Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf Episode 19 Discussion

Well it turns out that Holo is the mastermind behind this whole thing going Lawrence way. She's been the other party working in the background at every turn. The one who convinced Amati to wait to sell, the one who went to Diane to ask about the pyrite before Lawrence could and the one who sent the contract to Lawrence that spurred him into action. All of that was Holo working to get the outcome she wanted, which was Lawrence coming out on top. Lawrence did his best on his own, or what he thought was his own, to defeat Amati. Testing the market seeing how high pyrite would go in value before selling what he had. If he could let the price get high enough to then plummet it by selling what he had, then the credit Amati got from Lawrence would be worthless. Lawrence waited until the time was right, sold what he had and successfully drove the price down but it wasnt enough. The price still rose back up like nothing happened. Some really bad luck from Lawrence perspective that Diane couldn't sell him more that he could sell on the market to drive the price down again. But lucky for him it was Holo who had that massive amount of pyrite. Completely duping Amati and going back to Lawrence in the end. Amati had gone in over his head trying to dabble so heavily in a market he knew nothing about. Holo took advantage to that and used it to knock Lawrence down a few pegs. They've come to a nice understanding of one another and what they mean in each other's eyes. Holo hearing Lawrence ask Diane about stories of gods and humans becoming couples really tug at her heart. It was very sweet seeing them reconcile and understand each other more. Holo saying that she wants to go back to her hometown even if it's gone. Now we get to see an arc that the old anime skipped which I'm very excited about

Man, Lawrence really had to go through a lot to not risk losing Holo to fucking Amanti as well as a lot of money. The market is certainly devious and it has a lot of rules coming from speculation and the such. Thankfully, by the end Amanti got what he deserved for behaving like a dipshit and Lawrence had to basically apologise for being to "egotistical and naive".

To be fair with him, Holo designed a plan that wasn't easy to follow, expected him to do so and figure it out and then got all pissy when he suspected a reasonable treason. They had been travelling together for not too long, it wasn't far fetched to be in Lawrence position. But then you bring up this point to fans of the series and they all defend Holo for some reason (maybe because she's a fox wolf girl). I don't hate her but this kind of shit that she pulls feels way too one sided.

Whatever the case, it's time for a new arc.

@rasterman7 She is a wolf, not a fox. How have you missed this?