"Boss?"
I snap out of my daze just as Rebecca calls out in a low tone from my side.
"What, what happened?"
I asked confused, Rebecca looked at me and then at the girl who was talking to us as if confused but soon spoke.
"What are you doing? Introduce yourself"
As soon as Rebecca said that I remembered why we came here.
"Oh, sorry about that, my name is Ren, and nice to meet you"
I said being as respectful as possible.
"Well, you don't have to worry about the formalities, anyway assuming you are a friend of Rebecca's means you have some relationship with her, don't you?"
Hearing the woman's question Rebecca and I looked at each other for a few seconds and with a smile I turned to the woman again.
"Well, you could say we are friends, besides, Rebecca and the person I trust the most"
Beside me I could see Rebecca with an embarrassed smile on her face.
"That's good to hear, anyway, my name is Chise, I'm the person who runs this book store in the capital, but so what's the reason for you two coming here today, I doubt you came just to see me"
Chise said.
"We both came here to buy some books for Ren, he will be attending the academy next week"
As soon as the woman heard this Chise was visibly surprised but soon a smile made itself present on her face.
"Um... does that mean you are a nobleman?"
Chise asked, her question was actually quite normal, most of the children who go to the academy are mostly nobles, and the commoners who go usually need to prove their ability in order to join.
"Hahaha, not at all, I'm just an ordinary commoner"
I said while smiling.
"That is even more surprising, anyway since you are going to the academy, I will help you with the books since Rebecca is an old friend of mine, I am quite used to the books used by the academy since most of the noble children buy the books from me"
After that Chise guided us through her library while she picked up books for me, the books were of the most diverse subjects ranging from mathematics to military tactics, after we got all the books Rebecca paid for all of them and we were ready to leave.
"Thank you for your help Chise"
Rebecca said.
"Oh, you don't need to thank me, business is business leaving friendship aside"
Chise said with a smile, after that Rebecca and I left the store, after a few minutes walking we arrived at the part where we were going to part, I was in front of my temporary home while Rebecca would continue on to get back to the store.
"Rebecca, can you get everyone together tomorrow, I have a new idea in mind and wanted to share it with everyone"
Hearing my words Rebecca nodded her head.
"Sure, boss"
After this exchange Rebecca and I parted ways, as soon as I got to my room, I started looking at the contents of the books I was going to study to get an idea of what I could learn, but looking at the books I realized that some things were at the elementary level while others were at the high school level, in short there was nothing I didn't know, but that wasn't so important, my focus was on the prestige I would gain by graduating from the academy, with this thought in mind, I fell asleep.
The next day as soon as I woke up, I headed towards my store, as today the store would be closed it would be the ideal time for us to have a meeting, it took a few minutes to get to my store, in general the store is quite close to where I am staying which is a good thing for me, as soon as I arrived at the store, I entered the front door using a special key and headed up to the second floor, as I approached Rebecca's room, I heard voices coming from inside, without wasting any time, I open the door and soon I am greeted by everyone.
"Oh, Ren, you finally arrived"
Bernard said, in the room were Henry, Rebecca, Bernard, Aria, Ammy and her three brothers, although I didn't know the reason Ammy's brothers were here, I assumed there was some reason since Rebecca brought them.
"Sorry for the delay and thank you all for coming"
I said with a smile on my face.
"Hahaha, you don't have to worry about that, this meeting was smelling money to me, I wouldn't miss this chance at all"
Aria said with a smile, i let out a wry smile at Aria's comment, I could see that the others were the same way.
"Well, you're not entirely wrong"
Hearing my response Aria's smile got even bigger.
"Well, and we better start the meeting right away, I'm sure you guys are busy and still agreed to come here even though it was sudden, I really appreciate that"
After saying that I went to each of the people in the room and handed them a paper, after handing the paper to everyone I indicated that they could open it and after that a smile made itself present on my face after witnessing everyone's reaction.
"Ren... I knew you were smart... but still, this totally exceeded my expectations"
Said Aria, I could see that everyone else was having similar reactions.
"That and a fantastic idea, if this comes to fruition the profits, we will gain will be extremely vast"
Bernard said with a huge smile on his face.
"This is definitely and ambitious idea, I guess I should expect no less from you, boss"
Rebecca said, hearing everyone's excitement a smile comes to my face, I am happy that everyone is seeing what I was seeing, actually the reason I want to do this even though I know the huge expense is because I have my memories of my past life, so I know this is a business that has a high chance of success, with that I also look at the paper that was in my hand, more specifically at the area where it was written "Shopping Mall Construction Project" this was a project that had been in my mind for some time, it was time to turn it into reality.