"Ayanokouji-sama."
As Crusch was about to kneel and pay her respects, Ayanokouji extended his hand.
"No need to bow in the mansion."
"Thank you, Ayanokouji-sama." Crusch stood up, Felix and Wilhelm observing all of this, which indicated that the other party held Crusch in high regard.
Ayanokouji knew that Wilhelm was willing to follow him because he killed the White Whale, and Felix only obeyed him because Crusch herself had surrendered to him, but he hadn't gained Felix's loyalty.
And the detail he was deliberately doing now was to make Felix trust him little by little.
"Ayanokouji-sama, have you truly eliminated the Great Rabbit?" Crusch asked curiously.
She had once led her army against the Great Rabbit. Although she had managed to repel her opponent, she was unable to exterminate them.
"True." Ayanokouji nodded, then took out a video on his phone and played it in front of Crusch and the others.
"Did you really use this method to deal with the Great Rabbit?"
"That's right. This way, we can prevent them from splitting up and destroy them all at once!"
"Emilia-sama is so powerful?"
Several people watched this video and began to talk about it.
"As expected of Ayanokouji-sama, you are able to destroy the Great Rabbit, one of the three Mabeast along with the White Whale." Crusch said with admiration.
"It's not my credit, it's Emilia-sama's wisdom and the credit of others." Ayanokouji said calmly, "Also, Crusch, you don't need to call me -sama, just call me by my name."
Such words should be able to shorten the distance between the two parties.
"Alright, I always underestimated Emilia-sama before." Crusch said seriously
Behind her, Wilhelm and Felix clearly knew that the man in front of them controlled everything behind the scenes.
Emilia's camp had undergone a shocking change, that's what happened after this man appeared.
Even the lord he served turned out to be Emilia's subordinate.
Felix looked at him with a cautious face, he still didn't trust him too much in his heart, but if Crusch's safety could be guaranteed, he would obey him for the time being.
"Crusch, please tell me about the current situation on your side." Ayanokouji said.
Before leaving, he handed over the business line of his workshop to the Karsten family. Crusch is a noble among nobles, and he used them to expand his trade on the surface.
Not only that, he also regarded the Karsten family as a 'billboard' of trend controllers. As the most noble family, what they wear will make other families imitate them, and Ayanokouji considered the products, glass, and other ornaments made with modern technology to be allowed to be used by the Karsten family. Such behavior can stimulate the market and allow other nobles to come to them to trade first.
"...Many people from the family have contacted us." Crusch said with a smile, "This is the current situation."
"Excellent, you are indeed a very capable person." Ayanokouji praised.
"This is what I should do." After hearing the praise, Crusch showed a shy smile
She was a person with a very strong sense of self-esteem. Everything she did before was eager to be recognized by others.
"Then, do we want to expand the market now? If we upgrade the production line, our production efficiency should be further improved."
"We do need to upgrade the production line to increase production efficiency." Ayanokouji said, "But for the time being, we are still limiting the amount of goods that can be traded."
"Ah? Why? Isn't the sales very good now? Shouldn't the market be further expanded?" Crusch had confusion on her face
"Expanding the market is indeed true, but we should choose to expand the types of production rather than increase the volume of production."
"Is there a reason to do this?" Crusch asked.
"Every product has a clear target audience." Ayanokouji said, "The audience of the glass we produce is initially the nobles. If we release all the products, the products will become cheap and devalued. The change in the price of metal and iron goods is also caused by the bulk purchase of related commodities. This is the same principle."
"So that's it." Crusch suddenly realized, "I always thought that business was a very simple thing. I didn't expect there to be so much research. It seems that there are still many things I don't understand, I should follow Ayanokouji and learn diligently."
"If there's anything you want to learn, you can come to me and I will answer it as best as I can."
"Mhm, thank you so much!" Crusch bowed respectfully, and then seemed to think of something, "I heard something, but I don't know how true it is. I'm a little worried, so I want to ask..."
"It's fine."
"I heard... Ayanokouji, you and Emilia are dating now, is that true?" Crusch raised her head, her yellow eyes full of curiosity.
"The news spreads very quickly." Ayanokouji said slowly. He deliberately spread the news in the royal capital first to see the reactions of all parties. "Actually, it is."
Crusch had a smile on her face, "Congratulations to you, may you soon have a son!"
"Crusch-sama! It's too early to say such congratulations now!" Felix quickly poked her from behind, "Ayanokouji-sama and Emilia-sama have just started dating, they haven't gotten married and had children yet!"
