Isaac

“A good and just person is a good person to use. Changing the world is always white and black, but ruling the world is ultimately gray. Pure white and black only vanishes if it's not bitten properly. ”

“You wanted to see me?”

“...... Have you been having a hard time lately? ”

Crent climbs to the rooftop and looks serious enough to ask Isaac about his first worry.

Dark circles came down on her lips in the blink of an eye, and her stubborn beard and crooked smell couldn't be washed properly on her slender cheeks. If I didn't know who it was, I would have been known as a drunk who had fallen down on the back alley.

When Isaac asks, Krent bursts his throat with a grin.

“Hehehe. Tough. It's hard. I knew smuggling was money, but I didn't know it was going to be this big, even if it was just tax-deductible. Did you know that I'm touching more money these days than the Ribollen Merchants Guild? And I'm doing it alone because I have no one to help me because I'm sensitive. If you swallow this in one place, it will be easy to settle, but you have to divide and pay your shares to the Czar and Central, and if you get the numbers wrong, you have to settle again from the beginning. I'm on my own! ”

“That must be hard.”

“That's not all! If I just focus on smuggling, I won't be able to solve it.I have to do everything because the lieutenant commanders and deputy commanders tell me I don't know what I'm doing! Help me! Help me! Yes?”

Having been vomiting a long time, Krent looked at Lacha and Knette with a grudge, but he was obsessed with building blocks on the cobblestone, so he ran to Isaac and caught his crotch and began to understand.

With such a trend, Isaac sprinkles the trousers that Trent grabbed as if they were pathetic.

“Are you sure you're the one studying in college? ”

“Yes? Is there some way? ”

“How many high-end people do you see hanging around here? Take him and use it. ”

At Isaac's words, Crent lets out a blank expression for a moment.

“Advanced workforce, who! Is that him?"

At his fingertips were Lacha and Knette, who had been flinching for more than five days, showing tremendous concentration in building blocks that he couldn't hear.

Isaac smiles, briefly looking at the two of you expressing that you don't want to work.

Somehow I wanted to, but I knew I was sorry because I was restless and silently stuck in a corner from when I called Trent.

“Do you want to overdo it? ”

The cruel words of Isaac almost knock the block down.

“I know that, so I'm on my own! You want me to take them or who? ”

“You know, the kids from college. Take it with you. ”

According to Isaac, Krent sighs, "Get out of the ground."

“Hoo. You know how sensitive smuggling is, don't you, sir? If you leak this out, neither I nor you will be safe! ”

“That's why I want you to get involved. It's a centralized business. How can an average college grad talk to you like that? There's nothing to do anyway. Make some extra money. ”

“…… You're not making any allowance. And then what if it really leaks? What if someone refuses to step foot in a smuggling operation? ”

“Tell Central to take care of it. They specialize in silencing people. If you don't feel comfortable talking to Central, you can talk to the zoning chiefs. I'll make sure it's clean. They have a knack for erasing people, even if they're not central. ”

Crent opens his mouth and shouts aloud as he looks at Isaac, who gives him a blatant expression.

“I can't do that! They're your successors and you're mine! I'd rather keep it to myself! ”

“Whatever."

Isaac nods indifferently at Krent's determination.

“But I have one more question... ”

“What is it?”

“What is the market price for the stallion? ”

“Although it was different at the time, the Mint Agency releases a monthly rate of purity and size. ”

“The market is fixed? Purity?”

“Yes, it's an artificial stall with a fixed price, but the net price is fairly upbeat. It's usually based on the market price published by the Mint Agency. ”

“Is that possible? ”

“Pure? Once upon a time, even if it had the same purity, it was priced up to hundreds of times according to size. It's a really old story, and it was invented and tailored to meet the standards set by the Minnie. And of course, there's a slight loss of purity, but that's the price that counts. It's easy to do business with. ”

“If you pick one up and sell it, will you touch the money? ”

“That tends to get worse after the artificial cobblestone. Basically, purity is more efficient than man-made, so demand is pretty good. And of course, thanks to the puritanical idiots, the price is foaming up, but not complaining. Basically, it means you can afford pure food. ”

Crent glances at his coat as he mentions a purist, but Isaac quietly thinks about the trouble he's about to go through. You're a generous employer.

“Oh! You don't know that, do you? ”

“For what?”

