Chapter 38

### **Chapter 38**

**Business**

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Ah I can feel it.

Right now the chat window must definitely be burning.

Yuria's room viewers might have come looking and are questioning it.

First shall I change the subject a bit.

I decided to bring up an old question.

"Thought about this from before but why am I the leader?"

"It's a Nogada crew, is it okay to decide the leader by fighting?"

Honestly I am a bit worried.

Because I really know nothing, me.

At first they just decided lightly so I thought there wouldn't be much since it's just a simple Nogada crew, but experiencing this incident changed my thoughts a little.

What kind of Nogada crew in the world stands above gangs.

So I just brought it up, but seemed she had no intention of changing it.

Yeah... might as well just do it.

Thinking about it I'm deaf right?

Let's just do as I originally did.

"Then I'll trust you."

"A figurehead boss without fail."

"That's good. I hate positions that require using my brain."

"I do like lying down. So use your brain a bit instead of me. I'll just do the tanking."

"Let's go with that. But why are you circling around me like that?"

Yuria answered while circling around me sitting still.

Tension is high today.

Looked okay but... felt like it was slowly time to nitpick so I tackled.

"You should sit down when eating."

While eating and chattering about trivial topics, Ajura and Yui soon came in.

Doing this again.

Didn't have anything else to say so decided to just eat.

Maybe because I just kept my mouth shut whenever I was in trouble, they didn't really say anything even if I didn't reply now.

Fits RP ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠too.

I decided to exercise my best weapon, the right to remain silent.

Yuria will handle it herself.

... Will she handle it?

Don't know because she suddenly became very playful since yesterday.

Ah.

I hastily swallowed the burrito I was chewing and opened my mouth.

"Just don't come."

Interpreting it like this.

I blankly opened my mouth.

"If it sounded like that then it must be right."

Decided to ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠yell it out.

Somehow didn't want to lose.

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Oh-oh?

Yuria fiddled with the empty burrito wrapper for no reason.

At the sudden attack, Yuria froze without realizing it.

Naturally thought he would change the subject again so she wasn't prepared, so it was an unexpected ambush.

You're not that kind of character.

What's with that line?

It had been a long time since she couldn't hear the voices of the two chattering next to her.

In a bizarrely stable heartbeat, Shin Yu-ri thought.

What should I say, what should I say back.

Tried hard to ignore the rising heat and racked her brain.

"Mm. Umm..."

I don't know.

"Then I will think as I want to think-yeees. Since you allowed it-yeees."

Yuria substituted the felt heat with zeal.

Don't know.

I'll do as I please.

Leaving the silent Nogada, whether flustered or having nothing to say, Yuria got up.

"Shall we go work-yeees?"

"... Yeep. Let's go quickly-desu!"

"Oh my should go quickly. Definitely must go."

"Should go."

What's with the reactions.

You guys lit the fire.

Nogada, what's up with your reaction too.

If you don't have confidence, don't engage.

If you attack with such a soft mindset, I'll just...!

Just...!

"Depaart to the dam."

"Let's take it easy moderately today-desu."

"Now we have to enjoy a bit too-sumda."

"First we'll see the earnings and decide."

Manual labor is fun.

Contrary to her thoughts, Yuria acted normally after that.

Of course, even right now her chest was somewhat, somewhat, but this was enough for now.

Actually because I don't know what will come out if I open my mouth.

Today is one step back.

... Is it a retreat?

Anyway!

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"I... I am riiich!!!"

"Money-kki-yat-ho-woo!!!"

"Wow money is overflowing-yeees...!"

"Is it okay to earn this easily?"

Long forgotten the initial goal of doing it while playing moderately.

They had been doing only construction for 4 hours.

It wasn't even Nogada pushing it.

"This makes no sense-sumda. Really."

"Earning really huge amount of money-desu."

"Route is pretty too so it's good-yeees. Since the manpower office is also nearby-yeees."

"Efficiency. How beautiful this is."

Just purely forgetting everything else in the fun of making money, they threw everything away and were only ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠working.

They were indeed born construction retards.

"When the next cooldown finishes, let's draft some personnel from Negotiation Impossible side and use them-yeees? About 2 people-yeees."

"Now that we roughly know the route, think it's good-sumda."

"I also agree-desu. Honestly there is a part where personnel is a bit lacking-desu."

"Let's do that to feed them construction experience points too-yeees."

Even while they were chattering, Nogada hurriedly got off and ran to the manpower office.

Dam-random construction-dam-random construction, this was the perfect routine Communication Impossible found.

But there was one loophole even in this perfection.

Namely, they couldn't monopolize random construction.

Of course it was possible if they ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠used the dark route.

When Nogada was desperately suppressing the rising evil impulse, someone appeared in front of him.

"Excuse me. Are you perhaps Mr. Nogada?"

A quite old man dressed in a suit smiled as he said that.

"I am Don Milan, a person doing business."

Don Milan's solid tone and organized way of speaking had served the role of lowering the listener's guard, but it didn't reach Nogada.

Therefore, instead of greeting, Nogada just blankly stared at the crown of his head.

Not that he suddenly wanted to break the person's head, just if he waits like this...

"Who are you-yeees?"

It was because he learned from past experience that Yuria would come out.

Humans wrote down various miracles by means of fire and tools, but their physical abilities degenerated as a result.

It was the result of selection and concentration.

Lost strong muscles but gained delicate hands capable of processing and handling tools.

The wildness peculiar to beasts faded, but the intellect to look ahead and devise became clearer.

This is the solemn logic of evolution, and Nogada also couldn't escape from that logic.

Nogada gained Yuria, but lost his social skills as a rebound.

Ah want to do construction.

Was his honest inner thought.