"What makes you think you can cooperate with me?" Sunday looked at Gallagher.
"Because even the famous Robin has chosen to stand on this side." Gallagher smiled. As everyone knew, a siscon's weak point did not even need to be sought or guessed at. It would naturally expose itself right in front of you.
There was no doubt that his plan was to seize Mr. Sunday's weak point, "Add the clue to a traitor, and the bright future of Penacony. Can a special drink like this satisfy your appetite?"
Gallagher narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Sunday with a smile.
After his words fell, the head of the Oak Family fell silent. Only after a few seconds did he speak again, "It is difficult for me to believe that someone whose entire body is covered in lies can have more than a few truths in his mouth."
Gallagher did not care about Sunday's hostility and simply continued, "It's fine. You don't have to believe me. What you should believe... is the justice in your heart."
"...Let me see Robin first." Brother Sunday emphasized once again that he wanted to see his sister.
"Sure, as you wish. She's here..." Gallagher shrugged and looked to the side.
Sunday immediately turned his head to look over.
The crisp sound of heels hitting the ground abruptly stopped. Firefly, who had approached after seeing Gallagher, stopped in her tracks. "...?"
The two people here had suddenly turned around together to look at her, leaving her stunned for a moment.
Some kind of instinct inside her began to stir, almost igniting the Dreamflux Reef.
After all, before becoming Firefly, she had been the Molten Knight SAM, a war machine Glamoth had used to fight the Swarm.
It was like how people who often did something or undergo a certain kind of training would develop a conditioned reflex. A very vivid comparison could be made using Nero and Yanqing,
Yanqing's strength had been tempered and honed through countless trials. If you suddenly thrust a sword at him from the shadows, his mind might still be thinking about it in the first instant, but his body would have already blocked the attack on its own and counterattacked you.
Nero was different. Although Nero was very strong, his strength had come in a baffling way, with a huge gap in his stats.
If you suddenly thrust a sword at him from the shadows, he would probably rely on his powerful talent to immediately determine the situation before him in an extremely short time, and only then react.
Generally speaking, experts possessed both, but compared to ordinary people, Nero's stats were simply too high.
Returning to the current situation, Firefly's perfectly timed arrival caused the scene to fall silent all at once.
Instead, Tiriandes greeted Firefly, "Miss Firefly, hello."
Firefly blinked and looked at the Intelligent Machine Knight. "You..."
"My name is Tiriandes, and I come from the Knights of Beauty. During the time we spent searching for Nero, the Knights obtained a large amount of information, including information about you and that 'Invisible Emperor of Punklorde.'", Like most Intelligent Machines, Tiriandes spoke to her in a steady tone.
Unlike his other brothers and sisters, he had a unique advantage when it came to searching through information.
Therefore, after obtaining information about the "current Idrila" from Argenti, he immediately conducted searches based on the limited keywords and used a few small hacking tricks.
Before he had even arrived at Penacony, he already knew that Nero was familiar with the Stellaron Hunters and had a close relationship with Miss Silver Wolf.
In order to obtain more intelligence, he had even tried to hack into the account of that genius hacker. However, a genius hacker was still a genius hacker, and that operation of his had failed to obtain much useful information.
But that was fine. After his subsequent investigation, he was certain that his hacking attempt had brought Nero a victory.
"I... I see... hello..."
Out of politeness, Firefly still greeted Tiriandes.
But when facing this Intelligent Machine, she felt uncomfortable all over, as if her entire past had been investigated.
Tiriandes seemed to know what Firefly was thinking and spoke again, "You seem somewhat uneasy, but please do not worry. Collecting information is my habit."
"More comprehensive information will make an operation twice as effective with half the effort. Compared with my other brothers and sisters, I have less enthusiasm for probability theory and would rather see a definite, perfect result."
"But I understand that you, and the organization you belong to, have little to do with Nero. I also understand, of course, that the Annihilation Gang has used the name of your organization to carry out many evil deeds."
"Although I hope everything can have a good result, that is difficult to achieve. Considering the actions against your organization from a long-term perspective, I believe that for some lifeforms in the universe, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks."
"Therefore, I will not leak your data and information to the outside. And even if I did leak it, I believe that the planner and the 'Invisible Emperor of Punklorde' would have ways to deal with it."
Firefly, "..."
'I... I haven't even said anything yet. Does this knight talk a little too much?'
Sunday also recovered from a certain state of shock and speechlessness. He looked at Gallagher again, this time with a trace of anger in his voice, "What trick are you playing now?"
'This bastard, did he really think I couldn't recognize what my sister looked like?'
'Or was he deliberately humiliating me!'
"Haha, just a joke. I mean, this young lady will take us to see Robin, right?" Gallagher completely ignored the anger in Sunday's voice and turned to Firefly.
"Of course." Firefly nodded.
After all, she had only recently exchanged the information they currently had with Stelle.
Although Tiriandes could also lead the way, even Gallagher felt that it was not very safe to let this guy lead them.
Although the Knights of Beauty were very trustworthy in terms of character... Tiriandes was someone who had quietly turned Mimi into a two-dimensional character.
Although he was very willing to believe that Tiriandes was "just," whether or not he was willing to let him lead the way was another matter. Just standing there, this guy already gave off an overwhelming sense of pressure.
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Not long after...
Nero and the others arrived at a platform in the Dreamflux Reef. Three tombstones lay quietly here.
"This is the monument I mentioned earlier. The names on it... should not be unfamiliar to you." Mikhail said to the Astral Express crew.
"Razalina... and Tiernan..." Mr. Yang softly read out the names on them.
"Back when Penacony was still called the Frontier Prison, it was the Trailblaze that connected it to the stars."
Mikhail raised his head slightly and slowly said, "They were all heroes who saved Asdana. Their names should have been carved into the monument of time, not on this little stone.
"Yet now, all that remains of the Festival Planet is a beautiful dream. Its heavy history, like that prison... has long since disappeared without a trace."