Heavenly Dao Child - Chapter 513

Ryuu sent a stink eye towards Yu Wu who was desperately trying not to laugh at him, as he had a disgruntled expression on his face while trying hard to finish his paperwork.

“Here boss, this is the last stack for the day then you would be free.”

Ryuu huffed as he spoke, “It better be, and what is this nonsense, why do I have to deal with so much paperwork.”

Yamamoto chuckled as he spoke, “Large organizations tend to create a lot.”

“Yes, yes I understand, but are there not people in the chain of command who filter out the paperwork so that the one sitting about them has not to do everything.”

“Your Highness they filter out the majority of the thing, but you are to be kept informed of various dealings by those under you and then you have to deal with major stuff yourself, think about your sister how much she has to deal with paperwork because of all this.”

Ryuu sighed as he spoke, “Why can it not be like a fairy tale where the King or the Prince does not have to do any paperwork, just spend their days being lazy.”

“Well you answered your own question they are fairy tales after all, but in reality, a Monarch who is not involved with the workings of his kingdom is a poor one or just a puppet of someone.”

Ryuu deadpanned at him as he spoke, “If I were an evil puppeteer I would have dropped all my paperwork on my puppets ŀȧps and be gloriously free.”

Yamamoto simply snorted at his words as he spoke with a shake of his head, “It is so like you My Prince.”

Ryuu turned towards Yu Wu as he spoke, “If there is anything else you may take your leave for the day.”

Yu Wu gave a small bow but before she was about to leave she suddenly remembered something as she quickly spoke, “Ah boss, new shipments came in and they have been already been checked.”

Ryuu gave her undivided attention as he spoke, “Really so are those items good.”

Yu Wu gave a nod as she spoke, “They are top-notch quality boss, though do you wish to check them.”

Ryuu waved off his hand as he spoke in a tired tone, “No I trust my people and if they say it is good quality then it is good quality I do not wish to doubt the judgment of my people.”

Yu Wu gave a bow as she spoke, “Then boss I will take my leave.”, and with that, she left.

As Yu Wu left the room Ryuu’s face changed drastically as it morphed into a scowl.

“Is something wrong Your Highness?”

Ryuu looked towards the door as he gave a nod before he touched his temples, and Yamamoto did not hesitate to connect with him through telepathic means as Ryuu began to reply back, ‘I do not know their auction is going to be held tomorrow and both ours and their shipments had arrived today and for some reason, I feel a bit of unease, I think I should check the stock discreetly as soon as possible.’

‘I remember you saying to Junior Yu Wu that you trust their judgment.’

‘I do trust them, but is it so bad that I should not double-check it myself after all I might sound arrogant but there are various instances where my knowledge far outstrips any of them.’

‘So true, so when will you go to check them?’

Ryuu growled as he replied back, ‘As soon as I decimate this blasted paperwork.’

A few hours later, Ryuu made his way to the storage area, while greeting the newcomers after a shift change, since his arrival Ryuu had reinforced the storage runes with various esoteric arrays which he and a few senior members were linked with the bulk of them as well as the right to rework them only belonged to him.

Ryuu found a secluded spot as he tweaked the array before stepping into the shadows and disappearing, and less than a second later he found himself inside the storage room while the array inside the storeroom was down for the time being as such none were informed of his visit.

The storeroom was heavily reinforced with separate spaces kept for various items, from weapons, sutras to medicinal pills to precious herbs and ores were stored in here, not to mention various food items were placed which were catered to various guests of Kuvosie branch of Shangri-la.

Ryuu moved through each of them as he reached the dėsɨrėd destination, the storage food for fresh food, herbs and wines, the food items that were used to make spirit food for the many guests who came to feat in Shangri-la, the quality of Shangri-la’s spirit food was top notch as because of its vast area of influence more often than not various extremely exotic items would appear.

‘The only reason that people prefer Shangri-la to others is because of the quality of the products even though the spirit food produced is priced astronomically higher than any other places the quality eclipses the difference and now they are trying to compete with us by selling products at dirt cheap price, not to mention they had invited some famous Spirit Food Chef from around this parts, hmm, I would not be surprised if they will try to pull some underhanded tricks.’

Ryuu stood in midst of the resources as he closed his eyes letting his senses do the work as the various Dao he had enlightenment in helped him check them, a few seconds later a pulse of killing intent appeared as it disappeared as soon as it came.

“Ho is there something that made you angry, My Prince.”

Ryuu did not jump up nor did he let out an embarrassing scream of fear, and any who would claim it as such are liars and they should be hanged.

