"Boss, do we make a move?"
Standing beside Leo, Rocket took a slight step back and spoke softly, his muscles tense. Only one person was aiming a gun at him now. This was an opportunity.
Once they put him in restraints, getting away would be truly difficult.
The Kro standing opposite them looked at the five of them with a savage grin.
That's right. This transaction had been a trap from the start; Rocket had simply happened to stumble into it.
A portion of Galaxy Pure Water had just appeared on StarNet when Rocket bought it.
This had originally been the Kro's bait, but Rocket had snapped it up without hesitation.
In fact, based on the information on StarNet, it was almost possible to determine that this incident had not been caused by Rocket.
But in the eyes of the Kro, it was better to kill a thousand innocents than let one culprit escape. Even if it wasn't Rocket, they didn't care. They simply couldn't allow anyone who had considered buying Galaxy Pure Water to get away.
That was how the scene before them had come about.
That's right. From the moment they had spoken over the communicator, he had already been certain that this group was not behind it, which was why his attitude had been so cold.
But after they disembarked from their ship, he had been forced by pressure from above to put on an act and see whether he could pry any information out of them.
Unfortunately, he had been enraged by Rocket and Leo's words.
In his eyes, these people were all inferior life-forms. There was even a short, furry animal among them.
So now he had torn off that hypocritical mask. He had no goodwill whatsoever toward Leo and the others.
Relying on the