After taking care of a few things, Vera Xavier paid them no more mind. She had already arrived in Trellis with Jack Judd and Aaron Cheney.
What she needed to do required a massive amount of money. In this world, there was no faster way to get rich than jade gambling. And since her rebirth had given her X-ray vision—a natural-born cheat—it would be a waste not to use it.
After mulling it over at home, she decided to make a trip to Trellis. Her ambitions weren't grand; she just needed to use her X-ray vision to buy a few top-quality raw jade stones, cut them open, and then find a way to sell them. That would be enough.
She had told her grandmother she was going to the provincial capital, but that was a lie. Yulara was simply too far away, and to the average person, jade gambling sounded far too unreliable. She lied because she was afraid of making her grandmother worry.
