The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 351



352 – Purpose of Negotiation

Thanks to Kane’s invention of the magic stone bomb, something needed to be done right away. I stopped talking about the golem for a while and headed to the portal station alone to Prax City.

Kane remained in the club room and devoted himself to studying alchemy, saying that he would leave the negotiation of the magic stone bomb entirely to me.

The city of Praks that I arrived at through the portal was the largest city in the north, but since I had visited it with Navier before, there was no difficulty in getting to the Praks family’s mansion.

When I knocked on the door, the butler whose face I recognized before opened the door. The butler who confirmed the visitor bowed and asked.

“Welcome to the Frax family mansion. You came back again. “Mr. Ross.”

“hello. “I have come to meet the head of the Ilaid squadron.”

The butler nodded and said as he led me into the living room.

“I think you will have to wait in the reception room for a while because there are guests who arrived first.”

“Because I came without an appointment. “It’s okay to wait.”

I nodded with a soft smile and asked the butler if he would serve refreshments.

“Isn’t that guest the head of the Perlkus family?”

I guessed that Raelan, who was planning to join hands with the Praks family, was a guest. As befits a butler from the grand duke’s family, he just smiled without any change in his expression in response to my question.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t answer that. “Please understand.”

Well, it’s strange to tell an outsider what kind of guest is visiting. Ilaid was the previous head of the family, so she was not the person to talk to about the family’s cooperation with Raelan.

After apologizing for the mistake, the butler walked away with a smile. Some time later, as she was waiting and eating the refreshments her maid had brought, Ilaide came to her sooner than expected.

“How long has it been? “Seeing as you’re alone, I guess your detective girlfriend didn’t come today.”

Ilaid patted my shoulder as if she was happy to see me and sat down next to me.

I wondered what that meant, but I remembered Navier explaining to Ilaid that I was his assistant.

Are you still misunderstanding?

Ilaid asked before I could open my mouth.

“What’s going on today? Did something happen again?”

Unlike his worried tone, his eyes are expectant.

I said, shaking my head.

“It was not an accident, but I came here because I wanted to receive investment from the Praks family.”

He seemed to be interested in what I was saying as his eyes lit up and he made a “ho-oh” sound.

“If you want to be invested in our family, using something ordinary would be a complete failure. As a detective’s assistant, you have a sharp edge, so there’s no way you wouldn’t know that… .”

His face was full of laughter. Instead of answering, I held out the magic stone bomb that I had previously taken out of the space warehouse and received from Kane as a prototype along with a warning.

“Just in case, you must not inject magic power.”

I headed to the snowy mountain with Kane to test it out, and felt the power of it. The power of the magic stone bomb was so strong that even basic level defensive magic flew away without a trace.

Ilade, who was looking closely at the magic stone bomb, said with a smile.

“I understand now that it’s called magic power. The magic stone was designed beautifully. Are you planning on selling this to women?”

Ilaide, who was repeatedly throwing the magic stone into the air and catching it with a look of disappointment on her face as if it was different from what she had expected, spoke bluntly.

“Such luxuries will not be very popular with northerners.”

“It’s not a luxury item.”

“Well, decorations and accessories… “The title isn’t important, right?”

I said without paying attention to Ilaid’s harsh response.

“That’s a bomb.”

Ilaid, who was trying to catch the falling magic stone bomb, stopped at my words. I quickly reached out my hand and caught the magic stone bomb that was about to fall to the floor, and heaved a sigh of relief.

Although it was confirmed that it was safe from impact if magical power was not injected, the perception that it was a dangerous bomb did not change.

He opened his palm and held out a magic stone bomb in front of Illid’s eyes.

“This is a bomb… ?”

Ilaide, who was looking at the magic stone bomb with wide eyes, seemed to have discovered something, so she took the magic stone bomb from my hand and looked at it closely.

“This is… “It’s alchemy.”

“Yes, it’s an invention called the Magic Stone Bomb. The power is slightly higher than twice that of the explosion scroll sold at the Red Magic Tower. The price is about 5 times cheaper than scrolls, and the daily production is several times higher.”

The expression disappeared from Ilaide’s face. There was no way that Ilaid, who had ascended to the position of head of the family, would not have noticed the value of the magic stone bomb.

Silence fell in the drawing room for a moment. Ilaid, who was looking at the magic stone bomb closely, injected his magic power into the magic stone bomb without any warning.

Seeing the magic stone bomb emitting light and preparing to explode, I hurriedly recognized the spatial coordinates at the furthest point outside the window and prepared to create a dimensional passage.

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But before that, Ilaide wrapped the magic stone bomb with both hands covered in magic.

