How to Survive at the Academy chapter 38

Ophelias Occupation Situation (8)

Favors and trust are accompanied by reasons corresponding to them.

The reason Slog, one of the six giants of the Elte Company, joined Lortel is because he is in a position to aim for the position of the next president of the company.

The reason why Seton, the owner of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, joined Lortel’s plan with Miso is because he believes that the internal rift of the Elte Chamber will bring a new wind to the power structure of Oldek, the commercial city.

The reason Sharo, the receptionist at the Elte Chamber, flirts with Lortel is because she expects Lortel to divulge valuable information by mistake.

The reason Kadan, a trader worker, is particularly hot in front of Lortel is because Lortel often gives tips.

The reason the society’s pet, Tiny, is attached to Lortel is because the feed Lortel gives is the most luxurious.

Every favor is accompanied by a reason, like a tag. At least in the world of Lortel.

In most cases, if you understand the reason well, you can even see the intentions and psychology of the other person at a glance.

There is no bloody family, no lover who promised love, no long-time ally. Since there is no way in the world where a person who shows a favor to Lortel without any reason exists, ironically, he can maintain a cynical attitude in all human relationships.

“I don’t think I have time to explain in detail. Anyway, did Alice betray you?”

Even though he knew that, he believed in Alice. What a stupid and stupid mistake.

The attitude of life in which he had not fully trusted anyone is overshadowed.

One that comes to mind is Yenica Palerover.

Growing up with a lot of favor and love, she is a princess in a fairy tale book who treats the world with only kindness and love. If you look at her hot eyes looking at Ed Roth Taylor, you can’t help but convince yourself that this is the love interest of a beautiful girl who doesn’t have the time of Sepa.

If you saw such a figure, you shouldn’t have forgotten your gloomy and wretched self.

He shouldn’t have been drunk by the romantic scenery of the Sylvania Academy, and he shouldn’t have thought that he could become such a romantic and beautiful human being.

“I saw Shani making contact with Elte. Shani was a maid loyal to Ellis, perhaps?”

Ed Rothtailer says as he runs ahead down the hallway on the first floor.

“Still, neither Elise nor Elte will report your deeds to the Bachelor. Golden King Elte himself doesn’t want to be found out that this case has a connection with the Elte company.”

Five people were bought by Lortel for the Ophelis Pavilion this time.

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Maid chief Elise, twin maids Sheney/Kelly, inferior student representative Willaine, and downfall noble Ed.

Elise, Sheeny and Kelly moved on to Elte.

Willaine also wanted to join Elte, but he won’t join Lortel.

And Ed, too, should have been tempted by Elte.

Suddenly, my footsteps stopped. Ed, who was running ahead, looked back with a bewildered face and quickly narrowed his brow.

I don’t have time, so what are you doing?

Lortel finally regained his composure, smiled like a fox, and uttered words that he couldn’t even understand why he was uttering it.

“I’m sorry. Sir Ed. Right now, I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to give you the promised 20 gold coins. As you can see, the situation is unstable right now.”

What the hell is that one or two betrayals, and after being hit in the head by Elise, my heart is sticky.

Lortel had to admit. He is now mentally weak.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to do such a stupid thing.

I don’t know why, but Ed Rothtailer sided with Lortel rather than with Elte.

If so, it would be best to read his intentions, see through them, and think about taking advantage of him.

But like an idiot, he makes these confessions.

What kind of stupid behavior is this? It’s like surrendering yourself to your allies because there’s no reason to be by your side.

“Who asked? I’m going to die because I’m busy, but what are you doing standing there blankly?”

However, there is no worry in Ed’s appearance as he slaps Lortel’s words.

“If you get caught by Elte now, your life will be over. No matter what you plan for the future or whatever you do, you should run away first.”

Ed’s goosebumps, standing across the hallway and scolding, are all covered in blood.

It must have been like this while protecting the first floor of the Ophelis Building as Lortel requested.

Still, he doesn’t even show his hard work. Even if I could grunt with one word that I suffered so much.

“Or, are there any other sharp measures?”

“…”

“If there is, do as you please.”

There is not even a hint of doubt in his tone when he says that he will join Lortel’s will in a cool way.

Indeed, this man is even convinced that he will give up on Lortel’s opinion.

As my sister and sister have said, goodwill and trust are always accompanied by good reasons.

But there is no reason for this man’s favor and trust.

No matter how rational and rational you might think, this man should have fallen for Elte’s conciliation. If you asked a hundred people, they would all have done the same.

