I had a lot on my plate, keeping tabs on Andrew and Hillen and preparing for various situations related to Kavala, but that didn't mean I neglected my finally regained daily life because of them.
“My heart is pounding.”
I put his hand on my chest with the aforementioned face.
“Are you scared?”
Lamia asked.
I shook my head and smiled brightly.
“No, I’m just excited! I’m riding alone!”
I've been learning horseback riding these days.
There were many things I wanted to do before the curse would be triggered again, as I didn't know when it would be triggered again.
So, I'm quickly getting through the things I decided to learn, one by one, and one of them is horseback riding.
'I can't be a burden every time I move somewhere.'
Until yesterday, I was practicing my posture while riding a horse with Leviche holding the reins and pulling me.
The people of Ronheim said that children can ride horses on their own from the age of six.
I was the only one here who couldn't ride a horse, and since everyone was skilled at horseback riding, I was learning horseback riding from Leviche without having to hire a special instructor.
Before I learned to ride a horse, I never realized how difficult it was to sit still on a horse by myself.
'If I hadn't been carried by Callius when I came to Ronheim, I would never have been able to get here, no matter how slowly I rode... '
Just holding a posture caused me so much muscle pain every night.
But now that I have no muscle pain and my posture is pretty good, I was able to hold the reins with my own hands for the first time.
"Let's go!"
I shouted loudly.
Compared to the momentum, the horse started off at a very slow pace.
'I'm so excited, my head feels dizzy.'
It felt different from a headache.
In all my life, I never thought I would be able to ride a horse by myself.
I couldn't stop smiling because I was so excited to be doing such a great thing.
My destination was to pass through the castle courtyard, through the path next to the main building, and reach the training ground where the knights were training.
It wasn't a long or difficult road, but I found it quite challenging because I had to change direction a couple of times along the way.
Lamia and Leviche were following me from both sides, firmly trying to prevent me from falling from my horse.
Whenever the castle employees and soldiers passing by saw me like that, they waved at me.
“You are doing well!”
"Cheer up!"
“You can do it!”
Everyone had seen how hard I had been practicing my posture in front of the castle, so they were all really cheering me on for making it this far.
I went forward, cheered like a triumphant general.
“Left, left. Left. Turn left. No, left... This is now right. Right. That’s right! Right...”
Although I spoke almost exclusively with my mouth, not my body.
I don't know if the horse understood what I meant or if my earnest heart got through, but either way, I arrived safely at the training ground.
From a distance, Callius could be seen training his knights.
I wanted to wave, but I felt like I would fall off the horse, so I just called out to him.
“Callius!”
At my call, Callius spotted me and waved.
The knights also exclaimed, "Oh..." when they saw me, but they seemed to be quiet, afraid that if they applauded and cheered, the horses would be startled.
I rode cautiously until the end.
But my desire to go to Callius and the horse's desire seemed to be different.
“Uh... Uh...?”
The horse took me to a corner where there was no road, avoiding the gathered knights.
“Where are you going?”
Callius followed me, giggling playfully.
Because he followed me, Leviche and Lamia were falling behind and laughing at me.
I couldn't turn my head, so I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I could hear it and know.
The horse kept going towards a corner.
“I can’t stop it...”
“Give me the reins.”
“I can’t move.”
“Extend your arm slightly.”
“No, I don’t think that will work.”
“Relax your shoulders. Stop talking.”
I signaled to the horse as Leviche had taught me.
But the horse wouldn't stop, so I kept muttering my earnest feelings without realizing it.
“Stop, stop, stop, stop.”
Callius couldn't help but laugh.
“Who taught you that you have to beg to stop the horse?”
“No, that’s not it. I’m giving it a signal with my body right now... Stop teasing me!”
The knights laughed, holding their stomachs, as if they heard me getting angry.
I was the only one who was yelling and complaining because Callius left those knights alone.
“Everyone, stop laughing!”
Meanwhile, Andrea recently found a new business partner.
His new partner, Truro Levant, was a decent man, if not quite as good as Viscount Pelsus.
Although he owned a fairly large business, he was not conservative in expanding his business and had a clear desire for social advancement, so he did not hesitate to bow down to Andrea.
'You can't do anything if you're only given a title.'
Andrea snorted as she thought of Truro, desperate to impress him.
