Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 250

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 250

163. Do Well

While Count Altair inwardly sighed, an answer came back without a moment’s hesitation.

“The ointment would be good. ‘Centella,’ I mean.”

For a moment, a curse almost slipped out.

Centella.

A product that boasts considerable sales volume alongside ‘Malkov’ at ‘Altair Pharmaceuticals.’

Not everyone in the world can receive healing through a priest’s divine power.

Even wealthy nobles don’t receive divine power for wounds from falls or scratches from tree branches.

‘Centella’ is an ointment that heals minor wounds and prevents them from festering further.

Its effects are also excellent, showing great efficacy in hemostasis and wound regeneration.

Simply put-

‘He’s picking out only the most valuable things to steal.’

This too was a part that played an important role in his business.

But Count Altair swallowed his anger.

“That should be worth the remaining 400,000.”

“….”

He had known.

The fact that the man would demand business rights again this time.

But when faced with such a demand right before his eyes, it felt incredibly wasteful.

‘Stay calm. I mustn’t abandon the future.’

He could give up the remaining 150 at this point, but he didn’t want to.

He had already taken out loans from the Imperial Bank.

“Fine.”

Count Altair nodded.

He shouldn’t regret a decision already made any further.

Developing new medicine with those 300 mana stones was more important.

Also….

“And I’d like to ask one thing while we’re at it.”

There was also something he had been thinking about.

“Could you supply those mana stones exclusively to me?”

Monopolizing the mana stones.

More precisely, making it so only he could purchase them.

The thought of even a single one of those mana stones going to someone else was killing him.

‘I should get acquainted with the higher-ups while I’m at it. Then I might be able to participate in their business.’

Therefore, Count Altair intended to take the long view.

“Fine.”

Then suddenly, a question arose.

“By the way, the pharmaceutical business is quite difficult… It’s a business that requires overall management.”

He had a tight grip on the Empire’s pharmaceutical business.

It wasn’t that there were no others doing the same business, but their scale was truly insignificant.

So he was curious.

What were these guys planning to do with this business once they took it?

“So I was thinking, I could help out a bit. Not interfering with management, just in terms of handover….”

“That’s no longer your concern.”

“Ah, understood.”

Though he closed his mouth at the sharp edge, he was curious.

Were they planning to sell it off somewhere?

Well, it didn’t matter either way.

Anyway, afterward Count Altair prepared the documents needed for business rights transfer as he had before, completed the signatures, and even paid in gold bars.

“300 mana stones, confirmed.”

“Payment and documents, confirmed.”

With this, the second transaction was completed.

A transaction that Count Altair believed was a grand investment for the future.

However, Dane had no intention of selling mana stones to Count Altair at this price anymore.

“Well then, I’ll contact you again next time. By then… you should have at least 500 prepared.”

The purpose was one thing.

To squeeze him dry to the bone marrow.

“Good heavens.”

“Viscount Otier. I’m entrusting this to you.”

“….”

After returning, I completed the transfer of ‘Centella’s’ business rights and called out Viscount Otier.

And I told him to proceed with research and development here from now on.

“What… how did this suddenly happen?”

“I acquired Count Altair’s business rights.”

“…Heh, heh heh heh….”

Viscount Otier just let out empty laughter in a daze and muttered.

“Just what… what kind of work do you do, benefactor? Count Altair is such a person, yet all the business rights for this ‘Centella’….”

“I already brought the business rights for ‘Malkov’ before that.”

“….”

His jaw-dropped expression was worth seeing.

“That one’s fine since the facilities are running on automation, but this ‘Centella’ requires someone with related knowledge.”

“Ah….”

“While developing medicine for your daughter, I thought it would be good if you could look into this from time to time.”

Viscount Otier looked back and forth between me and the business facility equipment several times before carefully asking.

“May I… take on such work? Benefactor?”

“I don’t know anyone else besides you. If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to take it on. However, you’ll need to keep quiet about this matter.”

“I, I will! It’s not that I won’t do it… I just feel like I’ve received too much help….”

Well, I never thought he’d refuse.

I added to that.

“As compensation for management and supervision, I’ll provide 5% of the net profit.”

“Good heavens.”

It wasn’t like Sidrain’s overall management, but rather looking into one of the processes.

That’s why I offered that percentage, but Viscount Otier jumped up.

“I absolutely cannot accept that. Just thinking about the help I’ve received from you so far, I should spend my lifetime repaying it!”

“That’s that, and this is this. Let’s be clear about the calculations.”

“But….”

“Work without compensation will eventually breed dissatisfaction.”

“….”

“Once you develop the treatment, what then? You’ll already have accumulated much debt.”

With that, I brought up something I had been thinking about.

“So after developing your daughter’s treatment, it would be good to devise facilities for mass production too.”

“Facilities…you mean.”

“Will everything end once you treat only your daughter with that treatment?”

“….”

That couldn’t be.

Completing his daughter’s treatment would be a happy thing.

But how long will that happiness last?

To maintain that happiness, he’ll need money and the power to protect himself.

“Why… are you helping me this much? I’ve already received a debt of gratitude that’s hard to repay…”

Tears were welling up in Viscount Otier’s eyes.

I answered simply.

“Because you’re doing it for your family.”

Family.

A word I couldn’t even think about in my previous life.

But now it’s become the most important word of all.

That’s the only reason.

“How long do you think the treatment development will take?”

“At most two months from now.”

Two months.

Considering the information Tuva delivered, it would definitely be faster than Count Altair.

“As soon as you complete it, file for a patent and protect what’s yours. I can’t help you every time.”

“Ah, understood.”

“Do well.”

I left the business facility with just those words.

“Thank… thank you!”