Yamamoto’s eyes shone with mirth as he received a baleful glare from Ryuu as he quickly spoke with a bow, “I humbly apologize Your Highness for sca…”

“I WAS STARTLED not scared but startled because you appeared suddenly behind me.”

“I humbly apologize for startling, your Highness.”

Ryuu huffed as he spoke, “Next time do not sneak behind me like that.”

Ryuu took a deep breath calming himself down before he spoke with a frown, “Yes, they have already played one of their cards, a few of the crates containing items have certain additional items in them ranging from one of the planks at the bottom of the crate or something that had been sprayed on them, which is reacting with the contains and producing toxins, toxins that will allude you if you do not have sufficient enlightenment in the Dao of Alchemy.”

Ryuu raised his right hand as a semi-transparent ball began to gather up in his hand as Yamamoto spoke, “This toxin will erode the medicinal pills making them fake as they will not be able to provide any useful effects but the toxin of the pills will rampage in the body, not to mention how those toxins would pollute the other ingredients, aye what a terrible loss we will suffer.”

“Not to mention how our reputation would be tarnish, no matter how polished a mirror is at the end of the day everyone’s attention will fall on that one small dot on the mirror.”

“So what are we going to do Your Highness?”

A vicious smirk appeared on Ryuu’s face as he spoke, “Well they should have a mock trial to see if the prototype works or not.”

Yamamoto mirrored Ryuu’s smirk as he spoke, “You are absolutely right Your Highness.”

The very next day Ryuu looked at the large building created opposite to that of the Shangri-La, the building to many looked like an epitome of wealth and architectural marvel but to Ryuu it looked like a desperate cry by a nouveau riche who wanted to claim he was a very important and extremely wealthy but at the end of the day came out as a vain showoff who was not only colourblind but as well as aesthetically dumb.

“What an eyesore.”

Yu Wu sighed as she spoke, “Maybe but there are many who like it.”

“No, they simply are awed by the vain display of the nouveau riche, though at the end of the day we will have some healthy competition.”

“Ah, branch manager how nice to see you.”

An arrogant condescending voice came to Ryuu’s ears as he sent a bored look at the person who continued to speak, “I hope your pitiful auction house does not feel threatened by our humble one.”

As he spoke a few of his lackeys accompanying him gained a smirk on their faces as the man continued in a self-important tone, “We would have liked to sent an invitation but alas our important guests would not have liked to seats near someone so plebian, it would spoil their appetite and Spirit Food Master Chef Hisito Nemi  said that it might decrease the quality of food but do not worry I would make sure to send some leftovers to you, after all, you might not even have smelt such wondrous cuisine.”

As the person continued his monologue his lackeys began to laugh and jeered at him as Yu Wu’s face contorted in anger, but Ryuu’s face had a kind smile on his face.

The person eyes widened as he greeted a portly looking person who had an air of superiority on him as he spoke, “Chef Hisito Nemi, we were discussing your prowess trying to educate these plebeians from Shangri-la.”

The Chef huffed as he spoke, “There is no need to educate the uncultured barbarians, I still remembered how they begged me to join them, and as if they can even afford my expertise.”

His words drew another round of flattery from the lackey of the JI clan member, which the duo ŀȧpped up before they turned to look at Ryuu only to be stunned seeing both Ryuu and Yu Wu walking away from them without a care of the world, which made the duo huff in indignation as they left with their lackeys in tow.

Meanwhile, Yu Wu raged with righteous anger as she spoke with a growl, “Those bastards, ugh, how dare they insult us like that!”

“Yu Wu please calm down we should not degrade ourselves to their level, let them try and spit towards the sky the spit will only back fall on their face.”

Yu Wu could not help but let out a tired sigh as she spoke, “They are harassing us too much and if it were not for your strict orders a battle might have broken off, and it is getting very hard to not deal with them.”

“That is what they want us to do, provoke us and if we retaliate they will pull the helpless victim card, I have seen enough street thugs doing the same to make some money, but that Chef was bragging about turning us down did that really happen.”

Yu Wu ġrȯȧnėd as she spoke, “Well he is a rather decent chef, maybe even the best in the immediate vicinity of the area near our control, well enough that he can be as good as some of ours, and when he applied to work for us the previous general Manager took his interview, the man is only a peak Immortal but the ego, pride and vanity he possesses is outstandingly unbelievable and as such he was not hired, and now he is spouting such lies.”

“I see, but please do not worry Yu Wu the Heaven is fair and it would not tolerate such unsightly behaviour.”