'I'll prove to you how brilliant I am at business. I'll amass a fortune and earn my mother's approval.'
He doesn't have the confidence to take up a sword and go to the battlefield, and the political arena is so tightly controlled by Kavala that there is no room to interfere.
The only field where he could prove his abilities was business.
‘My mother thinks I’m just doing stupid things...’
Although Kavala did not recognize Andrea's business ability, she hoped that he would stay quiet and not get involved in politics, but rather spend his time making money.
But Andrea had no intention of wasting hia time just gambling.
'It has to be big. So that Mom will be surprised.'
A burning desire to be recognized burned within Andrea's heart.
So he went to Truro again today to figure out how to make a lot of money.
But the story he heard from Truro was not very pleasant.
“Elford’s upper class succeeded in opening a new trade route?”
“Yes. The ships arrived at the port, one after another, majestically lined up, and they seemed to be laden with gold and silver treasures.”
"Didn't you say that Elford's top was unlikely to succeed? What's going on?"
Truro, who was short and fat, was constantly wiping sweat with a handkerchief.
“I, not only me, but no one expected that the Elford top would succeed...”
"No one? No one expected it. How could Elford's top ship have the money to launch a ship? It must have been difficult to do with just their own capital. They couldn't have poured all their capital into such an uncertain undertaking!"
“That’s... It seems there was an investor who lent money...”
"No one expected Elford's top to be a success! And who would have funded it?"
Andrea grumbled.
Truro, at a loss, kept shaking his butt and coughing.
“Well, that, everyone in the merchants’ association unanimously said it was impossible... Ahem, not the merchants’ association, but the investors...”
“Who? A nobleman? Who the hell is that?”
"It's huge at the top of Elford. No matter how hard you try to dig up information, you can't. It's kept strictly secret."
"No, if you've been so successful in investing, wouldn't you reveal your identity? Why hide it? Why?"
Investors often reveal that they have been very successful in their investments before anyone even knows about them.
That way, you can be recognized for your business acumen and easily expand your reach as a big shot in the industry.
If you are successful, don't you want to hang out with other successful people and share information and friendships?
Andrea felt like he was going crazy with jealousy at the mysterious investor who had made a fortune by investing in the top of Elford, where no one else had invested.
He ran wild for a long time by himself, then finally calmed down and asked.
"Bielefeld? The ships I invested in from the Bielefeld upper deck haven't arrived yet?"
Yeah, he didn't know the situation of the top he invested in, yet he was jealous.
Andrea brought his expectant face closer to Truro.
"If Elford had succeeded, Bielefeld wouldn't have been so difficult either. Right? Yeah? You invested in Bielefeld, didn't you? I trusted you so much that I even issued a promissory note to invest."
When Andrea heard that the merchants' association had invested in the upper part of Bielefeld, he took out a loan and made a bold investment.
But Truro's expression was not normal.
“Well... maritime trade is inherently dangerous... ships often sink due to pirates or typhoons, and because of infectious diseases...”
“So? What are you trying to say?”
Andrea's expression gradually hardened into a cold one.
Truro felt like crying.
"You know, it's so incredibly difficult to succeed, so those who do make it once make a lot of money... I told you from the beginning that it's a huge risk..."
“So! Huh? So, what!”
“They... sank. Every single ship.”
"What! Are you saying all my money just disappeared into the ocean?"
Truro closed his eyes tightly.
He had never known how much he envied Pelsus for being so attached to Andrea, being given the title of Viscount, and associating with nobles.
So when Viscount Pelsus went missing and Andrea came looking for him, Truro thought this was a godsend.
But these days, he's been feeling like it might be a temptation from the devil, not God.
Truro looked at Andrea with a tired face.
Andrea was angry and was throwing all kinds of furniture around like a madman.
'That's the devil, that's the devil.'
Truro was truly resentful that he had invested so excitedly and now was being treated unfairly. After all, isn't investing supposed to be about your own responsibility?
'I didn't threaten you into investing.'
Andrea, who had been very angry at that time, shouted.
"The Bielefeld investment failed, but I'll make sure to take on the Teramo acquisition! I'll stake everything on it! Understood?"
Andrea didn't know.
The fact that the major investor at the top of Elford has already jumped into the acquisition of the top of Terramo, with the huge capital he has earned this time.
