Mrs. Yorkshire might have watched too many soap operas, but she would not really have said that to Dio. Five hundred million was too little; Cheadle could easily put up another billion, or even ten billion, to tell Dio to get his ass back.
What she had said earlier was, of course, just to tease Cheadle, but Cheadle remained as easy to fluster as ever.
So what exactly had they said?
That matter could wait. For now, back to Dio aboard the airship.
Dio sat in his room, examining the gem he had found on Kuhua's corpse.
He could feel that, after coming into contact with the gem, the whispers that often lingered in his ears and the irritation that occasionally welled up inside him had all vanished without a trace.
The fact that he had fallen asleep without any trouble last night was proof of that.
Dio had a guess about how this gem worked: it could probably strengthen a person's mental state, or stabilize their personality, or something along those lines.
In short, it was probably a treasure that acted on the soul, which would fit its classification as a [Secondary National Treasure].
The vast majority of treasures at this level possessed some special function.
And every one of the mighty artifacts that the great nations called [National Treasures] possessed an extremely powerful function or destructive force.
Representative examples were Kakin's Three Great Treasures, which appeared in the manga's prince Succession War arc.
Those sacred treasures even had terrifying effects capable of bearing an entire nation's future. Compared with them, [Flawless Sage]
had a function that only worked on individuals, so [Secondary National Treasure] really was the highest classification it deserved.
Dio was actually wondering: if [Flawless Sage] was a treasure that acted on the soul or mind,