Private Island Systems In Other Worlds
Fifty Nine
When activating the Hearing skill, I felt like I immediately got a lot of information in my field. The information comes from everything I hear at once. Fortunately there were no side effects from this skill and my head felt fine. Because if I could do something like this with my body while on Earth, maybe my head would break due to overloading.
Good thing again this skill can I deactivate. Otherwise, every day will be a nightmare because you always hear the blessing of people in your village
Anyways…
“Secretary's name why are you still here? Aren't you busy backstage making sure that item gets auctioned?”
The secretary was still standing still on the spot while looking down since I asked earlier.
“... I am here as a waiter if master needs something. For the backstage there is already someone taking care of it.”
Indeed from my observation every private room has a waiter who is always ready to help. I can't believe the secretary in charge of this room. It seems like he really wants to keep my secret.
“Thank you for your concern miss secretary. By the way, can the waiter assigned to the private room say how much stock the goods will be at auction to the auction participants?”
“The rules are not allowed sir. But for the master I will answer whatever the master asks.”
No need miss, I've sent out scout golems to look around backstage.
“Then I would like to ask what the secretary lady would do if the two rooms on the left of this room, his servant is providing information regarding the number of level 30 monster magic stones that will be auctioned.”
“I excuse me for a moment, sir.”
After saying that, the secretary bowed then walked out of our room.
Hmmm..it seems like my obsolescence this time will make others lose their jobs.
“Jaya.”
Fina who was still using the see-through skill while sitting next to me and from earlier was just silent as I was talking to the secretary started to open her mouth.
“Why Fina?”
“Cautious.”
It seemed like Fina's jealous flames had already started to flare up. But as I recall the words I said to the secretary were quite formal this time. No words are excessive.
“How about Fina sit closer. Want me to bench?”
Maybe if on the bench the mood will be better.
Without giving a word of reply, he immediately stood up and sat on my lap. Hugging her who was on the lap with my right hand, I tried asking about this auction.
“Do you think this auction is fun?”
“Iya.”
After answering, she started hugging while leaning her head on my shoulder.
“If there is an item that Fina likes at auction just say.”
He replied with a nod of his head still resting on my shoulder.
Shortly afterwards we heard knocking on the door of our room, when the door was opened, the secretary walked back in and stood in his place as if nothing had happened.
“Secretary's name, I hope you're not too hard on the servant. He seems threatened.”
“I understand sir, from our search results it does look like that. Even the waiter was willing to breach the contract to keep the auction item a secret and was now being hit by a contract penalty being paralyzed for a moment. Since this is not the fault of the waiter we will not give him any punishment after this incident.”
Fortunately, my obsolescence did not bring trouble for the servant.
“Maybe you also know it but the auctioneer who threatened our waiter has been removed from the building. He and his family have been revoked for a certain period of time and we are forbidden to follow five auctions in the future.”
From what I know, the servant was threatened by the auctioneer who was the noble of this kingdom. I thought that the secretary would not dare to face them because the participant was a noble of the Kingdom of Pangara, but it seemed that the secretary was indiscriminate about it. This signified how strong the influence of the Pangara Merchant Union was to the extent that it could freely revoke privileges and forbid noble families from participating in their territory.
“Month secretary, are you not afraid of retaliation from such nobles to the merchant union?”
“Master need not worry, the noble did a violation of the rules of the union. His transgressions will be spread by us. If he or the Kingdom of Pangara tries to take revenge, this will give a sign that the Kingdom of Pangara does not respect participants who follow the rules. The participants of the auction were not only from Pangara but there were traders from the empire. The Kingdom of Pangara would certainly not dare to risk taking away the confidence of imperial merchants because of trivial things like this.”
“Is it so strong that the influence of northern merchants and empires in the Kingdom of Pangara?”
“Yes. The profits and influence of the imperial merchants were huge for the Kingdom of Pangara.”
If the imperial merchants were that strong, they could arbitrarily do whatever they wanted here. They could also threaten to relocate if the kingdom does not grant their request.
“What if the imperial merchants threatened to leave this kingdom if their request was not granted? Wouldn't it be if they went to the merchant union it's nothing else?”
“Before anyone behaved like that. We as an intermediary between merchants and the kingdom will assess in advance whether their demand is equivalent or not to royal profits. If it is, we will mediate their request with the kingdom and if not, we will let them go from here.”
Hmm.. looks pretty neutral this union. The secretary continued his explanation.
”There were once some traders who were interested in dabbling in moving their headquarters to the Jugara and Namgara Kingdoms. But it was not long ago, a few moments later they came back here again. The weak establishment of trade unions in both kingdoms resulted in many rules from the royal family that weighed on the imperial merchants. In the end the imperial merchants concluded that being based there was not profitable for them.”
“From the explanation of the miss secretary of the union it feels neutral to not side with anyone. Though this union is part of the Kingdom of Pangara.”
“We Merchant Union Pangara was instrumental to bring balance to both camps between the Kingdom of Pangara and the merchants of the empire. It indirectly benefits the kingdom. Because if we were not neutral, the Kingdom of Pangara would not be as prosperous as it is today.”
Complicated also if you want to keep the two camps can be mutually beneficial. But because the discussion is too deep, it may be enough to get here.
“In addition because of our neutrality that made the kingdom prosperous, there were many Pangara nobles who supported this union. Those nobles will not remain silent and will side with us if the royal family decides to punish this union.”
It turned out that the secretary was still excited to talk about his union. At least it's clear enough to me. In essence this union was extremely powerful and the scope of its influence spread across many areas. To the extent that the royal family had to think twice if it wanted to tear it down. These merchant guilds were also great at making foreign merchants from the empire trust them.
From what I see, this secretary looks very good in her field. But why would a person like this secretary be able to easily submit to Fina?
In addition, discussing how the neutral trade union got me thinking about the secretary's goals. Doesn't he not like this kingdom?
But since it's the secretary's personal business, I better not have to investigate it more deeply.