As she patiently sampled the cured meat, Alice also pricked up her ears to listen to the other diners chatting in the restaurant.
In a port restaurant, the most common customers were not actually pirates, adventurers, or Sailors, but passing tourists and rich merchants.
As for those people... after a brief thought, Alice understood that they were more often found in taverns and casinos rather than proper restaurants.
So taverns at the port were a little more dangerous... Eh, did that also make them more profitable?
Alice blinked twice and remembered the Wanted Posters issued by the Church.
Then she remembered her pitiful combat ability and silently lowered her head.
Fine, this clearly was not a path to sudden wealth suited to her. The path that truly suited her was going to a casino to gamble... No, if she won too much, the casino would probably teach her a lesson, right?
Alice silently raised a hand to cover her face.
That meant if she wanted to make money through gambling, she would have to keep changing casinos and control how much she won at each one... Too difficult. She might as well not earn this money.
She might as well pin her hopes on the "Sunken Laurel"!
Legend had it that over a hundred years ago, the ship had set sail home laden with gold, jewels, and all manner of valuables Loën had acquired from East Balam.
Unfortunately, after straying from its course, the ship had ultimately sunk somewhere in either the Raging Sea or the Sonia Sea, and had not been discovered to this day.
It was said that the items aboard were worth several million pounds in total.
And from what Alice knew, Loën had begun selling noble titles. A Baronet, or the lowest rank of Baron, cost