Chapter 254

She started to continue looking for her target.

After a while, she found it;

it was an automaton named Walker.

【Mm... yes, you heard that right.】

【I've already caught him.】

【He's been hiding in Penacony, in the Moment of Morning Dew.】

【He changed his identity and even snuck into Origami Academy to be a professor.】

【I've already talked to the Family.】

【I'll leave the extradition work to you.】

【... ow did you catch him?】

【Heh... with the help of a noble person.】

【Don't ask about the details.】

【Twenty-two years.... I've been chasing him for twenty-two years, running all over every corner of the galaxy.】

【I didn't expect it to end here, in this way....】

【I'm hanging up, partner....】

【I'm going to have a drink for myself.】

Walker hung up the phone,

and a tear began to seep from his eyes.

Asta: "Is this Mr. Walker a police officer?"

Asta: "Judging by his words on the phone, it's like he finally caught a fugitive he'd been chasing hard."

Miss Sushang: "So, the wish he made to Ms. Jade was to successfully catch the fugitive?"

Miss Sushang: "A really unexpected wish."

Furina: "All three people's wishes came true."

Furina: "Does that mean Ms. Jade really has the magical ability to fulfill wishes?"

Welt: "We cannot draw this conclusion yet."

Welt: "After all, the wishes of these three people could be fulfilled through normal channels."

The video continues.

【Their wishes did indeed come true...】

【But I still don't quite understand how she did it.】

【And what does a mortgage mean? Let's go back and ask...】

After investigating the situations of all three people,

Firefly decided to go to the Bonajade Exchange again.

Soon, she returned here.

【You're back, Miss Sam.】

Jade saw Firefly return

and showed a smile.

【Mm, I found the people you mentioned.】

【After patronizing the Bonajade Exchange, their respective wishes did indeed come true.】

【But I still don't know what you want me to see clearly.】

【They all look so... fulfilled.】

Mona: "Fulfilled?"

Mona: "Will they really be fulfilled?"

Mona: "I don't believe the price they paid to fulfill their wishes would be insignificant."

Mona: "Unless Ms. Jade is a philanthropist."

Venti: "Ehehe, since Ms. Jade uses the pseudonym Ms. Bonajade."

Venti: "Maybe she really is a philanthropist?"

Aventurine: "Philanthropist?"

Aventurine: "Pfft hahaha...."

Aventurine: "Interesting, extremely interesting!"

Aventurine: "First time I've heard Ms. Jade called a philanthropist."

Jade: "Ha, indeed."

Jade: "I am not a philanthropist who does good deeds without asking for a return."

Jade: "Next, let's take a look together at what price they paid."

Jade: "I believe after watching this, you will truly understand the essence of the Bonajade Exchange."

The video continues.

【Don't be impatient; this step was just to make you believe that the Bonajade Exchange is the real deal.】

【Next, I will tell you what price they paid.】

【Dale is a rich kid who pursued the girl he liked, Dorothy, but couldn't get her.】

【To win her heart, he made a deal with me: mortgage all his assets in exchange for a gift that would definitely move Dorothy.】

【With the IPC's intelligence and interpersonal network, this is easy.】

【But Dale will soon be kicked out of the dream because he can't pay the room fees; whether he can get rid of his destitute life after that...】

【Depends on his own efforts.】

【I hope that necklace can make their relationship unbreakable.】

Stelle: "Ah???"

Stelle: "Mortgaged all his assets in exchange for a necklace that could move his crush??"

Stelle: "This..."

Silver Wolf: "Hehe, don't know how to evaluate it, right?"

March 7th: "It sounds like it should have been a very romantic story."

March 7th: "But thinking of this expensive price, plus Dale's fate afterward...."

March 7th: "Why do I feel this is a tragedy?"

Lumine: "Without all his assets, can Dale, who has become destitute, really continue to win Dorothy's heart?"

Lumine: "After all, looking at the situation before, Dale didn't understand Dorothy at all."

Lumine: "Successfully confessing by taking a shortcut feels very illusory."

Hu Tao: "Tsk tsk tsk, I personally don't think highly of this little couple."

Hu Tao: "I just feel Dale's final fate will be all for nothing."

Hu Tao: "Losing everything, it can be called bankruptcy!"

Furina: "So.... so miserable!"

Furina: "Is it really worth paying such a price?"

Navia: "Logically... love is priceless."

Navia: "But... that's based on the premise that both people have a love as strong as a vow."

Navia: "And Dale and Dorothy look like it's just one-sided pursuit, not a willing two-way journey...."

Navia: "In that case... it looks like Dale just got hot-headed."

Sparkle: "Heehee, the more you can't get something, the more you lose your mind~"

Sparkle: "I hope this poor little Pepeshi won't starve to death on the street when he's kicked out by the Family~"

The video continues.

Jade didn't pause,

and immediately talked about the second person.

