A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Hagure Metabo

Author:Hagure Metabo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Excerpt from the memoirs of Lucas Lebrick Haldoria, Archduke of the Dukedom of Haldoria.

Chapter 2: The Traitre Commercial Firm

I pushed open the door of an old house that fell apart with a crack, leaving me to hold a large piece of wood from it. The smell of dust assaulted my senses.

“This house is in ruins, my lady...” said Mireille.

“That explains the price,” I responded. “I never thought we’d even find a building and some land for one gold coin.”

Then, I threw the large piece of wood to the ground. I’d fix it later... No, that was probably impossible. I’d hire a carpenter.

We were on the edge of the Lebrick Viscounty’s capital. I had purchased this abandoned building at the Merchant Guild after registering my new business with Lucas’s help.

The place had terrible sun exposure and was far from the city center and the gate. Dead leaves sullied the well, and weeds had taken over the garden.

“My lady, this is no place for you,” insisted Mireille, glaring at a large fissure on the wall that let the cold air enter the house.

“There’s no choice, Mireille. I only borrowed a hundred gold coins and can’t waste them. Lord Lucas helped us with the trade authorization, but an address is required to register the firm.”

I handed Mireille a dust cloth and picked up a broom.

“M-My lady, please allow me to do the cleaning!”

“I can’t let you do everything, so I’ll help,” I said. “And please stop calling me ‘my lady.’”

“B-But...”

“We’re fugitives. Let’s avoid drawing attention until we’ve restored our power. In fact... I’ll go by Ellie Leis from now on. Just call me Ellie.”

“A-All right... Then, um... El-El... Miss Ellie.”

I let out a little laugh, then said, “That will do. Shall we start cleaning? Here’s to taking good care of our new headquarters and my first step toward revenge.”

Although I made it sound like the beginning of something grand, we were simply about to scrub, dust, and pull out weeds from this place... Oh, and fill in that fissure.

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After three days of hard work, we’d turned a ruin into a run-down yet habitable house. We had just added the final touch: a rough sign with the name of our new business, the “Traitre Commercial Firm.” I hoped to change the sign to a more elegant one quickly.

Either way, we had everything we needed for a proper firm.

“Will we focus on selling cosmetics like before, Miss Ellie?”

As Mireille stated, we’d mainly sold cosmetics in the past. I’d discovered incredible recipes in ancient records and used the Grimoire of Lucifer—the one I usually pretended was called Grimoire of Wisdom in front of others—to decipher them.

I’d even popularized some of them in the Kingdom of Haldoria. Nonetheless, I still had many recipes I had yet to commercialize recorded in my Grimoire of Lucifer.

However, I shook my head and replied, “Cosmetics are sure to interest noble ladies and have a high-profit margin. But I fear we don’t have the facilities or personnel for that.”

“Then—”

“This will be our

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