"Huh?" It took Fors a while to react. "Me?"
"Uh, there isn't anything I need-"
Fors looked away from the list Mr. A's attendant had just handed her and thought helplessly:
I would like the potion formulas for the sequences after Apprentice, but you don't have them here-
I've just received quite a bit in royalties, so I have plenty of money to spare!
Mr. A listened to Fors, nodded silently, and said nothing more.
Meanwhile, in another small room, Audrey looked curiously at Mr. The Lovers before her. The Lovers was maintaining the appearance of Dionysus Fried, with several black cats sprawled on and around him.
"Hello?" Audrey ventured, unsure whether she should use The Lovers' code name in the real world.
"Just call me Dionysus." Bathed in sunlight, Nimrod calmly set down his book. "Miss Audrey, let's get straight to the point."
Right, the matter of Qilingus—because of that business, I've barely had any chances to sneak out lately! Audrey considered for a moment, then said to Nimrod, "Mr. Dionysus, I received roughly thirty thousand pounds in bounties for the Qilingus affair, as well as a vacation Manor Duke Negan gave me. How do you think we should divide them?"
Although Backlund's smaller news outlets carried two different rumors-"Qilingus was killed by the Aurora Order" and "Qilingus was sent by the Aurora Order to carry out the assassination"-neither the official Beyonders nor the government believed the Aurora Order, whose public credibility was below zero. Nor had anyone come forward to claim the bounty.
Thus, the ten-thousand-pound bounty on Qilingus belonged entirely to Audrey.
The bounties offered by other countries and organizations would also be collected over the coming weeks. After deducting expenses and converting currencies, those would amount to roughly twenty thousand pounds, bringing the total close to