How to Live as a Half-Dragon

097. 400 gold quest

“Fortunately, you seem to remember.”

Xian remembered Yorba, whom he had met a long time ago.

It was because one of the few good things he did in Semain was to give Yorba 400 gold to help him recover.

“So this isn’t Hughes, is it Yorba’s work?”

When I asked Hughes, she said with a chuckle.

“Ask him, not me.”

“Ah, it was.”

In any case, the attitude was that this incident had nothing to do with Hughes.

Xian asked.

“Why are you here, Yorba?”

“Why? .”

Yorba laughed bitterly.

“Boy, you sent me here to help with the general store.”

Surely Sian had said something like that.

He gave me the address and said so.

But that was just an excuse, not something I really meant.

“this… Did you really mean to run away?”

Sheep Yorba said that deep down she regrets the past.

Well, from Yorba’s point of view, even thinking about it now, things at that time were very strange.

Who in the world would willingly give hundreds of gold in advance?

Even a kid doesn’t do business like that.

This was obviously the same as laying a board to run away.

Even Yorba at that time knew that.

but…

“Why didn’t you run away?”

“A whopping 400 gold! 400 gold!”

Of course, it wasn’t such a huge amount because Mirva Corporation had grown so much that it couldn’t handle it now, but if 400 gold was small money, it still wasn’t.

At that time, he had nothing to say.

“therefore… Rather, you couldn’t run away because you were afraid of money?”

“… Great.”

Only then, from next time, the red line should be within a reasonable level.

The reason why Yorba was here instead of running away was solved, but Xian was still full of doubts.

“But then, what is this association?”

It was complicated how to explain this.

“This meeting… .”

Yorba confessed to complaining that she was crying.

He was somewhat pitiful when he spoke as if grumbling about his long hardships.

‘Anyway, is that the case?’

When Yorba first arrived here, the general store was empty.

At first, I wondered if I should run away even then, but I thought that I should wait a little longer.

“As the number of customers increased one by one, the store grew, the number of employees increased, and a sense of responsibility came into being.”

And that was when the responsibility was established.

The most decisive event to be reborn as the current Mirva Company took place.

“Event?”

“One day, out of the blue, some weird guys came and messed around.”

Since it was Yorba, who was an S-class adventurer, after briefly arranging them and checking, the whole story was like this.

At that time, there were two merchants in Alteon, Arut Corporation, which was formed based on the northern part of Alteon.

Above Mirva, formed on the south side of Alteon.

Of course, the two companies hadn’t had much conflict before that.

Originally, it was because the southern part of Alteon was an insignificant commercial district where the slums were located, and it did not make a lot of money.

However, the story changed after Alteon prospered and the Arut Company expanded.

At first, they absorbed commercial power as much as possible with money, but a problem arose because there were quite a few people who could not leave their hometowns no matter how good the money was.

“Did you start using force when money couldn’t solve it?”

“Well, it was something like that.”

The Bondi Mirva Company had a lot to do with the ghastly work peculiar to the slums.

There were a lot of bullies, so I shouldn’t have been pushed back by force, but…

“Also, there are no people who love money as much as the bullies.”

“It is.”

As a result, most of them stuck to Arut’s side and acted as puppets.

The real boss of Mirva Firm was assassinated and the underboss betrayed, and it was Yorba who appeared in that very sh*tty situation.

“I was sorting out the bullies that were being installed at the store without much thought… .”

The problem is that the people who lived in the commercial district of the Mirva Company didn’t think so.

Also, Yorba, who can’t stand injustice, took the vacant position as the head of the company at their request.

“I relentlessly dragged in guys I knew from my adventurer days.”

With the 400 gold that Xian gave him, it was easy to hire Jeong under the pretext of hiring him first.

I looked at the guys that Xian had stunned before coming here.

“Then what about those guys?”

Yorba smiled bitterly and nodded.

“yes… .”

It must have been adventurer friends who lent their strength back then.

Feeling apologetic for some reason, Xian quickly changed his words.

“so?”

“Well, after that it was simple, the kids I hired were at least A-class adventurers, and most of them were S-class adventurers, so how would it be?”

In general, S-class adventurers are the highest level of power.

A lot of such kids suddenly appeared, so there was no way they could be opponents, no matter how much they played in the big water called Alteon.

“I felt like I was finding peace right away.”

“Isn’t that the end?”

If you just listen to the story, it wouldn’t be strange if you defended the business district and became the current situation, but there must have been something more.

“Don’t say it. One day, a dangerous guy suddenly appeared out of nowhere.”

