episode_0097

Count Laure Tracy is a bat-like person with a grumpy but good sense. To put it simply, he was a small person who could not become a great person, but a lucky person.

Ever since he was young, he had a knack for being noticed, so he always sought prestige by siding with the strong. In an aristocratic society, or indeed in any society, the weak were either trampled on or captured by the strong.

He thought he was a very smart person. He didn’t care much whether people criticized him as a treacherous traitor or criticized him as a petty person.

Because those are all just complaints from failures.

Since human nature does not change easily, when there was a famine in the County of Laur, he went to a prestigious family in the south, and after becoming wealthy through business, he joined the imperial family to increase his power.

The Laur family gradually began to shake off its power.

Still, the count was not satisfied. Because he was a man with great ambition. For this reason, he pushed his son, Laur Cont, strongly from childhood.

Because the son had to become a greater person than himself. Only then will the Laur family prosper even more!

Laur Cont was a criminal who resembled his father. Of course, you couldn’t catch up with a genius even if you pushed hard.

In the end, the son was expelled from school for using strange medicine and returned to the estate.

Because of that white-haired man in front of me right now.

“It’s almost time. Eggplant.”

“…Keuhum. Has it already happened?”

Count Laure hated Dyers very much. It was the same after he saved her from Prince Howlan. Who in the world would look kindly on the guy who expelled his son from school? Well, I did pretend to be grateful at the time, but that was all just an act.

“By the way, Confucius. What you said back then was really true, right? If we succeed in reaching the 13th floor, we will engrave our family’s emblem first on the list of those who helped us..!”

“How many times did you say it? All you and I have to do is keep our promises. Isn’t investing something you’re better at than me?”

“That. That’s right haha! I’m sorry. I’m just a little anxious.”

A man who seemed like an enemy sent a letter to me.

The content of the letter included the claim that the 13th floor could be conquered and the evidence related to it.

Count Laur was lost in thought for a moment. Is it right to invest in this man who helped get his son expelled from school?

right. No matter how you look at it, this is money-making.

Whether he expelled his son from school or not, it was Laur, a noble and prestigious family, who distinguished between public life and private life.

Count Laure, who made his fortune through business, is fundamentally a ‘businessman’ and also an investor.

Make investments that work. Don’t make investments that don’t work. He has lived his whole life by keeping that principle, and still tries to keep it.

Isn’t it natural to invest in things that make money? A fool who doesn’t pick up money that falls on the street doesn’t have the qualifications to be a nobleman, let alone a human being.

From the top of the Verdilla Mountains, in front of countless noble families and even foreign families, Count Laure spoke confidently.

The basis of investment is to bring together speculators called investors.

“I recently had a meeting with Prince Dyers. The moment Count Laure heard his plan, he had no choice but to make a decision. This Laur family will be the ‘first’ to support Prince Dyers’ challenge to conquer the 13th floor!”

Count Laure was an extremely lucky man.

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Dyers’ interview continued, starting with Count Laure’s investment declaration.

People from famous families, members of the royal family, and vassals of foreign families were mesmerized as he continued to speak.

At first I thought it was nonsense, but the more I listened to it, the more I felt like it might be something.

Every time a major scholar from the ’13th Floor Research Group’ asked Dyers a question, he answered point by point and refuted it, which further confused the public’s mind.

“I thought it was a student’s right to dream. I have never once given up on conquering the 13th floor.”

Moreover, Count Laure is widely perceived as a small man, but he is a man with a good reputation when it comes to investments.

“… After listening to it, I find something interesting.”

“That’s right. I must at least praise your will to conquer the 13th floor. No one in Beatus has the same passion as that person.”

“No, if Confucius is good enough to overcome a university student, shouldn’t he become a university student? Why haven’t you gone to graduate school yet?”

“…I guess he didn’t want to go. I understand Confucius Dyers.”

I thought this was a joke, but it isn’t.

The man in front of me is seriously trying to break the 13th floor. And it is said that they are currently looking for investment opportunities.

So, if what that man said is true at all. Wouldn’t it be worth investing the surplus funds that are already in the safe and will never be used? You may get hit on the back by your wife or husband at home… but it’s just for fun. Yeah fun.

It can be said that one of the qualifications of nobility is to find fun and spend a lot of money.

“The interview is fun because it feels like an adventure story. I will invest in Confucius. Would 100,000 gold be enough?”

Among the nobles, there were secretly people who were crazy about this pleasure. If you invest just 100,000 gold, you can enjoy the 13th floor conquest content for free? This is clearly a profitable product.

It’s only 1 billion.

“…A real investor has appeared!”

“Shh, Jenna, be quiet! But I’m also really amazed..!”

Jenna and Pur looked at their man in bewilderment. Today, his back looked bigger.

“I will also invest something. I don’t know if the story I heard today is true, but it was interesting. Should I invest about 10,000 gold?”

“Hmm. Then, me too…”

Dyers smiled inwardly in satisfaction.

The interview, which was conducted jointly with the press department, went smoothly, and the listeners responded very well.

