Hakai no Miko

Everything was going according to Joash's thoughts.

His purpose is to see the Ethereal Horse himself with its eyes.

It is also, if possible, not in a state of complete attitude beforehand, but as such.

From the point of view of the Shapiro Chamber of Commerce, it was also for that reason that I was deliberately allowed to stay at Lazarev's, which is only a small item that is not enough to take.

It was visible that the Ethereal Horses would be in financial difficulty as a result of the wheat buying and beating of Jeboa's Merchant Guild. If we get any wisdom around it, we should try to improve our relationship with the Merchant Guild or try to raise funds in exchange for the pattern of the noble descendants of Holmea, who are securing it, in order to crack down on such a situation.

In any event, we must look for an intermediary in the negotiations with Jeboa or Holmeer.

And it was easy to predict that that white feather arrow would stand on Lazarev. Later, it was good to just dive into Lazarev's using the name of the Shapiro Chamber of Commerce and trap him there and wait.

And Joash appeared before the pale horse.

But Joash was disappointed when he said he was doing what he thought he was doing.

Because the famous Son of Destruction was a boy who painted mediocrity.

While chatting, I was crushing observing the reaction of a boy named "Son of Destruction," who doesn't seem to be otherwise smart or manipulative. Besides, from the looks of it and from the looks of it, I don't think very well that he led the Zoans, who were said to be fierce, to defeat Darius, who was called that Holmeer's best general.

So if you're a man specialized in an army like a military teacher or a staff officer, that doesn't seem to be the same. Anyway, whoever leads the soldiers on this continent did not even know the name of Inkdias, the famous general of the Empire a hundred years ago, whose book says everyone will look through once.

With what the hell, Joash didn't know that many of the fae, including Zoan, were responsible for such a mediocre boy?

Also, if you don't know, this boy has the same qualities.

Joash is such a sailor that he is a merchant and at the same time brazenly says that he has been on the sea longer than he has been on land. In an age when most people end their lives without leaving the land where they were born, humans who passed through as many foreign countries as Joash is rare.

From that experience, it was Joash's covert complacency to say that he could deduce his qualities based on his opponent's pronunciation and knowledge bias.

But with Joash's insight, the boy's identity as Soma could not be inferred.

I don't know what he would call a 'courseway', but he says he used his studies as his job, so I presume it's probably a bachelor's kind (tattoo). Then he was born into a nobleman or a wealthy merchant, wondering if he was a second son or a third son who didn't have to inherit the house, and his father said he was a salaried salesman.

Besides, a father like a junior soldier who gets such a salary in salt said he likes to travel and was often taken on trips, etc. Regardless of wealthy aristocrats and merchants, I've never heard of junior soldiers or anything else who travel at enormous cost.

That's it, or the beginning and end of saying all the way up to some unknown paranoia, like riding an iron bird flying through the sky that would be 'Hicoki' and going to the North where it snows in just less than a day, or to an ever-summer island in the South.

Does this guy suffer from so much paranoia and vain habits, or is he a rare petitioner?

Either way, Joash only seemed like a mediocre boy who just blew his pale horse a lot.

Perhaps it is Joash's reasoning that the series of events that began with Zoan's counterattack, as well as someone responsible for this largely blown boy, will be pulling the thread behind it.

And one of the masterminds and Joash was staring at Elf's woman - Eladia.

Rumors of Eladia, a witch who drove many of the nobles and millionaires of the Empire into ruin, had also been heard by Joash. If she's a woman as rumored, there's no way she could take this boy named Soma in her hand and manipulate Zoan, Dwarves and Dinosaurians who seem to be made of muscle all the way to her brain as she wishes.

And to back it up, a boy named Soma's eyes turn to Eladia unconsciously when he deliberately asks difficult questions. If we further excluded her from the negotiating table, the boy began to get upset.

After all, Joash is convinced that she was this boy's puppet.

The famous Son of Destruction was just a puppet when he said he had traveled all the way to a city like this. If you take it to Joash, who loves interesting and rare things, it's a good place to fall short of expectations.

This was an impossible story to tell you not to be discouraged.

