"Are you willing to let me go?"
The bespectacled man asked in surprise. Shade thought for a moment.
"Hmm, did you bring your wallet?"
"Of course I did. Who goes out without a wallet?"
"Take out half the money in your wallet and give it to me. Consider it thanks for saving you."
The other man clearly had not expected such a demand, but if paying money meant he could leave, he naturally had no objections.
Thus, the man who called himself Claude Binns took out his wallet as he spoke to Shade:
"You saved me, so of course a little money is no problem. Take it all.
We heard that this cemetery had secrets, but not through any particularly thorough investigation. You should know that a great noble family like the Light Family actually has many descendants. A professor at the Moon Bay City Literature Academy once researched this and found that at least five percent of contemporary Moon Bay residents have bloodlines connected to the Seven Great Families."
He placed every coin and banknote from his wallet on the ground.
"Only one among the many children can inherit the property and title. The descendants who leave the family and gradually grow distant from it more or less carry things that were once taken from the family.
About two months ago, in the Lower District—sorry, I cannot reveal the exact location—a poor pregnant woman fainted in an alley. We rescued her and helped contact Snake Heart Hospital, where she was admitted and successfully gave birth to a son.
She wanted to repay us, so she gave us a Pendant that was supposedly left behind by the child's gambler father before he died. We did not want to accept it, but judging by the woman's expression, she hated that man