The next stop was Knowhere.
The moment he stepped out of the portal, Hayato sensed that there were far more people active on Knowhere than before.
Nebula had spent several days on Knowhere and was already familiar with the place. As soon as she landed, she pulled out her tablet. It held dozens of terabytes of downloaded soap operas, and she returned to her room to binge-watch them.
It felt like he had turned an interstellar assassin into a shut-in girl.
She was done for.
Thor was curious about Knowhere, so Hayato let him wander around on his own. He was not Thor's babysitter; was he supposed to keep him company every moment? Still, Hayato specifically told Thor not to fight, especially not with the Collector's living exhibits.
It was too low-class and did not suit the identity of an Asgardian prince.
Hayato himself went to see the Collector, Tivan.
He was drinking red wine with a duck-like intelligent life-form.
Beside them crouched a dog in a spacesuit.
The duck was Howard the Duck.
The dog was Cosmo, the space dog.
"Oh, you're back," the Collector said. "Want a glass? Top-quality red wine from your Earth, one of my collectibles. I feel like it would be a waste to smash it without finishing it."
Howard the Duck said, "So he's the powerful human you mentioned? He looks pretty ordinary~"
The space dog said, "I smell something powerful."
Cosmo had originally been an ordinary dog sent into outer space by the Polar Bear Union. Later, he was abandoned on Knowhere, where his genes mutated and gave him incredibly powerful psychic abilities.
The Collector poured Hayato a glass.
Hayato took a sip and found the taste somewhat familiar.
"Where did you get this wine?"
"This? There's something on your Earth called the