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"???"
Sometimes when a person is completely speechless, they can only laugh.
But Gabriel wasn't human, so she couldn't even laugh.
Her rented two-story apartment had collapsed after she pulled fifty tons of gold out of the group chat. The whole place—everything except her own room—went down, including the first floor and even part of the neighbor's house.
The worst part? Her laptop, PS5, Switch, and phone were all buried under the rubble.
Gabriel herself was fine, of course. Being an angel had its perks—her body could handle it.
But looking at the mountain of still-sealed game cartridges and discs that had been crushed… yeah, nothing hurt worse than that.
Her heart was dead inside.
Still, the mountain of gold shining right in front of her eyes was hard to ignore.
It was so blindingly bright she couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
Cool to the touch.
She picked one up—heavy.
Bit into it—left a dent.
"…Don't tell me this is actually real gold?"
Gabriel was stunned.
She'd never seen this much money in her entire life.
[Shut-in Angel: "@Shepherd, what the hell just happened? Is this stuff really gold??"]
[Shepherd: "What, you think I'd scam you with plastic bars?"]
[Shut-in Angel: "It collapsed my entire house!!!"]
[Blizzard from Hell: "Good thing I was careful and only pulled out a small amount. If I took too much, my place wouldn't have survived either."]
[Blizzard from Hell: "But seriously, where did all this gold even come from?"]
[Old Mage: "Don't tell me you robbed a bank?"]
[Shepherd: "Remember at the end of the mission when I asked what you guys wanted? "]
[Shut-in Angel: "Ohhh, so you went on a gold raid?"]
[Shepherd: "It's the apocalypse anyway. The gold in the underground bank vaults isn't being used by anyone. I just took a chunk of it to spend in my own world."]
[Shut-in Angel: "How much did you take back?"]
[Shepherd: "Not much. Around a thousand tons."]
[Shut-in Angel: "…A thousand tons."]
[Bad Woman: "That's basically the gold reserve of an entire country. If you convert it to US dollars, that's about a hundred billion. Some countries don't even produce that much in a whole year."]
[Bad Woman: "Rosen, are you planning to start a revolution?"]
[Shepherd: "Not interested. I just want to live comfortably. Anyway, I need to figure out how to exchange this gold into actual cash first."]
Rosen quit the group chat and stared at the remaining seven hundred tons of gold still sitting in storage.
Converted into dollars, it was more than enough for a lifetime of luxury in this world.
As long as he didn't try to start some massive business empire, he could blow cash on whatever he wanted and still never spend it all in one lifetime.
Thinking about that, Rosen grabbed his phone.
It had only been fourteen hours since he crossed into the apocalypse world.
But over there, several days had already passed.
So yeah—time really did flow differently between the two worlds.
He also noticed a couple of missed calls.
From Miko Yotsuya and Mai Sakurajima.
He'd been gone for more than ten hours, unreachable the whole time. No wonder the two of them were probably panicking like ants on a hot stove.
Instead of calling them back one by one, Rosen just pulled them into a new chat group.
The empty chat window quickly filled with messages.
[Miko Yotsuya: "Lord Rosen?"]
[Mai Sakurajima: "So you finally showed up. I was wondering why I couldn't get through."]
[Miko Yotsuya: "Yeah, I was so worried I was about to go to your place and look for you."]
[Rosen: "Had some business out of town. If you need something, just say it here. By the way, it's the weekend—I'll keep training you today."]
[Miko Yotsuya: "Great! I'll head over to your place right now, Lord Rosen!"]
[Rosen: "No need. Just tell me where you are, I'll come pick you up."]
Both of them quickly sent their locations.
Rosen wasn't just being considerate—he wanted to test out the movement skill he'd won from the last draw: Godspeed Step.
Everyone knew powers from comedy anime were usually ridiculous.
And Gabriel's fall from grace? That counted as half a comedy anime.
Even though her powers weren't explained in detail, the fact that she could casually whip out a world-ending trumpet proved angels weren't weak.
As for Godspeed Step…
Well, maybe Gabriel's failures were less about the skill itself and more about her being a fallen angel.
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