75. It's Not a Good Day to Open a New Company

When Ryūhei was about to enter the shop, he felt a familiar presence. And a moment later…

"As I expected, it's you, Kazuha. Oh, and Captain Beidou."

Beidou raised her hand to greet him.

"Yo, it's been a while. It's kinda hard to meet you in person lately."

"It's been a day, Ryūhei." Meanwhile, Kazuha just met Ryūhei the previous day at the music festival.

"You seem to be enjoying this festival, Kazuha." Then, Ryūhei's gaze turned to Beidou. "It seems Captain Beidou tried to find me on several occasions, but never met me. Do you need anything from me?"

"Haha. I just wondered how you could come up with such wonderful stories. And I kinda want to see how you do your job."

Ryūhei held his chin, then put on a smile before replying.

"I'll consider it if you work for me in my company."

"..."

Beidou couldn't respond to Ryūhei's statement, causing Kazuha to chuckle.

"There's no way big sis will last long working for you, Ryūhei. By the way, who is this?" Kazuha pointed to the person beside Ryūhei.

Ryūhei introduced Tartaglia to the two of them. But, the moment they learned that Tartaglia was one of the Fatui Harbingers, they changed their expressions and put on their guards.

"See, this is a normal reaction when they hear "Fatui", especially "Fatui Harbinger" since they know how their behavior has earned them a bad reputation time after time. You might care about innocent people, but your subordinates didn't think so. From the conduct of those Fatui Harbingers to their subordinates, especially after I met La Signora previously, it was clear that they treat their subordinates like trash, but the Harbingers still reward them nicely. So, the Fatui would do anything as long as they got recognition from their superior or do anything out of fear." Ryūhei said to Tartaglia while pointing at Beidou and Kazuha. That was his real thought about the Fatui.

Tartaglia smiled awkwardly. He knew about that and couldn't change their mindset to wreak havoc everywhere. Moreover, he didn't have complete control over the Fatui because they weren't all his underlings.

"I'm sorry about that. I can control the Fatui under me. But, I can't do much if they're under the other Fatui Harbingers. I admit that I love fighting. However, I refrain from committing despicable acts."

"The word "despicable" is kinda contradicting with the usual works of the Fatui."

"Is that so? Hahahaha." Tartaglia didn't seem to deny Ryūhei's words. But, he didn't mind at all since what Ryūhei said was the truth.

Then, Ryūhei turned to Beidou and Kazuha.

"Take your time, you two. I need to accompany this friend of mine."

Then, Ryūhei picked up the first volume of One Piece and handed it to Tartaglia. No matter who, as long as people want to read manga and not cause trouble, that person is Ryūhei's customer. Even if that person is from Snezhnaya. Moreover, he knew what kind of person Tartaglia was. So, he didn't really need to worry about him.

Tartaglia didn't stay in the shop for too long since it would be awkward for the others, knowing that he was the infamous Fatui Harbingers.

Kazuha and Beidou said nothing while glancing at Tartaglia's disappearing figure.

Then, Beidou looked at Ryūhei.

"You're actually befriended with someone like that. I'm so astonished. Anyhow, I didn't feel that he was the same as the other Fatui Harbingers."

"Hmmm, have you met any Fatui Harbinger other than him?"

"Yep. But when I saw the guy before, I think his character is polarized with the other Fatui Harbingers."

Ryūhei couldn't agree more with Beidou's opinion. He felt the same way about Tartaglia in this case. To be honest, if Tartaglia wasn't the Fatui Harbinger, he would make a lot of friends anywhere and everywhere according to his character.

At that moment, Kazuha opened his mouth.

"By the way, Ryūhei. I've always wondered, how are you so talented at so many things? Besides your fighting style or swordsmanship, things like drawing manga and playing musical instruments quite surprised me. You never showed them before though."

"I'll leave it to your imagination. You can figure it out yourself because it's not interesting if I tell you." Ryūhei just replied with a mysterious smile.

Kazuha could only shake his head in response.

