Dawn slowly turned his head, glanced at them, and curled his lips into a faintly mocking smile.
"You two are at least prominent figures in the New World. Don't you have even this much gentlemanly manners?
"The ladies just finished a hard battle. What's wrong with letting them rest for a while? You don't even know how to yield to ladies, yet you have the nerve to shout about unfairness here?"
"Besides, the weak have no right to question the decisions of the strong. What? Is this how Charlotte Linlin usually taught you? When you lose, all you know is how to scream and make a fuss?"
That single remark left Cracker and Snack choking on their anger, their faces instantly flushing red like boiled shrimp. They opened their mouths, but it was as if red-hot coals were lodged in their throats. After a long while, neither could force out a word of rebuttal.
Oven and Daifuku, sprawled on the ground nearby and having only just regained a sliver of consciousness, were so enraged by those words that their chests heaved violently. They nearly spat out blood, their vision going dark as they almost fainted again.
The four women by the long table soon ate and drank their fill. More than half of their depleted strength had returned, and their previously chaotic breaths had settled considerably.
Dawn raised his hand again and snapped his fingers. Xiao Ai emerged from the dark vortex, spatial ripples like circles on water appearing across its abdomen.
"Go in. Get some proper rest, then come back out and continue fighting."
The four women exchanged glances, smiles appearing on their faces as they entered the spatial ripples in the robot's abdomen one after another.
They waited for several hours.
The setting sun finally sank beneath the