Chapter 111
"Don't worry and prepare to focus on your studies now!"
Pastel closed the door after sending the upperclassman away.
The corners of her mouth crept up.
She turned sharply to the black-haired girl.
"Ellie! Ellie! Did you hear? It's Craft Trading Company's new business! A righteous business saving the engineering department that bet their entire fortune on new technology and was ruined!"
An academy should indeed burn with passion for studies!
It was a proud task to revive the engineering department and inspire an academic atmosphere.
"To acquire the bankrupt trading company?"
"Yes yes! That way we can save the seniors who invested shares and went bust, and take over the magic stone fuel business! No!"
Pastel spread her arms and spun around spin spin. Her white skirt hem spread out.
"Originally the trading company side bought magic stone fuel, so if we become that trading company we shouldn't do the fuel business the existing way! Then, we can create trading partners! Since there must be many demon realm trading companies using construction golems, we'll supply fuel to them!"
Spin spin spin spin.
Supplying fuel at fair prices to trading companies devoted to demon realm development. It's a benevolent action raising minimum living standards to save the poor.
Pastel already felt proud even before starting. She stopped spinning and pulled out a fountain pen from her front pocket.
She held it up and the gloss shimmered.
Fountain pen friend!
"Technological progress solving the inconvenience of quill pens needing to be dipped in ink! I'll improve people's living standards by laying railways at the pinnacle of that!"
Ellie quietly stared.
"You really don't distinguish between demons and humans."
"What?"
To begin with, there's only a difference in pointy ears in appearance.
"Nothing. More importantly."
Ellie gathered the documents the senior left behind. She examined the expected price item of the trading company put up for sale by the imperial bank then handed them over.
"Do you have money?"
Oing.
Pastel looked at the sale price.
Zeros all over.
Pink eyes went round.
"I don't have money!"
Uwaa.
Come to think of it, I have no money now!
I scraped together all my assets and credit, turned them into benevolent trade goods, and sent them on airships to the demon realm!
"Ellie! I don't have money!"
She clutched her head. When she shook her head in despair, the pink hair demon tied in small twin tails fluttered.
Despair.
Despair.
Must I watch the Pure Engineering Department go bankrupt like this?
Pink hair slapped Ellie slap.
Ellie rubbed her cheek then placed the documents on the desk that the other couldn't receive, lost in her own world.
"Don't use even liquid assets for business. You'll go bankrupt while making a profit that way."
"Thanks for the advice!"
But it's not enough to save Pastel despairing at the dark future of the engineering department.
Someone please lend me money...
A knock sounded.
Uwee.
Pastel stopped her despair despair and turned to the door. She hurriedly fixed her hair.
Ellie opened the door to greet the guest.
"Chancellor, is something wrong?"
"It's not a big matter, just a private visit. Is Marquis Craft here, oh she is! Junior! I've come!"
Professor no Chancellor Horace entered. As if he changed his magician's robe after being elected acting chancellor, he was wearing a luxurious robe with a strong brand feeling.
"Chancellor!"
Pastel's expression brightened.
"Haha! Chancellor! Is that all our relationship amounts to? How disappointing."
"Ah! I'm sorry, Senior! Please sit here! Ellie! The usual!"
Pastel tidied up the slightly messy seat with documents. Chancellor Horace sat down leisurely.
"Unlike the approaching winter season, today's weather was good. I'm on my way back from a walk cum patrol. Junior, how about taking a walk in the sun instead of being cooped up indoors like this?"
"That would be nice, but my passion for students doesn't cool. Just now I consulted on the Pure Engineering Department's embarrassing situation."
"You mean that? I heard too. The trading company supporting the department went bankrupt?"
"As expected of Senior! You always listen to student news!"
So capable!
"Of course! Of course! But not more than my junior with many friends! It's a friendliness I can't match!"
Mentioning the new inspection department created by gathering friend friends.
"Ah! Is that so?! Ahaha!"
They shared laughter amicably.
Then Chancellor Horace's expression became quite serious.
"Well, I came for that matter."
Oing.
"Recently, as demon energy concentration in the atmosphere increased, sky creature habitats changed and sky routes changed several times. Trading companies engaged in trade were greatly affected by that. Then when the imperial bank lowered credit ratings this time, many trading companies finally couldn't hold on and defaulted."
Huk.
A serious matter.
He said it was a private visit but it was a serious matter.
An excellent chancellor who thinks of public matters privately.
"Then if the Sky Island administration doesn't take quick measures, won't Sky Island's economy shake? Chain defaults between trading partners, large-scale unemployment occurring, public safety worsening, and malicious smuggling becoming active."
