When Arthe turned her gaze that way, Mel spoke up in surprise.

“He’s been clinging like that since before we came…… What could it be about?”

It was when Arthe also paid attention to the conversation between the two men at Mel’s curious voice.

“Don’t be like that and just look once. I’m sure you’ll like it.”

“Well, I said no! Some unheard-of beverage……”

‘……Beverage?’

Arthe, who had been blankly watching the argument between the two men, opened her eyes wide at the word she casually heard.

And Arthe’s eyes, who hurriedly examined the two men, widened even more.

“Please just taste it. I beg you.”

“Well, we’re not interested!”

A light brown-haired man was struggling and talking to the manager.

「Ah, that straw-haired young man? The one without substance who’s flighty?」

As those words suggested, the man was a young man with straw-like light brown hair and a thin body that looked somehow lacking in confidence.

‘No way, surely not……’

It was when Arthe was hesitating with a ‘surely not’ feeling.

“Oh my! There he is, Miss. That’s the gentleman.”

The grandmother, who had followed Arthe out the door, pointed at the man and said,

“The gentleman who brought those Rania goods!”

Instantly, Arthe’s eyes flashed as if she had spotted prey.

***

Eventually, the man who was coldly driven away by the manager was turning his steps from Newport House and walking powerlessly.

“Wait! You there! Wait a moment!”

“Yes? What……”

At the dignified but gentle voice he suddenly heard, the light brown-haired man turned to look at Arthe.

As expected, the man’s expression was dejected as if his conversation with the manager hadn’t gone as intended.

Arthe looked at his expression as if he had lost the world and took a breath to compose herself. Then she suddenly blurted out one sentence.

“I’ll buy it!”

“……Pardon?”

Around the time the man answered bewilderedly, not properly understanding Arthe’s words,

Questions flew from Arthe’s mouth in succession.

“What you’re selling, is it coffee by any chance?”

“That’s correct, but……”

My goodness!

‘It really was Newport House!’

As if rewarding Arthe’s efforts of stirring up various trading companies and reaching Newport House, coffee appeared at a perfect timing, and Arthe wanted to embrace the man before her and dance.

“Um, but how do you know about coffee…… Ah, are you perhaps a foreigner?”

“This coffee, did you contract it directly yourself, sir?”

“Yes, I personally went to great lengths to contract it…… But what brings this about……”

When a beautiful lady he had never encountered before didn’t answer his questions but threw consecutive questions at him, the flustered man bewilderedly finished his answer and scratched his head.

“May I see it once?”

The man, who had hesitated for a moment, soon nodded.

Though it was bewildering, this was the first person to show interest in coffee.

The man took out coffee beans in a bottle, ground coffee beans, and even liquid extract he had brewed just in case from his bag in succession.

Arthe visually confirmed the state of the beans and carefully smelled them.

‘This is the scent!’

Arthe’s expression brightened even more. Moreover, the quality was much better than the coffee she had known in her previous life.

“It’s good coffee.”

“Yes. It’s the highest grade even in the Kingdom of Rania.”

“How about it. Is it possible to maintain this quality? Ah, more than that, what about distribution contracts?”

Arthe questioned the man as if interrogating him.

While the man, flustered by the sudden development, was stammering, Mel, who had followed in surprise and anxiety, called Arthe urgently.

“Um, Miss. Perhaps you should calm down a bit……”

Only then realizing she had been too hasty, Arthe coughed and lowered her voice.

“……I was suddenly rude upon first meeting. I apologize.”

“It’s, it’s fine, but…… Who might you be?”

At the surprised man’s question, Arthe calmly opened her mouth.

“Shall we go inside and talk?”

‘For making money, business is definitely the best after all. Moreover……’

Toward the man who still looked bewildered, Arthe smiled brightly.

‘Wouldn’t a business that would have become someone else’s cake originally be the best?’

***

Baron Oren Denby of the Oren Trading Company.

Oren, who had poured all of his family’s fortune into the coffee business, absolutely didn’t want to admit that he had failed.

At the very beginning when he started the business, he too had great ambitions.

For that reason, he had visited powerful nobles to make business proposals, but after continuous rejections, he had lowered his sights and been visiting tea houses and dessert shops for months.

However, as continued rejections broke even small hopes, and he was about to truly give up,

Suddenly some beautiful noble lady appeared.

Just when he wondered if debt collectors had finally come.

The man who followed Arthe in bewilderment had his eyes widen even more the moment he saw where the carriage had arrived.

