IRNDGL - Chapter 282: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Theodore was a secondhand bookseller.

As this profession was passed down in his family for generations, Theodore had been 12 when he began assisting his father at Tulip Bookstore. Since then, he had been in the trade for over three decades and had garnered quite some reputation in Norzin due to his extensive experience.

Besides trading secondhand book collections, he would collect some books that only had sole copies or ones that intrigued him as his personal hobby.

Or rather, everyone who ran a bookstore would more or less have a special relationship with books.

Yet, it was this very hobby that got him into trouble…

Theodore did not have the ability to determine how much trouble it was, but he instinctively understood that it was probably beyond what a bookseller could manage.

Even though he had forged friendly ties with some powerful aristocrats in the Central District through out-of-print or expensive book collections, these connections were utterly useless here.

Because this matter had exceeded the range of foreseeable expectations and was quickly moving toward one which far surpassed the imagination of ordinary beings…

Theodore had gotten his hands on the book through a Lower District smuggler.

Interactions between the Upper and Lower District were forbidden, and the sole passageway beneath the Central District was under the watch of Rolle Resource Development and Central District military. Theoretically speaking, smuggling activities were basically impossible, and Theodore didn’t have the slightest clue how the other party managed to do it.

That fellow had been very tight-lipped and refused to divulge any information. Naturally, Theodore understood the rules and did not probe any further.

Yet, it was undeniable that smuggling between the Lower District and Upper Districts would bring about a hefty sum of profit. Apart from books, there were much more valuable items.

This book was merely an ancient book that was both incomprehensible and damaged and was something the other p

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I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 282: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

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