I Noticed That It Was an Academy After 10 Years

258.Business Is Not Done With Words (6)

“Oh, John, welcome.”

“Has anything happened so far?”

“Hmm, the atmosphere is a bit chaotic these days?”

The atmosphere is chaotic… I guess it’s just because they’re competing for the top spot. I don’t think there is any other reason than that.

I sat comfortably on the sofa and rested my chin. Because I had been walking all morning, I wanted to sit down and rest. Sif saw me like that and sat down across from me, stretched and said.

“Uh-did you eat lunch?”

“No. “I was going to eat here.”

“Then shall we go?”

“Aren’t you taking your younger siblings?”

“I have to take him with me.”

Sif and I got up from our seats without even knowing who was first. When I left the room first and looked back, I saw Sif had closed the office door and locked it with a key.

“Is there even a need to lock it?”

“You never know. “It’s unlikely to happen because it’s inside the top.”

Is the strict control over literature a remnant of the time when they lived in the slums? With that in mind, I followed Sif, who was leading the way. Every time I walked down the hallway, people I encountered would look at me and look at me and Sif with strange expressions.

The way you look at Sif is a bit odd.

“Sif. What did you do? “It seems like the employees view you with disdain.”

“What am I doing? “I guess I’m a bit territorial because I was suddenly given the office and parachuted in.”

Terrible… It’s not a word I like very much. Is it right to bring them to Yeomyeonggwan? The more familiar you are with the dungeon exploration, the less resistance there will be.

Still, I couldn’t help but notice it to some extent. First of all, Sif is also a woman, and if she gets Sif, she will inevitably get her younger siblings too.

I thought this story would come to a conclusion only after discussing it with Karina later.

“If you have a hard time, tell me. “I will do everything I can.”

“Thank you.”

A smile appeared on Sif’s lips. If you think about it, the first time she met him was when she was stabbed in the back in a dungeon. She never thought she would become a business partner.

We went over to Sif’s quarters and brought out Lulu and Terry, who were playing with her dolls. Unlike before, the two of them seemed happy to see me and immediately ran over to me and closed to my arms.

“Mister! “No presents today?”

“Mister! “I want you to ride a wooden horse!”

“I’m sorry, but there is no gift.”

“Lulu, Terry. “Don’t bother John too much.”

Sif grabbed the two by their necks and lifted them up. The two, floating in the air, struggled to escape from Sif’s grasp her, but they were unable to escape Sif’s strong-bones grasp her and their ears drooped.

Cute guys.

“Let’s go get something to eat quickly.”

“Rice?”

“What’s coming out today?”

“I wish it was meat-“

“You know you have to eat vegetables too, right?”

“Wow. “I don’t like vegetables.”

We headed to the restaurant, occasionally mixing our voices with the children’s chatter.

“This is a restaurant.”

“That’s big.”

“Because it’s a large top. “There must be 200 employees eating here alone?”

As Sif said, the restaurant was packed with people. There is also a tight space for us to sit. Fortunately, there was an empty seat at the time, so we were able to sit with our plates in the corner of the restaurant.

“I will eat well!”

“Hehe, meat is meat~”

“Don’t be a picky eater and eat all the salad. Okay?”

“It’s not tasty…”

“If you leave it, I won’t give you candy.”

“Hmph, I’m going to ask you to buy it again.”

“I have no intention of buying candy for a picky eater.”

“…Chi.”

The children poured out their mouths and began to eat. I looked at it for a while and then picked up the dishes. The meal was worth eating.

…I guess my taste buds have become sophisticated since I only ate at Yeomyeonggwan.

“Which side do you plan on lining up?”

“Wouldn’t Old Man Begin Be Better?”

“Wouldn’t Master Adam have a lot to gain?”

I chatted with Sif and occasionally listened to what people around me were saying. Most of the stories were meaningless, but sometimes useful information came out.

“It looks like the battle for successor is more intense than I thought.”

“I guess so, right? Not to mention Adam, the other two are also parents…”

It is a three-power system, not a two-power system. Actually, this structure was beneficial to me. If it was already tilted to one side, it could have become more difficult to find out the whereabouts of the Dern Merchant State.

“Let’s go back to the office first.”

“Yes.”

After finishing our meal, we sent the kids back to their dorms and headed to the office.

Back at the office, I sat comfortably on the sofa and looked at Sif who was sitting across from me. Sif brewed tea in a pot placed in the corner of the room, then put the tea in a teacup and set it down in front of me.

“It’s provided for guests, but there are no guests other than you.”

“Are you not interacting with other employees?”

