Chapter 20: Agents

Mitsuha visited the mercenary captain for the first time in a while. Developing her county had kept her far too busy to stop by. Besides grenades, which somehow always managed to end up behind her, she was already capable of using most of the weapons she carried.

That doesn’t mean much though. I know how to shoot, yeah, but my accuracy is still really low.

The mercs had made a nice sum of money from the dragon scales, meat, and other parts. To keep some degree of fairness and prevent anyone from monopolizing the samples, they’d set limits on how much one country could buy. Calling their prices “expensive” would have been an understatement. Any countries that complained, however, had their shares put on auction or sold to megacorporations.

That’s just nasty, Mitsuha winced.

They had also secured some of the rights to discoveries, inventions, and products born from research into the dragon material. All in all, Wolfgang was now filthy rich.

“Whoa, you’ll get your share too. Don’t look at me like that,” the captain said.