Orsini, observing the people gathered for the investment briefing, recalled Fabio’s saying:

“Money has the power to turn people into moths to a flame.”

The people here were exactly like that.

They had no idea that Fabio was planning to execute a grand scam, and yet, they were eagerly diving headfirst into the inferno, just wanting to make money.

“Good evening, I’m Angelo Orsini.”

At those words, the applause from the gathered crowd poured out.

In a trading city, especially in Lyon, the best port city of the Kingdom of Lyon, the response to a mere foreign merchant was an overreaction...