Chapter 157 - DO NOT OPEN

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"Ah! Good girl, since you didn't show any signs of negative reaction or dying. This product is good to go. The Gauthier family plans to make the owner the supplier of the product as we distributed in the whole Empire. Good for business and money, of course." Gavriel smiles so wide as if its the highest achievement he ever done n his life.

"Business?" Geraldine's eyes widen upon hearing what her brother said. 

"Business, as in where money comes from," Gavriel rolled his eyes as if he's talking to an idiot.

"I know what business means brother. What I'm saying is, why did you choose to make business with that pill?" She said and went closer to him with her eyes looking over to the glass of jar full of mana pills.

"Well, since I am a good brother, I'll tell you about my geniusness. I investigated Alexjin, that winner from the competition since I still can't believe that he can won that easily without any help and I was able to get an information from the wandering travellers about this pill thing that can help you boost your mana. That's why I'm here to see if it is true and indeed it is," A smirk plays on Gavriel lips as he leaned on the sofa comfortably.

"So, you think that Alexjin won the competition because of those pills?" She asked caustiosly to make sure that Gavriel won't be suspecious to her.

"Seeing that his swords are needed to be transformed first before he can use it then the answer to your question is, yes. He can't do all that without the pills support. Tsk tsk, my dear sister, you're really dumb, aren't you?"

Hearing Gavriel's reply makes Geraldine's blood run cold at how he secretely investigate Alexjin and was able to know about the pills for only a month.

"Though, I'm starting to get curious towards this Alexjin guy, his files say that he is living in this town but nobody knew his house nor see his shadow. It's like he don't even exist at all," Gavriel laughed while swirling the pill in his fingers, "Well, I don't really care about him. I just wanted to get my hands first on this pills since it's they only sell these pill in this town," he continued.

"Did you talk about your plan to the owner?" Geraldine asked, remembering how Aurelie came home hours ago.

"Ha! I don't want to have any conversations towards a commoner, they'll just waste my time. Tsk!" Gavriel rolled his eyes and takes out an enveloped and slides it towards her.

"Then how can you make business with her if both of you didn't talk about your plan," Geraldine crossed her arms with her eyes looking at the envelope and she got a feeling at what he intended to do.

"That's why you are here, right? HAHAHA Since you've been living as a commoner for months now, then you're basically a commoner yourself! Now, I want you to go to that wrecked store and talked them out to do business with our family," He said with a smile.

"And why do you think I would do that?" Geraldine's lips twitched in anger when she heard about Gavriel's use for her and the word 'our family' irks her the most.

"Well, it's simply cuz you can't say no. HAHAHA. Stop b*tching around and do what I say," Gavriel rings the bell sitting on the table and instantly a waiter appeared from below and served him cake and refill his drinks hastily before going away without glancing to Geraldine.

Geraldine took a deep breath to control her emotions and use her mind to take advantage of the situation, "I can do it brother but I cannot guarantee the price they will ask from you and the quantity they can provide ---" She wasn't able to finish her words when Gavriel gestured his hands aggrisively for her to shut up.

"I don't care how much money they will ask. Even if it's 200 gold per pill, I don't really care as long as I can get them to do business with me then I'm fine with it because nobles from the Empire will pay more to buy one of that. About the quantity that you're saying, tell them to deliver me all the pills they're able to make each month. At that time frame, my buyers would be hungry to get their hands at the pills each month. HAHAHA I'm so genius!" Gavriel laughed like a maniac while swinging his arms around like he just won in the lottery.

Geraldine grabbed the envelope from the table, "Whatever you say, I'll see what I can do and if they have any say about this contract between you and them. I will send you a letter."

Geraldine walked away without saying goodbye to her brother, not that Gavriel mind either. After all, it is evident that they are just using one another.

On that late afternoon, Gavriel and his servants went back to the North.

"Aurelie, did my brother say something when he came to the store," Geraldine aked as soon as she arrived at the house.

"Umm, no. Only his servant came in and question about the pills but I didn't give any important information as they might want to know the ingredients and stole your idea," Aurelie explained.

"I see."

Going to her room, Geraldine put gloves in her hands before opening the envelope and saw that it was indeed the contract prepared by his brother.

"Let's see," She took out the papers and read every word carefully so that she won't missed a thing. There's also a blank space below Gavriel's terms for the owner to put her own.

"Well, his terms are just simple. Tsk, he just wanted to get his hands on the pills first," She muttered when she read that if the owner of the pills decided to agree with the contract means that she must not get into contract with the other merchants who wanted her pills as well but she can still continue to sell it in Bagyoo town only. 

"Hmm, I don't really have any say since this contract is very simple and not very strict," She muttered and agreed to it but now her problem is the signature below.

Geraldine doesn't want Aurelie and Alexjin to know that her brother wanted the pills and ask for a contract because she doesn't want Alexjin to know or encounter anything related to her family.

Getting the envelope, she was about to slide back the contract when she saw another small white enveloped inside. She took it out and it was addressed to her.

She felt her heart beats faster as she thought it was something meaningful but when she opens the letter, only a few words are written there.

"You can just sign the contract if the owner doesn't want her identity to be known, I don't really care!"

Reading the letter makes her scoff in annoyance. She took the contract again and her ink from the cabinet and used her big toe to sign the contract.

Seeing that it's all done, she shrugged and put the amount she wants for each pill to the contract and hide it under her bed.

The next morning came in, Geraldine sent the other copy of the contract to Gavriel while the other copy is in her hands then she spent the rest of the day making mana pills to be delivered to the Gauthier's residence.

"Father must have known about this too," She muttered while smashing the medical herbs in the bowl.

She keeps on thinking about what her family planned on doing about the pills, "Maybe they will sell this on the auction houses," she pressed her lips in thin line as she thought about the pros and cons of making a contract with Gavriel without him knowing that she's the maker of the pills.

"Pfft, whatever, now I have more money to spend," She laughed which echoed in the basement, making a creepy feed back, "Ugh."

After a week, a letter came back from the post office with a huge box addressed to Geraldine. The letter contains various threats that if she will not give the box to the pill's owner, she's a dead meat.

Chuckling over to the immature letter of Gavriel, she opened the box and saw several bags of golden coins, "Ha! 300 gold per pills isn't bad after all," She giggled and put the money in her basement to hide it from Aurelie and Alexjin.

After a week of making the pills, she sent three thousand pills to Gavriel, she base it off to the payment he gave to her.

Feeling satisfied, she grabbed Alexjin and dragged him to the market as she planned to buy a new clothes and other stuff she bought when she was still living a life of a noble.

"Master, where did you get that amount?" Alexjin exclaimed upon seeing the amount of money Geraldine paid for the clothes she bought.

"Huh? Oh, I won a lottery."