The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 564

Renee found it weird, but because she still had an important business to attend to, she had to leave the matter there.

With Chase leading her, she passed through the whole of Water Dock unimpeded and finally arrived at the center of the downstream zone, where Carmine Pawnshop proudly stood.

"So this is the legendary Carmine Pawnshop?" asked Renee as she stood at the door. She looked up at the gilt letters proclaiming its name on the door plaque and very bluntly commented, "It looks so... ordinary!"

From the outside, the pawnshop looked like any other mansion. It just looked too "normal" and not at all befitting the "lawless land of heinous crimes' reputation that Water Dock had garnered over time. In fact, it looked too simple and clean if anything.

Renee found it hard to believe that such a mundane building had been hiding priceless treasures from all over the world that inspired great fear and trepidation in the hearts of many!

"What did you expect?" Chase turned around and smiled gently. "Carmine Pawnshop has always been an ordinary place. It was you people who have elevated it into a powerful, godlike establishment... or should I say, twisted it into an evil lair of demons. The truth is, this place is not at all as terrifying as it's rumored. At the end of the day, we're just another pawn shop like any other."

not. You'd accept it as long as it's worth good money, wouldn’t you? I hear that you'd even let people pawn their own lives-a deed sinister enough that befits your

no legal rules applied there. If anyone wanted to pawn something valuable in exchange for the life of an enemy, as long as Carmine Pawnshop deemed their offering worthy enough, they wouldn't hesitate to kill to get it,

is some purgatory. In truth, as our boss has mentioned before, this place is more like a

"What?"

problem in your life. As long as you gain enough strength to pay the agreed price later, you can always get that most valuable thing in your life back. If you can’t get it back, then it means that thing that you pawned wasn't really the most valuable thing in your life, since you didn't

"Well..."

she decided to make

"You're back, Mr. Cheever!"

traditional dress was standing at the

nodded, then led Renee into the interior section

the sights around her when she finally got inside. She was now in the courtyard of Carmine Pawnshop, which had traditional architecture, making it

mood to admire these items right now. She followed Chase closely behind and