficult on the pharmaceutical side, but can it be manipulated?”
“It is not something Hexa Medical did alone. If there is a group that looks after you, it is possible.”
“… I don’t like it. The denomination and the emblem are similar to each other.”
Hexa Medical.
As one of the companies I set up, it appears in the second half of the novel, which is originally from the main character’s point of view.
A leading conglomerate that developed a cure for horse disease and rose to the top of the industry.
Although it is a story after some time has passed, at that time the treatment is commercialized and sold all over the continent.
Rare crops are used in large amounts as a compounding agent, so they are expensive and take many years to be effective, but people still buy medicines.
The wealthy don’t care.
The middle class is raising extra money.
Even the lower classes are in debt.
Horse disease is a disease that many people are suffering from, and a cure is desperately desired.
But the drug doesn’t work.
It makes the horseman’s pattern engraved on his body blurry, but that’s just a trick.
Even that, the side effects are not completely caught and various complications occur, so it is not as good as not taking it.
The main character is to play the role of a savior by discovering the reality of the company and developing a proper treatment.
Before the main character still wandered the continent in earnest, Hexa Medical was announcing the start of a huge fraud here.
“Is this company behind Fertilland?”
“okay. I guarantee 100%. The land is not bought for drugs, but for the cultivation of medicinal plants.”
I didn’t even set up an organization called Puttyland.
But when I heard that the land was being purchased with overwhelming capital, I could intuit it.
Hexa Medical is behind Putiland, and the latest move is to lay the foundation for mass production of new drugs.
“What are you going to do?”
“No matter where the forces behind it are, what we do doesn’t change.”
Go to the place where the engagement takes place and reduce the number of parter’s infrastructure and subordinates.
“First of all, there is a public enemy called the Blue Serpent, but you have no intention of partnering with Puttyland, do you?”
“Now is not the time.”
The moment they hold hands, the tide of the battle is sharply tilted, and the possibility of Parter directly participating in the battle increases.
Variables that are difficult to control increase.
It may attract the attention of the security authorities.
I had to look for more opportunities.
At least until he rescues Cain’s minions who will be trapped in the arena, and weakens the enemy’s power up to a set line.
“I know. Whenever a situation arises, just give me orders. By the way, do you really not eat this? Did I wash myself?”
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to feed you. Oh, do it.”
“Put your fingers away.”
“I eat only enough food to survive and I don’t drink alcohol. What kind of pleasure do you want to buy? I want to be a machine, not a person.”
“… … .”
I furrowed my eyebrows.
It seemed that she had become close friends, and she sometimes joked around like this.
Strictly speaking, fruit is a luxury item that can be enjoyed by the upper middle class.
Most of the lower classes die without even seeing them for the rest of their lives.
When working in a high-end tavern as a child, Cain saw fruit countless times.
All kinds of high-quality fruits served as snacks for the wealthy, who are the main customers, to show off their wealth.
And I have seen the disgusting nature that oozes out in their drunken ugliness and behavior.
The image was attached to the fruit as it was, and remained deep in the mind of young Cain.
That’s why Cain didn’t like fruit.
That memory could have affected me as well, but it was a situation that I was not mentally reluctant to.
‘I’m sorry.’
I stopped trying to make an order using the oath.
It was true that she was one of the figures I painstakingly sculpted, and that I put more affection into her than the others.
‘If I had to compare it, it would feel like seeing the jokes of a young daughter.’
It was the idea that I didn’t want to make people feel embarrassed by giving attention or urging me to this playful aspect, which I couldn’t see throughout the work if it was the original flow.
smart.
─ Cain. Communication came in.
It was the butler’s voice.
As if I had met the Savior, I jumped up from my seat and opened the door and went out.
“Come right down.”
I went down the stairs and headed to the communication room on the first floor.
The communication marble was emitting a soft light, and when the button was operated, the figure of Bama appeared as a hologram.
He was still lying on an armchair, covering his body with clothes.
“I thought he was dead because there was no contact. Or you got caught by the police.”
“… gibberish. The war had begun. As you said, all requests for support from Parter have been rejected.”
“Good job.”
“It’s okay for now, but know that if the boss gives direct instructions, then there’s nothing you can do about it. If the war is prolonged, Laika’s men will be able to participate as well.”
“A month at most. The war will be over before then.”
“Unlucky child. As if we knew all the future like that from the old days… . Let’s move on to the next topic.”
After holding his breath for a moment, he said.
“I found your subordinate.”