The Deadly Assassin Robin by Tristan Storm

Chapter 1346 The World Upside Down

Daphne finally let out a small sigh of relief.

She had never lacked money in her entire life.

But stepping into this realm, suddenly finding herself broke–it felt unbearably uncomfortable,

away

She glanced toward the stage not far where someone was loudly hawking goods. Bloodshade Fruit could go for two or even three hundred thousand Netheris coins!

Daphne couldn’t help but laugh.

Robin’s firebird emerald pendant had millions of these Bloodshade Fruits stored inside.

They would have been sitting on nearly a billio

It turns out that the rich are really rich no mar?

Netheris assets if they had gone by this price.

where they go.

Looking down at the crowd of frenzied bidders, Daphne turned to Robin and said, “Why don’t we auction off some of these fruits instead of exchanging them at a store?”

Robin shook his head. “Let’s not attract attention just yet. We should get a better feel for this place first.

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“Fair point, Daphne said, shifting her gaze to the vendors and tradespeople scattered throughout the market. “This place is a far cry from Earth–everything here’s totally unfamiliar to us.”

Then, something strange caught her attention.

The uglier someone looked here, the more arrogant they acted–and the more others seemed to fawn over them.

In contrast, anyone with a decent face was completely shunned.

To the left of the auction stage stood a large performance platform.

But the dancers twirling and spinning weren’t beautiful women–they were grotesque beyond words.

And every so–called ‘handsome‘ man up there looked like a donkey.

She listened closely and watched the reactions around her, piecing them together.

Turns out, the women here with pitch–black skin, bodies like stubby–legged bears, and faces that could scare off ghosts were the beauties of this realm.

At first, Daphne thought people were just watching for laughs, drawn in by curiosity.

But then she heard how they praised those short, dark, chubby women swaying on stage–and she realized the truth. This was their actual beauty standard.

woman on the left–absolutely stunning,”

could marry someone like her, my neighbors would be green with envy,” said a man that Daphne would’ve called genuinely handsome–by Earth’s standards, at

The World

woman

man–short, fat, dark, ugly as

he looked like a pig with

good–looking as me, you’ve got no shot at a top

“If only

you.”

was about to lose her mind

crumbling castle had so

been known as a total bombshell–a

like she was

in her life been judged for being

something to be pitied.

snarled at her, “How dare you show your face

What the hell?!

a complete

the beauty standard here just

so–called ‘ugly is beautiful‘

from the stage was

of men and women were dancing awkwardly–each barely three feet tall, with three nostrils, four ears, and three eyes–dressed in outlandish clothes and striking poses so

wildly, some even tipping money right

onlookers, watching this bizarre performance, were almost mesmerized, completely

“This kinda looks like one of

things never changed, no matter what dimension you were

white blurred, and ugly became the new hot. That

the noisy marketplace suddenly

dropped to their knees, eyes fixed upward with an

wanted to

lit

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The World

Finished

mounted on tall, powerful horses. The leader stopped at a fruit stall and pointed at a

looked relatively

in public? You’re ruining the market’s image. Each of you pays double the stall tax. All your fruit is

the women–they looked like they were barely

were basically like Earth’s worst city enforcers, sweeping through and robbing everyone blind.

Instead, they thanked the men with tears

continued eating as they went, loading up on valuables and

stole from? Still

ragged clothes and gaunt faces, Daphne was baffled. “Robin, what the heck is

just

if the black–robed guys didn’t treat them like trash, they might not even