"And so we have to go to England?" Ban asked.
Makubex nodded.
"To Sussex."
Nod.
"To collect a battered dispatch-box from a retired pair of bee-keeping gentlemen living on the Sussex Downs and bring it back here."
"It contains certain mathematical documents on the binomial theorem belonging to an ancestor of mine."
Ban sighed. He looked up at the ceiling. He looked at Ginji. He looked at Makubex. "All right. The GetBackers never refuse a mission. But I just want one thing put in the contract."
"What's that?"
"That when this all goes horribly, horribly wrong -- I told you so."
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