Evil God Chapter 52

The turmoil around the Bank of Briton had settled, but it's not like everyone went home.

There were some people who wanted to withdraw some living expenses.

From today on, the bank will resume normal business.

However, since we still need to clean up, I'll have them wait for a bit.

I put all of the leather bags inside the bank.

For the time being, the stand too.

The first floor of the bank can easily carry a hundred.

The clerks all gathered, and congratulated each other.

"Th,this is amazing, new president!"

Martha's eyes are *kirakira* shining.

"Exactly how much money do you have……wait what?"

Martha insensitively opened one of the leather bags.

Inside it was Scottyard currency.

However, they're copper coins.

"Th,this is a copper coin?"

"That's right."

As it were natural, I nod.

"Not all of them are gold and white gold coins?"

"I didn't say anything about that."

Martha opened the leather bags one after the other.

The contents of the bags are mainly silver coins and copper coins.

"The amount of gold coins are to the point you can count them!"

For some reason, Martha was angry.

I thought it was strange, and began to explain.

"There's no way I could prepare that much money."

"There should be about 4 to 5 million pounds total? No, I haven't counted them though, so I don't know for sure."

Gareth nonchalantly answers.

"In the first place, who are these people?"

Martha points at Gareth.

People, means that she included Adrigori too.

"They're my subordinates, don't mind them."

"I can't just not mind them. No, more importantly, what does this mean?"

"Is there a problem?"

"I think there are many, but……"

Because I'm so confident, Martha seemed to have lost her confidence.

All they needed was relief, not actually their money.

When everyone tried to withdraw their money, we didn't have enough.

By the way, it seems it isn't nearly enough to repay the other country.

What we need is several times this, or more.

"What were you planning to do if the strategy didn't go well, and everyone tried to withdraw their money?"

"Do I look like an idiot? Take a look."

I take out a copper coin.

"Complete hallucination 《Perfect Illusion》."

When I cast my magic, the copper coins turned into gold coins.

"Amazing, it looks and feels just like a gold coin."

"Until just now, this magic was concealing everything. It's no longer necessary, so I canceled it."

"Does that magic have a lasting effect?"

"No way."

I shake my head to the side.

It's not that omnipotent.

"Then won't we be exposed really soon?"

"It's all right. I paid the remaining customers with real money. We can afford that."

Also, since they'd use a large amount of silver and copper coins, I exchanged the gold coins for them.

"What if a noble came to withdraw their money?"

"If it's a noble that deposited a lot, then I'd use fake money."

"In that case—-"

"By chance, that noble would be attacked on the way home. Since the money would be stolen, it won't be able to be confirmed. Accidents sure are scary, but it's cause the city's public order is bad right now. We should keep our guards up."

I brush away Martha's retort, and explain.

In Rhodan, there is a group of masked concealed people.

They would attack the nobles.

I don't think this will happen, but on the off chance they'd overlook someone, they would raid their mansion.

But unfortunately, they had no turn to shine this time.

I need to hurry up and inform them to retreat.

"Wha, yeah……"

Martha was unable to follow along, and blanked out.

"I'm not really sure if that's amazing or not."

"Young girl. Even after hearing this much explanation……you still can't understand the amazingness of Ashtal-sama?"

Adrigori gets irritated, and interrupts the conversation.

"I agree. No no, I apologize. She's still new, so please forgive her."

Saying that, Ben Springfield scratches his neck.

He's the former president.

"To not understand this much, you're a failure as a banker. If he actually had the money, he'd have paid a lot, and that would've been the end of it. As long as we had money, I, or even anyone else could have solved this mess."

That's right.

This mess has pointed out that Briton is financially vulnerable.

"However, he's different. He cut through this unprecedented crisis with his wisdom. The more you hear of it, the more perfect his plan seems."

Ben speaks excitedly.

"As a banker, I too knew it. That to solve this crisis, there was no choice but to calm the masses. That I had to get rid of their anxiety. However, I didn't have the slightest idea of how to do that. He is a fearsome banker."

"I, I see."

Martha seems to have finally been convinced.

"Also, he investigated Scottyard's spies. Exactly how'd you do that?"

"Yesterday, they were casually making movements like that, so I monitored them."

"I see.."

Martha honestly admires me.

"Those spies dug their own graves."

"Even without doing that, the crowd came together against them. By that time, they had the choices to either retreat immediately, or be destroyed. Of course, at that time, the spies wouldn't have been able to make the choice to retreat. The boss they served under was bad."

"Certainly. We feel deeply moved at being able to receive such an amazing president. Please treat us well from now on."

Ben pushed Martha's head down, and the two of them bowed deeply.

"What are you talking about? The president's you, right?"

"Eh? I should've handed you the president's seat this morning though?"

"I didn't say it did I. That I was just going to be the president for the day. From tomorrow on, you're going to be the president again."

Ben went *pokaan*.

"Eh, then what about the 10 million?"

"It was way too exorbitant just for being president for one day."

"Ah, were those also copper coins disguised with magic, by chance?"

"Now, I wonder, didn't you throw that bag over there?"

Therefore, it's unidentifiable.

When I pointed that out, Ben turned a little bashful.

"That was……I got a little and worked up, and sorta did it."

"I don't hate things like that."

I slap Ben's shoulder.

"With today's events, this bank's reputation will soar through the roofs. Depositors will rush over here. I bet it'll get busy from now on, so good luck."

Saying that, I left the Bank of Briton behind me.

Chapter end