Day 541-550/Day 545

Day 545 / 75th day
　"Yesterday's dinner was a lot of fun as I came home with some Waldrum Rex meat as a souvenir. A good meal is an energizing experience. The gloomy atmosphere that had been created by the previous incident had dissipated, and everyone was working energetically from this morning.
　After watching them, I took the young meat bag out for the day. This time, the destination was the store of "Manpower Cadellonier", which has been experiencing increasing trouble with our "Drunken Lance Company".
　"Manpower Caderonier" is, simply put, a money lending and staffing company.
　In the Free Trade City of Sectriad, which is a city of merchants, there is a certain amount of power because it is a business association that deals with fields that are particularly inseparable from each other. It's not that they mainly do illegal this and that like backroom organizations, but they have a lot of useful dispatchers who work diligently, but they also have a lot of belligerent personnel, so they have a strong violent side.
　This "Manpower Cadellonier" was originally based in a nearby section of the city. 　But the uprising that occurred when I crushed the underworld organization "Ia Depardos" stimulated one of the merchant associations and organizations that have begun to move to make this area their territory.
　Perhaps that's why they see our rapidly growing company as a good duck or as a troublesome enemy.
　Since they are starting to contact us directly and indirectly, it would be better to have a discussion with them at an early stage, although it would be troublesome. 　If we can talk to them, we can make a deal.
　However, the discussion ended in a short time.
　Perhaps it was because I was the representative who had become a demon, but I was licked early on. And the fact that I went to the meeting myself was not good for the outcome. As soon as the skirmish started, the representative went directly to the other side, which made them think that I had come to bow to them.
　In the event you're not sure what you're looking for, there are a number of things you can do. There is a part due to the carelessness of this side, but it can be said that this became easy to understand in this. To the threat, my reply was to crush the jaw and the limb of all the opposing sides by punching.
　If you can't discuss it calmly, simple power is still easy to understand.
　The small room turned into a horrible place where flesh and blood splattered in less than ten seconds, and people were lying here and there in pain. I didn't kill him, but it simply hurts when flesh is crushed and bones are broken. There were not many people who were ready for a full-fledged exchange of lives, and it was easy for most of them to just grunt and not move. However, only the chairman of the tiger beast business was determined to finish the job. He didn't stop moving even after breaking his limbs. We had to do this and that to neutralize him, and at the same time, we had to physically put him in a hierarchical relationship with us so that he would finally accept our requests. The most difficult part of this case was definitely the discussion with the chairman of the tiger beast business.
　After that, we received an apology and a reward from the "Manpower Caderonians", and that was the end of it for now.
　For some reason, the chairman of the tiger beastman business became my apprentice. It seems that beastmen often have a clear hierarchical relationship, and the young man with the meat bag said that this can happen when they are overwhelmed.
　It was good to have more cards to play with, but I had to think a bit about how to handle them. I had been planning to hire slaves to solve the shortage of human resources, but I decided that this would be a good opportunity.
　For now, I'll have a serious and capable person dispatched as a driver for hire to our "Vermillion Wine Spear Drunken Lance Trading Company".
　≪The "Manpower Caderonians" have a violent side, but they also have many merchants who have failed in their businesses and other people who can be used for business. If you choose people you can trust to a certain extent, it will be a good chance to improve the current situation of manpower shortage. There is no one down there who knows the details of the situation, and if they work diligently, they will be paid more than the market rate, so I hope the people dispatched there will work hard.
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“七十五日目　／　五■四■五■目”
　“ウォルドラム・レックス”の肉を手土産に帰った昨日の夕食は盛り上がった。
　美味い食事は活力に繋がる。
　先の一件でどこか暗かった雰囲気も吹き飛び、今日は朝から皆元気に働いていた。
　その様子を見た後、今日は肉袋青年を連れて出かけた。
　今回向かう先は、最近俺達の≪商会≫とトラブルが増え始めている≪マンパワー・カデロニアー≫の店舗である。
　≪マンパワー・カデロニアー≫は、簡単に言えば金貸しと人材派遣を行っている商会だ。
　商人の街である≪自由商都セクトリアード≫では特に切っても切れない分野を扱う商会なだけあって、それなりの勢力がある。
　裏組織のように非合法なあれこれを主にする訳ではないが、真面目に働く使える派遣員を多数抱える一方で、好戦的な人材もまた多数囲っているので暴力的な面も強い。
　そんな≪マンパワー・カデロニアー≫だが、元々は近くの区画を縄張りにしていた。
　しかし俺が裏組織≪イア・デパルドス≫を潰した事で起こった動乱に刺激され、この辺りを縄張りにしようと動き始めている商会・組織の一つだ。
　だからか、急成長中のウチは良い鴨か、面倒な敵に見えているのだろう。
　直接的にも間接的にも接触し始めているので、面倒だが早い段階で話し合いをした方がいい。
　話が通じるなら取引もできるだろう。
　という思惑だったのだが、話し合いは短時間で終了した。
　代表が小鬼になってしまった俺だったからか、早い話が舐められたのである。
　それにこちらから出向いたのも結果的にはよろしくなかった。小競り合いが始まってすぐ代表が直々に相手側に出向いた事で、頭を下げに来たと思われてしまったようだ。
　結果、あちらの虎系獣人商会長と、武装した威圧要因の獣人護衛が恫喝を行ってきた。
　こちらの不用心による部分もあるが、しかしこれはこれで分かりやすくはなったとも言える。
　恫喝に対し、俺の返答は相手側全員の顎や手足を殴り砕く事だった。
　冷静に話し合えないなら、やはり単純な力が分かりやすい。
　狭い室内、十秒もかからず血肉が飛び散る凄惨な場と化し、痛みで蹲る者があちらこちらに転がっている。
　殺してはいないが、肉が潰れ骨が砕ければ単純に痛い。本格的に命のやりとりをする心構えが出来ている者は少なかったらしく、大半の者は呻くだけで動けないので簡単だった。
　ただ虎系獣人商会長だけは最後まで気合いが入っていた。四肢を折っても動く事を止めなかったのだ。
　無力化の為にあれこれやると同時に物理的に上下関係を叩き込み、やっとこちらの要望を飲み込ませる事になる。
　今回の件で一番苦労したのは、間違いなく虎系獣人商会長との話し合いだった。
　その後、≪マンパワー・カデロニアー≫からは謝罪と謝礼金を貰い、一先ず手打ちとなった。
　そして何故か、虎系獣人商会長が俺の舎弟になった。
　獣人は上下関係が明確である事も多いらしく、圧倒するとこうなる場合がある、と肉袋青年が言っていた。
　使える手札が増えるのは良いとして、さてどう扱うか少し考える。
　そして人材不足の解消には奴隷を雇うつもりになっていたのだが、これもいい機会だと思う事にした。
　とりあえず、真面目で有能な人材を俺達の≪商会≫に雇われドライバーとして派遣させる。
　≪マンパワー・カデロニアー≫には暴力的な面もあるが、事業に失敗した商人など商売で使える人材も多く所属している。
　それなりに信用できそうな人材を選べば、人手不足の現状を改善できる切っ掛けにはなるだろう。
　下の方には詳しい事情を知る者はいないし、真面目に働けば相場以上の給料も出るので、派遣された者達は頑張って働いてもらいたいものだ。
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