A fat man in the back seat said timidly.
Next to him was a burly man with a scarred face, bare-chested, wearing only a shawl, holding a baby in his arms.
And the one sitting in the driver's seat, if Takatsuki and his group saw him, they would recognize him as the main body of Wheel of Fortune, who had been defeated earlier.
"Tsk, if Enya and Steely Dan were still alive, it would be great. I didn't expect only you to be alive when we arrived," Midler said with disgust, looking at the driver who had strong arms but a shrunken body and a large beer belly.
"But you, boy! Why didn't you kill them just now? Don't you care about Lord Dio's orders anymore!"
After scolding the two, Midler's gaze fell on the muscular man, or rather, on the child in his arms.
However, the eleven-month-old infant merely sat up, gave Midler a cold glance, and turned his head away without answering.
Even as a genius infant, he couldn't speak very complex words now. It was better to just ignore her. This woman, if he hadn't used Death Thirteen to heal Wheel of Fortune, she wouldn't have been able to catch up with Joseph and the others. Now she was even blaming him.
But… what was going on with those two women just now? They were actually able to harm Death Thirteen in a dream!?
The tough infant lay in his swaddling clothes, recalling the recent events.
He had clearly succeeded in pulling Joseph and the two girls into the dream. He had initially thought it would just be a process of toying with them, but he never expected that the two girls, who initially couldn't harm him, would take out a sword and a gun. He had planned to mock them, but instead, he was injured by these two weapons.
Although he was a genius, the tough infant's experience was too limited. He only knew how to directly confront opponents head-on, completely unable to utilize his ability to do whatever he wished in the dream world.
As a result, he was beaten by Kiana and Mei, screaming. If it weren't for his ability to fly freely in the dream world, he might have been killed in the dream.
However, because the opponents didn't release their Stands, neither of them brought back the memory of that experience after the dream was dispelled.
"Lady Midler… Look at me, is there anything you need me to do…?"
The muscular man chuckled and pointed to himself. Midler glanced at him: "Your Stand, which can only create mud dolls, is useless. Let's observe the situation first. They're hiding in the cave now."
Meanwhile, inside the cave, Takatsuki used White Album to create a relatively cool environment. By sprinkling water and freezing it inside the cave, he ensured the humidity, but this was only a temporary solution.
"How is it, Kakyoin? Have you found any enemies?"
Everyone was hiding in the air-conditioned space created by White Album. The inside and outside of the cave formed two different worlds, turning into a pure tug-of-war. According to Kakyoin, the temperature outside had reached an exaggerated eighty degrees Celsius.
He had secretly slipped out earlier to explore the surroundings but found nothing. Moreover, as soon as he went out, the Sun began indiscriminate bombardment. It was clear that the enemy knew their situation, but the main body of the Sun couldn't see them.
So, they attacked as soon as Kakyoin went out, but could only do carpet bombing.
Combining this with the Stand that injured Takatsuki earlier, it should be The High Priestess's Stand still monitoring them nearby.
"From the looks of it, the enemies should be Sun, Death Thirteen, and The High Priestess."
The group made their deductions, but apart from The High Priestess, the other Stands should not have long ranges. They wondered how the enemy had been near them all this time without being discovered.
"What should we do? If this Sun stays here, we can't go anywhere."
"And The High Priestess might be right under our feet now…"
The High Priestess's Stand could merge with minerals or transform into any mineral product, so it wouldn't be surprising if she was now the cave Takatsuki and the others were in.
However, Takatsuki actually hoped for that, because if so, he could shatter The High Priestess's teeth in minutes with the others.
Time passed minute by minute. Two whole hours went by, but the enemy made no movement.
"Are they planning to just drag us to death?"
Everyone remained vigilant, but the enemy launched no attacks, seemingly just intending to use the Sun outside to trap them there.
While White Album's ability could temporarily maintain the temperature inside the cave, unlike the Sun, which continuously generated high temperatures just by existing, White Album needed to constantly activate its ability. Moreover, as the high temperature continuously evaporated the moisture in the air, making it increasingly dry, it became difficult for White Album to condense ice.
"It's time to take a gamble, Kiana."
