On Earth, along a food street in West City.
"Boss, ten orders of grilled meat!"
A voice rang out from the outdoor seating of a barbecue restaurant.
The person who had called out was none other than Rhode.
He sat leisurely at the table, with Aila, who had come out with him, beside him.
But Rhode and Aila were not the only ones at the table. Opposite them sat a casually dressed, handsome man with long white hair who looked quite young.
At that moment, the young man was savoring the grilled meat in his hand. His movements were elegant, his expression composed; one glance was enough to tell he was no ordinary person.
"You got here rather quickly!"
The long-haired young man bit off a piece of meat and savored it unhurriedly. His gaze swept over Rhode and Aila before settling on Rhode, and he spoke with his signature smile.
"So you noticed me a long time ago!"
Rhode was not surprised by the white-haired young man's words. Recalling the few times he had felt someone watching him, he replied with a smile.
"Ho ho ho, I couldn't help it. You're so powerful, and you've even learned Ultra Instinct. It would have been hard not to notice you!"
As someone who could be called the strongest being in his universe, it was hardly easy for him to overlook the emergence of people at Rhode and Aila's power tier within it.
Especially since powerful energy fluctuations had appeared on Earth over a year ago. In the current Universe 7, aside from a handful of beings who could not possibly appear for the time being, only a God of Destruction could intervene against power of that magnitude.
With something so significant happening, how could he have been the only one paying