"C'mon, speak up, why are you acting so cryptic?" Emir asked.
Sounding embarrassed, Kiera said, "Well, it's just that I've been wanting to ask you to come with us to a ruin dive, but we don't have much to give you in return, so I was afraid it might seem like we are taking advantage of you."
He thought about it for a moment and asked, "Why ask for my help now? You guys going to level up?"
She sounded a chuckle as she said, "Yes, after meeting you, I realized that I—we can't go on like this, we have to go to more dangerous ruins if we want to make sure that we will live to see tomorrow."
"I see… Well, good on you, but what are my incentives to join you?"
"We have already decided on this, we would give you half of what we find and pay you 1 million UC. I know that this amount is nothing to you, and I'm embarrassed to even mention it, but that's all we can afford."
Emir paused for a moment.
