27 Episode 08. Money is Faith (2)
When the quiet girl suddenly raised a voice, the man who was with him was instantly taken aback, but then the embarrassment was erased and he calmed down.
Often this happened.
“He is high. Set an example, commoner.”
When the man spoke harshly, Rockefeller showed respect to the girl without embarrassment.
Because, as the girl often did, Rockefeller had been through this before.
‘Are you noble?’
It wasn’t without that feeling from the beginning, but one thing Rockefeller didn’t expect was that the girl was the superior of the two.
Apparently, the girl appeared to be the daughter of a noble family.
And the man who came with him would be the girl’s attendant.
Rockefeller took it that way.
‘But where are the family members? I think I’m seeing this for the first time.’
Few of the aristocrats or wealthy members of the Montefeltro estate were ignorant of Rockefeller.
I’ve seen it at least once or twice while working for Banco.
‘Are you a foreigner then?’
“I’m sorry for not knowing. I haven’t worked for a while, so I don’t really recognize high-ranking people. Please forgive me.”
When Rockefeller politely asked for forgiveness, the man closed his mouth with satisfaction.
When the atmosphere for conversation had been set, the man gave a signal, and the girl spoke to Rockefeller.
“First of all, what is your name?”
The name didn’t matter here.
What matters is the name of the family and family to which he belongs.
So, what the girl wanted to confirm by asking her name was to find out where Rockefeller came from.
When I got to know the family or family, I could roughly guess what kind of person he was.
“My name is Rockefeller Ross Medici.”
“Los Medici?”
It was the first place I had ever heard of.
However, not knowing, I looked at the man, and the man showed an expression that there was no problem.
“It’s someone you can talk to with ease.”
When the man said that, he meant that it was okay to do anything with the boy.
It sounds like he’s in a bad mood and can slap him on the cheek, or even kill him.
But she was just curious and had no intention of harming Rockefeller.
“Los Medici… … You’re hearing it for the first time. There is something I want to ask you, a commoner.”
“Yes, I will answer anything.”
“Did you not feel any problems with the IOU you traded earlier?”
Rockefeller involuntarily raised her head to make eye contact with the girl, but then bowed her head quickly.
It was a moment, but the gaze they met was quite cold.
‘It’s the first time we’ve talked like this, so it’s very unfamiliar. I think I just made a mistake.’
Even when the lord came, he had never talked like this.
So I made a mistake unintentionally, but the girl had a look that didn’t really care.
“I want to talk while looking at each other, is that okay? I want a comfortable conversation.”
When the girl asked, the man quietly nodded his head.
It meant that Rockefeller’s existence was so insignificant that there was no problem even if he showed his face to the boy.
As soon as the man’s permission was given, the girl took off her hood and continued.
“Raise your head and take a look. I want to have a conversation with you.”
Rockefeller looked up and saw a girl with purple hair staring at her.
‘I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a noble girl.’
It was definitely a noble girl, so the feeling itself was different from the simple commoners of the same age.
Does it feel difficult to deal with?
There was also the fact that the girl was a noble girl, but the pressure from her superior appearance was greater than that.
‘Yeah, you’re a blue kid.’
Rockefeller, who soon realized that he had the spirit of a saint, was at ease, and the girl facing him asked again.
“Answer me now. Did you feel any problems there?”
I told you to be comfortable, so I have no choice but to treat you comfortably.
“Yeah, I didn’t feel any problems there. Rather, I would like to ask why you are asking that in the opposite way.”
No matter how comfortable the seat was, the man gently narrowed the gap between his brows over him, who had a strangely changed attitude.
‘Are you not afraid?’
Normal serfs could not even dare to step on the shadows of nobles, and this was no different for commoners.
It is common for people of low rank to be restless even when talking to aristocrats.
The man, who had been slightly offended, could quickly guess the reason.
‘Aren’t you afraid because you’re still a child? if not… … After continuing to work in Banco, did the aristocrats seem a little more likable?’
It was Banco, a place where even the high-spirited nobles sometimes softened their oppressive posture.
He had to entrust money like his own blood or borrow money, so it had to be done, but since he is a boy working in such a banco, I wondered if that was the reason.
‘How can you look at me like that? Usually, I couldn’t even make eye contact.’
And it was the same with the girl facing Rockefeller.
I mean, I wanted it to be comfortable, but I never imagined that I would be treated so comfortably.
Obviously, the boy named Rockefeller was the most daring and stiff-headed of the commoners he had encountered.
‘You’re a strange person.’
It was the girl herself who felt rather uncomfortable at the place prepared by my will.
On the other hand, Rockefeller was not at all uncomfortable in treating the girl as if he was dealing with commoners like himself.
‘Why are you so hot? They told me to take it easy, so I did it comfortably.’
“If you tell me where you felt the problem, I will answer you sincerely as well.”
Rockefeller asked again, and only then did the girl begin to respond.
“Nowhere in the IOU was any guarantee of gold coins. Still, they gave me the talent here without any problem. Can’t you see something strange here?”
