After that, the market will plummet, so we will have to sell it right away and get rid of it quickly, but that could be a successful starting point for independence from the Kaisa Group. Chase was silent for a moment, wondering what he was thinking. But I was sure he would take this acquisition positively. I sipped the strawberry latte Chase had made me through a straw and chuckled.

That’s a company you’re going to take over anyway.

In the original, Chase worked for the Kaisa Group for a while, and then returned to Arteon after his mother passed away. It was about a year later, and at the time, Chase lamented that it would have been much better if he had acquired Tesati a little earlier. The acquisition conditions were quite unfavorable because the company’s value had already risen considerably. This is exactly what Chase in the original said, a little bit earlier.

The boom had not yet begun, and no one could have predicted the imminent super cycle of the shipping industry. As a result, Tesati, which had been on the market for over half a year, was unable to find a new owner, and the acquisition price was falling day by day.

“The shipping industry is at its lowest right now. As for Tesati… It may be small for a shipping company, but it’s a sound company. Why did the puppy think of such a good idea?”

Chase muttered as if he was surprised. Hearing that, I looked up at Chase and strained my eyes

“Are you going to keep ignoring me?”

“It’s not about ignoring, it’s about looking at it objectively.”

“Look at this… Ignoring me again!”

“If you were me, you would spend all your money to buy not a ship ticket but a shipping company, and if the reason for the purchase was a divine descent, wouldn’t you ignore it?”

“that…”

I’ll ignore it. It was amazing that Chase, who was always impatient, would listen to my nonsense this much. But I didn’t want to say that, so I turned my head away and pretended it wasn’t happening.

“Trust me one more time. Have you been living a life of deception?”

“I feel like I’m being dragged into ‘Do You Know the Way’?”

“I am braver than the Taoist priests”

“If you can’t even speak…”

“So I will or I will not…?”

“I will look into it. Do you have enough funds to acquire it?”

“I think the money left in my bank account is around 200 billion ducats.”

“hmm…”

Chase frowned, wondering if the amount was smaller than expected. There was still plenty of land compensation left, but it seemed like the scale of acquiring a whole company was different. His voice trailed off, thinking that it would be difficult. “Will it be hard?”

“When we analyzed it before, the expected acquisition price was 300 billion. Well, we can buy it for less than that.”

Does that mean it won’t fall to 200 billion? I looked gloomy for a moment, then a thought suddenly occurred to me and I shouted in a hurry.

“Why don’t we just sell the Caesar mansion?”

But Chase, as if he had heard something absurd, clicked his tongue and pressed his index finger against my forehead.

“Think about it before you speak. Why do you sell your house so often? If things go wrong, you’re really going to end up on the streets.”

“Why am I sitting on the street? Chase just needs to do well so that nothing goes wrong…”

“What do you think I am? A vending machine that gives you whatever you order?”

“If you listen to me like a vending machine…”

“Why don’t you be quiet?”

“Don’t do it!”

“Are you really not going to do it?”

“doing…”

I was so scared that I sat down with my tail hanging down. Now that I think about it, I don’t know when my tail popped out again. Maybe it was because I got excited for a moment, but when I fumbled around with my head, my ears were also perked up…

“You still can’t control your body? What are you going to do if you suddenly do this outside? Are you practicing properly? Why can’t you do anything right? Open your ears. If you fold them, you won’t be able to see inside.”

Chase, who would never miss an opportunity to harass me, quickly approached me and carefully straightened my droopy ears. Then he gently touched the pink flesh inside my ears with his fingertips. It made me feel ticklish for no reason. As I leaned my back against Chase’s chest, this time Chase grabbed my round tail. It seemed like he thought my ears and taiI were his toys.

“If I can’t sell the house, my grand plans will be disrupted. I’m really short on funds. Oh, don’t hold my back…”

“That grand plan was a bud from the start. Are you going to sell your family home to buy a company that you don’t know what’s going to happen? The moment you put it up for sale, the vice president will take it right away. Then, you’ll be blindly losing a good card that could have helped you win the race for the successor.”

“What does it matter. I’m not competing anyway.”

“Who doesn’t do what they want?”

“No, of course it’s not my heart?”

When I asked him out of shock. Chase suddenly opened his eves wide. Then, out of nowhere, he became serious. “Are you afraid of losing? You don’t have to think like that, I’ll kick out the vice president”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

“You will win. Don’t worry…”

“Don’t worry…”

I muttered in confusion, but this time he made a solemn declaration with a serious expression.

“Wait, I’ll get back everything you lost.”

“No, you don’t have to look for it…”

It seemed like I would be pushed into the race for succession.

I just want to live a peaceful and happy life, but Chase was ready to threaten the Vice Chairman to bring the entire Kaisa Group to me. If I refused, saying I wasn’t interested, he might threaten me instead of the Vice Chairman.

“Okay, if we’re going to do it, let’s do it right. I’ll make sure to check out Tesati first.”

“…”

Just a moment ago, he had been looking at a troublemaker who was trying to squander his fortune by believing in a divine revelation, but now he was burning with more motivation. Thinking that he had touched the wrong thing, he stammered and tried to stop Chase.

“You said you didn’t have enough money.”

But as if he had read my thoughts, Chase smiled with the corners of his lips curled up.

“We can negotiate. No one is predicting a shipping super cycle right now. The fact that Tesati hasn’t found a buyer yet shows that the acquisition price will go down even more.”

Chase’s long eyes curved gently before my eyes. His fingers, which had been playing with my ears, slid down and gently stroked my cheek.

“We can catch it from the bottom. Do you trust me?”

“I didn’t want to believe it…”

Words like “Do you trust me, oppa?” have never been without ominousness. I had a premonition that my second life goal of living a long and thin life might be shaken from the root and fall apart.

What if he really goes on a rampage, saying he’ll get the Kaiser Group back?

Even though I said that, Chase didn’t seem to believe my poor predictions. Instead, he trusted my intuition and analysis.

After researching the shipping industry and the situation of Tesati for several days, he seemed to have concluded that it was worth a serious try. However, he said that he wanted to think a little more carefully about when to jump into the takeover battle. He then pushed the corporate report that he had analyzed.

“It’s homework. Read it.”

“…”

Since it was an investment with my own money, I had to know.

“It’s okay. I trust Chase.”

I believed in the power of the original more than Chase, but I smiled awkwardly as I talked around. The corners of my lip, which I had forced up, trembled.

But Chase insisted on giving me the report. He even patted my head to comfort me.

“If you want to kick out the vice president, you need to know what you need to know. Read it whenever you have time. Aren’t you a good person?”

“It won’t work if I don’t do it, right…?”

“No way.”

The hand that had been pretending to be affectionate suddenly stopped and a sharp answer came back. It seemed like he really intended to make me compete for the successor or something.