Jasper replied calmly, “Old Master Law is very kind, he’s been watching out for me a lot.”
Gale nodded. “Let us get back to the topic. You should know that Ian Hull is my student and a member of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce.”
Jasper gave a small smile. “This is the first time I’ve heard that he’s your student, but I do know that the both of you hold a close relationship. I knew about his identity as one of the business people from Haddock right at the start as well.”
“Yet you wish to fight to the death?” Gale’s eyebrow twitched as he asked.
Jasper looked at Gale, the older expressionless, and stood his ground. “He crossed my boundaries! He touched what he never should have!”
“The Hull family has to die!”
“If not the Hulls this time, then there would only be other families in the future.”
Gale replied calmly, “Young man, both of you made names for yourselves in youth. But Casey Charles had only come into power when he was in his middle-ages while you came into power the moment you made a name for yourself. There is too much hostility within you.”
Jasper shook his head. “I wouldn’t say that I’m a hostile person, but it does depend on the situation. Are you perhaps planning to take justice for your student, Old Master Hurlbutt?”
At that, Gale looked at Jasper intently but did not reply right away.
As Jasper waited silently and without a word for Gale to reply.
The early winter air was slightly chilly as it swirled through the small lake pavilion. The sound of running water and fishes swimming drifted over from a distance not too far away, breaking the silence between them. The scenery around them was splendid but the atmosphere in the pavilion was far from relaxed.
It was as if the relationship between Jasper and Gale, or rather Jasper and the entire Haddock Chamber of Commerce, was to be confirmed in this short span of silence.
“I am not.”
After a long while, Gale shook his head. There was a tint of disappointment in his calm expressions when he continued to speak, “I do not like Ian’s sinister and cruel methods. Much of the way he does business is against the rules of Haddock’s Chamber of Commerce.”
“However, his father had done something for me and I owe the Hull family two favors. For the first favor, Ian’s father had begged me to take Ian as my student. I have accomplished that.”
“The second favor, Ian had begged me to help him. I have accomplished that as well.”
“Whatever relationship I have with Ian has ended.”
The atmosphere lightened with Gale’s words.
Jasper let out a slow sigh. To be absolutely honest, if possible, Jasper did not want to make an enemy of the powerful Haddock Chamber of Commerce at such a point in time.
After all, business people from Haddock were involved in a broad range of business and they were all over the world. Members of this Chamber of Commerce in influential positions in almost every industry.
It was very unbeneficial for a rift to appear between Jasper and the spiritual leader of businesspeople from Haddock while he was still developing his business.
“If that’s the case, then I’ll have a lot less to worry about. From what I heard, you were the one who gave Ian that 3 billion, Old Master Hurlbutt?” Jasper asked.
Gale smiled subtly and looked at Jasper. “Why? Do you wish to pay me back?”
Jasper was stunned. Before he could reply, Gale then waved his hand dismissively, “Forget it. I am but an old man, I have no need for such money. Not that I can bring it with me in death anyway.”
“I’ve never expected to get that 3 billion back after giving it to Ian. Let the money sign an end to this incident.”
Jasper nodded. “You’re a generous man, Old Master Hurlbutt.”
Gale chuckled and spoke meaningfully, “Still, you have gotten rid of the Haddock Chamber of Commerce’s Waterhoof City Branch’s leading figure. Countless people have their eyes on the incident and they will focus on what happens to you ever since the moment you walked through my doors.”
“So promise me one thing, whether it is to placate the Chamber of Commerce, or to let an old man like me preserve my dignity.”
