In Duguli.

Liszt had some personal matters to attend to out of town. According to him, there was no danger, and he would be back soon. He asked the Black Sail crew, who were chasing Kai Deng, to stay in Duguli and keep an eye out for mails from the Imperial Diocese.

Violet and Nishi had already been appointed as trade representatives of Duguli because their backgrounds were clean, and being women, they naturally had an advantage in sales, not to mention they were formerly of the Heroic Level adventurer status.

Although they hadn't made it onto the adventurer's guild's annual Goddess list, they both had excellent images and dispositions and could become headteachers in their own right.

Before they arrived, Rein and others kept an eye on the special products that Wolman transported from the Great Wetland to Heaven Port. Swan had seen that nouveau riche dog, a big dealer in iron ore. He approached him to establish connections and find distributors. This task had to be handled flawlessly.

The matter of the Netherworld Envoy could not be ignored; someone had to follow up on it.

Liszt had already ordered Heaven Port to send more strong troops to Mulong.

The group chasing the Netherworld Envoy couldn't leave Aran for now.

And Liszt himself…

had left with the Scissors Legs Sisters and Isis. Without Isis's identity to cover him, passing through Aran's various checkpoints would have been extremely difficult.

They stayed at the same inn as before and had been there for a day already.

"Damn Liszt, always surrounded by a flock of beauties. If it wasn't for this," Rein remarked, thumbing up.

"Liszt is more business-oriented, Mika more athletic."

Ben acted all high and mighty, asking Galen to pour him water.

Having been jailed in Heaven Port for so long, there was finally a bit of progress.

Since Black Sail had always treated Ben as a double-faced scoundrel, purely as a tool, his income in the past ten months was solely from working as a bartender at the Black Sail Inn, eight silver coins a month, plus a reward of a hundred silver coins for successfully gathering information about Doringger, still less than a Golden Dragon.

It was the most frustrating period in his life.

But now he was perking up.

Since thieves are quite low-profile and Ben's previous crimes were committed abroad, his background…

was considered rather clean in Aran!

Ben used to deal in stolen goods and knew how to do business. Now, with the Holy Spirits doing what Ben had wanted to, and being abandoned by Diaz, he was just a mere dark figure now, no longer a threat to Black Sail.

They gave him a chance to start anew, and although there was no basic salary, as a trade representative of Heaven Port in Duguli, he would get phased dividend bonuses.

In other words, if Ben messed this job up, there'd be no use for him. If he did well, though he wouldn't enter the highest decision-making circle as a double-faced scoundrel, he'd still live a flashy, rich man's lifestyle daily.

Ben knew that Violet and Nishi were also coming over. He was bouncing back; with money and power added to his life soon, he wouldn't be worse off than before and would be far from danger, transforming into a gentleman of Duguli.

The inn also held many files from Mika's previous cases, which were to be sent back to Heaven Port later. Rein, having nothing better to do, started browsing through them.

Some were official copies with typewriter-generated formal text.

Others were written with quill pens, with someone continuously helping Mika investigate this matter.

"Was this a friend of Mika?"

Except for Fen, who liked to show off, no one aboard cared to talk about the past; curious, they asked Galen.

"He was Mika's former tutor."

"Oh, then I'm relieved. Have you seen this person?"

Rein assumed, without a doubt, that the tutor would be a bland, old-fashioned scholarly type, given the many years they spent following up on this matter. That old man must have loved Mika dearly, surely a case of the older generation suffering for the younger, treating Mika like his son.

"I've seen him; a rare beauty, elegantly plump."

Galen, having great respect for the big shots of Black Sail, didn't dare bring up the copper-refining addiction, even though Mika wasn't around—just like what Rein had said earlier about not touching Old Hundred Jing's chicken rolls, it had to be strong.

Rein closed the file abruptly, sitting upright with a gloomy expression almost dripping with dark water, a hint of murderous intent visible in his eyes as he looked at the piles of document clues.

That meant, a beautiful woman, hadn't met Mika in many years but still dedicated year after year to such an extremely bleak task with virtually no results. Even with solid evidence, the forces behind Mika could easily suppress it.

And Mika, that scoundrel, enjoying nights with female college students and call girls daily.

How envious!

"Are you sure she's a beauty?"

"Uh… seen with my own eyes."

