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Chapter 37

Once we entered the room, Nier released me . The individual in charge of the company sat in his chair with a despaired on his face, and looked at me . I smiled and walked up to the window . I pulled the thick black curtains shut . The room went pitch black instantly as if the sun had yet to come up outside . I then went to the door and locked it . I then finally walked up to the desk and sat down on the timber chair . I looked at the face that was due to the shadow cast on the other side of the table opposite me with a smile . With my smile still on my face, I said: “You don’t have to be so tense . I didn’t come to judge you… . . My, is that your wife and daughter? Your daughter sure is cute . You’re a fortunate man, congratulations . ”



I waved my hand and Nier walked up front, drew her sword and then stood behind him . She placed her blade up against his neck .

I picked up a small crate on his desk, but inside was a drawing . It was a drawing of an elegant and dignified wife holding a young girl with a smile . His hands trembled like he wanted to leap over and snatch it from me . However, he still had a sword to his neck . If he were to budge, that blade would cut his neck open without any hesitation .

“Your majesty…… Your majesty… I beg you… I beg you……”

I saw a flash of despair and anguish in his eyes . His lips trembles and his face was white as a sheet as if he was ready to keel over . His voice was shaky and hoarse, sounding like he was sobbing . I smiled . I stood up, walked over to his side and patted his shivering body . I placed the drawing into his hands and he gripped it tightly akin to someone scared of drowning and grabbing onto straws . I looked at him, bent over and next to his ear, quietly said: “If I report this you’ll be executed while your wife and child will be sold off . Wait, considering our friendship, I could let them enter the palace . If you can’t accept that, I can let you and your family reunite in heaven . ”

“Your majesty…… don’t… don’t… I beg you……”

“Of course, if I was going to do that, I wouldn’t have come here . ” I chuckled as I walked back to the front of my seat and sat down . I then clasped my hands by interlocking my fingers and looked at him, “I’ve already shown enough sincerity, so let’s negotiate . What you say next determines the fate of your wife, your child and your life . ”



He despairingly shouted: “Your majesty, just tell me, what do you want to know from me?!” After that he slouched into his chair like he’d been sapped off all of his life-energy .

I smiled casually and then said: “I want to know who tried to assassinate me . ”

I stayed silent for moment before revealing a terrifying expression . I looked at Nier . Nier shook her hand and a few drops of blood slowly seethed out from his neck . I looked at him and in a muffled voice said: “Think about this: Is the punishment awaiting you way off in the distance somewhere scarier, or is the blade on your neck scarier? Choose wisely . ”

He looked at me . He then covered his face with his hands and rubbed it . He then sighed and said: “I only know where the weapons go . We ship the weapons . I am not talking about the guns on the market though because guns must be marked when they are manufactured . Wherever each gun gets sent to gets noted . When we purchase these guns we buy them and get them delivered to the company under Castor’s name . The church’s members then move the guns back . The guns therefore have recorded origins . They are recorded the first time they are handled, but they are not recorded a second time once they arrive with Castor . I only know that it was indeed the members of the church that brought the guns back while the ones who carried out the job are hired assassins and mercenaries . As a low-ranked cooperative, I do not know the details as to who plans the operations . ”

“In other words, you’re certain that the church was involved with my assassination . ”

“Uhm . Also, the church does not pay . The funds for the guns are sourced from elsewhere . However, as I am only responsible for shipping, I do not know the origins of the funds for the guns . There must be someone else behind the scenes while the church must know the happenings and silently help them . ” He looked at me and pleaded, “Your majesty, I truly only know so much . I am just a bankrupt servant who got taken in . I honestly do not know the details of what is going on behind the scenes . ”



I nodded . It looks like it wasn’t just a single group that was involved with my assassination attempt . It must’ve been an operation with many people working together . It doesn’t look like I’ll find out anymore from him . Okay, so now I need to think about how to find out what I want from the church . But it doesn’t seem like they were the ones who planned the hit, and are but just an intermediary .

But this is sufficient . I’ll kill everyone who was involved, regardless of whom they may be . I don’t care what it takes . I’ll kill them for sure, and destroy them .


I stood up, looked at him and said: “Is that all you know? Alright . I trust you don’t know one thing, and that is that you’re no longer needed . You were only valuable to me because of what you had stored in your brain . Since you’ve now told me… Forget it . I won’t scare you . ”

I waved my hand and looked at his even more hopeless face . I sighed, smiled and said, “Let’s continue discussing something . Do you still have the thing you put before me last time?”

“You are referring to……”

I looked at him, smiled and extended my hand outwards: “The land deed and thirty-thousand gold coins . ”

He looked at me with a helpless expression and replied: “Your majesty… the deed… the land deed is still with me, but the thirty-thousand gold coins were not mine . There is no way my company would have thirty-thousand gold coins . The original plan was for us to pay you that sum after we privately sold the salt once you sold it to us . ”

“That’s simple then . You now owe me thirty-thousand gold coins . ”

I smiled and grabbed a sheet of paper by the side . I wrote the IOU and then signed my name . After a thinking about it for a moment, I then made a small cut by sliding it on Nier’s blade and pressed it on the IOU . I then smiled, placed the IOU in front of him and said: “Now, sign your name, and then put your fingerprint on it . Sorry, I don’t have a heat-stamp on me at the moment, so use your blood as a replacement . ”

“Your majesty! I really don’t have money! I really don’t have money!”

“I never said you have to pay it off all at once . ”

I smiled and watched as he quivered while signing his name and stamping his fingerprint on . I then picked up another sheet of paper and wrote a second document, signed my name and then raised my head up to look at Nier . With a smile I said: “Nier, this is for you . Sign your name and then stamp your fingerprint on . ”

Nier looked at me blankly, but then did as I said .

I put the two documents together and then handed them to Nier . I then clapped my hands with satisfaction and said: “Alright, you’re the new creditor, Nier . I transferred the thirty-thousand gold coins you owe me to Nier . Now give me the land deed . Nier, sign your name on the land deed…… Uhm, alright . Nier, the orphanage is yours now, and this company also owes you thirty-thousand gold coins . ”

“Your majesty……”

I smiled and looked at Nier who was taken by surprise and said: “It’s fine . I promised the church that I wouldn’t touch that block of land, so the church can’t say anything if I give it to you . However, I’m not in a rush to get the thirty-thousand gold coins . I wrote a fifty-year instalment payment period . You will need to pay the instalments plus the interest every year for the next fifty years . In this way, the orphanage will have the required funds to be maintained . Thank you very much, Mr . Kind-hearted . ”

He froze up and looked at me . He was no longer wearing any expression on his face . I waved my hand and then said: “Third thing, I want to know where you got the elves from . ”

“The elves… the elves were brought here by the church, not through me . I do not know where they brought them in from either . I think there should be a good number of elves inside the church . A fair number of them! I heard they came from a village, but I do not know the details! I honestly do not know!”

“You said that there are elves in the church, right?”

I nodded and then had Nier sheathed her sword . I pulled the door open then turned my head around to look at him and indifferently say: “Consider yourself lucky . I need to rush off elsewhere to deal with other matters . I wish you good health and I wish your family stays happy . Goodbye!”





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