“Yes, that is true, because as it is written on the IOU, it is secured by the IOU issued by the Lord. So I exchanged them for talents.”
“Do people here believe that the lord’s trust will be immortal?”
“Yes, of course. You are a lord like the sky.”
Then the man who was with them intervened between them.
“Neither the lord nor the lord are immortal, boy. Even at this time on this day, there will be lords or territories that either get invaded by foreign forces or disappear due to political problems within the empire.”
Rockefeller knew exactly where they were questioning and questioning.
And it’s what Rockefeller wanted that they didn’t have much of an issue with.
‘I know it well. But it is we who have to use such ignorance.’
“We never thought that the Lord or this estate would be destroyed. And since you are a heavenly lord, will there be any problems?”
The man pointed it out again.
“That kind of naive thinking is the problem. Is it possible to issue another deed of borrowing as collateral with a nothing deed issued by a lord from such a periphery, not even the imperial imperial family? Usually, a deed of loan is collateralized with gold coins. Not the trust of the lord.”
“Hey, I’m very sorry during the talk. Is there something wrong with the talents we gave you?”
“Why are you asking that?”
“If what you just said becomes a problem, of course it will be our store that suffers damage. As you said, if the lord’s trust is broken, the damage is all we receive, right? We used that as collateral to issue the IOU and gave us gold coins.”
To that, the girl replied softly.
“Not only you, but because of the lord, many people will suffer.”
“Like you said, it’s about when the lord is destroyed. Yes?”
The girl waited patiently for what Rockefeller would say next.
“But right now, Lord’s credit is very good. Our lord is They pay interest on time and have never had a problem anywhere with debt.”
As if Rockefeller was waiting, he pulled out a friendly smile.
“So we, too, can use the loan written by the Lord as collateral. If the lord’s credit is bad, can we give you our talents as collateral for a loan that might be a piece of paper? That’s not it.”
After hearing that the lord’s credit status was better than expected, the girl glanced at the man, and the man thought for a moment before starting to give the reaction Rockefeller wanted.
“If the trust of the lord here is strong… … I don’t think there will be any major problems.”
“Is there no threat here?”
“As I said, this is the edge of the empire. It is a very peaceful place where there is not even a conflict of interest that comes to mind.
The man was able to recall the old place name of this place by chance.
“A long time ago, this place was called Azrak Goldmine and it was also the land of dwarves.”
“Azrac Goldmine? Where do you think you heard it?”
“Yes, he said that it was a gold mining area that was well known on the continent. But now, all the gold veins have become dry and dead land, and after the dwarves withdrew, I heard that it was incorporated into the Empire’s territory.”
The girl pointed out the possibility that she might not be aware of.
“If there was such a large gold vein in the past, isn’t it still there somewhere?”
With those words, the man denied all possibilities.
“Lady, the Dwarves who can’t use their four limbs when it comes to gold aren’t that soft. If there were even a few veins of gold alive in this land, there would be no reason for them to abandon this land. But they went away. without any regrets. That means this land is already dead.”
As the man emphasized, he continued:
“Girl, there is a reason for everything in the world.”
The girl was at a loss for words when she said that even the gold veins, which could be disputed, had dried up.
It was clear that there was a problem with the IOUs issued by this Banco.
However, in order for the problem to arise, the condition of the estate had to be worse than it is now, or there had to be a problem with the lord’s credibility.
However, there was no sign of that, so she, who was neither an insider nor an outsider, had to come to her, so she couldn’t make a wider issue of it.
“is it?”
If there was no problem, it would be a problem to be involved any longer.
When the girl didn’t want to vomit any more about the matter, Rockefeller put an end to it.
“I am very grateful that the young lady cares about our store, but if the Lord’s trust is strong, there will probably be no major problems.”
I will exchange the IOU I brought with me for talents.
I would have cleared up any doubts I had.
When there was nothing more to do, the girl looked at the man, and the man acted quickly as if he knew the meaning.
“Go outside.”
The girl who had been following the man without answering suddenly turned around and asked a sudden question to Rockefeller.
“What if there is a problem with the lord’s credit here? Probably not, but what if?”
one at a time.
What would you do if something like that happened to you, even one in ten million?
Rockefeller hesitated for a moment at the girl’s question, and then answered without a lie.
“Then we will get our money back somehow.”
The girl herself had said it without thinking, and she did not expect much from an answer.
However, the answer that came back was quite surprising, so the girl looked a little surprised, and even the man standing on the doorstep of the store turned around and looked at Rockefeller.
Are those words really coming from a 15-year-old boy?
At this moment, Rockefeller was no longer a young Banco assistant who humbled himself to deal with the nobility.
It was like a demonic creditor who went to get the money he had borrowed.
“If there is no money to receive from the lord, I will take the equivalent. If there is no money to repay, the castle and the lord’s rights, if there is no such thing, the land. If we don’t even have that land, we’ll have to take the lord’s soul.”
Rockefeller showed a friendly smile to those who had not yet moved.
“We never do business at a loss.”
Mc showed his true colors maybe a bit too early, lol.