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Dana let out her slow and gentle breath and she fell asleep completely. Leon looked at her for a moment, then looked at the contents in the paper again.
It wasn’t too long and Leon only vaguely understood its content at first.
However, he could guess.
This was a kind of contract. On one side of the paper, the seal was cut vertically and only half of it was stamped. This meant that there were other contracts paired with this.
「If the main manager is not a person of Deniz family’, the management rights and the initial capital of ‘Deniz Merchants’ will be returned to ‘Tertius Family’.」
「PS, ‘Deniz’ is a proper title attached to the manager at the top and is not a real surname.」
Considering Owen’s previous explanation, it could be seen that Russell Deniz, who first created the Deniz merchants, was Owen’s subordinate and a knight in the Tertius order.
But even so, it was strange to get it back. The Deniz Merchant was all his private property.
Then maybe.
If it was the Tertius family who gave away the initial capital, which became the seed to grow the top, it made sense.
Leon folded the documents, put them roughly on the table, and leaned against the bedhead.
“Yeah…”
Dana tossed and turned with a shallow moan. Leon carefully covered her shoulders with a blanket and was lost in thought.
Somehow, I wondered where the royal family’s enormous wealth had gone.
Real estate, maritime rights, tax rights, and passage rights as permanent residents remained the same. That alone never lagged behind the Tertius family’s wealth within the Haschel Empire.
However, no matter how hard Leon tried to calculate, many parts were empty. Liquid assets were so empty that when Leon became the owner of this castle, there were very few in the vault.
Leon thought Owen would have dedicated it to the imperial family to settle in the Haschel Empire.
This was because even when he asked Owen, he didn’t give an accurate explanation.
Properly… I’ll have to find out. Anyway, if this is true, things will be very easy.
However, this type of contract was recognized as having to exist entirely on the other side.
On the one hand, he felt relieved because now he knew why Dana took the risk and approached the Deniz Merchants.
Leon thought Dana would know this content.
He didn’t question her separately, but there were some doubts that Dana might want to leave Leon and return to her position completely.
Leon gently stroked Dana’s hair and lightly kissed her forehead. Then he got out of bed, put on a gown, and headed outside with the documents.
Click-
Outside, Wendy and Lily were dozing off and waiting, and they woke up surprised by the sound of Leon opening the door.
“Oh…”
“Don’t leave until she wakes up, and help her take a bath afterward.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Lily and Wendy bowed their heads and calmly replied to his words, fearing that the scolding would fall. After Dana came to the castle, he was the Grand Duke who became very strict about the negligence of his servants from some point on. But Leon passed them by without saying a word.
Now they were the exclusive maid of the Grand Duchess, and it was only Dana’s authority to rule them. Leon was distinguishing it, and above all, he is not very angry right now.
* * *
Harbert sat in front of Rian, huffing, and puffing, hiding his awkward expression and sneaking away from the gaze.
“The security guard can’t take care of it quickly. This guy!”
“It was reckless to try to siphon off the next Grand Duchess in the first place…”
“So loud, Harbert! If only your guy had recognized me in the first place, things wouldn’t have gone this far.”
“…”
Rian was right, but the premise of “in the first place” was wrong.
Harbert tried hard to swallow and shut his mouth from saying, “If only you hadn’t killed Dana Deniz like that”.
Well, he’s going to die now anyway.
Harbert knew that Tertius was determined to catch Rian in earnest.
He tried not to get involved with Rian as much as possible, but it was inevitable as long as he worked at the merchant group.
Rian seemed to be thinking about something, chewing his thumbnails nervously.
“What are you going to do now? If that’s the real Dana Deniz, shouldn’t it be returned?”
“That’s ridiculous, I’m almost taking control of it, but I don’t want to waste it.”
Perhaps Rian’s control meant the route to traffic hallucinogens. Harbert pretended not to know and drew more answers from Rian.
“How are you going to survive it…?”
“First of all, we’re going to have an executive meeting. With the approval of a majority there, management rights can be fully recognized. As a real manager, not an agent.”
“Well, according to the meeting rules, you can delegate management authority, but you don’t have the right to completely hand it over at the meeting.”
“That was made by the former Deniz head, right? I’m going to change it!”
Harbert shook his head excitedly at Rian’s madness. Rian’s words continued.
“And how is she going to prove that she is Dana Deniz? You didn’t even recognize her. Who’s going to recognize her from the merchant group?”
It sounded absurd, but it did make sense. All Dana had to prove herself was her words. The people at the merchant group who knew her were not here anymore.
That’s why when Dana, who didn’t remember, came here, she was sent to play her substitute.
“We can just say no. We should also reveal that it was the deputy we sent. And the most important thing is…”
Rian smiled at one end of his shiny lips with a greedy expression on his face.
“Whether it’s real or fake, we have to make Dana Deniz go missing again. Someday, you’ll see a gap. Someday… I’ll tie her up with me.”
Rian’s “most important thing” was to capture a woman named Dana Deniz. Harbert looked at him with an incomprehensible gaze, but Rian seemed to not notice as he was deep in thought.