Summary:
Horo finds that Lawrence got ganked, and she is pretty angry. She just had to prostrate in front of the other wolf to avoid fighting, and now she finds Lawrence got himself humiliated as well. Horo wants to bite Remerio’s head off, but Lawrence offers to buy her some honey peaches if she keeps the casualties down. With that, Horo owns the band of thugs, and Nora smartly keeps Enik from getting involved.
Lawrence tracks down Remerio and comes up with another complicated scheme. Basically what it boils down to is that Lawrence lends Remerio a big chunk of the smuggled gold in a loan with kinda crappy terms whereby Remerio has to pay back 500 Rumione over 10 years. The contract is made out to the Rowan Trading Guild so that Remerio won’t be able to weasel out, but at least Remerio can rebuild his company.
Reaction:
Was burning the ropes off really the best decision? Couldn’t Lawrence have just used his knife? I have no faith in Lawrence as a merchant, and all the money he makes is in get-rich-quick schemes. At least he was cute in teasing Horo about calling her name because it is shorter than Nora’s. The trick of maybe-calling her name when the clock tower struck was somewhat humorous as well.
The fight with Horo and the thugs was dumb, because it’s not like Enik could cover enough ground to intercept Horo anyway. At least Lawrence was able to get all up on Horo without shying away from her wolf form. She should have drank some more of his blood instead of eating the wheat, though. Overall this episode was ok, but nothing special. It’s hard to believe so little happened in this series, aside from boring economics lectures from Lawrence, and silly schemes that didn’t work out.
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Really wanted this series to end better. It didn’t even really make me angry, or make me hate it. Just petered out.
They were cute together, and I’m glad they didn’t “get together” or something like that, but for a guy with a ton of lectures about what made a great merchant, Larry turned out to be a crap merchant.
That was one of my major problems with him; he talked so much jazz that I expected him to be owning people up with his haggling skills. Instead, he took dumb risks trying to hit a home run. I was way more impressed with the way Horo did things.