“Now you’re just trying to take advantage
of us.”
The journey was progressing smoothly.
They would buy specialty products in each
region, load up the wagons, travel, and sell those products. Then they would buy
more.
They were only repeating that simple
process, but they were making plenty of money. And making money meant they
could buy new wagons and hire new workers. Thanks to that, the scale of their
business only continued to grow.
This success was of course thanks to
Eulica. Today, like always, she held her left arm over her stomach, adjusted
her gold monocle with her right hand, and proudly talked down the merchant they
were doing business with.
Orfeo only had to stand silently behind
her.
Eulica seemed to come alive when she was
humoring, threatening, or negotiating with someone.
This merchant was an energetic middle-aged
man, but Orfeo almost felt bad for him as he trembled, paled, and grew red as a
woman young enough to be his daughter verbally trounced him.
(Eulica really does have two sides to her.)