Asuka Kudou smiled. "Your offer sounds pretty good, but no thanks. Your smell is too strong. If I stay around you too long, it might rub off on me."
Veins bulged on Jaldabaoth Gasper's forehead. This was blatant humiliation. He turned his gaze to Haruhime Kasukabe.
Haruhime Kasukabe raised a hand. "Sorry! I can't stand your smell either."
Jaldabaoth Gasper's face turned livid. After three people in a row said this, he could not help doubting himself. He sniffed his body and found no strange odor at all—only the faint, pleasant fragrance of the expensive perfume he had bought. He was a beastman, and a tiger-type feline beastman at that. His nose was certainly many times sharper than those three humans'. They were obviously humiliating him.
Jaldabaoth Gasper's eye twitched repeatedly. "Everyone, why have you come to that conclusion? Could you tell me the real reason?"
Asuka Kudou said, "I, Asuka Kudou, abandoned my wealth, family background, and predetermined future to come to this world. Would I really be happy returning to a life of luxury now?"
"Oh? So you're the young lady of a wealthy family. Then may I ask these two?"
As Haruhime Kasukabe stroked Calico Cat's head, she said, "Calico Cat doesn't like you, so neither do I."
Chen Fan curled his lip. "I'm simply not interested. Besides, I don't like your arrogant attitude. I'm usually the arrogant one, so I hate seeing someone more arrogant than me."
"Still, there's something I'm curious about. When I came here, I heard Black Rabbit say that in Little Garden, many things can be used as stakes—gifts, money, land, authority, reputation, people. A community's representatives seem to be its flag and name, right? Things that important generally wouldn't be used as wagers, would they?" Chen Fan glanced up at Jaldabaoth