Stock Exchange(3)
Even after Joshua left after giving words of encouragent, Bob remained slumped on the ground, not thinking about getting up.
"Why did I have the guts to do that when it wasn't even certain? I fell for it and ended up losing."
Bell reacted differently to his words.
"What are you talking about? It seed like you were pretty confident."
"Is that confidence? I just bet on the ship coming back. And that guy would profit just by the ship returning. For to make up for the loss, the cargo must be on board without fail."
"Well, he's the guild leader's younger brother. Let's trust him a bit."
"Ugh..."
Bob, who had been sighing deeply as if the ground were collapsing, began to lant himself.
"I'm the one to bla. What was I thinking, investing in a trade ship to make a fortune overnight? If I hadn't invested, I wouldn't be like this now."
"What's the point of regretting it now? It's not too late, so let's salvage what we can."
Bob had no courage to sell back his shares.
All he could do was hope that the ship would return safely.
'Please! Please! Let live!'
"It has to co back. Otherwise, I'm finished."
Bell, who hadn't seen Bob in good shape since he invested in the trade ship, was able to make a resolution once again.
Never invest in stocks.
'If I don't want to see that kind of situation, I must never invest in trade ships. Yep, that's right.'
How much ti had passed?
Bob, whose life or death was uncertain, suddenly ca to Bell's clothing store, pulling a carriage.
"Ahem!"
Bell's eyes widened at the sight of Bob, who appeared with a grand carriage sound and a pompous entrance.
'What's that?'
Wasn't the carriage he rode better than his own?
It looked quite expensive, even though he didn't know much about it.
Bob had been missing for a while, so what had happened during that ti?
Bell greeted the surprised visitor.
"Hey, what's with that carriage? Did you borrow it from sowhere?"
"Borrow? No way. Ahem! I bought one this ti."
What on earth was he talking about?
Just a while ago, he was sighing as if the ground was collapsing, but now he suddenly beca rich and ca to visit?
The clothes he was wearing looked like he had recently spent money on them.
"What on earth happened?"
Then sothing crossed Bell's mind.
It was the trade ship investnt.
"Did the Morning Glory return safely?"
At his words, the corners of Bob's mouth stretched into a wide grin.
"Hahaha! As I lived, it turned out like that."
Bob, who had gambled his life on the trade ship investnt, suddenly beca rich and ca to visit, which made Bell suspicious.
"Wait, how exactly did that happen? Did the ship return safely?"
"It did. And it ca back with a full load of cargo."
"A full load of cargo?"
Bell had a question here.
Even if the cargo was fully loaded, according to Bob's words at the ti, it was barely enough to break even.
But the current situation seed too far from what he said back then.
"Didn't you say that even if the ship returned, you'd only break even? How did this happen?"
At that, Bob nodded his head in affirmation.
"That's what I thought. I thought I'd be really lucky just to break even. But it turned out not to be the case."
Bob started explaining the reason to Bell.
"Well, I thought the profit would be about four tis, but it wasn't."
"So, you made more profit than that?"
Bob grinned.
"That's right. Thanks to our pirates working so hard, the price of magic powder skyrocketed. So it didn't just jump four tis, it jumped twenty tis."
"Heh..."
If it was four tis, it would be just enough to break even, but with the magic powder's price jumping twenty tis, Bob made a profit five tis greater than breaking even.
"If I hadn't ssed around in the middle, I could've left at least twenty tis more."
Painful mories of the past.
It's all in the past.
What mattered to Bob was only the present.
"It's a sha."
"Wow... So you made five tis the profit now?"
"That's right. That's how it happened."
It was hard not to feel envious when others were doing well.
Bell, who had been buying Bob food and drinks out of pity just a few days ago, sohow felt a headache coming on.
'How did it turn out like this? No matter how unpredictable life can be, isn't this too much? How did it lead to a twenty-fold profit...'
"It's great. You did well."
Bell, who didn't really an it, congratulated Bob, who was holding his head high and speaking with a booming voice.
"Hahaha! I'm in such a good mood today. I'll buy the drinks tonight. Let's have a fancy drink!"
With a laugh, Bob disappeared, leaving Bell with mixed feelings.
He had been squandering his wealth on things that didn't suit him, while his friend Bob had beco several tis richer than him by betting his life on a trade ship investnt.
Just looking at the carriage Bob rode made Bell's stomach ache, and he couldn't concentrate on his work.
'Ah... life. St. John...'
Now it was Bell, who had beco relatively poor, who had to find his life, not Bob.
Bell spent a few days without appetite and suddenly made up his mind.
That's right, it's a life that you only live once.
He would also try investing in a trade ship.
'Yeah, I'll try it too. Why should Bob be the only one to succeed? If St. John hasn't abandoned , I can hit the jackpot too.'
And so, Bell invested all his remaining wealth in the Morning Glory, which was about to set sail for the New Continent again.
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