Although he hadn't accumulated 100 pulls, this wasn't the time for that either.
"Here it comes, are you going to pull that?"
Takatsuki nodded and took out his phone, once again overlaying the game screen onto the phone's display.
After Kiana and Mei learned about the existence of his system, Takatsuki didn't need to do this redundant action, but others didn't know. Whether it was to mislead others or conceal his system's existence, it had some meaning.
However, it was Mei's first time seeing Takatsuki's system interface, but she didn't ask about it, knowing that there were outsiders present. Although Takatsuki didn't hide it from others, he didn't explain it either, instead directly telling Kiana to start pulling.
"Enough for seventy pulls. Let's go."
"Oh!"
Kiana skillfully and quickly performed seven ten-pulls, and without even looking at what she got, she directly returned the phone to Takatsuki.
"Takatsuki, is this… also your ability?"
Polnareff watched Kiana perform the gacha pulls. Although the screen was strange and he hadn't seen it before, he felt that anything done in this situation must be useful for their current predicament.
"Yes, I won't explain the specifics. Don't disturb me for now."
After putting away the panel, Takatsuki began to examine the gains from this gacha pull in his mind.
This time, Takatsuki once again chose to pull from the character card pool. Although he couldn't equip S-rank character cards, he felt that 70 pulls might not yield an S-rank one.
And items from the item pool weren't very useful unless they were S-rank.
The lower limit for A-rank items was very exaggerated, and he didn't think they would be useful in the current situation.
A-rank character cards, however, offered more possibilities. If his hypothesis was correct…
Seventy gacha pulls, the guaranteed minimum should be seven A-rank character cards, and Takatsuki saw nine this time.
Of course, it couldn't compare to the last time with fifty pulls yielding gold, so it seemed the system's patch had indeed sealed Takatsuki's biggest cheat.
The nine A-rank cards were:
Dogli, King of Puppets
Narciso
Zeppeli
Koby
Raccoon Dog
Nameless Genin
Tōsaka Tokiomi
Arad Novice Fighter
Assault-type Demonic Soldier
Upon seeing these names, Takatsuki recognized some, but more were unknown to him, with some even appearing to be filler, such as Nameless Genin, Arad Novice Fighter, and Assault-type Demonic Soldier.
The description for Nameless Genin stated that he was a genin from the Naruto world, only mastering the Three Basic Techniques.
The Novice Fighter was in a similar situation, while the Assault-type Demonic Soldier was from the same world as Kredo, whom Takatsuki had previously drawn, though there was a world of difference between them; the former was merely a grunt.
However, seeing this, Takatsuki roughly confirmed his earlier conjecture.
The threshold for A-rank is having special abilities that surpass ordinary people or mastering special energy.
Among all his A-rank cards, the closest to a normal human was Ezio, but Ezio also possessed a special ability known as Eagle Eye.
Therefore, even if it was just a grunt, such as a Nameless Genin or an Assault-type Demonic Soldier, as long as they mastered special powers, they were classified as A-rank.
From this perspective, his luck with card draws earlier wasn't bad at all.
Among these nine cards, two were from the JoJo world: Zeppelin was Will A. Zeppelin, the one who taught Jonathan Joestar, and he had no other abilities besides his skilled Hamon, which was completely unhelpful to them in their current situation.
The other was Narciso Anasui, whose Stand was Diver Down, capable of infusing power and speed into objects and then releasing them.
The remaining Raccoon Dog was from the previously encountered Hunter world, with a Nen of Burst Propulsion, whose effect was self-explanatory.
Koby was from the One Piece world, and he mastered more skills than others: the Marine Six Powers and both Color of Observation and Armament Haki.
Although Koby's proficiency in each skill wasn't particularly high, it was at least a seed of power.
Tōsaka Tokiomi was from the Type-Moon World, but his magical abilities relied on jewels, making their symbolic significance greater than their practical use.
Although many characters drawn this time were not useful, three new worlds were unlocked: Naruto, One Piece, and Type-Moon.
At present, Takatsuki's purpose in drawing cards was to draw characters who could help him break through the current predicament.
Looking at the cards in the system, Takatsuki realized there was something that could help him now.