Book 2: Chapter 46
“What’s the situation on the Black Streets been like lately?”
“There’s a huge debt owed to me, and I can’t get it back, but we still need to buy all the firearms. I’m stuck with this batch of goods! Nobody buys the swords, armours, and saddles we make either. We’ve had to lower the price of military equipment down so low we’re just breaking even.”
“Couldn’t they be sold to other countries previously?”
“Soldiers from the army are patrolling the Black Streets all the time now. They’ve arrested a fair number of people. We’ve had to stop selling to avoid the heat!”
“Soldiers? Isn’t Kurt responsible for the soldiers? Can’t you talk to him about it?”
“It was the prince’s order! The prince personally passed down the order! And the prince goes to the Black Streets every day. We don’t have a spare moment to catch our breath!”
“Where’d this prince come from…? How come I’ve never seen him before?”
“I’m not sure. The prince brought Castor down in one stroke. The empress really dotes on him too. We can’t touch him. And we can’t assassinate him even if we want to because his bodyguard is the Valkyries’ sword instructor. Even if we were to hire assassins, we’d probably need at least two hundred of them.”
“Yeah, if we anger the empress… We’re all dead meat… Why do we need to kill the prince?! Why not just bribe him? If we can bring him to our side then the problem is solved.”