After Ronin found Shizuku and the others, he joined the celebration as well.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. When Ronin returned to the harbor, he was already holding the card case containing the three cards he had chosen.
Since he had entered the game through Battera's console, Ronin had no intention of breaking the agreement.
Of the three cards, one was Breath of Archangel, meant to heal Battera's girlfriend. One was Witch's Rejuvenation Potion, meant to restore Battera's youth. The final card was Skeleton Glasses, which Ronin, Shizuku, and the others had spent two days discussing before finally deciding on.
Aside from that card, the only other cards Ronin had been interested in were Mad Doctor's Muscle Enhancer and Pregnancy Stone.
The effect of Mad Doctor's Muscle Enhancer was that if you drank one bottle a day for seven consecutive days, your strength would increase. There were seven cases in total, with ten bottles in each case.
In other words, if you kept drinking it consistently, it could strengthen you ten times.
For an Enhancer-type Nen user, that was absolutely a rare treasure.
However, Ronin preferred gaining power through his own training. If he truly hit a bottleneck in the future, then maybe he would try it.
The effect of Pregnancy Stone was simple. As long as you carried that three-kilogram stone on you for one month, anyone, man or woman, would become pregnant.
In Ronin's eyes, it was absolutely a top-tier prank item. Especially since he had never seen a man get pregnant before.
He was genuinely curious how a man would get pregnant, and how he would give birth.
But his twisted little curiosity clearly wasn't approved of by Shizuku and the others, so the final choice became Skeleton Glasses.
It was a pair of glasses that could see through objects. Once worn, the wearer could adjust the strength of the X-ray vision using a scale. The only thing it couldn't see through was the spell-card packs from the City of Magic.
But once they left Greed Island, obviously no one would have those card packs anymore.
That meant these skull-shaped glasses, with their adjustable scale, became a special item that could grant the user a unique ability.
However, after deciding to take this item out, the group made a mutual agreement that it could not be used to look at companions.
After all, adjustable X-ray vision could absolutely let the wearer see through someone else's clothing.
Shizuku and the other two were not in a hurry to leave the game.
Instead, they waited at the harbor for Ronin to deliver the promised items to Battera first, then leave together afterward.
Although Battera had been quite confident in Ronin when he hired him, when Ronin actually brought back the things he needed, he was still so moved that tears streamed down his old face.
Ronin also saw Tsezguerra in Battera's castle.
He hadn't expected Battera to invite Tsezguerra this early. Tsezguerra was a very steady man.
Even though his mission had already become meaningless once Ronin brought the cards out, he showed no dissatisfaction.
Instead, he was extremely curious about Ronin and clearly admired him.
"I carefully studied the information Mr. Battera provided me. The game is very difficult. Even if I entered with a team, I wouldn't be confident about clearing it without one or two years," Tsezguerra said. "But according to Mr. Battera, you were only in the game for about a year. That's truly impressive."
Tsezguerra took the initiative to extend his hand.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Tsezguerra."
"Ronin. You're flattering me. I just got lucky," Ronin said modestly.
Tsezguerra smiled. Naturally, he didn't believe Ronin's nonsense about luck. Even without fighting, just from a simple handshake, he could tell that Ronin was definitely very strong.
"Would it be convenient to exchange contact information? If we come across suitable jobs in the future, we might be able to look out for each other," Tsezguerra said proactively.
Ronin didn't refuse.
Tsezguerra's strength might be average, but he was still a veteran Hunter, and he had decent information channels.
There really might come a day when Ronin could make use of him.
After that, Tsezguerra did not follow Battera to the ward guarded by doctors. Instead, he directly said goodbye and left the castle.
Ronin, however, stood outside the ward and watched as Tsezguerra personally activated Breath of Archangel.
The phantom image of an angel appeared inside the castle's hospital room. As that breath sprayed toward the girl who had been lying paralyzed in bed for years, the girl wearing an oxygen mask slowly opened her eyes.
Battera had hired the best medical team, but all they had been able to do was keep the girl alive and maintain her weight as much as possible.
Now that the girl who had been in a vegetative state all this time had finally awakened, Battera's aged face was covered in tears. He mumbled words no one could hear clearly and threw himself beside her bed.
The awakened girl looked at the elderly Battera without the slightest trace of disgust.
Her eyes held only heartache for him.
From beneath the mask, the girl softly said, "You've worked so hard, my dear."
At that moment, standing outside the ward, Ronin believed that true love really did exist in this world.
Even the kind that crossed the gap of age.
Battera took the rejuvenation potion.
After reverting from a man in his sixties to someone in his twenties, he came before Ronin with the girl holding his arm and bowed deeply.
"Thank you."
The young and handsome billionaire Battera, paired with the still somewhat thin but delicate and moving girl, made Ronin feel that returning the cards according to the agreement really had been the right choice.
When Ronin returned to the game, his bank card had an additional 100 billion Jenny in it.
That was the payment Battera gave him.
At the same time, Battera also made Ronin a promise: in the future, no matter what Ronin did, as long as he needed Battera's help, Battera would do everything in his power.
Ronin didn't comment one way or the other.
Battera was only an ordinary person, after all. Whether the two of them would ever cross paths again in the future was hard to say.
Besides, his relationship with Battera had fundamentally been a transaction in which both sides got what they needed. In Ronin's view, Battera paying an extra fifty billion was already more than enough.
If he still thought of himself as Battera's benefactor, that would be going too far.
"Let's go."
After returning to the game, Ronin used Magnetic Force and went directly to the harbor where Shizuku and the others were waiting.
Then the four of them used Pass together, boarded the ship, and completely left Greed Island.
The day after the four of them left, Greed Island briefly shut down for maintenance. All players were transferred to a large hall.
Elena, one of the game's creators who was also responsible for players leaving the island and acted as an NPC, appeared before everyone.
Elena gave everyone two choices: leave the game, or wait until the update and maintenance were complete and participate in the game's second playthrough.
Most people chose to leave.
Only a small number chose to stay. And when they returned to the game again, they discovered that the game had new gameplay mechanics, along with a large number of new items.
Inside the castle, Dwun looked at the game running again, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
They had stayed in this game all these years, but it wasn't as if they had been doing nothing.
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