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"It's definitely worth going to see."
[Rudeus said, then suddenly saw a group of children running towards them and whispered a warning.]
"Keep an eye on your wallets."
Hearing Rudeus's words, everyone clutched their pockets. Actually, even without Rudeus's reminder, they had been very careful ever since they entered the Land of Nothingness, after all, this was a place of disorder.
"Could you give me some money?"
The children also ran up to Rudius and his companions, begging.
A little girl ran up to Groot, the tree spirit. Groot bent down, but instead of giving her money, a small blue flower sprouted from his palm. Groot handed the flower to the little girl, who smiled as she looked at the small blue flower in her hand.
It's better than everyone else coming empty-handed, and besides, this green plant is quite rare in this barren land.
"Get away from me."
Rocket Raccoon also chased away the kids; he still had to go retrieve his billion dollars.
"Is your buyer in here?"
"We'll wait for his representative here."
Alice spoke.
"Get out."
A burly man threw a person out, and a crowd of onlookers gathered around.
"This is not a respectable place."
Rudius remarked that he had assumed the buyer offering four billion would be in that prestigious location, but it turned out to be in an unknown place.
It's not that Rudius looks down on the Land of Nothingness, but rather that the Land of Nothingness is too... chaotic.
"What can we do while we wait?"
Drax didn't want to just wait around.
So Drax and his group went to the best place in the unknown to find fun: the casino.
"I really want to go."
As Jabami Yumeko watched Drax and the others gambling on the light screen, she wished she could jump in and gamble with them, since it was a casino unlike any other on Earth.
Although their gambling methods weren't particularly unusual, Yumeko Jabami still wanted to try it out.
This is unlike any casino on Earth; it's a casino that brings together various races and civilizations from across the universe.
"Aaaaaah!"
"Well done, well done!"
Drax shouted excitedly, clenching his fists to encourage the creature he had bet on.
[Drax and his companions weren't playing any kind of card game; they were playing animal fighting.]
"Hey, isn't this the thing that Rudeus used as a microphone to sing when he stole the Sphere of the Universe from that planet?"
Ryota Suzui looked at the two creatures about to fight on the arena in the light screen and felt that they looked strangely familiar, and then he remembered.
Ryota Suzui felt that the two creatures fighting on the arena in the light screen were inexplicably similar to himself.
Drax's bet swallowed the other one whole, leaving Groot dumbfounded as he watched his bet disappear.
"Yeah, let's go!"
[Rocket Raccoon, seeing that his bets had won, shouted happily, then took a swig of his drink.]
"Haha, my Oroni won!"
"I'm number one in everything."
Drax cheered.
"Pour in a little more of this liquid."
Drax raised his glass and clinked it against Groot's, clearly drunk.
"You don't seem so crazy with just that one sentence."
[Rocket Raccoon looked at Drax and said.]
"Gambling is truly insane."
After taking a swig of sake, Kohei Imamura said that he was now practically invincible to alcohol and could easily defeat Iori Kitahara.
"I thought you were going to say that drinking makes people crazy."
Kitahara Iori looked at Imamura Kohei and said.
"No, no, no, it should be gambling, and maybe they are crazy people themselves."
"Oh?"
"Have you forgotten their identities? Drax is alright, but he went to prison because his home was massacred and he was imprisoned for killing Ronan's men."
"And Rocket Raccoon and Groot are bounty hunters."
"Although we didn't see Rudeus and Alice, their identities are also quite extraordinary. Perhaps madness is one of the ways they can make their way in the universe."
After finishing speaking, Kohei Imamura also took a sip of the Water of Life. Iori Kitahara frowned as she looked at Kohei Imamura.
"Did you... play a visual novel and get to a bad ending last night?"
Kohei Imamura felt that the profound persona he had painstakingly cultivated had been shattered by a single sentence from Iori Kitahara.
"The fuel here is ridiculously expensive, damn it!"
"I might end up losing money."
Rudeus casually remarked as he approached Alice, "Compared to going to the beast-fighting arena with Drax and the others, Rudeus feels it's better to get closer to Alice."
That's right, Rudyus is after Alice.
"My contact person told us to wait."
"I understand, it's just a negotiation tactic. Trust me, I'm good at it."
Rudius leaned against the railing, looking at Alice's profile, and said...
"And what's your style?"
"One cut to the left, one cut to the right, that's my condition."
Alice, wiping her sword, smiled and said after hearing Rudeus's words.
"My father never taught me how to put pressure on others."
"Thanos?"
Alice stopped what she was doing upon hearing Rudeus's words, and looked at him with a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"Thanos, he is not my father."
"Thanos invaded my home planet."
"They killed my parents right in front of me."
"He tortured me, turned me into a killing machine, when he said he would help Ronan destroy the entire planet Xandar."
"I can't stand idly by, so..."
Alice stopped speaking, clearly unwilling to continue.
"So, having already done all that, why did Thanos still keep Iris by his side?"
"Kill her entire family, or do it right in front of her, and then raise her by your side to mentor her?"
Kazuma Sato couldn't understand Thanos's actions. He felt that Thanos was very confident in himself, believing that no matter how strong Alice became, she would never be able to defeat him.
"Didn't you ever consider that what Alice said might be a lie to Rudeus?"
Hachiman Hikigaya looked at Kazuma Sato and said.
"Alice may be able to fool me, but she can't fool Rudeus."
"That's what Kazuma Sato said."
"I believe that although Rudius may seem carefree, as someone who has spent many years roaming the universe as a raider, he has dealt with all sorts of people."
"I will never be fooled by Alice."
Kazuma Sato didn't know why he trusted Rudeus so much.
"Have you forgotten that Rudius was fooled by Alice in the very beginning?"
Kirito Kazuto's words shattered Sato Kazuma's earlier inexplicable confidence in Rudeus.
"Why risk your life to retrieve it?"
Alice reached for the MP3 player tucked into Rudeus's waistband and asked.
"This was given to me by my mother."
"My mother likes to share with me the pop music she liked when she was young, and I happened to have it with me that day."
"That day I..."