The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 346

Chapter 346

To head to the Edina Archipelago, you need Lucinil.

It was not that urgent, but there was no reason to delay, so I left the letter to Count Argon Fonteus with the Rotary Club.

I had to be careful with my actions, so I had no intention of going directly to the house of Count Argon Ponteus, even if I wore the Sarkegar ring.

I left the Rotary Club Headquarters and headed for the rendezvous point I had told you about.

It would take some time to reach you, so I waited late into the night.

The point of contact is the lower region of Irine, located a little off the ecliptic.

It was a very sparsely populated place.

If you can afford it, you can wait like this, but if you are in a hurry, this way is difficult.

Right now, there was no way to come up with it, so I was living in the mansion of Count Argon Fonteus, but I thought I should come up with a way to make contact with Lucinil more conveniently.

How much time did I kill at the riverside in the dark?

-It

seemed like a whitish mist was slowly gathering in the air, and soon it took the shape of a silver-haired girl.

-Call

“Hello, Archdemon?”

The girl lightly landed on the ground with a voice and looked up at me.

“Are you here?”

“Yes, I am.”

“But what was that? Is it like teleporting?”

“uh? ah… … . this?”

Lucinil’s entire body became hazy for a moment, turned into fog, and then re-materialized again.

“It’s a vampire’s ability. It’s not teleportation. Although I can move quickly.”

The ability to turn into fog. Elerith had never shown such an ability. Is it an ability that only the Demand clan can use?

So, does each clan have different unique abilities?

While I was wondering about that, Lucinyl put her hand on my waist.

“Are you saying you need me anyway?”

“Yes, I want you to go somewhere with me right now.”

“Where?”

“Do you know a place called the Edina Archipelago in the southern part of the Empire?”

At my words, Lucinil crossed his arms as if he was dumbfounded.

“Where would I have grown old? I know quite a bit about geographic information. Although there are times when a country I know disappears.”

Was it an overly belittling question to ask a nobleman who never loses because of his age? Lucinil looked at me and tilted his head.

“By the way, what is that southern island country doing?”

“There is someone I need to meet.”

Lucinil wouldn’t understand it even if I had to explain it in detail, so I just said that.

But Lucinil seems to have the attitude of letting me do whatever I do. I must say that I am neither against nor in favor of it.

Lucinil looks around.

“good. It looks like there’s no one around to see, so why don’t we go right away? There’s some distance, so you’ll have to cast it several times in a row.”

“Yes, let’s go.”

Lucinil begins to cast a mass teleport while concentrating.

Lucinil or Elerithna.

Their personalities are quite different, but both are equally trustworthy.

* * *

Edina Islands, located at the southernmost tip of the empire and far from the mainland, are out of range of even the super-large warp gates, so originally you have to go over them by boat.

Although the archipelago has its own warp gates that allow movement between islands, it is not connected to the continent.

– Phat!

Lucinil teleported several times in a row.

I was able to arrive at the port city of Razak in the Edina Archipelago, where I had arrived the other day when I visited the villa of the Duke of Grantz.

As soon as we arrived at the outskirts of Razak, Lucinil’s eyes lit up.

“wow! Is it snowing here?”

The Edina Archipelago is not a tropical region, but it was also winter here, and there was heavy snowfall around. Lucille was stepping on her eyes.

“… … You must have been bored at the council.”

Didn’t you say that your eyes are tired at that time?

“Arcdemons, is the snow coming from a windy place the same as the snow that falls quietly in this quiet and cozy port city?”

“What is different?”

“Ah, it’s quite refreshing to see a guy who is a kid a lot longer than me acting like a philosophical old man.”

First of all, it can be said that it is truly bizarre that Lucinil’s sensitivity has not died even though he has lived for a long time. Anyway, on the outskirts of Razak, we were looking at a port city covered in snow.

“Anyway, who should I meet?”

“I run a bar… … . friend? colleague? What kind of person is that?”

To be honest, I have no idea about Airi, except for the fact that she had pink hair. I could have stopped by last time, but I didn’t really. Upon hearing my words, Lucinil tilted his head.