“A quartz vein has been found in the mine. Central says they're secretly mining it and handling it. ”

Isaac stiffens cold from Krent's body. Suddenly, I was wondering why you asked me about the market price of the stable stone, and suddenly the stable stone mine popped out. What if it's too much to handle and it's still too much to handle? The flame of justice that had happened like a wildfire was extinguished in an instant, leaving only a realistic compromise.

“How many people do you want to hire? ”

Isaac smiles in relief as he looks down at Trent's attitude.

“Just in time, the 3rd platoon is all made up of commoners, so bring them all in. ”

“All of it?”

“It's quick to notice a secret when you eat a pot of rice and sleep. If you're so secretive and pouting, you'll have to deal with it, so bring them all in quietly. That'll give us some time to spare. And you don't have to tell me all about smuggling. They say it's roughly a fund-raiser for Central's secret. ”

“But if there are many who know the secret, it's easy for real words to leak out. ”

“If you need an example, say what you want. ”

“…… I'll just leave it to you about the granite veins. It's more convincing even if it's central, and it's less sensitive than smuggling. ”

“I suppose we could. It doesn't matter if the horse leaks out, the Central will come for it. ”

“ ……. ”

“…… what is this? ”

Secret mining has begun and the first day of settlement is finally here. Isaac looks at the horseshoes Krent brought and asks.

“I sent it from Central saying it's my share of the month. ”

“What about the rest?"

“…… this is it. ”

“Even if I don't set up my shares correctly, there is a moral high ground. This is too much. ”

“Even for me... ”

“I heard you've been digging like crazy since the beginning. ”

“If the volume is released at once, the market for pure stone will collapse. ”

“But that's all you fell for me? ”

“ ……. ”

Krent is speechless. Honestly, it was too much killing for me. Since we had to use smuggling to sell or transport, we were able to figure out the exact quantity, but we were able to mine a massive quantity of 10,000 in just one month.

Due to the need to adjust the market price, a significant amount of income is expected, even if you only sell some of them and keep the rest. However, the only thing that fell to Isaac was about a dozen or so of them, the ones that fell purest.

With Isaac's increasingly cold gaze, he gets restless, and Isaac bites a cigarette in his mouth, crosses his legs, clutching his chin with one hand, and grabs his arm with the other.

It's a one-way street in Central. How do we deal with this? I can understand that. If you want to control the market price, you can't give a lot to yourself. There is a question of where those stable stones came from and we must always be careful of the rumors.

But this isn't it. If you can't give it to him as a stopgap, you can reward him with items of similar value or with money, or at least he can do something about it. Please understand. ’Even if I could understand it, Isaac had a small amount to take with him.

“If people get down first, you have to treat them appropriately. This is too trivial. ”

But what can I do? I'm just powerless. It's stupid to run around with a shaft anytime. To wiggle, you must move when you are at least able to whip.

“There's nothing I can do. It's not that I don't have money. Leave me alone. I don't want anything to do with the Central. ”

Isaac decided to move on. It's great to have a nervous breakdown when you doubt everything and figure out why and why. I can't afford to worry about the horses right now.

He sighs of relief and hurries down to the rooftop as Isaac makes a sudden jump, but before that, Codnell comes crashing up and his face turns to dirt.

“What's going on here?! ”

“What?”

“Why did the profits that had to come in disappear and the money go out?" That's what blew up the funding! ”

“I didn't write anything. Who did this to you? See if you can find anyone who picked it up. ”

As soon as the money is gone, Cornell finds himself in a frenzy, biting his mouth with a cigarette.

“It could have been Isaac's master who carried it! ”

Now, Isaac looks depressed with Codnell's attitude toward him because he has gained some experience.

“It's a pity that people don't have credit. That's why credit management is so important. ”

“You can't be serious! Well, I won't ask because it only hurts my head if I know what it's for. But if you were going to spend the money, you should have told me! Do you have any idea how ridiculous it was that the funds were being paid without me knowing? Do you see this invoice, regardless of the cost of mining investment and the cost of retrofitting the shaft? A pickaxe costs 100 gigs! 100 gigs! Every item is popping up like this! This looks like some idiot's been skimming off the books for a while, but I wouldn't do this for the first time! Soon we'll have to settle our taxes. How do you explain this to the IRS? You wouldn't look like this if you left it to me! ”

“ ……. ”

Crent stares at Isaac.