It didn't take us long to realize that we weren't in the right world, no by the way that Aqua was acting this was Earth but it just wasn't our earth.
"No no no no." Aqua just kept repeating to herself as she moved her hands in front of her.
"What are you doing?" I said to her, as I tried and failed to ignore the skyscrapers that surrounded us.
"Everything is a mess, it's like the gods in charge of everything just gave up and left, hold on."
"No, this goes here and this here," Aqua said before the wind blew and cleared out the pollution that covered part of the sky.
"Okay it's going to be a while but there should be clean water and air in fifty years if another war doesn't happen now when do we eat?" Aqua said to me as she ignored the fact that we were lost.
I looked at Aqua for a moment before we began to look for something that seemed familiar thankfully we both found what looked like a burger stand that wasn't too far from where they were standing.
It wasn't the first time that either of us had left one world and ended up in another, granted our circumstances were different while at the same time the same.
Aqua was the goddess responsible for sending people that died to the afterlife and she also chose people that caught her attention to other worlds.
And I the great Kazuma was one of those people.
We normally don't talk about how we ended up together because Aqua always lies and tries to make me look bad.
And when I try to tell the story she will always but in and say that I changed the story to make myself look cooler than I was.
Anyway, none of this matters because we just arrived in this world and now we have to figure out three important things, what do people use for money here?
Where are we going to live and how are we going to live?
Since the two of us already did this before we know that the safest place we can be is also the most dangerous place we be.
The two of us walked towards the burger stand but we stopped waking when we heard the sound of engines on top of us and we both felt our mouths open when we looked up and saw not one but a lot of flying cars driving in the sky.
Our mouths hung open as we saw the giant screens that were a part of the skyscrapers and as we looked around we couldn't help but gasp at the holograms that floated in the sky.
Both of these things were nothing more but advertisements for something pointless that people probably didn't need but they were amazing to look at.
I felt my stomach grow and so we kept on walking.
"Hey." I said to the man who was selling the burgers.
"Welcome what will it be?" the man answered me.
"We're new here so I was wondering what you guys accept as money?" I said to the man who just locked eyes with me.
"Who sent you, I don't want any trouble." the man said to me as he slowly reached under the counter.
"Relax, we just got here and we don't know if what we have is any good here." I said to the man as I showed him a silver coin.
The man grabbed the coin before rubbing his fingers over it and handing it back to me.
"Your money is no good here, you need some Eurodollars or just dollars."
" I'm just a man that sells burgers for a living, I don't want anything to do with that." the man said to me before he stopped talking and acted as if we weren't there.
I turned to look at Aqua who had an uncharacteristic expression on her, if I didn't know any better I could almost swear that she was thinking.
"Can you show us what money everyone uses here? if you do we will leave." Aqua said to the man who just glared at her but after a second he let out a sigh and showed us what looked like two different dollar bills.
As we both reached for the bills the man quickly pulled his hand back and told us to go away.
There was nothing else we could say and it was obvious that we weren't welcome there so we just kept on walking until we found something that seems to exist in every world a pawnshop.
So since we have such few options we enter the pawnshop and I have to restrain both Aqua and myself from wanting to touch everything we can get our hands on because with Aqua's luck she will end up breaking something and we will have a huge debt hanging over our heads.
"Hey, how much can you give me for this." I say to the clerk who takes the same silver coin that I showed the man that was selling burgers.
I watch as the man puts the coin on some kind of machine that lets out a light, the machine is probably scanning the coin but I have no way of knowing if it's even doing that, or if the man is just acting as if he's checking the coins worth.
"Best I can do is fifteen thousand." the man says to me.
I look at the man and judging by his expression I'm certain that the coin is worth a lot more.
"Cant you give me anymore, it's my only one." I lied to the man considering that I still have a lot of gold and silver coins in my pocket.
The man glares at me before he turns to look at Aqua and smiles as she waves at him.
"Look I can give you more, but neither f you look as if you should even have this, so take it or leave it."
"Fifteen thousand and the rest is for me to keep my mouth shut." the man says to us before he puts a lot of what looks like memory sticks and paper money in front of us.
Aqua and I grab everything and stuff our pockets before we both leave the pawnshop.
We learned three important things, one people here use bills and electric money, two things like gold and silver are still valuable and three people are the same no matter where you go.
