not being mom's favorite has perks, I guess

Aku looked over the wares on offer with a frown. Their descriptions were so vague he was not sure he wanted to gamble with them, but this seemed like a once in a lifetime opportunity and he was not sure if he wanted to miss out on that either. In the end he decided to do what he'd been doing since entering Boreas: he would go with the flow and hope it didn't bite him in the ass. "I'll take the glittering concoction." And he held out the correct currency because their exchange was too brief without that action.