Evil God Chapter 70

"It's been a while, Your Majesty."

Ben respectfully lowered his head.

"I was taken care of you the other day. So, what business do you have today?"

"It's about the loan from the other day."

A month ago, Bank of Briton made a 400 million pound loan with the government.

This was a short term loan.

This was about the first payment.

"If it's that case, I've heard we've already finished though?"

Richard Ⅱ made a suspicious face.

"About that, actually we were unable to pay them back, and we had them wait for a few days. I told them we'd pay them back today."

Ashamed, Eldred responded.

I see.

Eldred and the others didn't know of Yufilia and the others' movements.

That's why they thought the Briton's side would lower their heads at today's meeting.

In other words, Eldred's line of thought went something like this:

Today Briton will lower its head to Scottyard, and Vincent and Yufilia will get engaged.

If that happened, their problems would be solved.

They could ask them for loans just like before.

They could use that money to pay back the Bank of Briton.

Or rather, would buy their claim and all.

In that case, they'd be able do everything at once, today.

That's why he had the repayment delayed, and called Ben over here.

"Wait a bit, we'll put everything into order now."

Yufilia is 'uun' moaning.

Or rather, even they say that suddenly, we're troubled.

This is a huge problem.

Yufilia must know that too.

She's in a hurry, and is thinking while walking around the room.

In the meantime, I explained the situation to those 3.

That Yufilia became collateral.

As soon as they heard that, the eyes of those 3 turned cold.

"Houoou. You wanted the princess as a slave, did you?"

Tiraiza's eyes become filled with scorn.

"Pervert."

Iris gets angry and inflates her cheeks.

"Uwaa……"

Jamie was drawing away from me, and it seems no words came out.

"Just wait a bit. It seems your having a huge misunderstanding."

I object with all my might, but they don't listen.

It's not something I wished for, and it's not like I had any intentions of making her a slave.

"Umm. Eldred-san?"

"What is it, Yufilia-denka?"

"So, do we currently have the money to return to Bank of Briton?"

To her question, Eldred averted his face.

"If it's in Briton currency. However, we are almost empty of Scottyard currency."

The loan was made in Scottyard currency.

Naturally, the repayment should be the same.

"Is that not the default?" (TLN: 'Default' was in English. I have no idea what this means.)

Tiraiza says a brief comment that shouldn't be said.

"The messengers from Scottyard couldn't have gone that far, so how about you ask them to return some?"

Jamie suggests an idea that came to mind.

"We can't do something that embarra.s.sing. If we did that, they'd start suspecting our financial strength again."

Richard Ⅱ denies it.

"Isn't this better than default?"

"This case is different from a normal loan to the government. Because it has the worst collateral, once it's pa.s.sed onto them, everything's over. If this was kept a secret from society, the problem would be solved."

To Ben's explanation, the room froze over.

Then the eyes looking at me become more severe.

"No way……was this all planned out!?"

Tiraiza eyes become those used when looking at trash.

"What plan?"

"Ben-san's behavior is exactly as you directed him, isn't it?"

Iris' eyes also become cold.

"Come to think of it, I remember you suggesting to President Ben to wait a little on the repayments."

Eldred says something unnecessary.

"Was the reason you said you were busy lately to proceed with this plan?"

Jamie mutters.

"You b.a.s.t.a.r.d……did you pretend to cooperate with the Briton Kingdom just to get to my daughter!?"

Richard Ⅱ gets agitated, and his face turns red.

"I'm never going to forgive you! It doesn't need to be said that Vincent is impossible, but I won't give my daughter to someone with doubtful origins!"

"No, calm down and listen to me."

I try to soothe him, but Richard Ⅱ shows no signs of calming down.

"Hey Ben, Properly explain it to them, that I haven't given you any orders."

"Indeed, I haven't received any orders from Ashtal-sama."

Ben shook his head up and down.

Fuu, they should calm down somewhat with this.

"But, Ashtal-sama must have antic.i.p.ated all my actions. I'm sure everyone has just been dancing on the palm of his hand."

"Eh?"

"It's too perfect. Since that day, was everything planned?"

No, you're just overestimating me.

"Even more than Vincent……yeah, that's right?"

Yufilia who seemed to be worrying about various things, made a face as if she prepared her resolve.

"Yufi?"

Tiraiza seems to be puzzled.

"It's alright."

"What's alright?"

I get a bad feeling, and ask.

"We don't have the money to return. Let's proceed according to the contract."

"Fa!?"

"Ah, you're going to do it already?"

Tiraiza sighed, as if she gave up.

"Are there any other hands we can do?"

"I think there are still plenty, but if she's already decided then there's no point. She won't listen to other people's opinions anyways."

"おｍｇくぁ、なんふぉｂｒしをぽｔｔぬるｍｄ(Translation: You guys, what are you talking about?)"

As a result of my extreme discomposure, my usual mysterious language came out.

"Again and again~. You keep saying you don't know what's happening, but you got like that exactly because you know what's happening."

Tiraiza makes fun of me.

"Basically, the 40 million pound debt will disappear, and Yufilia-denka will, according to the contract, become Ashtal-sama's slave."

Ben takes confirmation again.

"ぽっちょむｔくぁ(Translation: Just wait for a bit.)"

"In the beginning, we were planning to sell her to Scottyard and get our money back."

Ben asked just in case.

"I don't think that will happen. Right?"

Asked by Tiraiza, I *kokukoku* nod.

From the beginning, I never planned on doing that.

"I knew it……you were aiming for Yufilia since the beginning."

Richard Ⅱ was making an angry expression.

"No, I'd like you to listen to me."

It's a wonder that I can talk normally to men.

"I definitely won't approve of this!"

"However, it's a contract. Also, there's……"

Tiraiza took Richard Ⅱ, and moved a little bit away.

They started speaking quietly so as not to be heard by me, but I heard them with my Evil Ears.

"Regarding Your Majesty's fears this time, for the meantime it'll be fine."

"What will be?"

"Yufilia's chast.i.ty, and things like that."

"Why can you be so certain about that?"

Because Richard Ⅱ raised his voice, everyone would have been able to hear this:

"This is from just a while ago, but a certain small, slender, super beautiful girl approached him by hugging him. Then he fell into a panicked, said something I couldn't understand, and ran away. He seems to be that useless."

I wonder exactly who she means by 'small, slender, super beautiful girl'?

"That's why it'll be safe for a while."

"For a while, you say……"

"It seems he's attending the academy in order to resolve that weakness."

"He doesn't have to solve it, though."

Richard Ⅱ uttered that from the bottom of his heart.

I'd be troubled by that though.

"That's why it's fine for him to accept her here, right?"

"Gunununu……"

"Well, please think of countermeasures from now on."

Richard Ⅱ grudgingly withdrew.

"I'm inexperienced, but please take care of me."

When the discussion was finished, Yufilia politely lowered her head.

She did this before too.

I didn't expect for this to actually happen.

At any rate, everyone's gazes are cold.

All I could do was escape the spot with full power.