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"No, no, no, you've misunderstood. I absolutely have no intention of colluding with my teacher."
"Please rest assured. My teacher certainly wouldn't team up with me to swindle you out of your estate worth a few tens of thousands of pounds. Plenty of factory owners, plantation owners, and nobles now draw power by connecting to the Abyss through the malice in their hearts. As long as he wants it, he can have money anytime."
"How could you die? If I'd known my teacher was the one hunting you, I wouldn't even have added the death-substitution function to your stand-in."
"Because it would be utterly useless."
"Oh, oh, there's no need to pay extra. Since it's already installed, consider it a perk for customers placing large orders. Please believe that I still honor contracts and business ethics. After all, I studied in Trier, the commercial capital, two hundred years ago."
"My qualifications... ahem, let's not discuss such a painful subject."
After a round of strenuous explanations, Klein finally just barely believed that this Devil-and-Prisoner teacher-student pair hadn't worked together to leave him homeless.
After all, Richard had a good point. Neither a true god nor a Devil lacked that little bit of money Klein had. Klein had seen Edward Vaughan's Trier palace-style mansion; the antiques and ornaments inside could probably buy his entire property at 160 Böklund Street.
But he began to suspect that this angel had come to take advantage of his misfortune after learning what had happened. After all, he had just personally witnessed Richard Ernst observe two seconds of silence for Medici's second loss of his body before immediately setting his sights on the Cathedral of Light!
"Don't give me that distrustful look. It's very hurtful."
Richard selectively ignored Klein's complicated gaze and asked Medici with