Seeing that Lance didn't speak, Barbara took a step back: "Your Highness, I have answered all the answers I can. Now that I have been exposed, I don't have reason to stay any longer. Can I leave?"
"Wait." Lance yelled.
She instantly became alert: "Is there anything else, Your Highness?"
"You've answer my questions." Lance smiled and said, "But don't you pay for the cost?"
Barbara was stunned: "What cost?"
"Because of you, I crushed a young viscount's leg on the street and inexplicably incurred a debt. Do you plan to give me this money?"
"No way!" She immediately acted like a frightened bird: "I have been taking money out of other people's pockets all my life. I have never taken it out myself!"
"It's not up to you." He shook his head and continued: "And since you came with a purpose, it means that you are no longer a innocent slave. So, I can define those words you said on the carriage as insulting the royal family."
"But many people say those!"
"But no one dares to say it in front of me." Lance narrowed his eyes: "This is a serious crime. Of course, if you are willing to pay the huge compensation, I can forgive you generously."
"Don't even think about it!" Barbara said anxiously: "Gold coins are my creed!"
Even at this time, her state is still neutral. This girl never wanted to hurt him from the beginning to the end.
Lance was happy but said: "Of course, there is another way. If you are willing to help me, you can use your labor to pay for the compensation."
"Sorry, Your Highness, I love freedom!"
"I can pay you gold coins."
Barbara immediately changed her tune: "Are there any specific contract terms?"
"...." He was dumbfounded. Does this succubus like money so much It's better to be realistic, it's better to be realistic. He comforted himself.
"I need your abilities very much." Lance said: "About the specific contract terms, I haven't yet..."
Before he finished speaking, she said anxiously: "No problem, No problem. The terms are secondary. How much money can you give me?"
Haven't you never seen the gold coins? But he didn't know what the hiring price was, so he smiled slightly and asked, "How much do you think you are worth?"
"A lot!" She looked proud: "I'm good in assassination, theft, and stealth! Especially stealth, the general saint-level masters can't find me!"
Lance curled his lips: "Then why can I find you?"
Barbara blushed for a moment but returned to normal in an instant: "It's an accident! I swear this is the only time I'm found!"
"It's not convincing at all." Lance took the opportunity to lower the price.
"Oops! It's really an accident!" Barbara pouted: "I don't care! Anyway...anyway...I require a monthly commission of no less than one hundred gold coins!"
"What!" Lance's eyes widened: "One hundred gold coins?!"
He had learned that except for the high-level guard captain, who received three gold coins, and the warlock, who received three gold coins, his other guards' salaries were less than one gold coin per month. "
It was also at that time that he realized that his more than one hundred gold coins were actually quite a lot. If 5% of the people on earth control 95% of the money, Lance found that 1% of the people control 99.9% resources in this different world!
What Barbara asked for is a hundred gold coins! Damn it, the neighboring magician will be so happy if she gets one gold coins every month!
Barbara also felt excessive. She tilted her head and said, "Actually...it's not like we can't negotiate about it. I can accept...ten gold coins a month."
Your price dropped too quickly! However, after this conversation, Lance also roughly understood the averge salary.
"Fifteen coins a month." He said generously, "What do you think?"
In fact, if the gold coins could be converted into account balance, it would only be 15 cents. He instantly felt that it was too few. But the account balance cannot be exchanged for gold coins.
"Deal!" Barbara said without any hesitation and even with extremely excitement.
Her direct attitude made Lance wonder if this succubus had any other intentions. But he just nodded and asked: "Speaking of which, you are so good at theft and can even hide your aura in front of the saint-level master, why are you still interested in such a small amount of gold coins? There should be more money than here if you go to a other mansions and steal some valuable materials, right?"
Barbara said with a slight hesitation: "I can tell you, but the contract is completed. You can't fire me for the reasons I said! No, you can't fire me at any reasons!"
"No problem." He accepted. He needed other powers, especially the power of a third party like Barbara. So his original intention was to win over her to work for him. No matter what ridiculous reasons the girl gave, he could actually accept it, even if she said because he was ugly and looked safe!
Barbara breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this assurance. She explained: "Because now I am also a civil servant, even a folower of the royal family! I am not afraid even if I am caught stealing things with this identity. Instead, I can go to the homes of those nobles from time to time. Maybe I will even be welcomed as a royal envoy!"
Speaking of excitement, she waved her hand: "Let me see who dares to catch me!"
Lance suddenly wanted to fire this succubus!
"Hey, hey." She looked at his expression face and said nervously: "We have agreed! You can't fire me!"
"Of course!!!" Lance's words came out from between his teeth.
"You are an easy-to-talk royal." She glanced at him strangely: "Speaking of which, your temper is really good, which is different from those I've met before."
"How to say?"
"Those people in the past would beat me up even if I said a few words." Barbara looked aggrieved: "Narrow-minded!"
Lance recalled what this girl said after he met her and suddenly woke up! That's why no one has hired this girl before who obviously has the ability of master-level stealth but is just a temporary worker of the Dark Brotherhood. Her mouth plays a huge role in it!
Barbara seemed to have thought of something, "Now that you are my boss, it's time for me to work. When I came here before, I saw those humans sneaking around."
"Huh?" Lance was stunned: "Anna?"
"There is her." She nodded: "That magician also held a Breath Hiding Stone in her hand. That thing was quite big which could shield her own breath and even evade the perception of the saint-level master. But at the time, I felt they are just my way of escape, so I don't bother them."
"Way of escape?"
"Yes." She said matter-of-factly: "If I accidentally triggered some trap that I didn't notice and woke up your steward, I can run to where she is, and those humans will be my scapegoats. A group of sneaky humans are much more conspicuous than a demon like me."
You are really a demon! Lance was filled with emotion. It was Anna who pulled you into the carriage with sympathy! But what you think is about how to take advantage of them.
"Do you want to arrest them?" Barbara was eager to try: "I promise to make them be in a coma one by one!"
"No, no." He smiled slightly and said, "Not only that, but when you see them later, just keep an eye on them secretly."
"What if they run away?" Barbara asked doubtfully.
"Then let them run." Lance shrugged: "You follow behind them. If they are discovered and arrested, just come back and tell me right away so I can go rescue them."
"Huh? Why?" She looked confused: "You are so strange, boss."
He grinned: "Because this is their greatest value!"
"What's this value, for plaything?" Barbara was still confused. "Forget it, you nobles are always weird. But you are the boss, you can do whatever you say."
Seeing that alll matters were discussed, Barbara's state successfully returned to friendly.
Lance's heart moved slightly and he asked a question that had been bothering him all day. He thought that his passive seemed to be ineffective. "What do you think of me?"
He wanted to test whether its trigger condition is 'non-human' or 'non-humanoid'.
Barbara dragged her chin and looked at Lance. It took a long time before the girl spoke. "You look quite valuable."
"Huh?"
"It's just not easy to sell."
Lance: "...." Sooner or later you will die because of your mouth!
Although Barbara was a miser with a somewhat novel brain circuit, Lance was still very happy to have another person in his team, so he slept very comfortably in the second half of the night.