"The right price, eh? Looks like I need to get my purchasing team to look after you." Diego said as he saw Jin's expression change for the worse. "Hahaha, You are so easy to read that liaising with you is a joy for me."
"Well, you are the head honcho, can't you just quote a price for me?" Jin smiled devilishly and that was when he saw Diego picking up his phone to make the necessary calculations only to find that the price or less than desirable. After which, he showed his phone screen's calculator app to Diego, and Jin was shocked. "Wow, do I only worth that much to you?"
"I was merely basing the quotation from your current dungeon instances. As I said, I am really bad at purchasing or quoting the right price. If you want more than this, you should look for my purchasing team." Diego said as he scratched his head. It was pretty obvious, he was not able to give a proper quotation and Jin could see it in his numbers.
Even Kong Rong who was the head of the Internal Security Agency had better numbers when it came to quoting a price for Jin's service.
"If I were to give you a price now, would you accept it or would you think it's a ripoff?" Jin asked as he knew that if he were to go through the purchasing team of any company, it would complicate methods since all they want is to make sure the price is lowered to the best of their ability.
Not to mention, they would definitely not know how this operation would go, or the painstaking need to create a void being that could accommodate a void being.
"Hmm...considering this is an unprecedented threat and since the Chinese Intelligence had already proved that this is not some mere ramblings of a madman that a Void Being exists despite the lack of proof, I can say that I am able to accommodate a special price for you," Diego said and Jin finally smiled, thanking Diego.
"If that's the case, I will charge you a flat price first as a deposit and once the job is done then you pay us the remaining?"
"Ah no no. My purchasing team had been rather careful with my purchases recently ever since I got scammed once."
"What?"
"I am not saying that I think that you are a scammer, considering you hold a reputable store with rather powerful allies as your friends.
And yet, that did not happen, Lynn personally came to show the food to herself and when Jin tried to make an excuse, his girlfriend also ignored his plea to run away, forcing him to stay.
Thus, he was stuck with the group for the longest time ever where they exchanged pleasantries and only when most of the group had finished their food, they started talking about the joint operation between Italy and China. Jin was honestly surprised that Kong Rong was willing to spend time over here and when probed, he said that he merely wanted to take the excuse to appreciate Lynn's gourmet food.
If Jin could roll his eyes, he would have already done so in front of Kong Rong but too bad there were too many people around to even do that properly. And since they had already gone through the dinner phase, all Jin could do was hope that the subsequent discussion was fruitful.
Before they started, Diego asked if this was a safe place to begin spilling 'tea' on the operation, and the rest unanimously stated that it was. And when that was assured, Diego began giving them the summary of the operation details but not as explicit as the redacted folder that Jin had seen.
Still, it was enough information to go by for them to discuss and Kong Rong suggested that they nipped the situation in the bud before the Void Being decided that enough was enough and wanted to come out of the colosseum by himself to stop the buzzing that had been happening.
To the JODE Chancellor, he said that he was out of his depth as his role was to manage organisations but was willing to allocate extra budget to contain this threat. But at the same time, Diego requested to Ma Ge not to put the news up anywhere about this.
Kong Rong agreed that while international cooperation is extremely juicy news to boast about, it would not do any good if the enemy knew about it as well.
"They might believe that we have the capability to contain one Void Being and proceed to unleash several more at the same time. That is one thing the world is not ready for." Kong Rong said and Jin nodded his head furiously in agreement.
While it was nothing to Jin and his minions, he did not want to go to every single corner of the world collecting Void Beings as if his life depended on it. After all, he was supposed to be a DUngeon Supplier, not a Void Being Slayer.
Ma Ge sighed and nodded his head reluctantly to see the potential of news to boost JODE's capability but Diego comforted him. "Don't worry. If this works out, I will make sure I get some sponsors..to improve the financial situation of the organisation."
"Don't look at me. I am a worker in their eyes." Jin said as he could see Diego was side eyeing him. It was at that point the other three smiled since they knew the status of Jin being a Royal Zodiac Head albeit it was not the official title.
"Hahaha. I am merely teasing you. You will have your job money alright, and I am not asking you to contribute after that." Diego smiled.