Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

It took less than an hour for Charley and Bo'er to pay the Tri-Saint Society to find out information on Negan Lovar, and it landed on Durin's desk. 


This caused Durin, who was feeding his younger sister an apple, some melancholy – you can always make money anytime, it's not that he didn't want to help them, but now he really couldn't give them news about Negan Lovar. 


"But they used Detect Lies on our receptionist, the young one can't even lie properly, nor has he received training to circumvent Detect Lies, he spilled the beans," Madame Lin replied with a wry smile. 


After thinking it over, Durin had Madame Lin of the Tri-Saint Society personally attend to the two men and told her his bottom line. 


"If they really ask, just say that I am plotting a major plan, and this plan requires Negan Lovar to be alive. Once my plan is over, I will tell them Negan Lovar's whereabouts, and I will not ask for money." 


Chapter 193: Compensation