I Shall Survive Using Potions! Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 4] by FUNA

Author:FUNA
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Lady Kaoru, you have a guest,” Ellie told me just before noon. “They’re four men with swollen faces...”

Ellie hadn’t been targeted by the four attackers, but it was painfully obvious who they were, given the simple ease of identifying them. It wasn’t as if they could come visiting with masks covering their faces either. The men must have known the kids had already reported that they had beaten their attackers’ faces to a pulp. Since they were here with their conspicuously swollen faces, they had no intention of hiding that fact. There was only one reason for them to be here now...

I ordered Ellie to escort the group to the dining hall after a short pause, then quickly made my way there with the guards I was having tea with. We didn’t have a reception room here, so we used the dining hall for receiving guests, since it was well kept up and the kids didn’t go in there except during meal times. Depending on the guest and situation, we usually let the guest into the room first, and I would enter after, but I decided we should wait in the room for the visitors this time.

As soon as we took our places in the dining hall, Ellie brought in the visitors. I was seated on our side, with one man standing behind me as a bodyguard. Last night, I had arranged for him to be here for the meeting, since it would have been disconcerting for a mere frail woman to meet with four adult men on not-so-friendly terms by herself...usually, anyway.

Reiko was pulling an all-nighter watching over Leia. Leia probably didn’t need to sleep, so she was almost definitely bombarding her three captors with questions. There were three of them, so maybe they would take turns dealing with her so they could take naps as needed.

After the children served tea and snacks at the beginning of the meeting, I had them leave out of concern for their safety and emotional education. That left six people total: me, my bodyguard, and the four men on their side.

These four are always together, aren’t they... I guess it never occurred to them that they could split up and handle business concurrently.

Well, their branch store was preparing to shut down, so maybe there was nowhere for them to be; I doubted they wanted to help out with the process. I gestured for the visitors to take a seat. They didn’t say anything, so I decided to break the ice.

“So, how can I help you, now that you’ve suddenly shown up without an appointment?” I asked, putting on my best fake smile...

Why are they backing away and looking scared?!

“Ah, y-yes... We were hoping to sign a business deal with you today...” Roderich replied.

“What? I heard that the Relinas Trade Company is closing up shop here. What sort of deal are we talking?” I countered. This was going as expected so far.

“We were thinking of something like this...” he said, showing me a contract. I read through its contents, then.

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