The Knights of Camelot by Mamare Touno

Author:Mamare Touno [Touno, Mamare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

4

“Well, well! If it isn’t two lovely ladies and the young gent from Shopping District Eight.”

“……Hm.”

As announced, the two who’d opened the door and entered were Michitaka, the general manager of the Marine Organization, and Roderick of the Roderick Trading Company.

“Pleased to meetcha! I’m Marielle, guild master of the Crescent Moon League. This is Henrietta, my head clerk.”

“Would you refrain from using antiquated terms like head clerk, please? …As she says, I’m Henrietta. I’m in charge of the accounts.”

The two delivered their greetings in turn. In the old world, Marielle had been nothing more than someone who took it easy at home and helped out with the chores, and Henrietta was a white-collar worker who’d graduated from the department of economics. Although she handled accounting duties and had learned a lot from her father, Henrietta was still just a rank-and-file office worker, and she didn’t really know what sort of expression she should wear at large-scale negotiations like these. Still, both gave introductions that, while awkward, were impressive in their own right.

“Michitaka of the Marine Organization here. General manager.”

The big man who greeted them jovially was built more like a warrior than a merchant. The arm he put out for a handshake was thick and had noticeable burn scars, probably because he was a Blacksmith.

“I’m Roderick, guild master of the Roderick Trading Company. It’s a production guild.”

In contrast, the young man who introduced himself as Roderick looked like a scholar. According to the information they’d received earlier, he was an Apothecary.

“Yes, we’re ac…acqua… Um, we know! You’re both famous.”

Marielle beamed.

To Henrietta, it looked as though the burden on Marielle’s shoulders had lifted ever so slightly. According to their preliminary meeting with Shiroe, her responsibility had been to contract with Shopping District 8 for short-term material procurement. In that sense, she’d completed her assignment during the previous negotiations.

The person in charge of this next round of negotiations was Henrietta.

In other words, this is my battlefield.

Henrietta smiled; there was an intelligent gleam in her eyes. The men in front of her were the leaders of Akiba’s largest and second-largest guilds. The huge guilds were on an entirely different level, and ordinarily, they would have completely ignored the Crescent Moon League. Henrietta would have felt too daunted even to speak to them.

That said, all the preparations Henrietta and the rest of the group had made over the past week had been leading up to this moment. The days of hunting, the stocking up on ingredients, the energetic sales under the blazing sun, the trench warfare–like document filing—it had all been in order to set the stage for this moment.

This step was grounded in the previous one, and the step before that had been drawn from the one before it. In addition, it had been Henrietta’s companions who had drawn it out, not Henrietta herself.

If I back down now, I’ll never be able to face the others. Besides, this pitch-black plan came courtesy of Master Shiroe. …If we can’t win with this, we’d never win with anything else.

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