"Takatsuki! Mei! Look, what's that? It looks so strange."
The three of them sat in the cable car, and Kiana, like a child on a trip, constantly looked at the strange new things around her that she had never seen before.
Although she had wandered around a lot in the past, she never had the leisure to sightsee. For a small child, just figuring out how to survive was not an easy task.
As is well known, traveling, unless one particularly enjoys seeing different scenery, is not necessarily a pleasant experience when alone, especially since her actual purpose was to find Siegfried.
So much so that she had never enjoyed herself with friends with such a relaxed mindset.
"That's called a Merlion, it's not a real creature. Haven't you seen it before, Kiana?"
Takatsuki glanced at the spitting structure Kiana was pointing at and said.
At this time, the three of them were taking the cable car to a shopping mall to buy some daily necessities and clothes. As a tourist city, these things were naturally available.
All of this was thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Speedwagon Foundation.
"Takatsuki, isn't it a bit bad for us to just travel like this?"
Unlike Takatsuki and Kiana, who were completely in a tourist mindset, Mei still had some conscience.
"Didn't they say to find Mr. Polnareff?"
Takatsuki waved his hand, "Don't worry, if Joseph really wanted to find Polnareff, he could find him in an instant. What he said before was just to ask us to keep an eye out incidentally."
"Look, aren't Jotaro and the others also out shopping? After all, Polnareff is still here, and the enemy hasn't been found, so we won't be leaving for now."
And Dio's subordinates wouldn't just give up like that.
Takatsuki didn't say this aloud, but he actually hoped that Polnareff could deal with Hanged Man and Emperor, because after Joseph and the others dealt with Devil, Takatsuki discovered that his crystals had increased, not only from what Kiana and the others had dealt with and his own dealing with Yellow Temperance.
This meant that the system determined they belonged to one team, so what others defeated was also counted towards his mission.
This was undoubtedly good news for him. Originally, he had already prepared to miss out on the rewards from a few enemies.
If this mission was completed successfully, he would have three 100-pulls and three guaranteed S-ranks.
Soon, the three arrived at the largest shopping mall in the area.
Although it was a tourist destination, it wasn't peak season, so there weren't many people in Singapore at this time.
But those shops wouldn't close just because there were few tourists.
Instead, fewer people were even better for Takatsuki and the others, at least they didn't have to jostle with crowds while enjoying themselves.
"Takatsuki, look, look! How do I look in this outfit?"
Looking at Kiana in front of him with long white hair, wearing a pure white dress and a sun hat, Takatsuki commented, "Very good, just like a young lady."
"If you don't talk or move around too much."
He then added a sentence that made Kiana, who had just received a compliment, immediately puff out her cheeks: "What do you mean by that?!"
It must be said that Kiana had a very good appearance, and because of Takatsuki's suggestion, she had just untied her two braids, letting her long hair fall over her shoulders. If she just stood there quietly, she would look like a young lady from a foreign land.
But as soon as she spoke, it was immediately exposed, not to mention her lively and active personality, which made it impossible for her to stay still in one place.
"Takatsuki, is this outfit okay on me?"
Raiden Mei had also changed her clothes and walked out of the fitting room at this time.
Unlike Kiana, Raiden Mei chose a combination of a top and a long skirt, with a light purple base color and purplish-red patterns adding a touch of mystery to her.
"Very beautiful!"
Without much elaboration, Takatsuki answered with three words. A woman adorns herself for her admirer. Although the answer was simple, Mei still blushed slightly.
"So, am I prettier or is Mei prettier?"
Looking at the overconfident Kiana, Takatsuki sneered, "Of course it's Mei!"
And this answer naturally resulted in Kiana grabbing his neck in exasperation and shaking him non-stop.
"But isn't it not so good for us to wear these clothes… for activities?"
Raiden Mei originally intended to say "for fighting," but after all, there were more than just the three of them here.
"It's fine, we're not ending this trip in just a few days. This time it will be at least a month or more, and it's a long-distance international trip."
Takatsuki shook his head, "We can't shortchange ourselves, right? Didn't you also just try on clothes suitable for activities?"
Yes, these two outfits weren't the first ones they tried on. It should be said that the three of them had been in the store for almost three hours already.
"Please wrap up all the clothes we just tried on."
Takatsuki said to the sales assistant who had been on standby next to them. After three hours of shopping, the sales assistant was probably tired too.
"Just now? All of them?"
The sales assistant asked somewhat incredulously.
"All."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, Takatsuki, do we need to buy so much? Do you have enough money!?"
Kiana didn't react at first, then suddenly realized how much money Takatsuki's short sentence had spent.
"You need to know, our next destination is India. Believe me, you won't want to buy clothes there."
Takatsuki pulled out a credit card and handed it to the sales assistant while explaining to Kiana, "Don't worry about the money, the SPW Foundation has generously sponsored a large sum."
Although it was called sponsorship, it was actually an exchange of interests. After all, Takatsuki couldn't bring himself to directly ask Joseph and the others for a large sum of money, though a small amount would be fine.
Takatsuki chose to hand over some consumables he had once drawn from gacha, which conformed to real-world logic, to the SPW Foundation as research materials.
The consumables Takatsuki drew from gacha were divided into three categories: one was ordinary food with no special effects, at most more delicious than real-world food; one was food with special effects, such as the Sweet Madame he once drew; and the third was potions, typically life-restoring potions found in many games.
And the one Takatsuki traded was called "Norton's Novice HP Potion."
A consumable from a game that Takatsuki was too lazy to pick up when playing, but in reality, it had extraordinary effects.
Moreover, this potion was more scientific than the nonsensical food healing, as it was genuinely created through alchemy.
In short, in 1987, it was like a dimensionality reduction strike. Takatsuki also exchanged a large amount of benefits through this. Of course, some of it was also due to Joseph's connection, which skipped a lot of negotiation processes.