【Stacy, who is addicted to gambling, hoped to gain peerless good luck from me.】

【But she had no property to mortgage, so I took away something else: all her intimate relationships.】

【From the moment she walked out of the Bonajade Exchange, every casino in the galaxy would remember her name, while her parents and siblings would cut off contact with her because of this, and Stacy would never be able to make real friends again.】

【She will gain infinite wealth due to good luck, but will never be able to use that wealth on important people again.】

March 7th: "Eh... this one..."

March 7th: "Is this the one that truly shows Ms. Jade's unique ability?"

Stelle: "Winning every bet?"

Stelle: "Ms. Jade can actually make people have such good luck?"

Paimon: "Bu... but this price..."

Paimon: "Is it too high?"

Dr. Ratio: "For those who have family and friends they care about, it is indeed high."

Boothill: "Damn it, if this person is a loner, wouldn't they have made a huge profit?"

Stelle: "Indeed, maybe this Stacy doesn't care about so-called family and friends."

Stelle: "After all, she only has gambling in her eyes; she's a veteran gambling addict!"

Seele: "I think gambling addicts don't deserve friends or family."

Dr. Ratio: "I agree with that completely."

Aventurine: "Ahem.... why do I feel like I'm being shot at for no reason?"

Dr. Ratio: "That just means you're in a hurry to identify yourself."

Lumine: "Mr. Aventurine doesn't need to be in a hurry; you and this kind of gambler are fundamentally different."

Lumine: "After all, you gamble with your life, Stacy gambles with money."

Lumine: "The nature is still different, right?"

Silver Wolf: "Gambling with life... killing me."

Silver Wolf: "This is the high-end player of gambling."

Silver Wolf: "The pattern is several levels higher than this Stacy."

The video continues.

【As for Detective Walker—he spent twenty years trying to catch a heinous fugitive, but could never step on the other's shadow.】

【In complete despair, he found me.】

【His collateral was his storage system.】

【Soon, his memory as a detective will be erased; he will completely forget who he is, and he won't remember what kind of sacrifices he once made.】

Stelle: "Holy crap!"

Stelle: "Willing to abandon oneself to catch a criminal?"

Stelle: "So heroic?"

March 7th: "It can be seen that catching this criminal has already become this detective's lifelong obsession."

March 7th: "Therefore, no matter what price he has to pay, he must achieve this wish."

Miss Qingque: "How should I put it...."

Miss Qingque: "The wishes were indeed fulfilled."

Miss Qingque: "But the price paid is not small, making it hard to judge if it's worth it...."

Himeko: "Whether it's worth it or not, I'm afraid only those people know in their hearts."

Himeko: "As bystanders, we have no way to judge."

The video continues.

【A very interesting phenomenon, isn't it?】

【I satisfy some people's desires and bestow favors upon them.】

【And these favors soon return to me, accompanied by greater desires.】

【And when people see others' desires being satisfied, they themselves will also produce the same desires, endlessly.】

【Finally, I can fish out what I want from this whirlpool.】

Dan Heng: "So that's how it is....."

Dan Heng: "Just as Miss Firefly said before."

Dan Heng: "Ms. Jade is more like a lender than the proprietress of a so-called pawnshop."

Welt: "Using wish fulfillment as a loan, then waiting quietly to collect rich interest...."

Welt: "Hehe, it seems this is the meaning of the Bonajade."

Furina: "I didn't expect.... Ms. Jade's pawnshop to have such deep tricks."

Furina: "Why does it feel like fishing?"

Hu Tao: "I think people who enter Ms. Jade's pawnshop will eventually fall into an irredeemable death loop..."

Lumine: "Wait, no wonder Mr. Aventurine said he was afraid of being eaten clean by Ms. Jade when he was on the phone with her before."

Lumine: "So that's what it meant!"

Jade: "Hehe, this makes me sound like some scary witch."

Jade: "However, in the final analysis, this is all a matter of mutual consent."

Jade: "I just grasped the human nature of these people, that's all."

The video continues.

【And what I'm best at is waiting.】

【So now, do you understand what you have to pay, Miss Sam?】

【Or should I call you....】

【The remnant of the Glamoth Iron Cavalry—AR-26710?】

Stelle: "???"

Stelle: "No.... this is Firefly's code name, right?"

Stelle: "She could even investigate this??"

Firefly: "Although I'm not surprised."

Firefly: "But I still want to say, the IPC's intelligence network is truly powerful."

Silver Wolf: "Play is play, trouble is trouble, don't joke about the IPC."

Silver Wolf: "One thing to say, with the IPC's scale of dominating the universe, its true strength is ridiculously strong."

March 7th: "This code name.... I really can't feel any warmth in it."

Furina: "It has a sense of déjà vu of Mr. Aventurine's slave code."

Furina: "Both are proofs of not being valued by others."

Hu Tao: "Warriors who defend their homes don't even deserve a name; is this something humans do?"

Miss Qingque: "The Glamoth Empire, which lacks humanity, is like this."