"Do you still have doubts about my identity?"
"Besides the royal secret technique, I have other ways to prove it..."
Bosco spoke insistently.
Qin Ran watched the royal envoy talk on and on without saying a word.
After the proof Bosco had already provided, Qin Ran no longer doubted his identity.
But Bosco wanted to travel with them?
Qin Ran would not agree so easily.
He knew perfectly well what situation Bosco was in.
He was being hunted!
One look at Bosco's current disguise and where he had appeared said it all.
Qin Ran was fairly certain that the royal envoy had exhausted his options. Even a disguise had failed to shake his pursuers, so he had come to Swote Castle to try his luck.
Agreeing to let Bosco accompany them would inevitably shift his troubles onto Qin Ran and Mary.
Even if those troubles had arisen because of Mary in the first place.
That did not mean Qin Ran would help him for free.
Qin Ran hated trouble.
But there was one exception.
And that was...
Enough profit!
In fact, within a dungeon world, Qin Ran wished for more trouble.
Because it meant more rewards.
And that was what he had always pursued tirelessly.
Watching the silent Qin Ran, Bosco changed tack without missing a beat.
"I am willing to swear allegiance to Her Highness Mary!"
"Of course, I am also willing to offer you a sufficient token of my sincerity, Sir 2567-how about five hundred gold coins? Six hundred at most. I cannot go any higher!"
"I am not a wealthy man, and my family belongs to the minor nobility. To cover my two daughters' expenses in Lerdri, I even have to scrimp and save..."
The royal envoy was clearly clever, and remarkably shameless.
Once he had guessed