“I told you. They are territorial. It’s not that I don’t do it at all, but… “

“Oh, I see.”

“Anyway, looking at your face, it looks like you have something to ask, but I don’t know that much?”

“Okay. I got some information. What I want to know is information about Bedin and Gross. Have you ever met him?”

“Um… These are people I’ve talked to before. Other than that, we only met a few times.”

“What kind of person is Gross?”

“Hmm, who needs to put money in every sentence? “It looks like he likes money a lot.”

“What else?”

“He always has an annoyed face.”

You are the worst boss.

“What about Bedin?”

“He’s the most senior executive… Um, he has a good reputation, right? Gross seems to have more influence, but Bedin is not enough to be ignored. “I don’t know why I had a fight with Adam.”

“It’s not easy to predict the inside of a person, so he might also be aiming for the top position.”

“Hmm, then I guess I’m going to make a fuss for a while. It doesn’t matter to me as long as I do a good job with the prosthetics.”

Sif sipped her tea, squinting as if she had a headache.

“Then I guess you’ve never heard of ‘business’?”

“Business?”

Sif tilted her head at what I said. He looked like he was hearing it for the first time. To find out the full story of the business, do I have to contact Adam again or go to the black market?

“Business… Ah, now that I think about it, I think I heard that there was friction between the top management and executives related to business.”

Does it matter whether Bedin and Gross are among those executives? For now, the business is over. I got up from my seat without hesitation.

“Sif. Do you know where the information dealers on the black market are?”

“I know, but…”

“I’d like you to tell me the location.”

“Um…Okay.”

I checked the information location from Sif and turned my back.

“Then I will go.”

“Huh. Goodbye.”

You must have a lot of information.

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“Oh, I never thought a precious guest would come to such a shabby place.”

A middle-aged man with a gloomy look looked at me curiously. He seemed surprised that I had come here. I sat down on the chair and looked at him.

“I want to buy information.”

“Information, what kind of information do you mean?”

“I want to get information about the top of Dern.”

“Hmm… I think the price will be quite a bit. Have you prepared the amount?”

I placed the 50 gold coins I had prepared in advance on the table. The unknown intelligence merchant looked at the gold coin, whistled, and opened his mouth as if he liked it.

“The customer is very generous. “What information do you want?”

“I heard that the attempt to promote a certain project was canceled due to opposition from the upper management. I want to know that information. And information about Bedin, Gross, and Adam.”

“It’s hard to find information for 50 gold coins.”

I put 50 more gold coins on the table.

“Oh oh. As befits a hero, the distribution is very large.”

“Tell me quickly.”

The intelligence merchant put the gold coins into his pocket and answered with a smile.

“Hmm, about that business. It is a business that distributes certain ‘medicines.'”

“Medicine?”

“That’s right. To be exact, it is a medicine called Heaven’s Calling.”

The name is ominous. I thought of an ominous word in that ominous name.

Surely that’s not true?

“…Is it a drug?”

“Oh, is this something you know?”

“No. It’s just a guess. “Such strange names are usually given to drugs.”

Drug business… If you just distribute it, you can make a lot of money. If you look at the empire now, it won’t be that difficult to hide it. It is also understandable why the owner of the Dern Merchant Marine was so opposed.

Although he revealed his money as a person leading a large business, he never touched products such as drugs or slaves.

“Who is the executive who insisted on proceeding with the drug business?”

“This is Gross and Adam. It was Adam who came up with the business of selling the calling of heaven, and Gross agreed with the plan.”

“For that matter, it seems like there is a conflict in the successor structure.”

“Well… Isn’t it a matter of who takes the lead?”

“It’s complicated.”

“Isn’t that what a power struggle is all about?”

“Was Bedin opposed to the project?”

“I took the side of Dern supremacy, but I was passive.”

Is it okay to remove him from the list of dangerous people for now?

“What is the location of the Dern Upper State?”

“There is a small hospital west of the black market. “I’m receiving treatment there, so you can go visit me.”

“Treatment, are you hurt?”

“How would Adam and Gross deal with this thorn in their eyes?”

“My name is my son, but there is no blood or tears.”

“Oh, he’s not my biological son, he’s an adopted child. “He has never been married…”

Adopt me.

Are there complicated circumstances that I don’t know about?

“Is there any more information you would like to get?”

“It doesn’t seem to exist.”

I got up from my seat without any regrets.

Most of the puzzle pieces have been gathered together, so if you put them together one by one, you will see the full picture of the incident.

[You know a lot of interesting things about being an information merchant, right?]

“Please come visit us next time.”

“If something like that happens, I’ll come back again.”

I walked towards the hospital in the west.