How to Live as a Knight After the Ending

Chapter 247: The Golden Sponsor (3)

'I'm glad it seems to have been resolved well.'

Osian nodded with satisfaction as he watched Lucent and Delan shake hands.

"Don't tell me you were aiming for this?"

When Loraine asked, Osian shrugged his shoulders lightly.

"I vaguely thought it would be nice if it turned out this way, but I didn't know it would work out this well."

"Liar."

"I'm serious. It wasn't me who did the persuading, it was Lucent. Would I have predicted all of that?"

Loraine still looked unconvinced, but Osian's words were completely sincere without a trace of deception.

Of course, there was some intent.

The Saint Tree board of directors was already aware of Lucent's reckless behavior like this. Nevertheless, they chose to persuade rather than eliminate Lucent.

Osian bet on that.

'They must have judged that the value of the information Lucent possesses is that high.'

The Saint Tree board members had already carried out their scam based on Lucent's re

"Yes. Because for a businessman, desire is absolutely inseparable from their soul's companion."

Delan didn't deny that fact either.

"Desire always urges businessmen on. Sometimes it becomes a driving force, but sometimes it acts as poison. What's important is the difference between being swayed by desire and wielding desire. That's the criterion that determines first-class businessmen."

And in Delan's view, Saint Tree's pigs were those who couldn't become first-class.

"Even after raising bubbles to collect money, they left data to sell it and make more money. If this is what's revealed, considering what isn't revealed, they were probably plotting to rake in money three or four times over."

"You mean, you'll use me as bait to draw them out?"

"To draw fish swimming freely outside the legal net into the fishing net, you need bait that's equally attractive."

Meaning bait excellent enough to provoke enormous greed that they can't handle.

Hearing this, Lucent could newly realize that he was such an important person in this incident.

Right. I've come this far. I can't stop now out of fear.

If I was going to stop, I should have stopped earlier.

"I'll do it. Being that bait."

Osian and Delan smiled at Lucent's bold words.

Osian with a faint smile, Delan with a cynical smile.

Of course, both smiles meant they found Lucent admirable.

Seeing their expressions, Lucent felt courage he didn't have before.

"What's the worst that could happen, death?!"

Loraine, who had been listening quietly, cut in.

"Well, dying painlessly might be better."

"Uh, um...really?"

Lucent's courage cooled rapidly.

Osian and Delan, and even Sebastian glared at Loraine.