"How beautiful?"

"The rare kind, and her figure is the most amazing."

Galen didn't understand why Rein was being so serious.

But the mood in the room had also turned grim, Ben and Chuan Che were extremely jealous.

No need to mention Ben.

He was ugly and had no youth, spending his teenage years learning the sordid skills of a Thief.

"Just the opposite, Mika leans towards business, while Liszt leans towards sports."

Chuan Che was also very jealous, as beauties are easy to find but confidants are hard to come by.

As a Hall-level adventurer, he had poor luck with women before he became famous, and after fame, it was all women who admired his reputation, love did not exist, just some uneducated spiritual little sisters.

"Who among you has ever been in a serious relationship, the kind where you don't pay for a kept woman?"

Rein wanted to check if there were any other traitors in the room.

"What a joke!"

Ben clasped his hands over his head, an Emiya Kiritsugu face.

Suddenly,

the entire room was filled with the stench of losers, negative energy was off the charts; any Evil Cultivator who came here to train could directly level up to the Sacrificial Tao Realm.

"Holy Spirit Calendar 2686, went with Mika to the best brothel in Heaven Port, the one personally funded by Lord Dor, the most enjoyable place in the world is in Heaven Port.

Holy Spirit Calendar 2687, hung out near the University in Londen City with Mika; those students needed social assistance.

Holy Spirit Calendar 2688, Black Sail's funding broke, randomly picked a club with Mika, gonorrhea is scary, but not when Mika is with you.

Mika is the best."

Rein was mentally collapsing, never expecting Mika to be such a two-faced person.

"What Whoring Clan! A true king doesn't need to prove himself by the number of connections, that's a dangerous statement!"

Ben unenthusiastically remarked, making an imaginary leap and chopping down a nonexistent overpass.

Although Ben and the Black Sail troops lost contact during a train robbery, Wolman, who stayed at Heaven Port, quickly understood the crown jewel with his talent learned from his Thief skills,

"Let's all go to Heaven Port and be pirates, gambling is fun and so is whoring, merging two pleasures should be double the happiness, why is it not?"

Swan emotionlessly recited, trying to blend in and spare the three men any embarrassment.

The Tiger-men of the Aisnor Province weren't just frail and slender in build; some were incredibly strong, depending on the celestial alignments at the time of birth.

And Swan belonged to the former, being suitably built for a Thief, and Tiger-men were also numerically significant in the guild.

The craft of Thief, too, was not lacking in women.

With Swan's personality and pragmatism, though quiet, he was serious about relationships but had cut off the woman he was seeing just before leaving the guild with something he stole, due to an unresolved vengeance with Diaz.

He borrowed Rein's way of speaking to spare the three of them embarrassment.

"Okay, okay."

Rein was truly relieved; others might not see it, but Swan was considered attractive among his people; Rein had thought he might betray them but was glad to see he was wrong.

Galen was completely baffled, talking to this Eastern Sea big shot was far different from what he had imagined.

"Let's go out and find a club to have fun, Rein and Swan, you two are rich guys, I was invited by Celeste, and as a host, I should show you a good time."

Chuan Che loved freeloading, enjoying it as one of the best things in life, he sighed deeply, wanting a break from his depression.

"We're all brothers, sounds good."

Rein declared, handling it as an original major shareholder of Black Sail, an absolute big spender, though not carrying much cash, bringing them to a club was trivial.

"After we have fun, I want to go and confront the Heavenly Eye Society, I know this force, in Duguli they indeed have a significant presence, only dealing in antiques, holding about over thirty percent of the market. Don't underestimate that thirty percent, given Duguli's scale, that's quite substantial."

Ben immediately got career-minded, the matter of Mika had set off an alarm for him, he could not continue living as Zhou Ke'er.

Click.

The blade moved too swiftly.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

Ben was stunned, as Saleret suddenly cut a lock of hair from his head.

"It's safer this way, if it wasn't for Netherworld Envoy joining the Continent Martial Arts Competition, we'd temporarily have no way with her. But with you, it's different; if you try to escape, I could kill you easily."

Saleret knew Ben well, when he met him in the tower before Doringger's death, he was a two-faced scoundrel that had to be watched closely.

"Damn!"

Ben's face contorted; you ruined my chance to howl!

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