The two of them stood at opposite ends of the living room, staring at each other without a word.
"Ahem, I... I'm going out for a while," Klein finally broke under the stifling atmosphere in the room. But what he said made Angel raise an eyebrow. "A bounty should have arrived by now. I'm going to collect it."
I thought he was going to apologize first, but instead... Angel's expression darkened, though curiosity soon surfaced. After a brief silence, she asked:
"What bounty?"
"Last week, I ran into walking Gold Pounds at a bar. Uh, I mean a rather valuable pirate—Eloquent Speaker Mithor King, the third mate of Vice Admiral of Ailment Tracy. He was the one who captured me while I was disguised as Helene last time. He was worth 5,400 pounds, and he happened to walk right up to me."
Could pirates now simply be shot dead in the street?
Angel was startled at first, then suddenly understood. No wonder "The World" had just sold the Psychiatrist Beyonder Characteristic. He had Grazed another pirate and traded for this soul.
But even so, killing a pirate directly in a bar would have a bad impact, wouldn't it? When we dealt with "Steel" Maviti last time, we did it on an isolated street at dawn...
As she pondered this, she asked in return:
"You... are you short of money?"
"Recently, I've been preparing to buy a Mystical Item worth 7,000 pounds to solve the last problem before my advancement."
Klein did not hide it from her. He told Angel that he had entrusted Emlyn the Moon to purchase a Mystical Item to resolve the contamination within the Marionettist Beyonder Characteristic before he advanced.
He had actually planned to tell her a few days ago, but she had barely given him