Magma Suit

"I'm just not in the habit of playing broker. Thank you for the kind offer."

Baimu didn't even glance at the contract. "Please let me contact my colleague first."

He went to a corner and made a call.

"Broker?"

Maxie paused, then realized his wording had given Baimu the wrong idea. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Who would have thought "introduce" could sound so suspicious?

The young man had quite a temper.

Maxie nodded to himself. Talented people having tempers was perfectly normal in his eyes. Did Courtney seem like an ordinary person? Yet she was one of his top officers.

Tabitha's temper wasn't much better.

He could understand all that.

What mattered was making this deal happen: ensuring Team Magma received the same publicity as Team Aqua while establishing a new partnership with Orre.

A vast, largely untapped land where technology had already begun to develop.

Excellent!

Truly excellent!

Maxie felt a passion he hadn't known in years flare up inside him.

Meanwhile,

Baimu got Shan Ren on the phone.

It seemed to be late at night in Orre. Shan Ren had been about to go to sleep when the call came in.

"Ahh, big brother, what grand feat have you got to tell me about this time?"

Shan Ren let out a huge yawn on the other end of the line.

Baimu quickly summarized the situation with Maxie, from Team Magma's ideals to how he had ended up involved with them.

Shan Ren went quiet for a long time after hearing him out.

Just as Baimu began to feel uneasy, Shan Ren said, "Baimu, you really are a sinful man."

"Huh?"

"Hoenn had exactly two former criminal organizations, and you ran into both of them. Now they both want to invest in you. If that