If you can’t see the reason, don’t believe it. I haven’t fully figured out my opponent yet, but I don’t know what will happen if I recklessly share my thoughts.

Wasn’t it just a while ago that I trusted Elise and ended up like this? Can’t we repeat the same mistake again?

But the mouth starts to move on its own. My inner voice calls me to stop, but I can’t raise my hand to grab even the last straw because of my exhausted heart.

What flows out of his mouth is the end of the internal affairs of the Elte company and the battle for power within the company.

“…there is a price manipulation plan planned by the main store of the Sanghoe. Perhaps it was his father’s plan.”

“Explain.”

“After the extensive subjugation of monsters in the Eastern Mountains last summer, the market price of Jangguryu plummeted. After buying and monopolizing all the surplus items for sale, insider trading is repeated…”

“It’s a regular transaction. Can you explain briefly?”

Ed cut off the description coolly.

After monopolizing the items for sale in the area centered on the subjugation garrison, repeat the act of buying and selling the items in the market.

The key is insider trading.

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Merchants who have been secretly bought around Elte Trading Company are repeating their trades among themselves.

Assuming that ABC buys three merchants, A sells jewelery to B for 1 gold, B sells it to C for 2 coins, and C sells it to A for 3 coins, and so on.

In the end, gold coins and jangguryu items for sale only circulated in the hands of Elte Trading Co., but their prices are steadily rising.

In that way, the market price bubbled up until the next time the demand surges, subjugating the demon tribe. Then, you can sell the jangguryu with a ridiculous profit.

I thought it would make sense to manipulate the market price with such a fist-fighting collusion, but it was surprisingly a classic technique. However, it is only unrealistic because it requires a huge amount of capital.

“For that plan, my father used debts from the Dukes of Oldogar and the Counts of Oper. However, by the time the expiry date arrived, the plan to subdue the monsters was pushed back, so we needed urgent dispatch.”

“Was that remedy the sage’s seal?”

“yes.”

There is not much to explain, but Ed understands it very quickly. It’s as if you’ve done a prior study.

“My father… said he found someone who would buy the sage’s seal at a high price as soon as he had it in his hand… He instructed me to enter Sylvania as a freshman and figure out a way to steal the sage’s seal.”

“okay. I get it. After that, there is no need to explain.”

“yes? Is this okay?”

Ed grabbed Lortel’s wrist. Saying it was not worth the time to sit still, he strode across the hallway again and walked out.

“After that, what should I do to talk about each and every word? In order to put the academic finances in a corner, the scale of the occupation of the Ophelis building was called out, and then the negotiation for the purchase of the sage’s seal would become realistic. I was thinking of doing it.”

As he walks roughly, he spit out only the core, but the story penetrates the essence of the story. The speed of understanding the situation is unusual.

Lortel looked at Ed with stunned eyes, but Ed didn’t seem to care.

In the end, the key to price manipulation through regular trading is mutual trust.

An act of artificially invoking the price of three merchants A, B, and C while exchanging money and property with each other.

However, it is a structure that cannot be established if even one of the three people A, B, and C betrays in the middle. When the market price rises moderately, it is a structure where only the other two eat shit when they first dump out all their stock and then disappear.

I mentioned A, B, and C as examples… but considering the size of the company and the market, more than a dozen or so middle-class merchants must be involved.

Since we’ve been conciliating about a third of that over the past half year, if we get the timing right, we can induce a sharp drop in the market price through a massive sale of Jangguryu.

As the price is an artificially built bubble, it is not difficult to bring the price down. It is difficult for the price to go up, but when you start selling properties competitively, the rate of decline is instantaneous.

The price drop will be recorded as a huge loss for the Elte company, which is carrying a lot of gear.

From a very broad perspective, the surplus would have only narrowed, but right now, in the short term, it will record a huge amount of loss in the company’s books.

The important thing is right now. Macroscopic pictures that cannot be seen are not very important.

Elte’s position in the company, which is narrowing due to various losses, will be fatally wounded by this loss.

In addition to that, if they even add small charges of book manipulation or liability for losses, the justification for dismissal cannot be more than this.

With just those words, could all these pictures be drawn in Ed Roth Taylor’s head?

No matter how much one’s head spins, there is always a limit to a person’s agility. Although it is impossible to draw all these pictures with Lortel’s brief description alone.

“Then there will be only one thing for you to do.”

But Ed’s words still hit the core.

“Anyway, you just need to send a message to the main store of Sanghoe to sell Jangguryu right now, right?”

If you want to sell the assets inside the company at that size, you need the approval of the stockholder.