"But Felix, didn't you tell me that the first thing men and women do when they fall in love is to have children?" Crusch's face was full of confusion
"Hahaha, I'm afraid you're remembering it wrong, Crusch-sama!" Felix smiled awkwardly, his cat ears twitched, and his eyes looked away evasively.
"Really?" Crusch shook her head and didn't think too much about it.
Felt looked at Rom with a confused expression on her face: "Rom, is the first thing you have to do when you fall in love is to have children? How are children born?"
"Children, don't ask too much." Rom immediately answered.
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In the slums, Felt looked at Rom with a puzzled look.
"Rom..."
"Children, don't ask too much!"
Before Felt could ask any questions, Rom had already taken the lead.
Felt pursed her lips, then raised her head, thought for a moment, and continued:
"No, I don't want to ask that. I want to know if that man named Reinhard will be back today."
"Maybe."
When talking about this issue, Rom became serious.
"If he doesn't accept you back, he might not give up."
Since Felt's true identity was revealed in the picture, Reinhard often came here, trying to persuade Felt to leave with him, but Felt always refused because she didn't like the palace. She didn't want to leave the life here, and she didn't want to leave Rom.
Rom looked at Felt and felt that it was better to let her go back.
❰❱SKY SCREEN❰❱
After telling Crusch about their future plans, their group prepared to leave.
"By the way, Wilhelm, please stay here." Ayanokouji said and stopped Wilhelm.
"Excuse me, Ayanokouji-sama, what can I do?"
"Do you have some free time in the next few days?" Ayanokouji asked.
"As long as Ayanokouji-sama orders it, I will complete everything no matter what." Wilhelm said respectfully, because the other party helped him realize his dream of revenge against the White Whale, so he now respects him very much.
"It's not a big deal, I just want to invite you to dinner with someone special." Ayanokouji said slowly.
"Someone special?" Wilhelm was a little confused, but still said, "Since it's Ayanokouji-sama's request, I will definitely be there."
"Mhm."
"But I'm still a little curious, who is this so-called special person?"
"We'll know when the time comes. Let's stay here for dinner tonight and have a good chat."
"As ordered." Wilhelm bowed and then left.
The special person that Ayanokouji mentioned was none other than Reinhard.
In the future, if he really wanted to fight against the people from the Witch Cult, he might need Reinhard's strength, and now is a good opportunity to draw him into his camp.
Although Reinhard seems to be a very perfect person, Ayanokouji knows that he has "imperfections", such as the relationship between his family members.
The relationship between grandfather and grandson is very rigid, even to the point of being enemies.
Although the death of the previous Sword Saint was not caused by Reinhard, he blamed himself deeply for it, but in his heart he also wanted to make peace with his grandfather.
And Ayanokouji planned to use this as an opportunity to close the relationship with Reinhard and bring him into his camp.
After Wilhelm's sad wish was fulfilled, the difficulty in repairing their relationship should be greatly reduced.
What Ayanokouji needs to do now is to stabilize and develop the power and scope of business in the royal capital, win over Roswaal, and get rid of Russell.
After solving these problems well, he can guarantee that Emilia's power will never be shaken.
This way, he only needs to do the last thing, eradicate the Witch Cult, so in this country, Ayanokouji doesn't need to worry about anything else
"Ayanokouji-sama!"
Rem's voice came from the other side. She had finished sewing the clothes and handed them to him.
"Wear it." Ayanokouji checked it for a while and then gave the clothes to Echidna.
Echidna looked at the maid uniform in her hand in disbelief. The clothes that she had clearly torn apart now looked brand new, and the other party only used it in a short time: "Did you use recovery magic?"
Although it was clear that she needed to hide her identity and play the role of Ryuzu named Omega, Echidna still asked.
In her eyes, Rem could only do it by using magic.
"Sorry, Rem can't use magic that can restore clothes." Rem immediately bowed and answered.
Actually, Rem only achieved this by relying on her superb sewing skills. Her mastery of skills related to maids could be said to have reached the peak level.
"Donna can't do anything except magic!"
"I can even imagine Dona would make herself bleed if she sewed with her own hands."
"That's true."
Hearing the mocking voices in her mind, Echidna was really angry, but at this moment she couldn't reveal her true face, so she could only stand there and sulk alone.
"Rom, let's hand over the work to her." Ayanokouji said to Rom.
"Yes!" Rom nodded.
"Otto, come with me." Ayanokouji turned and looked at Otto, who was beside him and a little confused.
"Me?" Otto was stunned for a moment, completely unable to react to what was happening.
"Yes, it's you, this will be your next job."