Now, if you just manipulate the Akashic Record community and bribe people, it will only take a moment for public opinion to change. Maybe there’s no need to manipulate it.

With just a little more effort, you can get a permit.

Now is the time to reveal it.

“Wait a minute.”

“Yes, I knew it would come. Sit down.”

“… Don’t try to overpower them by pretending to have predicted everything. Because I am also the one who came for the interview.”

Now that the student council president is away on a business trip, Latina, the most powerful person in the student council, has arrived.

Sweat was beading on his fresh platinum-blond hair. This was unusual for a woman who usually cares about her appearance.

“Whew, ha.. It’s really damn high here.”

She sat down, panting, as she packed all the documents.

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The student council guarantees freedom of speech. Therefore, such a provocative interview by Dyers cannot be easily sanctioned.

If he arbitrarily overpowered Dyers by force and was hit by public opinion, it was obvious who public opinion would attack.

Latina, who was prevented from being suppressed by force, chose the standard method. All you have to do is go directly to the interview site and crush Dyers with logic.

“Since His Highness Grand Duke Howlan conquered the 12th floor during his school days, many people have dreamed of challenging the 13th floor, but they have all failed.”

“If you fail, you will fail this time too. Did you come here just to say that?”

“Of course, I didn’t come here just to say that. I brought you information on how you embezzled the student council budget several times to challenge the 13th floor. Everyone please watch this.”

“……”

The Latina unfolded the paper towards the people. In an instant, the public’s attention was focused.

“It was the other departments of the student council that suffered because of your absurd dream.”

Dyers’ brow furrowed.

Latina pushed him further. I don’t know about anyone else, but you shouldn’t give yourself any leeway when dealing with Dyers.

“……”

“Is it a student’s right to dream? You speak well. Didn’t you think that that sweet dream could harm others?”

“…….”

“Even if you succeeded, the fact that you committed a crime remains the same, but you even failed. Are you targeting investment fraud this time? I knew he was only that kind of person, but I didn’t know he would show the bottom of it.”

Public opinion is moving little by little again.

If Dyers seemed like a pioneer and a challenger before, now he just looks like a fraud. The audience was just as confused.

“…He was a fraudster!”

“If that document is true… there is no need to look any further. That guy is just a fraudster.”

“The subject of embezzlement of the budget was something of a challenge or something! Even if you don’t see it, you’ll buy it again!”

Dyers gently closed his eyes.

Public opinion reversed again after Latina’s speech. Even Pur and Jenna are stamping their feet, not knowing what to do.

What should I do now to overcome this situation?

“It’s a little late. Dyers, you incompetent bastard.”

“Did you come?”

Latina is a descendant of the famous family ‘Sili’.

There are people in her family whom she cannot even see.

At the same time, there is someone in the student council who is constantly at odds.

“…Why are you here.”

A direct descendant of the prestigious ‘Sili’ family, an executive member of District 2, said to be the true second-in-command of the student council, and a probationary member of the 76th President Vivian, in other words, a classmate of Dyers.

Sili Kirshen has arrived.

“Suddenly the 2nd bailiff broke in!”

“Are you on the side of the 1st execution officer?”

“There are so many people. Since I don’t have time, I’ll keep it simple.”

“Sili Kirshen! Go back to your seat and do your job right now!”

“The entire Student Council District 2 decided to support Dyers’ conquest of the 13th floor. As for District 1, that’s none of my business.”

“Kirshen!!”

“And this guy is not cheating. He may be a criminal, but doesn’t the fact that he stole the budget and continued to challenge the 13th floor mean he has a lot of experience? I think it’s worth the investment.”

People began to stir again at the declaration of support from the second bailiff, following Count Laure.

“As expected, it wasn’t a scam.”

“I believed in Prince Dyers from the beginning.”

“Look at that confident tone of voice. I thought it was either a criminal or a fraudster, but it turned out to be the former. Still, I’m glad I’m not a scammer.”

Latina couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the public’s loss of the speed of light.

Even the reed fields of the autumn wind will have more incisions than those.

On the other hand, Dyers nodded and indirectly agreed with their words. That sight was truly disgusting.

At that time, Kirshen grabbed his head as he nodded.

I whisper in Dyers’ ear in a low voice so no one can hear.

“So, I guess you’ve regained all your strength? I felt bad because I was very weak at the time, but as expected, Howlan’s bloodline is different.”

This was an unplanned statement.

Dyers, wondering what was going on, asked back.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“I saw you crush something like a control. I also saw him defeat a chimera, and his skills are the same as before.”

“I have never been weak.”

First of all, Dyers was bluffing. Then Kirshen frowned.

“What bullshit. Don’t you know how important kidneys are to wizards?”

“What?”

“You don’t have any kidneys. Give it to him.”

Suddenly, I hear a nonsense sound in my ear.

The person Kirshen pointed to was none other than Latina.

“What are you looking at?”

She was still looking at Dyers with a fierce look in her eyes.