Compared to such a reputable "Son of Destruction," Zoan's daughter, who is present, is more interesting to Joash.

His father said, "You're not laughing with your face, but your eyes aren't. You can't seem to fool me with your eyes, it's still second-rate". But whatever the father, who is the majesty of Haiqian Mountain Thousand, did not expect to spot the act with his eyes when such Zoan's daughter.

Such an admission that she would remain on the spot is a little bit of a return of interest.

From what she said and did, I felt a strong trust in the boy. If so, it is out of prank that I would be happy to crush the boy thoroughly in front of me.

You wasted your time on me, so you won't be punished for having fun with it.

Joash snuck a man's bad grin.

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"Now, what exactly do you want from me?

For starters, that's how Joash cut it out. But the Ethereal Horse, without answering it, asks the other way around.

"Even I have heard the name of the Shapiro Chamber of Commerce. I hear you're in pretty big business."

Firstly, Joash responds with a bitter smile to the stone-like hand that tells him to look inside his hand as he snaps this one.

"Naturally, are you also in and out of the Royal Palace in Holmea?

I didn't know you were going to confirm your connection to the Holmeer Royal Palace, but it's still an intermediary story for the ransom negotiations for prisoners.

Joash returned an answer that he was so sure but did not even give it a bite.

"The Shapiro Chamber of Commerce is mainly dominated by maritime trade. If I'm honest, I haven't spread my hands very far above land."

Joash continues his words in dismay as the colour floats on the face of the Ethereal Horse, but he is a boy who cannot lie.

"- That said, when it comes to the Shapiro Chamber of Commerce, it is also the Chamber of Fingerfolds in Jeboa. My father, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, also has an associate title. If you want to see King Holmeer, you won't be turned down."

Even though Joash has the conditions to act as an intermediary, the Ethereal Horse is horrified. But now we finally have to ask the core part. The pale horse opened his mouth nervously again.

"Mr. Joash. I would like to negotiate the ransom of my brother Vritas as a Holmeer country, so could you ask me to broker that?

That was the word Joash had expected.

But Joash doesn't answer instantly.

With a grin on his mouth, he gently squeezes his eyes under the guise of the wind conceiving something, and rhythmically taps his desk into a ton with his right hand finger.

That's all Joash did.

But the Ethereal Horse was stirred up by the silence of Joash, who had even let a sinister air drift away from the light chatter until then. Even the sound of tapping a desk carving a constant rhythm reverses the nerves of a nervous, less sawny, standing Ethereal Horse.

Didn't I say something wrong? Did I say something rude to you?

Such a suspicious demon springs up in a pale horse.

And that was Joash's morsel street.

Character that takes into account (boobs) the other person by the time it is excessive.

Joash was analyzing the character of the Ethereal Horse that way. Even in the chatter without any other love until earlier, the Ethereal Horse immediately said an apology or indicated agitation if he thought he had any fault at all, is also an indication of that.

Maybe that's one virtue. Especially for those who have been abused (did) as slaves, I guess the kindness that takes them into account was nothing more than the spring sun that I found after enduring a long extremely cold winter.

But in the negotiating arena, that's a fatal drawback.

And Joash opened his eyes.

"Why should I do that?

Ethereal horses black-and-white their eyes like they had been fed by Joash, who flinched away from his previous mild attitude and unleashed aggressive words.

In response to such a pale horse, Joash has abandoned his tender tone and slashed it at once with a blade of further words.

"Just to be clear, our guild of merchants in Jeboa doesn't think well of you"

I was aware of that, but when they say it face to face like this, the Ethereal Horse gets upset.

"Don't you know how many merchants are screaming about your conquest of this city?

Joash blames the Ethereal Horse with further practical examples.

"It's not just the city's passage. In Jeboa these days, there have been more fugitive slaves. Of course, to get out of here. No, it's not just slaves. The beginning and end of escaping here to escape the hands of Jeboa's captors, even the bandits and thieves. An increase in the cost of employment for the guards, which was further increased by the deterioration of security. No, you can't name it."

Joash just shrugged his shoulder, as he said, "Oh, boy."

