The Demon Prince goes to the Academy Chapter 346

Chapter 346

To head to the Edina Archipelago, you must have Lucinil.

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

Since he had to be careful about his behavior, he had no intention of going directly to the house of Count Argon Ponteus, even if he wore the ring of Sarkegar.

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.

I’m living in the mansion of Count Argon Fonteus because I couldn’t find a way right now, 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?

-Slowly

A whitish fog seemed to gather in the air, and soon it took the form of a silver-haired girl.

-chak

“Ardemon, how are you?”

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

“Are you here?”

“Yes, I am.”

“But what was that? Is it like a teleport?”

“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.

“Anyway, do you need me?”

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

“Where?”

“It’s a place called the Edina Islands in the southern part of the Empire, do you know?”

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? Lucy Neal 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 have to say that he doesn’t seem to agree or disagree.

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.

* * *

The Edina Archipelago, which is located at the southernmost tip of the empire and is far from the mainland, is out of range of the super-large warp gate, so originally it must be crossed by boat.

It is said that the archipelago has its own warp gates that can move between islands, but it is not connected to the continent.

– Phat!

Lucinil teleported several times in a row.

I was able to arrive at Razak, a port city 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 snow was falling heavily around. Lucy Neal was stomping on his eyes.

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

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

“Ardemon, is the snow coming from a place where the wind blows like your cheeks are about to tear is the same as the snow falling quietly in this quiet and cozy-looking port city?”

“What is different?”

“Oh, it’s quite refreshing to see a guy who’s a lot younger 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? There is such a person.”

To be honest, I have no idea about Airi, except for the fact that she had pink hair. She could have stopped by last time, but she 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 colleagues running a bar at the edge 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 this way and recognize me, but I’ve changed my face 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 Lazark and inquired about Airi’s bar. I didn’t even know the name of the store, 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 there was no way the answer to the situation would come until the two of us stared at each other, ignorant.

I walked a little further down the street and grabbed passers-by and asked. Most of the answers 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 and walked past me, as if he had heard the absurd question.

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 was 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.

“They don’t do business with people with pennies like us. 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 passerby 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 pub 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, debentures, loans.

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 is operating in the middle of the night, but when the hell was this kind of building built again.

[Angel capital]

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

“I don’t know much about finance, but I think an angel and a moneylender 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.

“Ah, 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, you decide to keep the delivery date, and I told you several times to be careful about the penalty for not meeting the delivery date.”

“Cancer, you know. Of course you know. But did I know things would turn out this way? If you wait just one week, you can double the unpaid interest. 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 so sorry, Captain.”

“Yuria… … . Please, please. A few pennies of interest, am I the one who regrets 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?

At the middle-aged man’s persistent begging, the succubus called by Yuria 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?! Well, except for this one! haha!”

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

“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 standing blankly 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 cheek in pity.

“sorry. Angel Capital provides financial services only to selected VIP customers and does not accept new customers. If you do not have a letter of recommendation from an existing member, it is 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 from 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 understand enough that I was the only one.

“… … I’ll see you Here.”

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