This is troublesome...
Although snatching the cup and running was a success, the bidders definitely won't let it go so easily.
Apart from that arbitrator, there's also a group from the Blood Clan. Among the audience in the stands, both visible and cloaked, Li Pan could sense at least sixteen people.
If all these were representatives of companies, then nearly half the members of the Safety Committee had joined this war.
Li Pan couldn't afford to think any longer. He stuffed the Holy Grail into his chest, took Spider Eighteen with him, and with all his strength, performed a tanuki turn and snake crawl. Using hands and feet together, he dashed madly along the familiar path that Little She-Wolf had only once led him through, rushing out the back door of the opera house.
No sooner had he left than a communication from Lama was relayed by Eighteen.
"Boss, it's terrible! Our company's warehouse has been raided!"
Li Pan, "Oh, no worries, I have an idea..."