"We, the Merchant Guild of Jeboa, are in great trouble because of you. And yet, why should I help you? I have no idea."

It is an unexpected pre-emptive attack by Joash.

Since it's so called a luxury store, Aoima just thought that no matter how much remorse there is, it would be something to split up and take the story with him when negotiating. That is the sudden strangulation if you open the lid. To this unexpected, the Ethereal Horse can no longer say anything.

"You want to let us know what you think of this situation."

Moreover, Joash hastened the answer and did not give him time to regain his calm.

I hear the city is blocked because of me.

Still, the Ethereal Horse desperately searches for words.

"But I'm going to get rid of the city's toll tax in the future. So, don't you understand?

If the cost of transporting a slave without being able to use it to carry the load is high, the Ethereal Horse offered to eliminate the city's toll tax, so I wondered if I could fold it there.

Besides, Eladia, who was listening in the next room, bites her lower lip.

The faults of the feared Ethereal Horse came out early.

Anyway, the Japanese are said to be poor negotiators.

One of the reasons for this is to consider the negotiator's position.

Japanese society, as much as it is also said to be a society of compromise and coordination, is rooted in a sense of mutual consideration, concession and cooperation. For this reason, we will also try to find compromises and avoid disputes with each other in the negotiations. One of them is that I'm going to leave, so you're going to make the compromise that I want you to leave.

But only the Japanese can make it through.

If you deal with someone other than the Japanese and show a retreat at a stage that hasn't been long since the negotiations started, that will be reflected in weak hips from the other person. In that case, it makes sense for the other person to try to pass his claim further ahead rather than retreat to the compromise shown.

"Yo ho! That's great"

Joash raises his voice of admiration.

Removal of traffic taxes. How wonderful. You are most welcome. But...

"But in the mouthful now, that doesn't sound like Jebor's privilege to the Merchant Guild. Then it means nothing. Isn't it? I want you to tell me something more fruitful."

While securing the conditions for removing the toll tax firmly, Joash asks for further conditions to be presented.

"Also, of course, if you broker with Holmea, I'm going to pay you quite a bit"

Joash sighs in his heart at the Ethereal Horse trying to present the conditions, albeit in various ways. Don't think such a settled matter would be a bargaining hand.

"That's all you think you can compensate for all the losses of our Jeboa Merchant Guild? Apparently, you don't know the scale of our business."

In the evil hand of the pale horse who was caught up, Joash greeted him with a painful return.

Details of the losses caused by the inability of the merchants of Jeboa to pass through the city of Bornis and the amount thereof flow out of Joash's mouth like water on a platform.

Whether that was the real number or not, I didn't know. Maybe it's just a haunt. But the Ethereal Horse, not knowledgeable enough to judge it, was just pushed away by Joash's huge wave of numbers rising.

"I hope you don't think of that as a condition of negotiation."

And Joash's words, which were spoken at the end, even contained pity.

That's when, for the first time, the Ethereal Horse realizes.

I don't have a weapon.

Until now, the Ethereal Horse has always been the attacking side. When convincing the Gallums in the village of Fang Fang Family, he had a way in his chest to get rid of the human army. When convincing Zug and the others after dropping the fort, they were sure to say that Zoan would perish if he did not leave the plain.

Always the Ethereal Horse was on the side attacking them in the negotiating arena using them as weapons.

However, this negotiation with Joash is the opposite. The Ethereal Horse, who had to ask the Jebor merchant, whose relationship was deteriorating, to act as an intermediary in the negotiations, was on the offensive side.

The Ethereal Horse who realizes it completely catches up to herself.

Less nervous, tingling and dry throat. In my chest, my heart makes a noise and bursts. The blood flow goes up to my head, my brain swells into bread and my thoughts stain bright white. Finally, my body was about to fall out of my chair to the illusion that the ground was swaying with gras.

The Ethereal Horse tries to open his mouth, not knowing what he's trying to say himself.

Besides, Joash leaks a discouraging exhale, "I thought I'd enjoy it a little more".

And Eladia, who was holding back in the next room, cracks and tries to get in.

But it is then.

There was a loud metal noise in the lookout room.