Old Eight sucked at his teeth, his face conflicted. The very thing he had feared had happened.
What the people at the Underground Bounty Station lacked least was money. Otherwise, they would not have spent such large sums buying "valuable" corpses over the long term.
But as Shinji had said, money was both the reason for their success and the reason for their failure.
Because once money accumulated past a certain point, it became nothing more than a number.
There were far too many things in this world that money could not buy.
Take the corpse Shinji had handed them earlier. What good would offering any amount of money do? If Shinji did not want to sell it, he would not. He could even destroy it outright.
There was nothing they could do.
"Let's talk. What do you want?" Old Eight backed down a step and asked first.
Shinji said bluntly, "I want the Boar God Order lost by the Fenglie Clan of the Land of Beasts. I don't want to know where it is or who has it. If you want that corpse from earlier, hand over the Boar God Order."
"Also, I know you've secretly collected quite a few cursed objects. Some of them must be useless to you or have severe side effects. You can use those as payment. Hmm, how about this? Five cursed objects per commission shouldn't be expensive."
"All right, you can report that now. I know you can't make the decision yourself. And don't keep me waiting too long, or I'll find someone else to trade with. With your intelligence network, it shouldn't be difficult to know about my friendly relationship with Kirigakure."
Old Eight tried to speak several times, but Shinji interrupted him every time. In the end, Shinji shut him down