novelJulie's Reasons
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"Then, I have no problems with it. Oscro what do you think?"
Oscro had difficulties to believe Julie's words, that was all too perfect.
"Are you planning to absorb us or something like that?"
Julie had a serious expression when she replied to him.
"No. I am not interested in subordinates with your personality, nor I had any interest in the Frost Wolf Company. It only has some value because it is relying upon the Silent Healer and Wyba. Your strategy isn't bad, but no one would be interested in buy such company unless you develop it more."
Oscro knew that very well, but that was his only idea to boost their popularity quickly.
"We created the company this morning! Of course, we still need to develop it more! A good company isn't created in one day! Furthermore, I won't sell it to you even if you beg for it!"
Oscro lost his patience in front of Julie because she hit on his weak spot, all he had was a good marketing strategy, as a company the Frost Wolf Company was still nothing in value.
They were merely gathering money and spreading their name, which was normal at the start, but Oscro was too perfectionist and Julies words hurt him.
"Oscro, stop arguing. We were talking about the building Julie is offering to us. You don't need to deviate to other topics."
Yale felt that having a good relationship with Julie was good, because with her status she may obtain some of the information he wanted.
The maps were extremely rare, and Oscro only had one for the Trade City surroundings. Furthermore, that kind of map was already very expensive.
If Yale wanted to know where was the Revgen Empire, he needed access to information that wasn't available to the general public and was expensive, and the possibilities of Julie having access to it were high due to being the founder of a gold rank company.
"We will accept your conditions regarding the building and Wyba."
Then, Oscro stood up and went to the room's door.
"I still need to go to my parents' house. You could go to the building with her if you want, we can meet there tomorrow. After all, you seem to be very cooperative with her."
Oscro left the room being upset; he didn't like the way Yale accepted Julie that quick nor how Julie pointed his flaws. He was still quite immature in that kind of situations, so he left the room before worsening the situation even more.
"I wonder how will he find the building tomorrow if we still don't know where it is."
Yale wasn't surprised by Oscro's anger nor the fact he left the room.
"I have put a paper with the direction in his pocket before. He didn't even notice it, but if he isn't a fool, tomorrow he will reach the building without problems."
Julie was also calm, like if everything was as she expected to be.
"Now that Oscro has left, you will tell me your real reasons and who was the one who asked you to help us? In this place no one can spy on us, right?"
Yale noticed that Julie was trying to enrage Oscro and her actions were too good to be a coincidence, so he bet that she had hidden motives that couldn't say to Oscro and as she didn't have a previous relationship with them, a third party should be the one who asked for it.
He confirmed that she planned to make Oscro leave from the start when she told him that Oscro already had the direction of the building on his pocket. The real objective she had was discussing something with only the two of them present in the room.
"You are more perceptive than what you seem at first glance. You are right, there is someone who asked me to help you, but that was after our first meeting when I was thinking how to compensate you two for my actions."
Yale looked at the room's door.
"Are you sure that no one could spy us here?"
Yale felt that whoever asked Julie to help them, wanted to remain in the dark, so if that person discovers the truth, they could have problems.
"Don't worry, the spells surrounding this room are top-notch. If anyone dares to spy on us, even if the spell can't stop everyone from doing it, at least we will notice."
Julie liked a lot the restaurant and had put special effort into that room. She had done a lot of important businesses there, most of them that third parties shouldn't hear.
"Then, will you tell me that person's identity?"
"No. I won't tell you."
Yale didn't expect that reply. Since she had put the effort to be in an isolated room with him, she should have something to say that others shouldn't hear.
"The reason because I don't tell you is that I didn't know it either. That person appeared from nowhere, gave me the building's property, a paper with instructions and a lot of money before disappearing again. I can't even refute this work. Furthermore, that person's level was something I can't measure."
Julie was at the 9-star mortal rank in both paths, and she was near to breakthrough, so as long that persona was only a few levels stronger than her, she wouldn't be able to notice. She could have advanced months ago, but she was waiting to grow a bit more to avoid looking too childish in the future.
"You know? I dislike being used by others, as that person did. Initially, I thought that you were also unaware of all the situation, so I wasn't blaming you. However, why did you have such confidence in the fact that someone else asked me to help you?"
Yale concentrated before replying, Julie's ability to detect lies was even better than Oscro's, so he needed to be careful with his words.
"Besides everything being too coincidental to believe it was pure luck, I think that it has some relationship with my lost memories."
Yale had three main guesses about the one who helped him. The first one was that the one who helped him was someone who had took a liking to the Silent Healer. Another one was that it was the old man who taught him the fundamentals of forging, and the last one, someone who was acting due to having some relation to his past life.
Yale felt difficult the first two options, as giving whole building and implying the founder of a gold rank company was too much effort to those cases.
He bet that it was the third one or something he didn't consider, but he didn't discard the other options because maybe there was some freak who was able to make such a plan for those reasons.
Julie didn't expect Yale's answer, having amnesia was too strange, but she felt that Yale was telling the truth.
"So you have amnesia? I thought that someone with your healing capabilities should have some backer. If you have amnesia, the fact you are in such a puny company, and that someone is helping you in the shadows have more sense. It seems that you aren't using me, at least not consciously."
Julie didn't think that Yale was directly implied even if he deduced the third party's existence, she had only said it to obtain as much information as possible from Yale.
"Then, all about wanting to hug Wyba after work was also part of those instructions or it was your desires?"
Yale doubts that the person who planned it give such instruction to her.
"This is my payment for the work. I like fluffy beings a lot and finding an obedient Frost Wolf cub who is used to humans and can be hugged without problems is strange. However, even if I am rich, I can't gift you a whole building for that reason."
Yale laughed, he was expecting something like that. However Yale wasn't angry due to it, because he planned to train in his time after work, so he wouldn't be able to spend time with Wyba, she will be happier with Julie hugging her instead of simply look at Yale's training.
"Well, if you get more information about that person I hope you can tell me. I think it could give me clues about my lost memories."
"Sure, but let's keep this in secret from Oscro, that guy has some talent to business, but he didn't seem the type of persona able to keep such secrets, and the fewer people know about this matter, the better."
Yale nodded, he also didn't want other people to know about that matter.
"Changing the topic, do you have any map? The more area it covers, the better. I want to study one, but Oscro's map covers a too small area."
"Indeed, I have some maps with me, but what you offer me to look at them?"
Julie was a businesswoman, she didn't like to act for free.
"I will tell you a secret about Wyba, that you will like for sure."
Yale's words picked Julie's interest, and as she was only showing the maps, she wouldn't lose anything even if Yale saw them and didn't give her anything else.
"Alright, this is the most complete one I have."
Julie took out a map from her spatial artifact and showed it to Yale.
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