Summer Night shook her head, not believing Curran's explanation.

"It's normal that you don't believe me." Curran looked at her, "Why don't you do that, I'll tell you something you'll definitely believe, and then I'll explain it slowly." ”

"Please."

"Have you ever guessed that the reason why I want to kill Chrissy is because after she dies, you can only go through me if you want to cooperate with the 'Far Ship Charter'?"

Summer Nights is neither affirmed nor denied.

Curran didn't wait for her answer, she continued: "Your guess is correct. That's exactly what I had in mind from the beginning, but it didn't conflict with my desire to prevent Chrissy from ruining the 'Far Ship Charter'. It's just that I started with a simple and crude approach, and I didn't expect you to save Chriss, and to be honest, I'm curious about how you managed to do it in the Aether Sea.

"When I failed, I realized that it was no longer appropriate to continue with that simple and crude approach, and that it would not be good for either of us. So now I'm going to convince you in a reasonable way, and I mean really reasonable......"

The girl said, tapping her lips.

"Instead of using this ......," she said, pointing to her prosthetic hand, "to force you to cooperate with us." ”

"I'm also a person who likes to be reasonable, but only if you really have a point." Summer Night said.

"You'll agree with me, Miss Summernight, as long as you still want a company that can earn you, not a bottomless pit that will only eat your investment, you should choose with me instead of handing over the company to Chriss."

Curran's gaze passed beyond the summer night into the distance, as if she was remembering something, and after a while, the girl spoke:

"Chrissy and I were both students at the 'Bafaria's Magic Technical Academy', a school funded by the 'Bafaria's Magic Drive Core Factory', and the best school anyone born in the lower city could get into.

"At Bafaria, students with good grades can receive a generous scholarship that covers their tuition fees and basic living expenses. After graduating, many people will be able to work at the Bafaelia manufactory, and the best ones can even enter 'Aether exploration' and settle in Midtown in the future.

"If Chrissy and I had chosen this path, maybe none of this would have happened, but something happened at that time that directly changed our fate.

"It was about five years ago, when the college suddenly gathered a group of students, including Chrissy and me, and said that there was a research project from Uptown, and we could decide whether to participate or not, but the details of the project would only be communicated after signing a confidentiality deed.

Chrissy decided to join on the spot, and I had to make the same choice. After that, we were given some information and told the goal of the study: Aether Exploration wanted to develop a machine that would generate powerful thrust by using the Aether deflagration. It's a huge project in which several of the largest manufacturing plants are involved, and our Academy, as an affiliate of the Bafalia manufactory, has been able to join.

"Until now, I don't know exactly how many people are involved in this project, but a conservative estimate is that it will not be less than 2,000 people, and the two of us are only exposed to a very small part of the project, but it is enough for us to do next.

"About three years ago, Aether Exploration finalized the drawings for the first Aether ramjet and handed it over to several large manufacturing plants to prototype it, and we graduated that year.

"One day, Chrissy suddenly said to me: we all know how much thrust and how low the magic cost of the Aether Ramjet is, and since there is such a good thing, why don't we build a ship powered by the Aether Ramjet? Such a ship must be able to sail far in the Aetheric Sea. Nowadays, only the Traveling Witch can travel in the Aether Sea, but with this kind of ship, even ordinary people will be able to do the same thing in the future.

At that time, I thought about it for a while and said to her: building a ship is not something that two people can do, and if we want to build a ship, we must first set up a company...... In this way, the two of us gave up our plans to take up a position in Aether Exploration. Started the preparation of a shipbuilding company.

Her previous experience in the project played a role, as Chrissy was technically proficient, and the prototype had not yet been unveiled, but she had already used a series of methods to calculate the approximate parameters of the prototype and design a ship that could carry the Aether ramjet.

"As for me...... I have ambition, and ambition can be turned into charisma. At that time, I was running around, one by one, trying to convince my classmates who had participated in the program with us, and even students from other colleges in the program, to invite them to join us in setting up the company.

"The next period was our most difficult time, but it was also our happiest time, we encountered countless unimaginable difficulties, some needed to be solved with our minds, some needed to use violence, and most of the time both were needed, but we did not give up and finally established 'Voyage Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.', which is the name Chriss.

"A few months later, our proposal beat out hundreds of competitors and qualified for sea trials with aether ramjets, compared to only five in Downtown.

The experiment was a great success, and as Chris had expected, a ship equipped with an aether ramjet thruster was a completely different concept than the small sampans of the past. Our ship sailed 5,000 nautical miles at a speed of 100 knots on its first trial voyage, and we really entered the Etheric Sea, rather than wandering around Debussota, as the so-called 'ships' used to be.

"It was at that time that the whaling industry in Downtown was booming, and I smelled a business opportunity, so Chrissy immediately designed a whaling ship with an aether ramjet thruster and named it the 'C-boat', which is actually very rudimentary from today's point of view, but at the time, it was simply a whaling weapon that whalers coveted.

"What's more, it's not expensive, a dozen whalers can buy a C-boat with a moor, and then I borrowed from other industries to launch a whaling boat charter business, so that they don't even have to buy the boat, as long as they pay a deposit and rent, they can go out to sea to whaling."

"With the 'C-boat', the company ushered in its golden age, orders flew like snowflakes, and the scale of the company expanded rapidly...... But whether it's building a new dockyard or hiring more staff, you need Moor, and you can't raise so much Moll in a short period of time with orders alone, so we have to accept investment from investors who come to us.

And this golden period lasted less than a year, and a problem gradually became apparent. Although the problem was not exposed until then, its roots, long before the company was founded, were that my goals and those of Chrissy were fundamentally inconsistent.

"Although they did coincide in the first place – she wanted to build a ship that could go to sea, and I wanted to start a company, and that's how 'Voyage Ships' was founded. In the final analysis, Chriss's ideal is to reach the end of the Aetheric Sea and explore the unknown; And my dream is to get ahead, and I hope that one day, I can become a level 4 or even higher witch and live in Uptown.

"Shipbuilding is just a way for the two of us to realize our own ideals, not the ultimate goal.

"At that time, Chrissy was no longer satisfied with building those 'small boats', and she began to draw money and set up a special project team to develop a bigger and faster giant ship that could sail beyond the archipelago and beyond—it was no longer a whaling ship."

(End of chapter)