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"Seriously. What kind of idiot mortgaged all this stuff to buy magical equipment? ....... I mean, good job. Nice work, Kristina."

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"Hmmm. You can praise me more than that, Mr. Alphonse. Well, I always knew that the price of magic tools would go down at some point. I've been thinking about what to do after the crash for a long time.

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"That's why you're a moneylender. How can you do that when you might not be able to recover the money you loaned?

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That's why we only lend to people with solid collateral. That's why I only lend to people who have good collateral.

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　The price of magic tools collapsed.

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　As planned or expected, it happened at the end of summer.

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　Or should I say, I woke it up.

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　We had been working to induce the timing to some extent.

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　Zion is the one who predicted the crash.

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　In order to create the future that I knew through her fortune-telling, I used the shadows to spread rumors about the cause of the crash that I had thought up.

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　Recently, there is a shortage of money that is supposed to be in circulation, so the country may be collecting gold and silver coins.

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　Such rumors began to circulate in various places.

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　But it is just a rumor without any proof.

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　Those who heard about it probably only thought, "Oh, really?

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　But some people will check it out.

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　If it is true, they want to be prepared for it and act first.

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　So, someone confirmed it with an official of a certain country.

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　The answer they received was a confirmation of the fact.

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　It is preferable to pay taxes in coins issued by the major countries as much as possible.

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　Well, the answer itself is quite natural.

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　Anyone who works in a country would answer so.

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　It is because it is much better than having small countries pay taxes in their own coins or in any other form.

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　But those who heard the answer were the first to cash in.

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　They tried to sell the magical items and thereby earn cash.

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　And they shouted it out loud to everyone around them.

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　When we confirmed this information quickly using our shadows, we sold them off as well.

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　We had been selling them often before, but we sold off a lot of magic tools at once.

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　Up until that time, we had still been able to find buyers for a reasonable price.

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　But there must have been a lot of them.

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　The situation changed when Kristina and others who were close to me started to do the same.

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　Since I could have predicted the collapse of the market for magic tools in advance, I had told them, at the very least, not to spread the news to those who were close to me.

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　So everyone who knew about the crash followed suit.

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　Hmmm...

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　After all, can we say that the cause of this is the lack of coins?

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　It seems to me that it is just a manipulation of the market by human hands, but I doubt that there is anyone who can grasp, analyze, and analyze the information throughout the entire market.

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　So, let's say that the trigger of the crash was the merchant who first questioned the officials of a certain country and sold them magic tools.

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　I am sure that many people will hate me if I am the cause of the great crash, but I hope that you will live strong.

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　So, the market price of magic tools has crashed beautifully.

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　I had no idea what kind of a collapse it would be, but it was more than I could have expected.

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　The price was so high that in no time at all, it was worth nothing.

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　I had thought that it would take a certain period of time for the price to drop a little more slowly, but it really dropped all at once.

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　And at the same time, the cash shortage was a reality.

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　Maybe it's a herd mentality or something.

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　It seems that everyone thought "I need money" at the same time, and as a result, no one wants to part with their money.

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　People who normally use money for shopping have become reluctant to spend money.

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　This makes the purse strings even tighter, it seems.

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　This seems to have affected many places.

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　Buying and selling almost came to a halt and the city became dead quiet.

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　The moneylenders were moving around in the midst of it all.

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　They went around to collect the money they had lent, and when they still couldn't do anything about it, they took what was left as collateral and carried it away.

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　Among them, of course, was land.

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　Kristina was also a moneylender in preparation for the crash.

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　A moneylender who lends large sums of money and collects it with interest.

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　However, since it was known that the market would eventually collapse, it was necessary to be careful about whom she lent money to.

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　Therefore, they lent only to those who could provide some collateral such as lands that could retain some value.

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　And among them, there was a fool who used an unusual piece of land as collateral.

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　It was a piece of land in the middle of the island, where the soft magic tree, the pride of the country of Bulgaria, grows.

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　I didn't think anyone would have mortgaged that land.

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　But it seems that they were completely relieved.

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　Because the price of magic tools kept going up.

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　They borrowed money by using the land in Chuzhou as a form of debt and used the money to buy magical tools and make a profit.

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　It seems that they were happy with the profit and got greedy to borrow more money to make more money.

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　In fact, it had worked until now.

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　Maybe Grougalia had to do so under certain circumstances since they suffered a painful defeat against the Orient last year, but I guess they should not use their precious things as collateral.

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　Kristina got a piece of land that normally would not be offered for sale.

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　As expected, there were no other super-special locations like the Gulu riverbank, but various other lands became available for sale.

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　Because, eventually, money lenders started to sell their rights to the land because they could not recover their money and they were on fire.

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　Thus, the crash affected the whole group of small states, leaving a big mark on various countries.

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　Incidentally, the Crash and the ensuing recession became known as "Lassen's Crash" after the man who caused it.

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