“Hmm. Okay, I’ll ask for advice. That’s a good idea.” Cherno said.
“…..”
“Well then, little raccoon, I have one more question for you.”
“Huh?”
“That land we were almost tricked into buying. What would you do with that worthless land?”
“Do with it?”
“If you put that land up for sale for cheap right now, someone might buy it. Would you do that?”
“No! Don’t do that!”
Sephiel raised both her hands and waved them.
“Don’t do it.”
“Why?”
“Because it makes mowney!”
“This worthless land?”
“Yeah!” Sephiel laughed.
“I know how to make it valuable.”
Sephiel said, lifting the corners of their mouth.
‘Have you ever heard of it? <Even a dried squid gives water if you squeeze it> Part 2.’
‘I’ve got a really precise plan.’
Sephiel waved her tiny hands, signaling.
“Come here. Let me whisper.”
Cherno leaned in, and as Sephiel whispered, his eyes widened.
“What? You’re telling me to do that?”
“Yup!”
Sephiel said confidently.
“This will definitely make mowney! And ywou have to do it exactly the way I say!”
Chernno furrowed his brows.
But as Sephiel explained more, he nodded and even exclaimed, “Impressive.”
“Noel!”
Soon, Cherno called Noel in a hurry.
When Noel, who had been waiting in the next room, came, Cherno said.
“Send word to the Grand Duke’s castle. It’s about the little raccoon’s whereabouts.”
“Shall I tell them to come pick up the Miss Baby?”
“No. I need this child.” Cherno said firmly.
“For the time being, the little raccoon will stay in Volun and accompany me on various errands. She’ll be coming home quite late, so let them know.”
Noel’s wife, who had followed him in, widened her eyes in shock.
“Oh my, Berry would faint if she heard this.”
Noel nodded dumbfounded.
“That’s right.”
* * *
Over dinner in the hotel room, Sephiel whispered to Cherno:
“I want to see an amusement payrk!”
“An amusement park?”
“I’m going to build the biggest, coolest amusement payrk on Earth!”
At first, Cherno thought, ‘Is Sephiel just being childish?’
It was just so absurd.
“An amusement park? It costs a lot of money to build something like that. Do you think business is child’s play?”
“Oh come on. Listen, Gyandpa. This’ll be a huge, wondeyrful place that even adults would want to go to.”
Sephiel spoke of her grand plan.
A huge flower garden and sparkling amusement rides that are lit day and night.
And luxurious hotels and shopping malls.
“And a giant candy house! I love candy houses!”
The vivid description of a paradise came out of Sephiel’s mouth with all the charm of a child.
“Sounds great, little raccoon. But even if you build all that, the land itself is worthless. There’s a gate, sure, but only about 100 people can come through it each day. To be exact, 100 can exit and 100 can enter from the other side—so, 200 in total. Still, are you really planning to run a business with that few customers?”
Cherno naturally questioned Sephiel, despite being captivated by the wild idea.
Sephiel answered without any hesitation.
“So what?”
“What do you mean, so what?”
“If 100 peovple can come in through the gate each day, then we only need 100 custowmers a day!”
“……”
At that moment, Cherno couldn’t help but frown.
But he started to focus again on Sephiel’s words that followed.
“Don’t you get it, Gyandpa?”
“……”
“A paradise on earth where only 100 people can enter per day.”
At that moment, Sephiel’s speech was a little clearer than usual.
This is because Sephiel tries to speak important words as clearly as possible.
“We sell tickets! Only 100 people can come through the gate each day!”
“Hmm…. I guess that would make people really want to come. So you’re saying… sell the tickets at a high price?”
Sephiel nodded.
“Gyandpa. There are a lot of rich people in the world.”
“…….”
“There is only one thing that rich people want the most.”
Sephiel spoke with emphasis, spreading out one hand like a maple leaf.
“Rarity.”
That was the magic key to attracting money.
It was all about the fundamentals of economics that Sephiel had learned through books.