“bar? What does your grand dream of rebuilding the Dark Land have to do with your friends running a bar at the far end of the southern corner of the continent?”

“I decided to think of it as the first step toward seizing the empire’s money, but the circumstances behind it are a bit complicated and ambiguous, so it’s hard to explain.”

“… … okay? Then I’ll do something.”

“It’s good.”

Lucinil was staring blankly at the falling snowflakes, thinking that would be the case.

This guy helps with everything, but he’s neglected. It feels the same or not.

Ellerith still wondered what my intentions were.

Take care. I help out, but it’s not my fault whether I die or not.

Should I say it feels like this?

Isn’t that what being versatile means?

“Anyway, stop calling me Archdemon anywhere. Because it’s a specification to get weird looks for no reason.”

I know that no one will come all the way here and recognize me, but my face has changed to something completely different from Reinhardt’s now.

“Okay, Reinhardt.”

“Let’s go.”

It’s not Reinhardt’s figure, but Reinhardt. It’s not a particularly rare name, so I thought so.

* * *

Entered Lazakh and inquired about Airi’s bar. I didn’t even know the name of the shop, I just asked if there was a bar with a lot of ladies around here.

The last time I came, it was already famous enough to cause family breakdowns throughout the city, so I figured I’d be able to get there right away if I just asked.

“… … ?”

But a passer-by frowned when he saw me asking.

“When are you talking now?”

“… … yes?”

“It’s been a while since that bar closed.”

After saying that, the passer-by strode away.

did you close the door?

In the meantime, Elleris must have been busy with work on the ecliptic, so he couldn’t pay attention to keeping up with Edina’s current situation.

What happened to Airi in the meantime?

“Does the situation seem a little strange?”

“… … Iknow, right?”

Lucille and I stared at each other, but the answer to the situation couldn’t come until the two of us stared at each other, knowing nothing.

I walked a little further down the street and grabbed passers-by and asked. Most of the responses said that they knew about the bar, but that it would be useless to go there as it had been closed for a while.

“Ah, that bar? It’s a waste. I’ve been there quite often… … .”

At first glance, he was a drunkard on the street who looked like he was drunk. A drunken man was licking his lips.

“The bar staff… … . Are those people all right?”

He frowned at my question.

“All right? Are you all right? heh heh heh heh heh heh… … .”

He giggled as if he had heard an absurd question and walked past me.

What’s wrong with Airi and the succubus?

Was it discovered that he was a succubus and was badly beaten or killed?

In fact, business seemed to be going well, but there seemed to be quite a few cases of family breakdown.

It became more and more a problem, and citizens’ complaints broke out… … ?

The number of such terrible cases ran through my head.

I grabbed the next passer-by and asked.

This time it was a middle-aged woman.

“There used to be a famous bar in Razakh with a lot of female workers, but it doesn’t seem to be open now. Do you know what happened?”

“… … Why?”

The middle-aged woman frowned when she saw me, a stranger who brought up the main topic.

“It’s not like they got hurt or anything happened… … .”

“Are you hurt? It hurts.”

“… … yes?”

“They’re bitches who won’t even catch ghosts, so what’s wrong with getting hurt? I wish I had lost it! Wow!”

The middle-aged woman spat out phlegm as if she was unlucky and then went away.

what?

What the hell is going on?

The answer could be heard from the next person.

“Oh you mean those girls?”

This side didn’t seem to have much interest in alcohol, so I didn’t feel any regrets or anything.

“It’s been quite a while since I gave up the liquor business and changed my business to loans.”

no.

what the heck is this?

The old man I spoke to pointed to one side of Razak.

There was a stone structure, quite large enough to stand out from a distance.

“It seems like they don’t do business with people with pennies like us, and are mainly lending money to shipowners and nobles who lead trading fleets, but it looks pretty good. You can see that the original business has also been abandoned.”

It’s not messed up.

Rather, it worked out so well that there was no need to do business. As a passer-by passed by, Lucinyl grabbed my sleeve with a dazed expression.

“This is what I said earlier… … . Are you talking about imperial money?”

“that… … . I guess so.”

“No, why did you notice that you didn’t expect it either?”

