Today the skies of La Breon were cloudless, birds could be seen soaring the clear bright blue sky with the sound of chirping to accompany their happy flocking for the clear weather but not everyone enjoyed clear skies.
"Is so fucking hot"
Benigno complained about the heat. He was the leader of the repairman who were hired to repair Vivi's burnt down inn.
Benigno had avoided working in La Breon for many years because of the Bran Merchant Group. Those bastards used every method possible to stop him from acquiring contracts for his company and eventually drove him out of La Breon.
Ever since then Benigno never accepted contracts from La Breon even if they were from a noble but two days ago his old friend Willis Farrero came to him with a job offer from La Breon.
He first refused the offer solely on the reason it had the name La Breon in it but like a true businessman Willis made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Even in this heat his mouth had enough saliva to drool at the amount of money he was about to make. There was only one thing that he didn't understand, Willis had warned him not to do anything that might put him in a bad light.
"Boss they are here" Thomas one of Benigno's subordinates told him of Shoto and Willis's arrival with three more people in tow.
Grandma Vivi, Galla and Brianna had fully recovered and we're enjoying the hot weather. Since all their clothes had burned in the fire Shoto had gotten them new clothes, the clothes weren't fancy but were functional.
Brianna wore black pants, a yellow shirt with no sleeve, brown sandals and a sword at her hip giving her the appearance of an every day adventurer
Galla didn't have a visible weapon but her attire made her look tough, she had black pants on with a grey short-sleeved shirt beneath a black sleeveless jacket and brown sandals.
Vivi wore a longed sleeved black shirt to hide he huge muscles accompanied by baggy pants and brown sandals.
The clothes were functional and didn't allow them to stand out in the group.
"Were finally here" Shoto said looking at the burned Inn.
He looked back at Grandma Vivi who was the previous owner of this building.
She had an expressionless face at first glance but if you were to observe closer the muscles around her face had slightly tensed up her eyes trembled slightly in fear an anger.
Shoto noticed her chest rising up and down, it seemed like her trauma was resurfacing again.
[Miss Vivi] Shoto called her telepathically.
"Ah" she was a pit startled to hearing a voice in her head.
[Calm down is just me Kuzakabe]
She calmed down knowing the identity of the voice in her head.
[Your nightmares won't go away if you don't face this miss Vivi]
Shoto didn't know much about fixing posttraumatic stress so he used his own experience to aid her.
"Haa…hoo" she inhaled and exhaled.
[I understand] she replied.
They stepped into the burned building were the repairman were waiting.
Shoto saw a man with a bulky build sitting on a table that was not completely burnt.
"He must Benigno?"
Five bulky men stood at Benigno side , Shoto judged from their muscle structure that they were good at heavy lifting but he knew that's not what they were here for.
"Ah you must be mister Kuzakabe it a pleasure to meet you"
Benigno stood up and went to shake Shoto's hand.
'His so young age he must be managing his father's business anyway I can gain more since his young and naive'
A hint of greed sparked within Benigno's eyes.
"Nice to meet you too I have a lot of appointments today so let's get started" Shoto said.
"A busy man I see well truth is our company can't fix this the only option is to rebuild it"
"That I what I summarized with all the damage" Shoto said crossing his arms.
"Oh well then materials will cost at least a hundred gold plus construction fee which would be based on the duration of the construction and also the feeding all the worker well cost a…"
"Your rambling nonsense" Shoto cut him off.
"What?"
"Willis I thought you said he wouldn't try to scam me?" Shoto narrowed his eyes at Willis.
"Sorry mister Kuzakabe" Willis held his face in his gloved hand.
"Scam you mister Kuzakabe you don't understand rebuilding an Inn from scratch cost a lot of money you can ask any construction company they give you the same estimate" Benigno defended himself.
"Who said I was rebuilding an Inn?"
"Ah umm"
"And even if I was why would I pay you a hundred gold for materials and equipment?"
"Umm what?"
Benigno's tongue was paralyzed for a response at Shoto's words.
Shoto spoke once more.
"As far as I know construction companies don't charge for materials provided by the client"
"Mister Kuzakabe I…"
"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking" Shoto's voice filled the room with pressure cutting Benigno.
"The fact that you rambled on as if it was a done deal gave you away as a cheap character
You didn't ask if I was providing the materials or equipment you just assumed I would give you money and let you do what ever you wanted
Well tough luck I'll take my business else were"
Shoto turned around about walk out.
"Mister Kuzakabe wait.…"
Benigno reached his hand out to grab Shoto shoulder to stop him from leaving but…
swish!
Brianna quickly unsheathed her sword and pressed it against Benigno's neck.
"Don't touch our boss" Brianna spoke with bloodlust fuming from her body.
The five bulky men that where with Benigno were startled the couldn't even see Brianna's movement.
"Hey don't try to harm our boss or you'll be sorry" Thomas said.
"Yeah" one of them cheered on.
"First you try to cheat us now you threaten us I'm starting to think you are know different from thug's" Shoto said with his back still turned.
Cold sweat dripped from Benigno's face, the situation had gotten dangerous real fast and because of greed.
"Boss should I take his head?" Brianna asked ready to decapitate.
Shoto turned about to say something when Benigno suddenly yelled.
"Mister Kuzakabe please forgive me I was just being greedy i…if you let me live I'll do anything"
"Anything?"Shoto spoke.
"Y…yes anything" Benigno's body shivered I'm fear of death.
"Then get on your hands and knees and beg" Shoto said in cold voice.
[AN: Sorry this chapters took this long I've dealing with stuff . I'll try to update more frequently I life doesn't get in the way. Thank you to those that read my book or a least have it on their ready list:]