Inside an izakaya in Kyoto, the soft lighting and soothing music made for a very comfortable atmosphere.
Whether ordinary people or Reincarnators, no one would refuse to come to places like this to unwind after tense "work."
With the chime of wind bells, Xu Yue lifted the curtain and stepped inside. This was where Inoue Ieyasu had arranged to meet him.
"Give it back!"
Inoue Ieyasu, who had been unable to sit still, lit up when he saw Xu Yue. His very first greeting, however, was an exceedingly blunt demand.
Xu Yue looked utterly stunned and bewildered.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"You already gained enough from the last mission. Give back what you earned off me, and this time, I'll help you fully expand the Penguin Merchant Guild's market."
Like a gambler who had lost his mind after gambling himself broke, Inoue Ieyasu stared at Xu Yue with an abnormal expression, his eyes bloodshot.
In order to meet Xu Yue in the title match, he had paid several more S-rank items. Yet he had not even seen Xu Yue's face!
He had spent so extravagantly before because he had assumed that he could complete the mission through Xu Yue after obtaining the title, then recover all his losses.
But what the hell had happened?
He had actually failed to even qualify for the challenge match. In the end, a group of Great Han men had pinned him down in the hospital, leaving him to watch helplessly as time passed.
With that, his expenditures and losses in the Mission Space alone had already reached seven or eight S-rank items. Adding the ten he had paid Xu Yue, he had suffered catastrophic losses!
An ordinary Veteran Intruder would probably have already borrowed heavily from the Mission Space.
Even as a