I chuckled at Viscount Otier’s echoing voice from behind.

The person I visited next was Big Sister.

And Big Sister’s jaw dropped when I opened my subspace to show her the gold bars.

“Wh-what is… all this?”

Big Sister naturally isn’t someone who would be desperate for money.

She’s made enormous amounts of money developing and distributing countless inventions and selling rights.

Even so, she seemed speechless at the quantity of these gold bars.

“…Are you secretly running some illegal business?”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

Even Big Sister seemed to have her thinking paralyzed in front of this amount of gold bars, unable to grasp how I could have earned this money.

So I told her.

About the pharmaceutical business using mana stones.

And about the things I’m planning to do in the future using that business as a foundation.

“…This sister wonders what it would have been like if you, Dane, had been born in the Imperial Palace.”

And that was Big Sister’s reaction.

“The Imperial Palace?”

“Yeah. Then the Imperial Palace wouldn’t be racking their brains over succession issues right now.”

“Ah.”

I haven’t met the other princes besides the 3rd Prince, but I somewhat agree with that statement.

I haven’t heard that the princes have strong political power.

Of course, I’m not saying I have strong political power, but at least the two princes aren’t showing political moves.

“Certainly, the pharmaceutical business is something that would catch the Imperial Palace’s interest. In that sense, using a pseudonym was very well done.”

“Still, it’ll be revealed someday. I’m preparing for that time, in case problems arise.”

“How can our youngest be so mature? Better than his sisters?”

I thought while feeling Big Sister’s hand stroking my head.

If our family had been just an ordinary noble house, such moves would have been completely useless.

They could just take it away.

But Sogress County is different.

Along with Duke Termion House, we’re one of the Empire’s two great noble families, and currently the target the Emperor has reached out to for reconciliation with Drenik.

So the Imperial Palace can’t carelessly interfere with or obstruct the family’s business.

“I’m curious what Father would say if he heard this. Would he say you have another talent?”

I chuckled and closed the subspace before asking.

“What should we do with this?”

“Well. Storing it in our family would create tax problems… How about using it for business expansion?”

“That’s difficult right now. We need to stabilize the current business first.”

Actually, there’s no suitable place to use it.

Because tax problems could arise.

The people I’ve utilized for business facilities so far are Sidrain and Viscount Otier respectively.

So if I expand the business wrongly, those two could be investigated by the Imperial Palace.

In the same context, I can’t deposit it in the Imperial Bank under my name and collect interest.

An Academy student having such an absurd amount of money would itself be suspicious.

“Then we need to find a use that won’t create tax problems…”

At Big Sister’s muttering, I suddenly thought of a good idea.

Imperial taxes ultimately apply to those within the Empire’s territory.

Then what about those who aren’t?

“The underground city.”

“The underground city?”

“Yeah. Acrium. The place I told you about, Big Sister.”

The underground city I visited recently.

Come to think of it, a couple days ago, I received contact from Darbado.

A considerable number of dwarves would be returning to the underground city.

Though that process would take time, it was definitely good news.

And I also recalled that Acrium currently has almost no resources left to restart the underground city.

“I should invest. In the underground city.”

“Investing in the underground city… That’s not bad. Dwarves have good technology and construction skills, so they’ll be a huge help later.”

Dwarves aren’t under the Empire’s rule.

Though they face persecution, there’s no particular problem as long as they establish themselves in the underground city.

So investing in them would be profitable business.

“We’ll build a new temple too. That’ll cost a lot of money.”

Good. I’ve decided to invest in the underground city.

I should visit the underground city soon and have some concrete discussions.

Goodness.

At this rate, I might really become a great merchant.

“By the way, what are you planning to do about Count Altair? Even a rotten fish is still a fish – he won’t collapse all at once. Above all… the medicines from ‘Altair Pharmaceuticals’ are having a bigger impact than expected.”

At Big Sister’s concern, I smiled wickedly.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make him collapse, but keep the business running.”

“Keep the business running?”

“Yeah. Once most of the business rights come to my side, that’s when I’ll start utilizing him in earnest. He has the management ability.”

“Ah.”

Big Sister seemed to understand what I was saying.

In other words, this.

Only the operating authority of the pharmaceutical market changes to my side, while Count Altair’s side handles the actual management.

I naturally don’t think I’ll directly operate the pharmaceutical market myself.

I’m not an expert, and if I interfere wrongly in such an important market, I could harm the Empire’s people instead.

So I plan to make Count Altair collapse but become dependent on me, extracting and utilizing his abilities to the bone.

Therefore…

Contact will come from Tuva soon.

About Count Altair’s current situation, having stepped into a quagmire without realizing it.

“And after that, we’ll make it with our family’s power. Unofficially, though.”

Also, it will be my power too.

A powerful card that can be utilized when some incident occurs in the future.

I felt this deeply while planning this affair.

My individual strength is important, but the background that supports me is also important.

Of course, I was born with a noble family as my background, but I can’t always borrow the family’s power.

“Dane, I’m so happy that you’re our family.”

At Big Sister’s words, I burst into laughter.

Suddenly, that thought crosses my mind once again.

If I had been born into a different family, what would I be doing now?

I’m not sure, but I don’t think it would have been better than my current family.

Well, if it had been the Imperial Family, I might have become brothers with Edward, but still—

“I’m also fortunate that you sisters are my sisters.”

By the way.

I should definitely support Edward in preparation for when checks come against me and our family in the future.

It wasn’t my intention to become friends with Edward for that purpose, but there’s no reason to neglect a sprout that’s clearly visible before my eyes.

Incidentally, Edward finally departed for the Eastern Territory not long ago.

He’ll go through hell over there, but I can only hope he survives and returns safely.

That way, I’ll be able to help him.

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