"Yes, they said it was absolutely impossible, whether you were an overseer or the wife of an overseer. What's going on?"
The overseer scratched his head and tried hard to understand the situation, but no matter how hard he thought, he could not understand the reason.
"I'll go take a look. This is suddenly absurd. It has been exchanged for Dallant without any problems so far, and now they say it can't be exchanged?"
Considering Carter Bank's trust, what happened to his wife today was something that couldn't be explained at all.
"Wait, I'll go and listen to what they have to say."
It was getting dark, and the day's work should have been over.
But the overseer, desperate to find answers, went to the bank first.
The bank he visited was already in chaos due to the townspeople who came for the same reason.
"What is this nonsense all of a sudden! They've been exchanging it just fine until now, and now they say they can't!"
"Open this door and exchange it for gold coins right now! I need the Dalant immediately!"
"Open the door!"
"Carter! Carter, what is this?"
There were many angry townspeople in front of Carter Bank.
They were holding paper promissory notes and shouting at the bank.
"What's going on?"
"Overseer."
"Ah, the overseer has arrived!"
Recognizing the overseer, the townspeople began to show respect to him.
He was of a higher rank than commoners and was a key figure in charge of the territory's security, so the townspeople treated him with respect and informed him of the situation inside.
"Well, the bank says these promissory notes can't be exchanged for Dalant."
"We don't know why either. It's been exchanged for Dalant without any problems for the past few years, and now they say it can't be. Does that make sense?"
"I'm going crazy. I don't understand why they're doing this all of a sudden."
Most of the people who came for the same reason as him shared the same story.
Eventually, the number of people who came had doubled.
All of them were townspeople who had hurriedly come after hearing the news.
"I'll ask."
"Please ask for us, overseer!"
"Yes, please ask for us! We need to know the reason, don't we?"
"I urgently need the money to send tomorrow. It's really urgent!"
As the overseer stepped forward to Carter Bank, it was then that people began to block him, and they were certainly out of place here.
"This place is like a sanctuary where the church's property is kept."
The person blocking the overseer was a priest with quite a few years of experience.
"I don't know who you are, but if you came here to cause a commotion, it's best to step back. Doing harm here is the same as doing harm to the church."
Unbelievable!
The church people, who hated loan sharks the most, were actually protecting Carter Bank from the angry townspeople.
In this absurd situation, the overseer couldn't help but feel stunned.
'What is going on?'
Listening to the priests, it seemed that the church's property was in Carter Bank.
'Why is the church's property here? There's no reason for it to be here. I can't figure it out. What on earth happened?'
Despite the large number of townspeople who had come, the only reason Carter Bank was still safe was because of the priests guarding the entrance.
Otherwise, Carter Bank might have been destroyed by the angry townspeople.
"Ahem!"
Even though he was in charge of the territory's security, he couldn't easily confront the churchgoers.
In some ways, it could be a bigger crime than being rude to the lord.
That's how powerful the church was.
So the overseer had no choice but to hide his discomfort and speak softly.
"I am the one in charge of security in this territory, and I came to hear the details of the situation. As you said, this place is where the church's property is, so I have no intention of causing a commotion. Please let me hear the story and make way. I promise not to cause any disturbance."
The priest who had been looking down on the polite overseer finally gave way, and the townspeople behind him took a step forward to enter the bank, but they were stopped by other priests holding torches.
"You have no right to enter this place. Step back, all of you!"
"This is a sanctuary where the church's property is! Do you dare to cause trouble in the sanctuary!"
"Get away from the sanctuary! This is not a place for you to cause a commotion!"
While the angry townspeople and several priests confronted each other outside the bank, the overseer who had entered the bank saw the bank staff and Peter, the chief priest, who seemed to have anticipated this.
"Chief priest, you're here too."
"You've come."
After greeting the chief priest as a matter of courtesy, the overseer immediately turned his voice to Carter.
"Carter, what's all this commotion?"
"Isn't this Sir Mark? What brings you here?"
"Isn't it obvious why I'm here? It's chaos outside. Why on earth are you not exchanging these for Dalant?"
"Well, that's..."
Carter hesitated to answer, and Rockefeller, who had been watching, stepped out of the shadows of the bank and spoke.
"There's no need to be so excited with us. This is a natural result caused by the lord, not us."
"The lord caused this? What do you mean? What did the lord do wrong?"
Rockefeller, who had completely emerged from the darkness of the bank, was faintly illuminated by the candlelight.
Light and darkness.
The boundary.
Standing on that boundary, Rockefeller continued speaking.
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