Negotiations

 Ryan was hurrying to finish his preparations, but it looked like he would never reach the desirable level of preparation. He needed another source of power… after thinking for a while. Upon finding the pile of materials that Isis brought him, Ryan decided to contact Yahiko.

"Hello again, Ryan," Yahiko said once Ryan used Telepathy. "Did something happen?"

"It looks like we only talk when something happens, huh," Ryan said. "Today, I decided to contact you to do business. I want to buy dragon hearts."

"I imagined that this would happen eventually," Yahiko said. "Usually, I would offer you some since you helped us quite a lot, but it looks like you don't want a small amount. Thanks to the Azure dragons, the commerce in Japan changed quite a bit, so the value of dragon hearts is pretty high. I can give you a discount, but even considering that, I can't sell them for less than two hundred thousand coins."