"Astral Express? Sounds kind of familiar."
Taco felt he had heard the name Astral Express somewhere before, and more than once.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. The priority was to hurry and find Himeko to latch onto... though this buddy in front of him seemed like a pretty powerful backer too?
Whatever. A backer was a backer, right?
Taco climbed up from the ground and pointed at the Go-Kart Dan Heng was holding up.
"Buddy, could you put that down first?"
Dan Heng acknowledged him and set the Go-Kart on the ground.
When he got off the train, information about the stop had appeared in his mind too, but the scene had been so chaotic that he had overlooked it for a moment.
"Misty District, and National Fortune even specifically marked it as a high-risk area? All the more reason to find a strong backer!"
Having made his decision, Taco climbed up from the ground.
"Brother Dan Heng, which country are you a contestant from? You sound like you're from Huaxia, but I know the one from Huaxia. Her strength is just as ridiculous as yours... Oh, you're from Malaysia, right? Those moves you just used were all Chinese Kung Fu!"
"...?"
When faced with something difficult to answer, Dan Heng habitually responded with silence.
His silence made Taco even more certain that none of these people from that mysterious eastern nation were ordinary.
"To tell you the truth, I went to Huaxia before to learn your kung fu. You know, the kind of qigong that lets you fly through the sky and burrow underground. I even made a point of putting on Huaxia's traditional clothing."
Taco took out his phone and scrolled through his album, finding a photo of himself on a street