Right, that… that could be afforded. Even if she'd had to go scrounge it up herself… well, maybe not here, out in woods, but if she was back in Costa del Sol… of course, that wasn't a problem for [i]once[/i]; the funding they'd liberated from Mizutani meant that they'd been able to bring along enough to fund this particular excursion. [i]That[/i] was surprising, [i]moving[/i] goods was generally the hard part and she hadn't thought they had all that long…

Although, they did have a major criminal contact [i]and[/i] various more reputable ones, so maybe it wasn't terribly surprising. Had they been ripped off…? That was a separate question, when it came to it. For now, they had all the money they really needed, and this was definitely worth spending it on. She had a brother to catch, and Arton's arm was all… ew. That was bad.

"F-F-Fine…" the mystrel said, digging into her coat and steadily counting out the required funding. Now she saw why it was her job to carry the money on this trip, aside from the obvious "you have lots of pockets inside there, right?" aspect; if [i]Arton[/i] was paying, he might just reject it out of concern for the Blight or something.

If her expectant stare was a bit [i]too[/i] sharp and unblinking, that was only fair.