「But why to my side? If there were this much profits, I think that anybody would jump at it」
「It was just that with the conditions I wanted fulfilled, you were the easiest one to cooperate with」
This was a bluff. If Tasuku shook his head horizontally, Harold would be in a predicament since he had no other intermediaries.
But since he understood Tasuku’s personality and knew about his weakpoint, he would use his a certain thing as leverage.
「If you refuse, I just need to reach out to the 2nd or the 3rd candidate. Well, that won’t be necessary though」
「You think that I would absolutely accept this proposal?」
「Right, you have no choice but to do that」
Absolute confidence no matter what. What was it that made him think like that. Tasuku didn’t think he would just come here with a strong stance without any basis. Rather, he seemed as though he would use logic to cut off the opponent’s path of retreat beforehand.
(Wait, block the path of retreat? No way……..!)
An unpleasant bead of sweat rolled down Tasuku’s cheek.
Due to a sudden flash of insight, he connected together the scattered pieces and formed an answer. As soon as he reached that answer, chills to the extent of freezing his spine ran through Tasuku.
「You realized?」
That voice which carried an ominous sharpness as though it were the scythe of the Death God, struck Tasuku’s ears.
「……….Were you anticipating this situation from the beginning?」
「So what? Would it change your answer?」