“Yes, that’s all well and good. But, no matter how much you sell tickets for, an amusement park that only accepts 100 people a day won’t make a profit.”
“That’s not all!”
Sephiel shook her head.
“There are other ways to get there besides the gate!”
At that moment, Cherno finally caught on. A chill ran down his spine, and his fingertips tingled.
As a merchant, he had a sixth sense—he knew instantly when something clicked.
“Right. You’re right. The gate’s instant, but with a carriage, it’s only six or seven hours from Volun.”
“Yup yup. That’s it.” Sephiel said.
“People will compete to be one of those 100 each day.”
“And even if they don’t make it into the top 100, they’ll come and visit on their own by carriage. And since they’ll need accommodations to stay at the amusement park, a tourist area will emerge. Yeah, why didn’t I think of that? There was also a way to develop it into a resort area.”
“Even if it takes more than sepen hours, peovple will still come. Because paradise is that kind of place!”
Sephiel said, clenching her small fist and bouncing on her butt.
* * *
And Cherno called Noel in a hurry.
When Noel heard the plan, he was initially shocked, but then slowly came to understand.
“It definitely… makes sense.”
“Right?”
“Yes, Master. Even if it’s more than seven hours by carriage, people will line up to come.”
“And it must have great resort facilities.”
“Since we bought the land at a cheap price, we will have enough money for development. The most important things in a development project are land price and labor cost.”
“And we’ll be able to hire plenty of workers, too.”
“And of all the companies in the world, there are only a few, including ours, that can handle something like that.”
Sephiel listened with her ears perked up, then nodded her head with satisfaction.
‘Good. He understands business clearly.’
Sephiel nodded again.
“But wait, are you saying this whole plan came from Miss Baby?”
“Yup. This genius little raccoon right here.”
Sephiel smiled brightly and added,
“But this is a secret just for Gyandpa! Because I like Gyandpa.” She said with mischievous intent.
“So you have to let me into the candy house.”
Cherno, taken aback by Sephiel speaking so childishly, let out another sigh of disbelief.
“This little raccoon… why are you so obsessed with the candy house? I guess I’ll just have to buy you a whole bunch of sweets.”
“Yay!”
Sephiel raised her arms and cheered.
* * *
After that, time passed in the blink of an eye.
“So, first, we sell exclusive entry passes and ride tickets to only 100 people a day. Then later, we allow general admission too.”
“The spinning ryide with the shiny hworses! I wanna try it!”
“I’ll ride in a big teacup! And then it’ll just go up into the sky.”
Sephiel already knew a lot about the Golden Dragon Company from reading the records.
The main product of the Golden Dragon Company is exporting magic stones. High-quality ones, too. With an exceptionally long lifespan.
‘Nobody knew where they were being mined…’
‘So that’s it. They came from the hidden Principality of Remdragon.’
‘Top-tier magic stones for sure. But they intentionally didn’t increase mining volume.’
‘Grandpa chose to only mine and sell a limited amount from his land in Remdragon, without relying on its full power, to keep the company afloat. That land probably belongs to Grandpa within Remdragon. Just enough, sold in moderation.’
Now that Sephiel thinks about it, there is something suspicious.
The top global seller of magic stones was the Allegro State Trading Company.
Although the Golden Dragon Company never beat Allegro in volume and thus couldn’t win in the magic stone market, Allegro must’ve still found them a thorn in the side.
Because they sold magic stones of a different, superior quality.
‘That’s right. The magic stones produced by Remdragon are of much better quality than those sold by Allegro.’
So, Sephiel couldn’t help but be suspicious of the Golden Dragon’s downfall in her previous life.
‘Yeah. The Allegro State Trading Company always destroys its business rivals, one way or another.’
Philux just happened to target the Golden Dragon Company.
While it might have seemed like Philux just happened to target the Golden Dragon Company, after the bankruptcy incident, he wasn’t punished at all.
In fact, Allegro helped cover up his tracks.
‘It stinks. Totally reeks.’
Philux, who bankrupted a rival company.
