The Founder of the Great Financial Family

Chapter 28: Money is Faith (3)

Could a rabbit realistically go into a tiger's den and come out with money?

Even for a heartless place like Banco, it sounded like too much of a joke for them to take seriously.

"......"

Both of them stood in their places, at a loss for words.

Should they just let this absurd joke pass as a mere joke?

Or should they seriously consider whether it's a joke or the truth right here and now?

They were at a loss.

"......You mean to get it back?"

A mere banker from Banco taking on a lord of a territory?

"How?"

At the girl's natural reaction, Rockefeller still had a smile on his face.

"Well, just have to get it back, right?"

"That's a bit... too much of a joke."

Deciding it wasn't worth considering, the man standing at the threshold called out to the girl.

"Miss Isabella, let's go."

Rockefeller had spoken so matter-of-factly that even the man had doubted for a moment.

But no matter what the boy said, the idea of a rabbit going to a tiger's den to retrieve borrowed money was near impossible, so the man dismissed the boy's words as mere nonsense.

In the meantime, Rockefeller was showing a reaction to something entirely new.

"Wait, is that girl's name Isabella?"

Rockefeller showed a slight surprise upon hearing the name of the girl who had come to see him.

"Could it be that the reaction to the artifact for appraisal earlier was because of that?"

They were very small clues, but with the girl's name revealed at this moment and her subtle change in expression earlier, Rockefeller was able to guess the identity of the girl to some extent.

'Truly surprising. After all, not every story in a novel is told in the novel.'

Surprisingly enough, the girl was one of the heroines who would later be involved with the protagonist.

"Nightlord Isabella."

She was a character who had a somewhat something with the protagonist, a mage belonging to the Sinclair, known as a magical family.

"Then, is the man with her Hunting Dog Jason? It was said that during Isabella's growth, they were always together like teacher and student."

The suspicion soon turned into conviction.

They were the spitting image of the two as described in the novel.

A wizard with icy blue hair and a cold demeanor. Here, she is still young, but likely a match. And a tall, strikingly featured former instructor-turned-hound. Both are exactly as described in the novel.

The magic wielded by the girl, known as the Nightlord, was deeply associated with darkness.

'It doesn't mean she's a witch, though.'

Her magic was of darkness, but it was entirely unrelated to black magic or necromancy, which often involve demons. In the novel, she was considered to be on the 'good' side.

'To think I'd see the heroine of the novel here. I heard she traveled around the continent with a former instructor hound when she was younger. Seems like that story was true.'