However, when the owner is away, the elders among the six major merchants under his control will take over the approval rights for speedy work processing.

Slogue, one of the six colossus of Elte. An old fox who joined Lortel’s plans after being promised a seat in the next meeting.

If I get a confirmation stamp on the sale of equipment as naturally as everyday with a casual face… The responsibility will be Elte’s, deplorably.

Even if the enraged Elte tries to punish Slog, it is his defeat at the point where the cause of his dismissal has already been established.

Originally, all of these plans should have happened in the ‘Strife for the Sage’s Seal’ event.

An enraged Elte screams and screams Lortel’s name, but the event ends with Lortel’s faint grin beneath her robes in the corner of a wobbling wagon.

After that, Act 2 ends by chasing and annihilating Professor Glast, who stole the seal and fled to the secret laboratory. Actually, this is the main event and the scale is bigger.

“When I go to my room, there is Jeonseo-gu. It’s a direct link to my internal forces at the Sanghoe headquarters.”

“If you blow that Jeonseo-gu away and hide well until the sale plan is implemented at the main branch of Sanghoe, you will win.”

“However, my father must have expected it to some extent. You’re going to capture me tonight and make me confess all my plans and the traitors inside.”

You never know what will happen if you leave your seat recklessly. Even though Elte knew this, he ran to Sylvania himself. It’s hard to figure out who is an ally and who is an enemy.

It must have been on a minimal scale without notifying anyone, but the news reached the company’s ears in an instant.

We bet everything on each other. This chase is the final battle that separates the joys and sorrows of a woman.

“You can go out the back door, go around the outer wall and go through the window of your room.”

“I was going to say that too.”

“Yeah, you can talk well.”

really speaks well. It’s a smooth exchange of opinions, as if they were lubricated.

Quick to understand, active in coordinating opinions, strong in crises, and not swayed by emotions.

Lortel swallowed dry saliva while watching Ed’s back running down the hallway, grabbing his wrist.

You can see the back door of the Ophelis Hall. Although it is not as grandiose as the front door, the luxuriously carved patterns and paintings represent the dignity of the building.

“Listen, Lortel. There is nothing good about your location being discovered now. You should hide in your hideout as unseen as much as possible.”

“There is a villa that I bought separately in the Mine region. If only I could ride a wagon to that side…”

“If I were Elter, I would have kept people waiting on both bridges to the outside of Aken Island. I will be trampled on the tail with a backpack.”

Ed’s words were correct.

The driver who pulls the Lortel’s wagon is a trustworthy person, but anyway, the appearance of the wagon is gorgeous in its own way.

If you cross the bridge openly, you will surely be followed.

“Speak to the driver who will be waiting in the living wing, and just take the empty wagon out of Aken Island. And instruct them to leave the wagon and run away from the appropriate area. Then they will mistakenly think that you are outside Aken Island.”

“Then I…?”

“There is a hut I built in the North Woods. I can only stay there for three days.”

It is dark under the lamp. If it was the forest right next to Sylvania, you wouldn’t easily think that it would be here.

“Don’t let me go to your room and blow you away. If you just write a message saying, ‘Sell it now,’ and deliver it to you, the main store of the upper store will take care of all the other complicated matters, right?”

“…yes that’s right.”

As if he were a fellow merchant who had been working with him for a long time, there was no waste in Ed’s movements and work.

Watching Ed fix things like my own body and solve problems, I even think that it’s okay to trust everything and leave it to me.

Even though he knows that such a romantic relationship cannot be established, his already wrecked heart whispers in his ear once again.

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Maybe this time it really will be.

As my sister and sister said, the feeling of obsession is not an emotion that arises from a flower on a distant cliff.

It blooms from a near-missing lack that seems to be reachable and not reachable.

“…”

Ed tried to open the back door, looked out through the crack in the door, and then quietly closed the door again.

“Listen, Lortel. There is someone guarding the back door.”

In a low voice, Ed quickly explained the situation.

“You have nothing to do with your location or movement. I’ll go out and take care of it and run to your room, so in the meantime, keep an eye on it and when there’s no one in sight, run to the living wing. Did you understand?”

Lortel nodded with difficulty, but Ed narrowed his brow as if dissatisfied and polished Lortel.

“Are you in your right mind? Why are you so clueless like you?”

“Yes, yes… I understand.”

Ed grabbed Lortel’s shoulders, pulled Lortel’s body, and pushed him into the wall next to him. Lortel was startled and her pupils trembled for a moment, but if you look closely, you just pushed Lortel into an invisible place outside the door.

