What-Happens-In-Vegas-Stays-In-Vegas (II) [Chapter 302]

“I can’t believe you decided to leave me and come to Vegas with that man whore” Tonks griped unhappily as she glared at Sirius, who was having the time of his life in the pool surrounded by topless women. Two of them were the ones Sirius picked up from the gas station and the rest were high-class escorts.

“Let him have his fun, Tonks. He lost a decade of his life in Azkaban thanks to Bagnold and Crouch” Harry simply waved his hand dismissively. “And you are here now. Aren’t you?” Harry asked with a smile as he inclined his Champagne glass in her direction.

Tonks simply huffed and downed the Champagne in her glass in one go. Tonks was never a delicate woman, so the intricacies of enjoying Champagne like an elegant woman were simply beyond her. Harry didn’t mind and simply poured her another drink.

Currently, the two of them were lounging near the rooftop pool while Sirius was in the pool with his ravishing company, so obviously the two of them were in swimwear too and Harry had to admit, he liked the view of Tonks in her blue two-piece bikini.

“Looks like someone likes the view~” Tonks said in a sing-song voice as Harry poured another drink for her. Harry simply smiled at her words and continued to stare, much to Tonks’ pleasure. It would be a blatant lie if she said that she wasn’t enjoying the way Harry was staring at her.

“You are beautiful” Harry retorted with a straight face. It was obvious that Tonks was trying to tease him, but thanks to Hela, Harry wasn’t going to be taken off-guard by any of her teasing. While Tonks was a beauty herself, she could never match Hela in that department even though she could easily morph herself into the Asgardian Goddess of Death.

There was something ethereal about Hela and her beauty… Harry guessed that it probably had something to do with her Divinity…

Tonks would have huffed irritably at her failed attempt, but instead, she blushed at his genuine compliment… “So, are we staying for the night?” Tonks asked after a moment, deciding to change the topic.

“I haven’t decided yet… There are a lot of things that need to get done back at home” Harry answered with a shrug.

“Oh…” Tonks mumbled. “Then are we going to visit a Casino? Vegas is known for its Casinos” Tonks asked. A part of her really wanted to visit a casino. She always wanted to visit Casinos since she saw them on TV when she was a small kid, but until yesterday, she never travelled abroad.

“No… I don’t intend to waste any money” Harry denied, much to Tonks’ displeasure.

“Oh come on! We are in Vegas. You need to live a little. So what if we waste some money? And if you are really worried about money then we can always use Magic to improve our odds” Tonks suggested, not willing to give up on the idea of visiting the Casinos. Right now, she was in Vegas, there was no way she was going to miss her chance to visit a Casino.

|Yes, Hadrian, money and gold are important, but Tonks is right. You need to live a little and you can always use your Magic to cheat| Lily urged softly.

However, Harry didn’t answer immediately, he decided to think it over, wondering if it was really worth using Magic to cheat and win some money and earn the ire of MACUSA in return… After thinking for a bit, Harry realized that it was more than worth it. He never cared about pesky laws to begin with and he wasn’t planning to start now.

There was a reason why Harry always craved power… He wanted to be free. He wanted to be truly free and to be completely free, he needed absolute power. He needed to stand over the whole world so that he could ignore the pesky laws and squash anyone trying to impose those pesky laws on him.

Right now, he was in a good position… The Wizarding World was his oyster, but he knew that he still wasn’t up there… A bullet to the head was still going to kill him. The only reason he wasn’t afraid of the snipers was because of his Danger Sense. Someone could easily draw him into a trap and detonate a nuke if they were desperate enough to get rid of him.

His Danger Sense would kick in, and maybe his Mother’s protection would too, but he wasn’t sure if those would be able to protect him against a nuke…

That wasn’t all, someone like Hela could come knocking for him and kill him like an ant. Harry knew how his power worked… He could copy any Spell and his Reactor could copy any energy source, but against a pure physical fighter, he was simply a squishy target. Yes, his body was a lot more tougher than a normal human, but against someone like Hela, that wouldn’t mean much.

Hela could blow away mountains with just the shockwave with her punch without even using any Magic to enhance herself, and right now, he could barely crack concrete with a punch.

Hela was only one Goddess, her whole pantheon was somewhere out there and if the Asgardians were real, there was no reason to think that the other pantheons weren’t real… However, messing with MACUSA wasn’t going to bring any other pantheons on top of his head, hopefully, and SHIELD Headquarters was in New York, he was sure that they had Agents crawling in Vegas.

Maybe, he could draw a couple of them out…

“Alright. We will visit the Casinos, but I am still not sure if we are going to stay the night” Harry relented and Tonks beamed at him before she lunged at him for a snog. “I think we should get out of here” Harry mumbled while kissing Tonks as he didn’t want his Godfather to notice them and his Godfather was getting really frisky with his current company…