And the fact that the major investor was none other than Chloe.
“My heart is pounding.”
I put his hand on my chest with the aforementioned face.
“Are you scared?”
Lamia asked.
I shook my head and smiled brightly.
“No, I’m just excited! I’m riding alone!”
I've been learning horseback riding these days.
There were many things I wanted to do before the curse would be triggered again, as I didn't know when it would be triggered again.
So, I'm quickly getting through the things I decided to learn, one by one, and one of them is horseback riding.
'I can't be a burden every time I move somewhere.'
Until yesterday, I was practicing my posture while riding a horse with Leviche holding the reins and pulling me.
The people of Ronheim said that children can ride horses on their own from the age of six.
I was the only one here who couldn't ride a horse, and since everyone was skilled at horseback riding, I was learning horseback riding from Leviche without having to hire a special instructor.
Before I learned to ride a horse, I never realized how difficult it was to sit still on a horse by myself.
'If I hadn't been carried by Callius when I came to Ronheim, I would never have been able to get here, no matter how slowly I rode... '
Just holding a posture caused me so much muscle pain every night.
But now that I have no muscle pain and my posture is pretty good, I was able to hold the reins with my own hands for the first time.
"Let's go!"
I shouted loudly.
Compared to the momentum, the horse started off at a very slow pace.
'I'm so excited, my head feels dizzy.'
It felt different from a headache.
In all my life, I never thought I would be able to ride a horse by myself.
I couldn't stop smiling because I was so excited to be doing such a great thing.
My destination was to pass through the castle courtyard, through the path next to the main building, and reach the training ground where the knights were training.
It wasn't a long or difficult road, but I found it quite challenging because I had to change direction a couple of times along the way.
Lamia and Leviche were following me from both sides, firmly trying to prevent me from falling from my horse.
Whenever the castle employees and soldiers passing by saw me like that, they waved at me.
“You are doing well!”
"Cheer up!"
“You can do it!”
Everyone had seen how hard I had been practicing my posture in front of the castle, so they were all really cheering me on for making it this far.
I went forward, cheered like a triumphant general.
“Left, left. Left. Turn left. No, left... This is now right. Right. That’s right! Right...”
Although I spoke almost exclusively with my mouth, not my body.
I don't know if the horse understood what I meant or if my earnest heart got through, but either way, I arrived safely at the training ground.
From a distance, Callius could be seen training his knights.
I wanted to wave, but I felt like I would fall off the horse, so I just called out to him.
“Callius!”
At my call, Callius spotted me and waved.
The knights also exclaimed, "Oh..." when they saw me, but they seemed to be quiet, afraid that if they applauded and cheered, the horses would be startled.
I rode cautiously until the end.
But my desire to go to Callius and the horse's desire seemed to be different.
“Uh... Uh...?”
The horse took me to a corner where there was no road, avoiding the gathered knights.
“Where are you going?”
Callius followed me, giggling playfully.
Because he followed me, Leviche and Lamia were falling behind and laughing at me.
I couldn't turn my head, so I didn't see it with my own eyes, but I could hear it and know.
The horse kept going towards a corner.
“I can’t stop it...”
“Give me the reins.”
“I can’t move.”
“Extend your arm slightly.”
“No, I don’t think that will work.”
“Relax your shoulders. Stop talking.”
I signaled to the horse as Leviche had taught me.
But the horse wouldn't stop, so I kept muttering my earnest feelings without realizing it.
“Stop, stop, stop, stop.”
Callius couldn't help but laugh.
“Who taught you that you have to beg to stop the horse?”
“No, that’s not it. I’m giving it a signal with my body right now... Stop teasing me!”
The knights laughed, holding their stomachs, as if they heard me getting angry.
I was the only one who was yelling and complaining because Callius left those knights alone.
“Everyone, stop laughing!”
***
Meanwhile, Andrea recently found a new business partner.
His new partner, Truro Levant, was a decent man, if not quite as good as Viscount Pelsus.
Although he owned a fairly large business, he was not conservative in expanding his business and had a clear desire for social advancement, so he did not hesitate to bow down to Andrea.
'You can't do anything if you're only given a title.'
Andrea snorted as she thought of Truro, desperate to impress him.
'I'll prove to you how brilliant I am at business. I'll amass a fortune and earn my mother's approval.'
