Investrix arrives at the Forum of Lutetia with a scroll, a leather pouch of coins, and the grin of a man about to carve a roasted pheasant. His pitch: Ferrari — the finest chariot manufacturer in the world. One hundred thirty thousand Euro profit per vehicle. Margins of thirty-eight percent. A brand so powerful that merely owning one changes what your neighbors think of you.

Numerius reads the scroll. The stock trades at two hundred eighty-four Euro. His base-case fair value: one hundred thirty Euro. That's a fifty-four percent loss waiting to happen. The growth is decelerating — eleven percent, then eight, now guided at six. The Elettrica electric chariot is unproven. The capital return program spends more cash than the business generates. And no luxury electric vehicle has yet proven sustainable economics.

Investrix asks the question neither man can answer with numbers alone: is his optimism a Gallic inheritance, or is Numerius's caution just Roman fear wearing spectacles?

Both men agree to wait. Not forever. But not at two hundred eighty-four Euro.

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