When I saw that, I stopped creating the dimensional passage. Because Ilaid was a transcendental person who could take down a large lighthouse with just a sword. With just this much power, it won’t even cause any damage.

Kuung-!

With a heavy vibration, the chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the living room shook loudly and made noise.

The butler, who hurriedly opened the door to see what had happened, saw the black smoke coming out of Ilaid’s hand and probably thought it was not his place to intervene, so he bowed slightly at me and closed the door again.

When I turned my head to Ilaide, he stood up, wiping away the smoke from his hands as if nothing had happened.

He put his arm around my shoulder with a happy face, to the point where I thought it was the old man who had shown a grumpy expression a moment ago.

“As expected, it does not disappoint. Okay, I’ll take you to the matriarch.”

*

I followed Ilaide almost as if I was being dragged towards the house. Ilade opened the door to the housekeeper’s room as if it were a given, without knocking, and went inside with me leading the way.

The head of the Prax family, who was able to get a glimpse of Ilaid’s younger self, looked at me with a puzzled face as I was an uninvited guest who came in without knocking, and sighed when she saw Ilaid coming in behind her.

“father… “I’m having an important conversation with a customer right now.”

“He is a more important guest.”

Even the Grand Duke, who was said to be the strongest in the North, seemed to be speechless at the sight of Ilaide speaking confidently in the presence of guests, and he opened his mouth and apologized to the guest sitting across from him.

“I sincerely apologize. “The previous head of the family never meant that.”

The way he immediately drew the line that he was the previous head of the family, not his father, made me think that he was also a grand duke. However, the back of the customer who received the matriarch’s apology was very familiar.

Raelan turned his head over his shoulder to check who the uninvited guest was and gave me a cold look as if asking why you were here.

Ilaide caught that gaze and said with a smile.

“I’m my girlfriend’s father, so what do you think?”

Apparently, because of what happened before, Ilaide clearly misunderstood that Navier was my girlfriend. Before I could resolve the misunderstanding, Ilaid took out the magic stone bomb she had kept as spare money from my pocket and threw it at the Archduke.

The Grand Duke, who snatched the magic stone bomb with the skill of a transcendental, asked with a puzzled expression.

“What is this?”

“It’s a bomb made of magic stones. “I heard this guy wants our family’s investment.”

For a moment, I saw the murderous look in Raelan’s eyes and immediately turned my head towards the wall. The eyes of the stuffed deer on the wall looked somehow sad.

“Are you really saying it’s a bomb made of magic stones…? ?”

“Yes, it looks like you made something great with alchemy. I checked the power myself. “It’s well worth the investment.”

“The vibration from earlier… “That was it.”

The Archduke nodded as if he understood and turned to Raelan.

“It’s better to postpone the conversation for a while… .”

Before Raelan could respond, I intervened.

“If you don’t mind, would it be okay if matriarch Perlkus joins the conversation?”

The Archduke was momentarily taken aback by my words, but he realized that I and Raelan knew each other, so he nodded and asked Raelan.

“Are you okay?”

At Raelan’s short reply that it was okay, the Archduke nodded and motioned for us to sit down.

As I sat down with Ilaid, Raelan, who was sitting across from me, gave me a look that said we’d wait and see. I glanced at the head of the family and spoke.

“nice to see you. I’m Ross, Illya’s junior in the combat club and boyfriend Roel’s younger brother. “Through my relationship with the previous head of the family, I knocked on the door of the Praks family.”

When I introduced myself politely, Grand Duke Praks, the strongest man in the North, nodded with a gentle smile.

“Nice to meet you. I am Illud, Grand Duke of the North, head of the Fraax family. I heard what happened last time from his father. “It’s late, but I want to say thank you.”

Illud held out his hand and gave a light handshake. His hands, which looked twice as big as me, were full of calluses. As expected, it was the hand of a skilled person who had reached the level of a transcendental master.

“So, do you want to receive investment from the magic stone bomb?”

Seeing that he got straight to the point, I cleared my throat and gave a detailed explanation about the magic stone bomb like I did to Ilaid.

As the story continues, Raelan’s eyes become colder as he listens motionlessly, but the most important thing now is to make the Northern Prince realize the value of the magic stone bomb.

After the explanation was over, Ilaid exchanged a wordless look with Ilaid and then turned his head to me. Illud also realized the value of the magic stone bomb.

“Are there any other conditions you want?”

It was important from here. The reason why I came to Prax, which I had no major contact with, to receive investment, rather than Bella and Raelan, who would welcome me with open eyes.

I straightened my back and spoke with a calm expression.

“I want Fraks.”

I planned to use this opportunity to take control of the entire North.