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"Hmph. "Look, Mr. Alphonse. I'm finally a millionaire."

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"...... No, no, no, what are you doing, Kristina?"

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What? Business. I've never had the opportunity to make this much money before. We make money when we can. That's what a merchant does."

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　Kristina comes up to me and says something like that with a big smile on her face.

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　It seems that she has been making a lot of money by taking advantage of the recent surge in the price of magic tools.

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　A few years ago, she used to peddle her wares as far as Valeant, the most remote of remote areas, and now she is one of the richest people in the Orient.

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　How could she not be happy?

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"But I think it's time to back off. As Zion, who can foretell the future, said, this frenzy won't last long. It will surely come to an end. At that time, if you're holding on to a lot of magical tools, you'll go bankrupt, right?"

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"No, it's okay. The price of magic tools is still going up. Besides, the magical tools I buy are safe and secure. I'm not buying magic tools that don't even work, Alphonse.

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　It's okay to make money.

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　But it's also a risky business.

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　I warn Kristina of this, but she insists that it's okay.

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　Kristina says that there is no problem because she mainly deals in properly functioning magical tools and makes a profit from them.

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　But is that really true?

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　The price of the magical tools that we originally made in New Barca Town and sold via Banagher is far beyond the market price, so I don't think we can say that they are safe assets because they are usable magical tools any more.

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"One more time, my advice, Kristina. It's time to stop. I like fighting too, and I'll go into a battle when I have to, even if it's risky, but I know that it's important to consider retreat when it's really dangerous. The current price of magic tools is dangerous no matter how you look at it. If you can't see that, I don't care."

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"....... I'm sorry, Mr. Alphonse. I actually think it's a bit crazy, don't you?　But the fact that the profits keep coming in makes me, as a merchant, feel that I can't back down here. But I understand. It's important to make a profit, but it's no good if we lose credibility. For me, I'm more afraid of losing trust with Mr. Alphonse than I am of losing a lot of money, so I'm not going to do it anymore."

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"I see. I'm glad to hear you say that. I'm glad you say that, because it's what we're going to do that's important. Kristina, if you can make a profit there, that's all that matters, right?"

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"Oh, my. That sounds interesting. You're predicting a sharp drop in the price of magic tools in the future, aren't you, Alphonse?　How does that lead to a profitable business when you tell people not to do it because you know they'll lose money?"

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"Of course. I'm after the land."

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"Land?　...... I see. I think I know what you mean, Alphonse. If the crash is so bad that the people who are currently making a lot of money with their magic tools go bankrupt, then the bankrupt people will release what they have in their hands that can be used as money. So the first of these is real estate, land, right?"

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"Yeah. Thank goodness Kristina understands so quickly. That's right. The target will be those who own land with high land value in the cities and the village headmen. Especially the village headmen, who lost a lot of money in the futures market last year, so they are putting in a lot of money to try to turn things around in this magical tool market. It's obvious what will happen if they make a huge loss this year as they did last year, isn't it?

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"Interesting. So, I guess I better cash in the money I've made so far. And buy land here and there that's now being sold off. Maybe that means I can become a real landowner, not just a wealthy man."

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　Kristina was a little blinded by money and did not seem to be able to make sound judgments.

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　I don't know how she felt.

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　Who wouldn't welcome a situation in which their assets are growing by the day?

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　If someone asks you to stop making money in such a situation, it is not easy to do so.

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　But it seems that my existence slightly outweighs the profits.

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　If someone else had told him to stop, he might not have done so, but he weighed the loss of my credibility against it and promised to withdraw from the magical tools market.

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　But I don't know how long that will last.

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　As a merchant, you don't want to throw away your chance to make money.

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　As Zion had predicted, the frenzy would continue for a while yet, and there was a possibility that they would plunge back into the market for magical tools in a short while.

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　So, I would like to propose another way of earning money.

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　That was my policy after this series of frenzy.

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　How to act when the big fall comes after the frenzy.

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　It is to acquire land.

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　Because buying land is not easy.

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　Land in cities is not sold so often.

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　Also, useful land is limited in rural areas outside of cities.

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　The small states around here are often flooded, so there is a certain amount of land that has been known for a long time to be relatively safe and suitable for farming and other purposes.

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　Such lands are hard to get because of the existence of traditional landowners.

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　But it seems to be possible to get it legally.

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　The current price hike of magical tools started with the craftsmen of the Orient.

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　But the situation has changed and now it is becoming a thing for those who have money to make more money.

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　And it is usually the landowners who have the money.

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　Because there are people living there, and they can make a steady income just by taking rent from them.

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　Let's take all of it.

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　If you can buy land outside of the Orient, you may be able to buy it.

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　Kristina seems to have started counting the money as soon as she heard my idea.

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　She started to calculate now how much money which wealthy people have put into the market for magical tools, how much they will lose in the expected crash, and which lands they will sell.

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　I started to make careful preparations for the purchase of land in coordination with Kristina's movements, while also utilizing Ai's calculation ability.

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