Grandpa, who gave up and left the company.
King Wittegar III, who benefited without lifting a finger and praised Philux.
Sephiel could see the whole picture of her past life.
‘Yeah. This time, Grandpa’s company won’t fall.’
‘I will make sure that the company does not go bankrupt.’
Sephiel wanted to shrug her shoulders.
And Noel had been right.
The technology to make that resort real, the spirit of adventure, and above all, the massive capital needed—Only the Golden Dragon Company has the means to make it happen.
“It’s a truly brilliant idea. How in the world did you come up with it, Miss Baby?”
Sephiel swallowed the chocolate chip she was eating.
‘I cheated from the future.’
That was the honest truth.
Sephiel, who had become evil, no longer hesitated to use information from the future, even if it was business information.
‘A national amusement park project of enormous scale. This will be a project carried out by the Allegro royal family in the future.’
The place where it would be built… was none other than the land where Cherno had been scammed— A place called <Mutrah>.
After the Golden Dragon Company goes bankrupt, the land Mutrah, which was purchased through fraud, is naturally reduced to collateral and put up for auction.
And the person who won the bid for the land was none other than Wittegar.
He did it to hide the fact that the scammer was his own brother.
Later, a huge amusement park was built there.
‘But hey, technically it’s not entirely unfair. Because the person who gave them the idea in the first place… was me, when I was eighteen.’
Sephiel is a cursed genius born into the Allegro royal family.
But even before her, there were other royals who met unfair ends in history.
One of them had written down ideas and thoughts in a diary.
‘And that diary was kept in the prison where I grew up.’
Sephiel read all the numerous books in that prison.
One of them was a diary written in five ancient languages of different races, encrypted like a code.
‘And of course, I translated it. Because I’m a genius too.’
She had translated it for fun back then, and among its contents was:
<Oh, an amusement park? Now that’s a truly genius idea. Hm. A large-scale tourist development…Sounds like a plan worth trying.>
The idea of selling daily admission to only 100 people?
That had come from Wittegar, Sephiel’s father.
‘As a result, the amusement park became extremely popular.’
It was no surprise that the amusement park, which was a huge hit, brought in a lot of money for the Allegro royal family.
‘But this time, that amusement park… I’ll gift it to the house that took me in.’
Sephiel nodded with determination.
Sephiel didn’t have money, so she wasn’t going to establish the amusement park herself anyway.
‘I’ll take this opportunity to give it to Grandpa and be nice to him.’
To Sephiel, being favored meant having a “certificate of not being kicked out.”
‘Hehe, now even if Erga doesn’t like me and tries to kick me out, Grandpa will protect me, right?’
Sephiel wanted to laugh out loud.
‘Besides, I’ve got more than one hidden agenda, huh?’
In her past life, Sephiel had desperately wanted to go to that amusement park full of dreams.
That was because every royal except for Sephiel had been there and wouldn’t stop talking about what a magical paradise it was.
‘A candy house. Teacup rides! A sparkling flower field with fireworks!’
She wondered what it would be like if an amusement park opened in Remdragon in this life.
‘If it went well, it’d be considered a huge achievement.’
‘Maybe I can go to that amusement park for free for the rest of my life?’
It would be shameless to demand that much.
That was Sephiel’s small, secret ambition.
“Miss Baby?”
Sephiel woke up from her thoughts.
Noel was looking at her.
“Mmh. How did I come up with the idea for the amusement payrk? Um… I guess it’s just because I like Gyandpa, and I imagvined a fun place we could play togetheyr!”
“Wow, As expected of our genius Miss Baby.”
‘Hehehe!”
Noel clapped his hands and almost praised Sephiel, who puffed up with pride.
“Huh?”
Then Cherno picked Sephiel up and placed her on his shoulder.
“Let’s go. There’s a ton of work to do. Since it’s your idea, you should watch the process.”
“Yes!”
Sephiel nodded vigorously. And from then on, things progressed at a rapid pace.
* * *
