Regarding the contractual demands of Twilight City's high-ranking figures, Su Xiao and Wood sternly opposed them. Why did they have to sign a contract just to act as Twilight City's representatives in reclaiming the Sun Source Stones piece by piece? Therefore, the two had Zetsu help pass a message, informing Twilight City's upper echelons that signing a contract was out of the question.
Yet, Twilight City's high-ranking figures refused to budge an inch on this matter. Investigating the reason, it was also out of worry that if this squad somehow managed to retrieve the Sun Source Stones, they wouldn't hand the recovered Sun Source Stones over to Twilight City. Thus, regarding the signing of a contract, their attitude was exceptionally resolute.
Seeing how resolute Twilight City's high-ranking figures were, Su Xiao and Wood could only "be forced to compromise." Both sides agreed to sign this contract tomorrow morning in the inner district's council hall.
Their maneuvers caused all of Daughter of Nature and Elerku's rhetoric to lose credibility. For instance, according to outside rumors, Su Xiao and Wood were "contract masters," and what kind of price came with signing contracts with them, and so forth.
Twilight City's high-ranking figures truly didn't know about the rumors in the myriad worlds, but they personally felt the attitude of Su Xiao and Wood. One had to ask, which contract master would be this resistant when about to sign a contract? Even with feigned evasion, they wouldn't take it to this extreme.
This was one of human nature's greatest weaknesses: people would subconsciously suspect any cooperation that actively sought them out. Conversely, if it was something secured after a great deal of effort, they wouldn't harbor the slightest suspicion, thinking instead about how to facilitate it as quickly as possible.
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