Vol. 4 - Ch. 32 - Consulting about the management of Maguire's territory
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Peculiar smell of disinfectant stimulate my sense of smell.
It was the hospital room with several white and clean beds lined up. A beautiful woman in her late twenties was smiling gently at me, her long red hair held back by the pleasant breeze blowing through the window.
This is...... Right, I think I come here to enquire her well being.
"Hey, don't you think so?"
"Ah, Sorry. I didn't heard what you said"
When I tried to hide my absentmindedness while scratching my head like usual,
"Geez, you're always like this Brain! I know you must be thinking about your research either way!"
She puffed her cheeks and said in reproach.
It was the first time my mind wander off to other things when I'm visiting her ever since her illness has got worse. I guess I might be considerably tired..
"Something like that. So, what were you talking about?"
"Humph, you're always so perfunctory"
She sighed in as if fed up and,
"I wonder if I can sing again"
In hoarse voice, she utters the wish she has been longing for a long time.
Not long ago, she had been disappointed that she could not longer sing and was awfully depressed about it. Having hope for the future is the best thing. That's why一一
"Of course you can. Just like before. So, quickly get some rest well and get well soon"
"Okay!"
We both know we are putting up a strong front. But we still wants to believe in this. We want to believe there's definitely god somewhere in this world and will perform a miracle.
"Brain, I have a request"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Hug me. In sure I will be more cheerful then"
With her flushed red cheeks, She looks at him with downcast look and he lifted the corner of his mouth and silently hugged her.
"It's warm. The touch of Brain"
"Geez, the hell it means一一"
Her blissful voice warms up his heart and he tried to reply in joking tone.
However, the world loses its color out of blue and his vision was dyed in pure white.
Oh...... That's a dream. No, it's just my brain malfunctioning. But I'm fine even with this. Since it's afterlife, let me feel warmth with her a bit more, just a bit more.
When I open my eyelids, I feels a kind and warm touch.
"Y, young master?"
I heard a doubtful voice that seems to be fade anytime. When I become aware of the fact that I'm embracing a woman, I hurriedly separates from her.
Then the downcasted face of May-san, as red as apple enters in my sight.
"Sorry, it seems I was sleepwalking"
"N, no. I also woke you up suddenly"
May-san also replied something that she wasn't herself and quickly entered the mansion as if to run away from me.
Sigh, I wonder if she's disgusted by me. It would not be strange for me to be sued for sexual harassment if it was in earth for something like embracing a woman in half sleep. I will apologise again later.
I cheered myself up and enter the mansion.
"Then this is the contract terms of white heavenly silk. Are you pleased?"
White heavenly silk is the silk produced by white luminous worm.
"Whether it's research facility or research plan, all of it was more or less initiated by your grace. Are you really okay with us having 60% of profit?"
White luminous worm is the local speciality of this territory. Frankly, it should have been considerably tough concession from thier side for us to even get patent fee of 40%.
Bart is a good natured person through and through. This is an impressive quality normally but as a feudal lord, it's not something to complement about. Well, it may not become much of a problem with her presence
When I turn my gaze at the pink haired young girl sitting next to me,
"Father, although it's true that facility or the training staff was provided by Sagami Company, you're forgetting that almost all of the researchers leading the project are people from our fief. A minimum of 60% is a must"
Sure enough, the pink haired young girl, Yui Maguire stood up and chided her father.
She may actually be the one who has grown up the most in this territory for all I know. She attends the management strategy meeting for fiefdom operation held twice a week and is rapidly absorbing knowledge about the management. When I suggest her to take the entrance exam for magic knight academy, she agreed without batting an eyelid and passed the first exam after intense study.
She will be the student of magic knight academy formally from next month. Bart and others are quite anxious that Yui hasn't yet headed for the the fourth district Leith but apparently, the person herself insist on wanting to help the territory until the last moment.
"But you see, Dept repayment is going well and the industry's in our fiefdom is developing quite well. We don't to cover一一"
"L-I-S-T-E-N-T-O-M-E, it's not anything profound like greed etc but simply our rightful claim!"
Yui, you really have got yourself together very well. With her level headed personality, it's at least guaranteed that this fiefdom will not be led astray with her abilities no matter who become her husband. Rather, I hope she can find a suitable boy in the magic knight academy.
"Yui has upper hand this time. This is where you should fight for your rightful claim. It's okay for Bart-san to be more greedy"
"Ugh, having greed is...... difficult. However I understood. I will do my best"
Good natured is in Bart's disposition and also his good point. Well, he can discern when to listen to others at least and if a realist person like Yui will be next to him, it should be hard to choose a wrong option.
Anyway, white heavenly silk is an miraculous silk with the outstanding resistant to heat, shock and magic. There's also no doubt about it's beauty and it will surely surprass the products of the earth.
However, the design will be made by my mother, Anna Maguire. There are several excellent designer in the Ruddle presently but even among them, the clothes designed by Anna Maguire are also known as [Anna series] and have become a kind of super high class brand.
It's just a matter of time before offers from the whole world come for the clothes made of white heavenly silk. This land will soon become transformed into the one large industrial land of the white heavenly silk.
"Well then, let's discuss the concrete negotiation for the establishment of Industry"
"Industry establishment!? What kind!?"
When I unfolded the new blueprint on the table, Yui's face lit up and she leans her body to check it out.
Bart also shrugged his shoulders and joined the conversation.