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“Hello, I am Lily,” Lily smilingly introduced herself in her childlike voice. She had also used Gahaka since Aakesh had taught Lily the language on the way to the headquarters from the traveling junction.

Even though Lily was smiling outside, inside, she felt incredulous after seeing Aakesh’s acting toward Botar. At the same time, she couldn’t help but feel sympathy for Guptas as Aakesh wasn’t here with good intentions in the first place.

“Mr. Aakesh, it seems you have come prepared,” Botar smilingly joked after hearing Lily speak in Gahaka as well.

“Haha, of course, the business is such,” Aakesh laughed in response. Lily didn’t speak but only smiled.

“Let’s go,” Botar then smilingly told Aakesh.

Aakesh and Lily looked at each other. Aakesh couldn’t help but smile after seeing Lily’s incredulous expression. He then followed Botar, while Lily followed him.

Botar’s grandmother was the same person that had ordered him to meet Aakesh, so Botar brought Aakesh to the Relations room.

The room was enormous as it contained a wide table. On one side, one chair for Botar’s grandmother was placed, while on the other end, sofas were placed for the customer.

The table in the room was filled with several delicacies from around the Primal dimension. Since an array for stopping the time was placed there, the food would never go bad despite countless years passing.

***

“What business do you have with the Gupta family, Mr. Aakesh?” Tapi smilingly asked Aakesh.

Similar to Botar, she also had a good impression of Aakesh in her heart, and the more they talked, it only got better.

“Tapi, I am here to do a trade with your family that would change the Gupta family’s fortune,” Aakesh laughingly told Tapi. Lily silently listened without interrupting since Aakesh had only brought her to observe.

Tapi’s eyes shined in excitement after hearing Aakesh’s grand words. The effect of Myrioglot was such that in no time, Aakesh became a respectful figure in Tapi Botar’s eyes. The situation would only get better for Aakesh as time passed unless something that was below the bottom line of the Gupta family happened.

Aakesh wanted the quest to happen without any fighting, as even he didn’t know what would happen there. Hence he was putting so much effort into completing the quest.

In only a few minutes of time, with the Guhyakas, Aakesh had laughed more than he had done in the more than eighty thousand years of his life with other customers.

“Do tell, Mr. Aakesh,” Tapi laughed and told Aakesh.

“Have you ever thought of giving up your business after someone with superior products arrives on the scene?” Aakesh smilingly asked Tapi.

Tapi, who had been smiling from the start, had her smile suddenly frozen. “Excuse me, please don’t joke with me, Mr. Aakesh,” Tapi told Aakesh with a fake smile on her face.

If not for the better impression Aakesh had made on her, she would have told her bodyguards to throw her out.

In the room, four peak Immortals with pseudo divinity were hidden, and they had their eyes on Aakesh. One wrong move and they would pounce on Aakesh with their weapons.

“I never joke when it comes to business,” Aakesh replied with the smile still active on his face.

Tapi’s face turned ugly as she never expected things to take such a turnaround suddenly.

“I know, where are your guards hidden? No need to call them, I am only here to do a peaceful presentation.”

Tapi was going to ask her bodyguards to throw Aakesh out, but before she could, Aakesh’s smiling voice rang in her ears, stopping her from continuing.

“Mr. Aakesh, I never considered you to be a bully,” Tapi told Aakesh. She was in charge of maintaining relations with customers and other traders, so she had learned to control her emotions.

Her teachings came to her help at that moment, as she calmed down. At the same time, she felt a great amount of disappointment in her heart as she took Aakesh’s last statement as a threat to her.

“If you call your guards, I would kill you before they arrive here, so let’s be civil,” It was the meaning Tapi had understood.

After hearing Tapi’s words, Aakesh understood that she had misunderstood his context, but there was no point in stopping now.

Since he had already revealed his purpose, it was time to push forward. Backing out here meant a chance of failing the quest.

“Tapi, a good businessman, is one who knows when to stop,” Aakesh smilingly told Tapi, ignoring her misunderstandings and words.

The guards hidden in the room also misunderstood Aakesh’s statement as a threat, so they got ready to pounce on the blue-skinned man.

Suddenly they stopped in their steps as they found the man looking at them with complete indifference in his eyes. Their faces turned pale.

The next moment, color returned to their faces, but they couldn’t help but feel a shock in their hearts as the power difference between them and the blue-skinned man was like heaven and earth.

The man was only an intermediate Immortal, while each of them were complete Maharathi Warriors. And they weren’t ordinary since the Gupta family only hired the best of the lot.

Even Aakesh knew that if the four of them attacked him at once, Aakesh would have no choice other than to run or release the cap on his power level.

***

“We aren’t even in the top ten business groups, then why did you choose us to be a part of this ugly joke?” Tapi asked Aakesh. Even though she wanted to be calm, seeing the smile on Aakesh’s face made her agitated.

“I have my reasons, but trust me, your family wouldn’t be at a loss after my presentation,” Aakesh told Tapi. The smile on his face had disappeared. Instead, a serious look had taken its place.

Aakesh knew the impact his quest was going to have on the Gupta family, but at the same time, Aakesh also knew he had to do it.

The rewards from the quest were too good to be true and let go of. At the same time, the store was always going to be a thorn in the eyes of the leading merchant traders.

If not today, some time later, the businesses were going to lose their source of money as the store became popular and had more customers.

Anyone who once became a customer of the store would never go back to other business families, so one day in the future, only the First Store would stand and monopolize everything.

It wasn’t fair to those families who worked for countless years to reach where they were today, but the world was cruel. Powerful decided the rules and how to play by them. If in the future, some other businesses better than the First Store were to arrive, then the First Store would also have the same result.

Aakesh understood this basic fact.