Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Merchants with a stunned look as they turned their eyes to the formula Julia wrote.

Before they do that, Waltz...

"(It's good enough to say... I have money...)"

Inside, things like the sale of the material were already getting better and he seemed to want to leave this place quickly.

Then, realizing something, she began to haunt her head in her mind with a superficially sleazy look on her face.

"(Speaking of which, me, what are you doing here?

I was just always on the run, so I thought I'd take part in these negotiations on a whim...

Nothing more or less.

Just sitting in a chair was her purpose, and her goal.

Or maybe I could say that I'm not who I've been before, I'm here trying to find a new me.

"(... I really can't. I…)"

Waltz compared himself just sitting there to the people there.

Sure, there were some Catalinas out there who were just smiling and not in the discussion......

She's her, with Cheval, putting out something like unspeakable pressure...

I wasn't at all involved in the discussion, that's not to say.

But Waltz, as infidel and corrupt, was just fluttering back into his chair, floating on the top of the Buddha.

For those of you who don't know Waltz, it doesn't look like she's sick.

"(The girl sitting next to that null... who?

"(Come on? I don't even have a name, and you kinda don't know what I mean......)"

"(Right... Somewhere, fluttering or something......)"

The merchants seemed to have such feelings for Waltz.

It should be noted, just in case, that conversation is by no means a voice of such magnitude that it can be heard other than those of us.

It is the content of the listened conversation because it is Waltz's ultra-high sensitivity oriented microphone.

"(Well, you take that for granted...)"

Waltz completes everything with his heart alone, even if he listens to that conversation or occasionally feels an uncomfortable gaze flying towards him, but without changing his expression.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a complete poker face, it was also supposed to be a special skill, but the person may not be aware of it.

"(What am I going to do? I don't know if I've come so far, but I don't think there's anything I can contribute to the conversation...)"

And Waltz thinks...

"(Yeah! In my own way, turn to Julia's support!

Looks like he decided to join Julia in some way, who was in business talks with the head of the Merchant Guild.

However, it seems to repeat, in her own way......

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"... Master Margaret seems to have a great knowledge of arithmetic. I would love to have that knowledge taught to us..."

"I'm sorry. We don't have permission from the Lord, so we can't share our knowledge of formulas."

"Really...... The Lord is still Null..."

"No, I am Lily...... not Lord of Margaret. The other one..."

"... Dear Null. More than that..."

"Oops, this was just past my mouth...... Forget it."

That's what I said, then at the end of my gaze, null to see how Waltz reacted.

But there's no response from Waltz...

Having confirmed that, Null immediately returned that gaze to Kenneth, the head of the Merchant Alliance.

By contrast, Kenneth...

"'The other one'... I see. You seem like a special person, even to Master Null. Ok. Let's not ask this story any more."

At first glance, I pasted a grin on my face again without showing how I cared.

At that time, he turned his eyes only to Waltz for a moment, but it is unclear what he thought about her who was on the top of the Buddha there.

Then Kenneth started talking again as he touched his fingertips on the note form on the A4 given to him by Julia.

"We have a lot to ask you about this paper and the pen that Master Margaret was using, but let's start with the issue of buying the real deal, and let's talk about it. The purchase price offered by Margaret…"

When he said so and got the pen in his hand, he dipped the tip in the blue ink bottle that was there on the spot.

I wrote down new numbers to the parchment quote that was on my desk.

Such a number he filled out, around the value initiated by Julia's calculations, was a modified one, up to about 10%.

It is such a modification, with some items having lower figures than the expected selling price in Julia and vice versa.

Overall, there was no significant change in the selling price, and Waltz's share remained almost unchanged.

Still, did Kenneth fix it because after he bought it, he balanced it when he exchanged among the merchants, or did it just happen to be a similar value, or something else for a reason...

"... is that okay? There seems to be no significant change in the total purchase price…"

Ask Julia if you were wondering why.

And then Kenneth, in a small way, said,

"Yep. I don't mind this. Reaggregate, coincidentally, it just came at a close price. Looking ahead, I hope you see me investing in you."

That's what I said, and I put the pen on my desk.

"(Well, if you can buy it in words, you can always do it, right?

"Now, if you seem to agree with this amount, please sign here"

and Kenneth pointing to the blank space that was on the edge of the parchment.

Seeing it, Julia confirmed Waltz's reaction as she showed a bare gesture to turn her gaze towards Null, who was sitting on her right.

And Waltz was there...

"............" gogogogogogogo

- It somehow seemed to wrinkle between my eyebrows and create a shitty atmosphere.

"(What... is there something!?

Seeing how it goes, Julia is unintentionally gnawed.

I wonder if there was anything wrong with her during the conversation so far...

I don't care what you think back, it's pretty much my specialty, and besides, they were convinced of the amount of money I bought...

She seemed to have no idea what was causing Waltz's reaction.

On the other hand...

…………

Kenneth, sitting across the desk, also had a grin on his face, but his expression seemed blue somewhere.

The appearance was, obviously, worried about something, something like that.

Julia thinks again, feeling the strange air that those two brew.

I was wondering if there was anything wrong with this deal.

And she realized.

"(Oh, I see. I mean, you don't have to sell everything here, do you?

Shouldn't the sale of materials for the amount that has fallen be in another town......

She thought that selling only items that could be bought higher than her own valuation would yield greater profits if she sold them here, where there were people who could buy them higher, for items that were lower than she assumed.

Julia didn't check to see if it was really the cause of Waltz's seemingly difficult face, but she believed it was right, shook her neck sideways toward Kenneth, and opened her mouth.

"... I've thought about it a lot, but I'm going to stop selling everything"

To that word,

"" "" What... ""

and merchants, starting with Kenneth, to whom the voice is exposed.

No one seemed to assume that Julia would suddenly answer that way, as the story had so far flown.

No, should I say that I had assumed and decided that it was extremely unlikely.

... It should be noted that at that time, Waltz seemed to have had the same reaction as them, but the reason for this is unknown.

"This and this and this... And the ones around here and here, let me drop them off this time. Uh, we're down to about half."

"Yes, no, hey, could you give me a minute? What was the problem?

"I'm sorry. It is forbidden, at the Lord's word, to divulge such information outside. I just don't think that's enough to convince you, so I'm going to tell you why… the amount you offered didn't reach our calculation criteria."

"To the standards... not to arrive...?

"Yes. Let's get this story over with. Items other than this check will be sold as is. Would you agree with this list of items?

…………

Merchants with a reluctant look when they look at the list of items rewritten by Julia on A4 paper.

As far as they are concerned, they wanted to buy all the goods, but they had the right to sell them to Julia...

In the meantime, if we continued the negotiations any further, we could have been reluctant to sell more goods….

They, wanting to benefit at all, seemed to have no other option than to agree to Julia's proposal.