Even if they, S-class adventurers, came forward, they were so strong that they would fall helplessly.

And because of that, the charter turned upside down once again.

With such a guy stirring around, the number of crutches soon increased.

“Slayer… Is it Alteon?”

It wasn’t certain, but it was true that the Slayer was the only power that could suffocate the S-class adventurers.

And right away, the only place that comes to mind when thinking of a slayer in Alteon is Alteon Street.

Yorba affirmed.

“That’s right, now that I think about it, it was on the verge of ruin.”

He spoke as if recalling the critical days at that time.

“And then someone came.”

“Arut?”

“no.”

Looking around, Yorba whispered.

“First Confucius Kirchion.”

“Kirchion?”

Xian’s eyes widened.

When I looked at the guy who had been assuring me that he had nothing to do with it, he was very surprised.

“I… I really didn’t know.”

Yorba also helped.

“Really, I haven’t told this story to anyone but the stranger.”

Well, from being cautious before speaking a little while ago, it seems that he didn’t talk about it here and there.

“so? You mean that it was Kirsion who solved the Slayer?”

“No, it was the other way round, because it was Alteon’s 2nd Prince who looked after Arut.”

At the time, Alteon was in need of a fairly large amount of money due to the successor competition.

Whether it’s 1 Gongja or 2 Gongja.

A huge amount of money was invested in order to gain legitimacy by attracting at least one influential vassal to his side.

“But at that time, it was Arut who gave the money to the second prince?”

“Yes, Kirchion belatedly promised us military support instead of paying us a ransom.”

Xian knows the outcome.

Right now, my maternal grandfather, Lugrant, is pushing the 1st prince, Kirchion, not the 2nd prince.

“Well, we were lucky.”

“for a moment.”

He talked about a question that suddenly bloomed.

It was because after listening to it, it didn’t seem to be at the level of dividing Arut and Alteon into two.

“Then Arut Corporation… ?”

Yorba grinned.

“How do you think it turned out?”

* * *

Of course, Arut Company went down the path of decline after that.

It wasn’t the Mirva Company’s intention to make it that way, it was Arut who sponsored the second prince.

There was no way that Prince 1 Kirchion would just leave it alone.

“That’s scary.”

“yes? There is an old saying that power is not shared between children, but they are brothers, right?”

It was quite understandable that the Daesanghoe, which had been rooted in Alteon for hundreds of years, collapsed in an instant in front of power.

If you think about how you could have been pushed out because of them, you wouldn’t want to let them live.

“Well, thanks to that, now there are no key characters left. It’s because the First Prince expelled all of them under a suitable pretext.”

“Then, has Arut disappeared now?”

“no? Even though it is absorbing the commercial rights of Arut Company one by one.”

“What?”

“This should be a bit bigger.”

Anyway, it is still a process of absorption.

After the seven-year long conversation, Yorba pulled out something from the drawer and stood up.

He walked slowly in front of Xi’an and knelt down to present what he was holding.

“… … .”

Everyone in the room, including Xian, was taken aback by the sudden situation, but Xian looked at it calmly and picked up the object.

It was because among the items in the bag was a money bag that he had handed over to him a long time ago.

Xian took out and checked the rolled up paperwork sticking out of the small bag.

“This… .”

These were contracts related to Mirva.

The official seal, the symbol of Sanghojuju, was also included.

Xian knew what this meant.

It meant giving everything to yourself.

Said Yorba, who got up from her seat as if feeling relieved.

“Finally, the boring request is over.”

Xian said to him who looked at him with light eyes.

“Are you really going to give it to me?”

“Because I was determined to do that anyway.”

And then say

In the past, when he was still at the general store, he said he was worried about what to do.

However, as a result of talking with the owner and gathering opinions, it was decided to hand it over when Xian returned.

“Oh, and if it’s money, I got it in a legitimate way, so don’t look at it that way.”

He lived for several years as the head of the Mirba Chamber of Commerce.

It has been a long time since ordinary people have already earned money that they have never touched in their lives.

“what… It’s true that it’s grown too big for me to leave it at my own discretion.”

These were not empty words.

Originally, he had no talent in commerce, but he was able to lead at least thanks to a knowledgeable insider, which was impossible if he was alone.

“Come on, let’s have a drink or something. Do you have a lot to say besides work? At that time, the ribs that were beaten by the slayer… .”

Xian grinned as he watched Yorba’s cheeky smile as he tapped the ribs and said that.

“alcohol? It’s good.”

That’s why a good idea came to me.