After Supervisor Riley found an excuse to leave, Servini gave Xu Yi a meaningful smile. "President Xu, it seems you don't get along all that well with your fellow merchants in Bunta City?"
Xu Yi laughed, feigning surprise as though he had no idea what she meant. "What makes you say that, Miss Servini? All the major merchant guilds in Bunta City are good partners in the federation. How could there be any friction between us? You must have misunderstood something."
Servini smiled and did not waste any more time on the subject. She turned to look at the Magic Machine Tool Workshop, which Xu Yi had just shown her around, and pondered for a moment. "President Xu, you said earlier that you planned to spend about a month developing some new magic machine tools to improve the efficiency of farmland magic machinery production. But are you confident you can develop them?"
"Of course," Xu Yi answered firmly. "The Xinfei Merchant Guild already has a great deal of practical experience in developing magic machine tools, and now we have Great Mage Camilla providing strong support. I'm certain this development project will succeed."
Servini shook her head gently. "President Xu, you aren't being entirely honest. From what I've observed and the information I've gathered during these past few days in Bunta City, the most crucial part of the Xinfei Merchant Guild is actually you, its president. Whether it was the original magic fans or the farmland magic machinery that caught the Agriculture Bureau's attention, you personally initiated the development of all this magic machinery and played the most important role in it. So I'm not asking whether the Xinfei Merchant Guild can do it. I simply want to know whether you yourself are confident."
Xu Yi looked at Servini and found