"Well, I won't ask you then. In that case, can you teach me how to play? The music you performed in the competition was magnificent and I couldn't help but want to try it myself."

"I only have 4 kinds of instruments. You can choose one of them first. I recommend you try guitar or bass first before trying the other instruments. The instruments are in my house, do you want to go?"

Kazuha looked at Beidou and She nodded in agreement. Since Beidou was also kinda interested in that, she also came along. And that day, he taught Kazuha how to play those instruments. Naturally, Kazuha couldn't do pretty well at first, just like any person who tried to learn any musical instrument for the first time. Still, Kazuha was a fast learner of music. So when Kazuha asked to play again next time, Ryūhei was willing to open the door for him.

The next two days, the man who challenged him came again.

"This time, I won't fall for your trick." *Beep* pointed at Ryūhei angrily.

But, Ryūhei just shrugged his shoulders.

"Then, let's settle it in the same place!"

*Beep* led him to the place where they dueled previously. Naturally, some people also followed them, knowing the relationship between those two.

"Are you still gonna use that wooden sword? There's a limit to looking down on others!"

Ryūhei smirked.

"You know, this place can be seen from Yujing Terrace."

"What's wrong with that? If anyone wants to see, they are free to see how I beat you black and blue."

"Eh, it seems you don't know. People from Liyue Qixing can also see this place clearly from there. Look, there is Ningguang watching us!"

When Ryūhei said that, *Beep* turned around to confirm if Ningguang was really there.

However…

"Normal Series: Normal Kick!"

Ryūhei suddenly kicked *beep* hard and sent him flying before slamming to the rock. With just a kick, *Beep* immediately KOd.

Then Ryūhei said,

"You never learn, do you? Never show your back to your enemies!"

After that, he walked back leisurely while getting strange gazes from the others.

— — — — —

September 29th.

The shop renovation is complete. And now, the shop is three stories high with a large sign board in the front saying "Shueisha Publishing Company."

The reason Ryūhei chose that name was because it was the company that published One Piece in Weekly Shōnen Jump. On the other hand, Ryūhei also planned to start that project as well. And that name also showed that the owner is from Inazuma.

Meanwhile, the new building in front of the Yanshang Teahouse became his game company, Konami. After all, Yu★Gi★Oh was developed and published by Konami. So he decided on that name as his game company.

And from that moment on, the game company started to run.

Ryūhei got some people from the Feiyun Commerce Guild, and from Xingqiu's words, they could be trusted. Moreover, he already tested them and they were quite capable. In the end, Ryūhei gave them important positions in the company.

A few days ago, Xingqiu learned about devices from printing to packing products that were out of the world. However, Xingqiu misunderstood something. He had thought that Ryūhei had gotten the device from Fontaine since that nation was most likely a country capable of creating such high-tech devices. Naturally, Ryūhei didn't deny nor confirm since Xingqiu didn't ask any more after that.

Meanwhile, the people he got from Liyue Qixing would handle sorting the cards, packaging, and accounting.

Of course, Ryūhei already thought about the cards contained in each pack. One pack at least contains 2 or 3 normal cards, 2 rare cards, and 1 super rare card. And out of 10 packs, there will be 1 ultra-rare card in it. Meanwhile, the ultimate rare card will be in 1 of 100 packs.

In short, to get good cards, one still needs good luck. And people will know how terrifying the gacha is.

Although some people will feel annoyed because they don't get a good card. Ryūhei only needed to wait for his task to finish and show the Duel Disk to the world which had virtual effects. And that might turn from worse to benefit.

Currently, Ryūhei is at Shueisha Publishing Company and creating a job vacancy poster to find editors. In addition, there was something new on the standing board.

[New novels published today.

The first volumes of Journey to The West and Romance of Three Kingdoms are out!]

The total pages of each of the two novels are about 1400 pages. And Ryūhei divided them into 7 volumes each.

The only thing he didn't like was the dark sky accompanied by rain and lightning.

'Looks like the opening day of my game company isn't that good.'

Ryūhei let out a languid sigh.