“Once you get to the northern forest, there will be no room for pursuit. After that, it’s up to you.”

Saying that, Ed opened the back door and bent over to get out.

“Sir Ed.”

Only after reflexively calling the name did Lortel realize that he was perplexed.

I couldn’t stand it at all without asking.

“What the hell… why are you helping me…?”

Every favor has a good cause. By understanding the reason, it is usually possible to make a person’s psychology or behavioral principle visible at a glance.

However, by asking the insider directly… making a mistake that even a beginner who just became a merchant wouldn’t make a mistake… Lortel put those words in her mouth.

Because it doesn’t make sense conceptually. No matter what anyone said, it was the right decision for Ed Roth-Taylor to stick with Elte.

Whether it is financial gain, odds, or influence, Lortel is inferior in the current situation.

Even if we try to divide it into good and evil, if we think about it, Lortel is evil if it is evil, but it can never be good.

Nevertheless, Ed sided with Lortel.

At Lortel’s question, Ed frowned for a moment, as if contemplating what to say.

“…just? Do you think it will be like that?”

He roughly said that in a sarcastic tone… and then sprinted out the back door.

-Shoot aah

– Thump, thump.

The sound of rain pouring over from the open door came in, and the sound of ruptures from battle could be heard throughout the Ophelis Hall.

It seemed to be the noise from the battle between Elise, the maid, and Taylor, who was going to be on the 5th floor.

– Thump, Thump, Thump

The noise from the fierce battle will decorate the final battle of the Ophelis Hall. Lortel had a gut feeling that Taylor’s party would win. Even the head of the maid of Ophelis, if Taylor starts using the Swordsmanship Ceremony, it will start to wane.

Pushed against the wall, Lortel stood still for a while.

Ed Roth Taylor’s true intentions are invisible. There must be a reason for every favor and trust, but I don’t see any reason for him.

There is no financial gain, there is no ideological background, and he is not just a human being swayed by emotions. If so, what other reasons could there be?

– ‘Have you ever been deceived by the beautiful appearance of the child?’

Suddenly, Elte’s interrogation made her spine hoarse and hot. But then he shakes his head. As mentioned above, Ed Roth-Taylor is not the type to be driven by emotions.

In the first place, Ed Roth-Taylor always had Yenica Palerover attached, didn’t he?

However, the true identity of the sense of incongruity stems from the fact that the two are not in a romantic relationship.

Yenica’s passionate eyes looking at Ed can’t help but notice its identity at once. But… the love is probably going in one direction only.

– Thump, Thump, Thump

Standing against the background of the battle sounds that spread through the Ophelis Hall, Lortel slid down the wall and sat down. It’s already hard to run, but when I’m mentally cornered, my legs lose strength.

He sat still in the corner of the hallway, staring into space for a while.

just. I wanted to help, so I helped.

What the hell is that one sentence that remains thick in your chest and makes your breathing quicker?

A sense of incongruity that suddenly rises is that the building is not shaking.

If this level of battle sound is spreading throughout the Ophelis Hall, it must be a vibration or a building shard.

However, at the sight outside the window where only the raindrops were flowing peacefully, Lortel realized the identity of the sense of incongruity.

– Thump, Thump, Thump.

It was an unbelievable fact, but this sound was Lortel’s own heartbeat.

*

-Shoot

Ophelis Hall in the rain. The rain has also become quite thin, making me think that it will stop soon.

On the top floor, the final battle between Taylor’s party and Maid Jean Ellis will take place.

On the first floor, Ziggs and Yenika, who blocked Elte, would be showing their skills.

A back door away from such a splendid battle. A maid can be seen standing in the rain through the dark night air.

Since when have you been standing? To prevent anyone from going out the back door, he stands still for his loyal lord Elise, preparing to capture the fugitive.

The rain-soaked maid clothes are completely pressed together, and the light purple hair is loosely ruffled.

Looking back slowly, she is one of the twin maids who should have stood in the way of Taylor as the 3rd floor boss. She quietly raises her head and makes eye contact with me.

“I didn’t know that Master Ed would come out of there, but I’m surprised.”

After guiding Elte, she immediately shut the back door and blocked Lortel’s escape route.

Without erasing the cold face as usual, Shani took out the rapier.

Sadly, she knows her abilities and patterns very well. Even she is the type of boss who can only show her full abilities when she works with her younger sister, Kelly. You can only show less than half of your abilities only when you are apart.

It’s a bit bland for the last gate.

I confronted Shani in the rain.

This painful occupation was now over.