“Fr, Fr……”

“Ah, it seems my introduction is late. Such discourtesy. I am Lady Arthe von Frey of House Frey.”

“……Frey!”

The Duke of Frey family.

Hearing the name of House Frey that appeared out of nowhere, the man’s eyes widened once again.

‘Oh dear…… At this rate, won’t that man’s eyes pop out?’

While Mel was having idle worries looking at the man’s eyes that had already grown as large as they could, the man couldn’t decide whether to believe this situation or not.

Feeling slightly sorry at that sight, Mel spoke up.

“Um, could you tell us your name?”

“Ah, I apologize! I am Oren Denby of the Oren Trading Company!”

“Good. Mr. Oren. Let’s go into the reception room.”

Oren, who arrived at the Frey family’s reception room, couldn’t suppress the exclamations that kept bursting out and kept repeating only the words ‘ducal family.’

At that sight, Mel looked at Oren and laughed as if it was amusing, but nothing reached the ears of the shocked Oren.

The surprising events didn’t end there.

Oren, who had been making expressions as if he might collapse from shock, nearly fell over once again at Arthe’s words that burst out after arriving at the ducal family.

“What? You want to invest in our trading company?”

“Yes, that’s correct. I’ll invest any amount of money. However,”

Gulp—

The sound of Oren swallowing echoed through the reception room, but Arthe, easily ignoring this, continued speaking.

“From now on, I want the Oren Trading Company and the Frey family to monopolize all coffee distributed in the Sable Empire. Would that be possible?”

“Mo, monopolize, you say?”

“Yes, support is possible to any extent.”

“Uh…… That’s……”

What on earth was this about.

At the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that suddenly came, Oren couldn’t bring himself to answer and stammered.

Then Arthe, tilting her head, opened her mouth.

“Would the Oren Trading Company’s capabilities be insufficient? If so, I’ll work with another trading company.”

“No, no! It’s just so unbelievable that……”

At the resolute, almost knife-like answer that didn’t give even a moment’s chance to hesitate, Oren hurriedly replied.

“If it’s monopoly, you don’t need to worry. Though our Oren Trading Company is a small trading company, these are things we brought after personally going to great lengths to make an exclusive contract with a trading company in the Kingdom of Rania.”

‘Hmm…… Did he make the contract looking only at marketability?’

To make an exclusive contract when the business’s success wasn’t even certain. He’s a reckless man, but his eye for recognizing good products and decisiveness seem decent enough.

‘That level of recklessness can be filled with the family’s capital.’

Moreover, even though he was the owner of a small trading company, Oren was also a seasoned merchant.

When he thought the opportunity had come, he took out materials from his bag that clearly organized coffee raw materials’ samples, product value, cost, import routes, contract conditions, etc.

As Arthe thoroughly reviewed the documents Oren had taken out, House Person came to mind in her head again.

Feeling uneasy for no reason, Arthe added one more word out of concern.

“Baron Oren. If any family approaches saying they want to distribute coffee from now on, please tell me immediately.”

“……”

‘Huh? What’s that silence about?’

It was when the anxious Arthe urged once more. Suddenly Oren’s eyes began to redden. And.

“Actually, a few days ago, a servant from House Person came by. And told me to hand over the exclusive contract rights for almost nothing.”

“So…… surely you didn’t hand it over?”

At Arthe’s question, Oren suddenly raised his head to look at her. At that momentum, it was when even Arthe flinched without knowing.

“How could I! How much hardship I went through! Going to that hot country and sweating profusely to bring coffee beans by spending all my fortune!”

“Um…… are you perhaps crying?”

Soon Oren began to wail.

“I even put my house up as collateral! I haven’t even gotten married yet!”

Flustered by the grown man’s wailing, Arthe comforted Oren while saying.

“Pl, please stop crying. Hasn’t a better opportunity come?”

“Those people, when I refused the contract, they came out in a semi-threatening manner. Moreover, they put pressure on other shops too……”

“They put pressure, what do you mean by that?”

At Arthe’s question, Oren sniffled and poured out the circumstances so far.

“There were shops that showed interest in coffee, but they quickly backed out saying they couldn’t do it. House Person definitely put pressure on them. At this rate, I was about to hand over the business to the marquis family for nothing.”

There was a reason why coffee wasn’t known in the previous life, but eventually the marquis family monopolized coffee.

Seeing Oren’s pitiful state, Arthe felt heat rising to her head.