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“Hmm. Is he asleep?”
Tap, tap.
“Urgh…”
“Reinhart. Wake up.”
Someone was waking me from the Sleep spell.
Since I had been forced into sleep, I was able to regain consciousness quickly.
“Uh… Oh. Vertus?”
It was Vertus who had woken me. Charlotte had visited me immediately after the incident, checking up on me and then leaving after she was satisfied that I was okay, but Vertus hadn’t shown up until now.
“Sorry for waking you, but I don’t have much free time.”
It was still night outside, which implied that it was still the same day. Although Vertus said he was sorry, his face didn’t show it at all.
He sat down in the chair opposite me, folding his arms.
“Do you have some kind of illness that requires you to regularly get into trouble like this?”
“Not exactly…”
I’d only picked the fight with the Orbis Class because of the achievement points on offer.
Of course, I was the one who had acted, so I couldn’t exactly blame anyone else. It seemed Vertus had meant to come check on me earlier but had been tied up with other matters.
“This is about that business matter,” he said. “The approval has come through.”
“Oh… really?”
“I was going to leave it in your hands, but seeing your current state, you don’t seem fit to handle it. And with the disciplinary committee coming up, you won’t have time either, will you?”
“… Probably not.”
“So, should I assign it to the club, then?”
“That sounds good.”
My role was just to bring the project this far; the Rotary Club would handle the specifics from here on out. Even if I were in good shape, I didn’t have the skills required to manage the project on a daily basis. Securing the necessary investments and managing the other various details were never supposed to be my responsibilities.
Vertus’s help should be enough to ensure that the new Rotary Club business would proceed smoothly. Although we had to give up ten percent of the profits, it was manageable.
In fact, giving Vertus ten percent wasn’t a loss; it was actually...
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