"Things are over... huh?" Bilt looked at Gehrman Sparrow with some pleasant surprise, but his smile froze when he noticed Alice following him in and closing the door behind her.
Alice raised her head at Bilt in confusion. After hesitating for a moment, she asked Klein, "Should I go outside?"
A bead of cold sweat dripped from Bilt's forehead, soaking into his eyelashes. He instinctively blinked, and the sweat fell into his eye, causing an indescribable discomfort. Yet he did not dare raise a hand to wipe it away. Half-closing one eye, he said:
"No, no need. You came at just the right time.
"It seems things ended smoothly?"
Alice looked towards Klein.
Klein nodded.
"Admiral Emlyn has returned.
"Where's the rest of the payment?"
Bilt's smile became a little lighter. He personally went to the safe, took out 500 pounds in gold coins and an azure cufflink, then secretly wiped his eyes.
After thinking it over, Alice decided not to expose him. Staring at the cufflink, with a thought, she let her spirituality blend with the Spirit World, and the cufflink's effects were revealed without reservation.
Alice rubbed her chin and turned her head to ask, "Are you going out to sea?"
She asked that in Chinese. Bilt did not understand it, and even if he had, he would not have understood its profound meaning.
Having been deeply influenced by internet culture, Klein realized that "going out to sea" carried a deeper meaning. He glanced at Bilt, who tactfully remained silent, then turned to Alice and said:
"I gave my body, heart, and soul to you long ago, Miss Fortune."
That was also in Chinese, so Bilt continued to cooperate by keeping silent, as if he did not exist at all. After staring silently at Klein for over ten