Chapter 214 - Chapter 214: Aurora ⑤
Before Aurora began the commodity futures trading, she had one concern.
It was what would happen if someone inappropriately drove up the prices.
If it were foodstuffs like wheat, the lives of the commoners would be thrown into chaos.
And that concern became reality.
Viscount Karsh, who sought to replace the Sowell family within the Western Faction, had been hoarding and cornering copper, driving the prices up.
While she felt it was vexing, she also had a desire to see how Steve would respond.
And she was able to see it immediately.
First, grasping the opponent's financial power.
Then, spreading false information just before the final trading days to call for selling.
After that, deliberately revealing that it was false information, forcing Viscount Karsh to take positions beyond his means in the next contract month.
Finally, a deluge of physical goods sold to bankrupt him.
Reading the psychology of the speculators participating in the market and manipulating them with such a brilliant technique, she admired it.
And when she heard this plan, Aurora felt anxiety.
She felt that unless she did something beyond Steve's plan, she would be abandoned by this boy.
It was similar to the feeling of putting on makeup and dressing up so as not to be abandoned by a lover.
At this moment, Aurora was already in love with Steve.
Ah, so this is how you turn human psychology against itself.
If I could produce copper infinitely, could I have driven the opponent to push beyond their limits and go bankrupt in the same way?
She reflected that she had become too accustomed to brute force and had never considered a method that drove the opponent to ruin themselves.
Viscount Karsh could have ended this market manipulation while still making a profit.
However, he was lured by the bait prepared by Steve and mistakenly chose the wrong time to withdraw.
Aurora was drawn to Steve, who had orchestrated such a maneuver.
"I will bring Charles Valier over."
When Aurora voiced her thought, Harry was surprised.
"Even if we don't move now, isn't the victory already decided?"
"Yes. But if we do that, future historians will write that it was enough for that boy alone. It won't do unless it is written that further victory was obtained because I existed."
Aurora became irritated at Harry, who could not understand her thoughts.
However, through trained control of her facial expressions, it did not show on her face.
Harry, unaware that Aurora was in love with Steve, thought she was simply competitive.
She contacted Valier without being spotted by Viscount Karsh and successfully brought him into their camp.
She made him admit that while she lost to Steve in the market, she was superior in political maneuvering.
Feeling relieved and satisfied with her performance, she did not realize that this matter would become a distant cause, leading to an invasion by the Kingdom of Forest using Viscount Karsh as a foothold.
These past memories were what Aurora was recalling in her bed.
The young herself in those memories.
However, if she looked at her hands now, they lacked tension and were covered in wrinkles.
She had already surpassed the age of 80, and although she was using abundant funds to fight anti-aging, she could not deceive her age.
And she had a premonition that she would not have much time left.
"I cannot die when there is no satisfactory successor."
She muttered to herself like that.