He doesn't have the confidence to take up a sword and go to the battlefield, and the political arena is so tightly controlled by Kavala that there is no room to interfere.
The only field where he could prove his abilities was business.
‘My mother thinks I’m just doing stupid things...’
Although Kavala did not recognize Andrea's business ability, she hoped that he would stay quiet and not get involved in politics, but rather spend his time making money.
But Andrea had no intention of wasting hia time just gambling.
'It has to be big. So that Mom will be surprised.'
A burning desire to be recognized burned within Andrea's heart.
So he went to Truro again today to figure out how to make a lot of money.
But the story he heard from Truro was not very pleasant.
“Elford’s upper class succeeded in opening a new trade route?”
“Yes. The ships arrived at the port, one after another, majestically lined up, and they seemed to be laden with gold and silver treasures.”
"Didn't you say that Elford's top was unlikely to succeed? What's going on?"
Truro, who was short and fat, was constantly wiping sweat with a handkerchief.
“I, not only me, but no one expected that the Elford top would succeed...”
"No one? No one expected it. How could Elford's top ship have the money to launch a ship? It must have been difficult to do with just their own capital. They couldn't have poured all their capital into such an uncertain undertaking!"
“That’s... It seems there was an investor who lent money...”
"No one expected Elford's top to be a success! And who would have funded it?"
Andrea grumbled.
Truro, at a loss, kept shaking his butt and coughing.
“Well, that, everyone in the merchants’ association unanimously said it was impossible... Ahem, not the merchants’ association, but the investors...”
“Who? A nobleman? Who the hell is that?”
"It's huge at the top of Elford. No matter how hard you try to dig up information, you can't. It's kept strictly secret."
"No, if you've been so successful in investing, wouldn't you reveal your identity? Why hide it? Why?"
Investors often reveal that they have been very successful in their investments before anyone even knows about them.
That way, you can be recognized for your business acumen and easily expand your reach as a big shot in the industry.
If you are successful, don't you want to hang out with other successful people and share information and friendships?
Andrea felt like he was going crazy with jealousy at the mysterious investor who had made a fortune by investing in the top of Elford, where no one else had invested.
He ran wild for a long time by himself, then finally calmed down and asked.
"Bielefeld? The ships I invested in from the Bielefeld upper deck haven't arrived yet?"
Yeah, he didn't know the situation of the top he invested in, yet he was jealous.
Andrea brought his expectant face closer to Truro.
"If Elford had succeeded, Bielefeld wouldn't have been so difficult either. Right? Yeah? You invested in Bielefeld, didn't you? I trusted you so much that I even issued a promissory note to invest."
When Andrea heard that the merchants' association had invested in the upper part of Bielefeld, he took out a loan and made a bold investment.
But Truro's expression was not normal.
“Well... maritime trade is inherently dangerous... ships often sink due to pirates or typhoons, and because of infectious diseases...”
“So? What are you trying to say?”
Andrea's expression gradually hardened into a cold one.
Truro felt like crying.
"You know, it's so incredibly difficult to succeed, so those who do make it once make a lot of money... I told you from the beginning that it's a huge risk..."
“So! Huh? So, what!”
“They... sank. Every single ship.”
"What! Are you saying all my money just disappeared into the ocean?"
Truro closed his eyes tightly.
He had never known how much he envied Pelsus for being so attached to Andrea, being given the title of Viscount, and associating with nobles.
So when Viscount Pelsus went missing and Andrea came looking for him, Truro thought this was a godsend.
But these days, he's been feeling like it might be a temptation from the devil, not God.
Truro looked at Andrea with a tired face.
Andrea was angry and was throwing all kinds of furniture around like a madman.
'That's the devil, that's the devil.'
Truro was truly resentful that he had invested so excitedly and now was being treated unfairly. After all, isn't investing supposed to be about your own responsibility?
'I didn't threaten you into investing.'
Andrea, who had been very angry at that time, shouted.
"The Bielefeld investment failed, but I'll make sure to take on the Teramo acquisition! I'll stake everything on it! Understood?"
Andrea didn't know.
The fact that the major investor at the top of Elford has already jumped into the acquisition of the top of Terramo, with the huge capital he has earned this time.
And the fact that the major investor was none other than Chloe.
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