When I told you to try to get hold of the empire money, I just said it, but did you mean that you have already closed the bar and switched to the moneylender system?

how much money did you make?

Me and Lucinil walked towards the building the passer-by pointed out.

* * *

Airi’s bar was running in great success. That’s why the customers who were regulars seemed to be sorry to see the conversion to the loan business system.

Usury lending. Debt lending.

It seems to be called that way, but the stone building Lucinil and I arrived at was about the size of a financial institution.

When the scale of usury increases, I wonder what is different from financial institutions.

I expected to see a bar that was operating in the middle of the night, but when the hell was this kind of building built again.

[Angel capital]

And the name of the company was embossed at the entrance of the tall building.

“I don’t know much about finance, but I think angels and loan sharks are a really bad combination.”

“… … I think so.”

Even Lucinil’s absurd murmur.

Even in the middle of the night, there was a bright light coming from inside.

And there was a commotion at the entrance.

It was a young woman wearing a black suit and a middle-aged man with a belly.

It wasn’t Airi, but I felt like it was one of the succubuses I had rescued.

“Ayy, let me go over this just once. How many times do I say that money is tied up? huh?”

“Captain, I have told you several times. Please keep the interest payment due date. We are also the type to roll money tight, so if the delivery date is not properly met, it is not the only one that is broken. Instead of lowering the interest rate a little, I decided to keep the delivery date, and I told you several times to be careful about the penalty for not meeting the delivery date.”

“You know cancer. Of course you know. But did I know things would turn out this way? If you wait just one week for a week, the unpaid interest doubles. no! I’ll beat you three times. Really, for some reason, funding was suddenly blocked. Didn’t this happen until now?”

“Captain Ai, I have a relationship with you so far, so I really want to do that. It’s not something I can decide on my own… … . I am strictly cautioned to follow the instructions only. Now, the amount of interest is not important. There was a time when a big project collapsed because we arbitrarily extended the deadline, but our funding was blocked. I’m terribly sorry, Captain.”

“Yuria… … . Please, please. A few pennies of interest Am I a person who misses that much money? I’m the captain of a Lenos-class trading ship. You know I’m not the kind of person who complains about just a few pennies in interest, right? Haven’t you ever said something like this in your life? Just look at this face, please. huh? How can you not? Do you think it makes sense to be bankrupt at this amount? is this me? If you look at me once, I will definitely repay you later.”

Watching the scuffle take place made my head hurt.

What the hell are you talking about?

The succubus called by Yuria at the middle-aged man’s persistent begging sighed.

“there’s nothing we can do. The relationship between the captain and I isn’t even a day or two. But you have to know that it’s only this time, right? If the delivery date is delayed next time, you should think that the captain is not the problem, but that my neck is also flying. okay? As much as you value me.”

“then! When was the last time I broke a promise to you? huh?! Except for this one! haha!”

“Then, we will extend the delivery date by one week, so you must prepare next time. Do you know that next time it will be difficult even with my own authority?”

“then! Will I not be able to repay not only the interest but also the principal after a week?”

The middle-aged man went back with a hearty laugh after hearing the assurance that the interest payment date would be extended.

The Capital employee, presumed to be a succubus called Yuria, looked at us as we stood at the entrance of the Capital after the man had left.

“Are you a visitor?”

“I mean, so to speak… … .”

At my words, YuRia said ahaha and scratched her cheeks in pity.

“sorry. Angel Capital provides financial services only to selected VIP customers and does not accept new customers. If you don’t have a letter of recommendation from an existing member, it’s difficult to use it.”

usury.

However, it is not usury for ordinary people.

I don’t know how he ended up here at a bar, but judging by the scale, it was clear that he had done a great job.

Right now, I am neither Valier nor Reinhardt. So you won’t recognize me.

“Tell the boss that ‘one family left’ is here. Then you will understand.”

“… … !”

There are many ways to summon Airi.

Not blood relatives, but one remaining family.

Dark Land royalty.

Aside from Airi herself, the other one would have fully understood that I was the only one.

“… … I will see you. Here.”

And if YuRia was a succubus, of course they had no choice but to understand.