That Sky Island administration is Sky Island Academy that inherited the position of the dissolved Sky Island Governor's Office.
It wasn't just the Pure Engineering Department's problem.
"Looking at the budget proposal, there's a lot of reserved budget without authority as the chancellor position was vacant. It seems we can save major trading companies by circulating those funds."
"That's fortunate!"
Phew.
"But it's too uncomfortable to support like this. For trading company heads to keep their positions despite mismanaging their companies! Then won't they do it again later! Should we bail them out again then? Huh!"
Chancellor Horace spoke in some kind of acting tone.
"What does the student council think?"
Pastel was puzzled~ not understanding the intent.
"It is a bit uncomfortable for management failures to keep their positions? There are risks too."
"That's right!"
Chancellor Horace smiled brightly.
"So I'm thinking of rescuing defaulted major trading companies with Sky Island's budget while changing management to trustworthy people!"
Trustworthy managers.
Who is the most trustworthy person.
Me, myself.
Huk.
Pastel's cheeks reddened.
"What a coincidence! I was trying to save the trading company supporting the Pure Engineering Department purely out of goodwill! So I already prepared a thorough plan! There was just a tiny problem before implementation!"
The really tiny problem of not having money.
"But now the administration already made acquisition plans and even needs to find suitable managers!"
Someone might think we planned this together!
Wronged!
Actually I could just decline, but Pastel was already prepared to be wronged.
Wronged expert Pastel...!
Chancellor Horace smiled even more brightly. His expression said it's doubly good since it's a good choice publicly though spoken of privately.
"Haha! What a coincidence! There was already someone prepared to manage! And an experienced person who excellently led a trading company at that!"
"It's awkward for me to say but..."
Pastel twisted her body feeling embarrassed.
"Pastel is an excellent choice!"
Surprisingly true!
"I actively agree! There's no need to consider other candidates! Hahaha!"
"That's right! Ahaha!"
Pastel was able to decide on closed-door personnel without any dissent. It was a capable decision with no personal feelings involved.
The chancellor left after a while.
The harmonious atmosphere calmed down.
Pastel sat on the sofa and covered her cheeks. She twisted her body with reddened cheeks.
"Heehee, heehee."
Even though I never planned it.
I didn't intend this at all.
Somehow it ended up like this.
How will others see it.
"Uwaa! I'm wronged!"
But I really am wronged.
I really had no thoughts at all!
Pastel really really felt wronged as she thought about it.
"Ellie! I really really really had no thoughts at all! It's sincerity with really used 3 times!"
This much is the difference between a real friend and a really really really friend!
Huk.
Really really really friend.
Seems like a totally super ultra friend.
"The money problem is solved."
Ellie neatly organized the closed-door consultation documents tap tap.
"With major trading companies and railway business too, student council work will become too much even if you mobilize Craft Trading Company."
"Huh? Is that so?"
Well that's true.
Should I increase student council personnel soon.
It was difficult to increase subordinates because there were slightly guilty parts as an economic criminal, but now I've become a dignified authority figure!
Pastel picked out suitable personnel from her mental friend ranking.
Leonard was appropriate personnel with good sense despite being slightly minus due to first impression, but he's already appointed as secret inspection department head...
"And so Melissa and Elsior have joined the student council! Everyone welcome! Welcome! Welcome!"
Pastel introduced Melissa and Elsior in front of the existing student council.
Melissa put her hand on her chest and gently bowed her head.
"I'm Melissa Camelot. I joined the student council at Pastel's request. I look forward to working with you."
"Camelot and Bellamont."
Ellie who had been doing all the office work alone was satisfied.
"Excellent personnel."
Nod nod!
Pastel approached the dazed Dustin. She poked his side poke poke. Dustin flinched flinch flinch.
"You've escaped being the youngest! Congratulations! From now on you can pass appropriate miscellaneous work to juniors as a senior!"
"Huh? Pass on?"
Melissa bowed her head.
"Senior, I'm inadequate so please guide and teach me."
Dustin, who was just the second son of a baronial family, had an expression of being extremely burdened by the southern warlord's humility.
His gaze turned to the silver-haired girl right next to him. Elsior stared back blankly then said one word.
"Weak."
Dustin was doubly burdened. His gaze turned to Pastel, avoiding the so-called juniors with burdensome gazes. It was a look seeking salvation.
Pastel, who had no intention of sorting out traffic since Dustin was still field staff anyway, smiled brightly.
"Get along well!"
Nod nod!