"Huh? You're dealing Black Braindance tapes at school? Carl, are you kidding me? You went to school for one day and came back saying this?"
At the team's dinner spot, Oliver's home, Oliver found Carl's account of her first day at school hard to believe.
"What else could I do?"
Carl spread her hands. "The moment they heard my Gaius identity specialized in selling Black Braindance, they all crowded around me. Before I could even say anything, they'd already picked their themes and asked me to bring them over. They even paid deposits. I couldn't exactly refuse to bring them, could I?"
"Uh, first question: how much did they pay as a deposit?"
"One hundred Eurodollars. A full tape costs five hundred Eurodollars."
"And what's the usual price for the Black Braindance they want?"
"Around two hundred and fifty Eurodollars."
"So all you have to do is bring it over and resell it, and you make double the money?"
"More or less?"
"This..."
Oliver had initially felt that Carl was being rather unreliable, but now he fell into deep thought. Suddenly, bringing tapes to Arasaka Academy students did not seem so unacceptable.
"This actually sounds profitable. But why did they come to you so quickly? And why were they so familiar with the process?"
"Apparently, there was already a student selling Black Braindance at the academy. Because of him, the students already knew the general process."
"Then why didn't the Arasaka Academy students go to him instead of you?"
"Apparently, he never sold many Braindances at a time, and his transactions were cautious and complicated. Simply put, demand exceeded supply. And since I'm a 'professional' with something on my 'record,' maybe the Arasaka Academy students trust a criminal record more than that good student who only sells small quantities?"
"Damn,