Chapter 123: Gerat × Assassination × Date
Joey had some experience in gathering intelligence.
Being a Professional Hunter made certain information much easier to find. Although Joey was not a Professional Hunter, he knew plenty of them.
Once he decided to gather information on Gerat, Joey went straight to Gon.
Gon had no objection whatsoever to using his Hunter credentials to look things up online.
With Gon's help, Joey soon obtained detailed information on Gerat online.
Information like this could be commissioned and purchased in the intelligence section of the official Hunter website.
The price was anything but low, though. A report like this cost over ten million, and depending on how detailed it was, that price could rise without any apparent limit.
But after reading the information it contained, Joey could only say it was well worth it.
The report covered not only Gerat's family members but also his guards, and even included brief analyses of a small number of the guards' abilities.
At the end, there was also a short summary and some speculation from the Hunter who had conducted the investigation.
The summary was straightforward, but the speculation was a reasonable analysis based on the information he had obtained, worth three million on its own.
In total, buying this report cost Joey seventeen million Jenny, putting another sizable dent in his wallet.
He finally understood. The financial freedom he had thought he possessed had been nothing more than his own naive assumption.
The hundred million or so Jenny he had was nowhere near enough. After spending most of it on Mizaistom, the small amount left made even buying more detailed information a struggle.
Joey still had a long way to go before achieving true financial freedom.
He now had less than ten million Jenny left. It was