Spice and Wolf Volume 08 by Hasekura Isuna

Author:Hasekura Isuna [Isuna, Hasekura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Economics, Drama, Middle Ages
Publisher: Drunken Wolf Translations
Published: 2013-07-22T20:52:34+00:00

“It was the right decision to greet you when I saw you earlier. Frankly, being stopped by those guys was really depressing.”

Eve pointed at the people speaking during the meeting.

“Because it didn’t involve profit?”

Eve curled her lips at his playful remark.. it was obvious to Lawrence, even if it was hidden behind her scarf. She snatched away his beer in response.

“But for me, who has to be so aggressive in Lenos and on the river, it might be one of the reasons that I find this place so comfortable.”

She either had a political benefactor, or the capital and backing of investors who could operate outside the legal system. Lawrence had never been at her level.. it was all new to him.

Her family had declined, but she still held a noble title and climbed her way back up from rock-bottom. She must have a lot of benefactors that others didn’t see.

The men had shown her respect when Lawrence saw them at the pier, but based on her expression things weren’t quite as simple as they seemed.

“I was kind of like a bodyguard to them, always getting ridiculous orders. Do you how this market came to be?

Lawrence honestly shook his head.

“A few decades back, some merchant from the south suggested building it. He said it would be a good base for trading with the north. So some merchants tried to buy the delta from it’s landowners. But the landowners figured it would be a huge loss to sell their land, so they decided to built the market on their own. It cost some of them dearly.”

“The landowners were from the north, and the ones who lent them money were from the south?”

Eve lowered her scarf, drank some beer, fixed the scarf, then handed the beer back to Lawrence.

“That’s right. Those merchants speaking up there are the sons of those lenders. The landowners kept their land and earned a hefty rent fee, but they had to pay it right back to the lenders with interest. So those unsatisfied landowners tried to find a way out of it.”

“And failed.”

Eve nodded, her eyes becoming cold enough to suggest that people’s lives were worth less than profits.

“So what’s the next generation looking for? Simply put, it’s a scapegoat.”

“Someone to blame for this difficult problem, huh?”

Eve’s face calmed like the surface of a lake. One day her abilities could make her a powerful merchant, but right now she was just a merchant with some money.

She was tasked with solving this problem that everybody knew was impossible to solve. And the people who assigned this task didn’t expect a solution.. they just wanted her to fail so they could punish her; a scapegoat.

As the one who had lost in their encounter, Lawrence had been hoping Eve was someone who was at the top of the their game.

“Ah.. right.. I’m good at dragging others into my misfortune. You learned that in Lenos.”

Eve spoke calmly.. she was strong, but different from Lawrence. They didn’t live in the same world.

“Yes.. as I expected, this had been pretty gloomy.

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