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Riana was rebuked by the Duke of Granz when she requested for him to invest money into the idea, and Harriet had gotten into an argument with her father.
I had seen Harriet acting like a raving mad dog while with her father in the past. This time, the Duke of Saint-Ouen had probably responded to her request with something like, “My dear, that’s nonsense!” and Harriet likely threw a tantrum in response, insisting, “I don’t care! Give me the money! I can make it!”
Unfortunately, it seemed the Duke of Saint-Ouen was very strict when it came to such matters.
Just when I thought he was a doting father, he showed that he wasn’t about to simply hand over tens or hundreds of billions for such a dubious cause.
I fully understood the perspective of those who refused to give us money.
Even the ones who were tasked with making the products doubted if they would be able to make it; it was a miracle that neither had been openly cursed at by others for asking them to part with their hard-earned money in support of this endeavor.
Now that both Riana and Harriet had been turned away by their immediate families, it was obvious what the result would be if we asked some external company to invest.
I was reminded of just how extraordinary it was that the Temple had given us a budget of five thousand gold in the first place.
Mr. Effenhauser and Ms. Mustang must have worked incredibly hard behind the scenes.
In the end, I wasn’t that disappointed about not getting the money.
Approaching it as a business and trying to generate capital was less orthodox, but that method also carried inherent risks.
The House of Granz and the Duke of Saint-Ouen.
If we had secured capital from them, those powerful houses would hold stakes in Moonshine and the Power Cartridge. We would have to share our research...
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