episode_0253

When I returned to headquarters, Amy was away on a mission.

I looked at Amy’s empty seat with eyes full of regret, then let out a small sigh and headed toward the refrigerator on one side of the office.

The ice cream I was saving to eat when I got home from school today was sleeping here.

Just imagining the cold sweetness brings a smile to my lips.

I opened the fridge, smiling brightly and bouncing around, and oh my.

The place where the ice cream should have been was empty.

“Huh?”

I rubbed my eyes and checked the inside of the refrigerator again.

But no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t find the pretty packaging for the ice cream.

How did this happen?

Shine and Rain don’t eat what’s mine without permission.

Since Amy wasn’t here either, my suspicious gaze naturally turned to Victor.

Victor was lying sprawled on the sofa with a calm expression on his face.

I approached him and said.

“Victor.”

“Why.”

“Did you eat my ice cream?”

“… No.”

The reply was late.

As I stared at him, he turned his head and avoided my gaze.

It was Victor’s habit to say sorry when he felt sorry.

It was clear that he had eaten it.

I held out my hand to him and said,

“Please buy me ice cream.”

Victor blinked at my words and wiped his face.

I felt bad for disturbing him while he was resting, but if he had eaten my ice cream, I should have gone and bought him some.

“Jeff.”

“Yes.”

“You often forget to drink my drinks too.”

I wiggled my eyebrows at his words.

It’s so bad that eating so much leads to this.

But drinks and ice cream were a different matter.

“Drinks and ice cream are different, right? Then Victor can drink my drink too.”

I said, thinking of my drinks sleeping in the fridge.

These were very nutritious drinks prepared by Amy.

Victor replied with a frown on his face at my words.

“No. How is that a drink?”

Victor’s words touched my heart.

I couldn’t forgive Amy for insulting the precious drink she had made for me.

This felt like it should be a two-for-one ice cream.

“Are you saying that the health drink that Amy just made isn’t even a drink?”

As I place my hand on his waist and speak to him in a questioning tone, Victor lets out a big sigh.

Hoo- The sigh that came out of his mouth must have contained a lot of emotions.

He glanced at me, then jumped up from the sofa and left the office.

“Please buy two, not one~”

I didn’t hear an answer, but Victor would grant my request.

After solving the ice cream problem, I went back to my seat.

Shine was looking for something on the computer in front of me.

Drumroll- I approached Shine on a chair with moving wheels, and countless small letters were stretched out across her screen.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m looking for various information.”

“What information?”

“About France and Prince.”

“Hmm…”

I leaned against the armrest of my chair and looked at Shine’s screen.

She was connected to a database within headquarters.

However, since there was little information available through my and Shine’s accounts, it didn’t seem to be of much help.

“Our account can’t access high-level information.”

“That’s why I’m using Rain’s account.”

“Rain Girl? Amy told me not to do that.”

“It’s okay as long as Amy doesn’t catch it.”

Are you sure it’s okay?

I looked at Rain with anxious eyes.

Rain, who had been sleeping throughout school hours, was sleeping here.

Without Amy, there’s no work to be done.

Victor also didn’t say anything at this sight of Rain.

“So what did you find?”

“Yeah.”

In response to my question, Shine went into a small folder and showed me the information inside.

Both Prince and Fran’s parents were alive and their family circumstances were normal.

It was written that my father’s occupation was a novelist, and that he was a best-selling author who had made a fortune in the past.

Although he wasn’t publishing any new books, he seemed to be making steady money through stocks.

My mother’s side is an ordinary housewife.

There were no particular special circumstances.

It’s ordinary. That’s what I thought at that moment.

Shine told me.

“Suspicious?”

“Soo, are you suspicious?”

“Yeah.”

I slowly began to review the information Shine had shown me.

Bestselling author.

Housewife

“Jeff, do you know how much it costs to get into our school?”

“Uh, how much?”

“Should I spend as much money as I spent on the game?”

“That much?”

I was surprised by Shine’s words.

If Shine had added up the money he had spent on the game so far, it would have been a ridiculous amount of money to build a large building in the upper district.

“Even if you are a bestselling author, can you afford to pay that much?”

“But it says that you made money with stocks during that time.”

“Okay. Let’s move on from this for now.”

Shine nodded at my words and started searching for a novel title on the Internet.

[For those who are sick.]

widely-

The moment Shine pressed Enter, a flood of information poured out on the screen.

Shine clicked on the topmost text among them and showed it to me.

“I don’t know why this book sold…?”

It was definitely a book that sold a lot of copies.

It was a book that critics unanimously praised.

But when you listen to the reviews of people who actually bought the book, they say that the comments left question marks in their heads.

Because it received good reviews from critics, it is a book that is found in the homes of people of high social status.

But it is a book that few people know all of its contents.

That book was [For the Sick.]

“Suspicious?”

“Suspicious!”

This time I nodded to Shine’s words.

It was really suspicious.

“That’s all we know right now.”

“Just this?”

“Yeah. I can’t help it. I’ll have to ask Amy for the rest.”

I nodded to Shine’s words and slumped back in my chair.

It was a pity.

I changed Prince’s perception from a cute junior to a suspicious junior.

While I was slumped over in my chair, Victor, who had slipped out of the office, appeared holding a large black bag in his hand.

He said to me, throwing the bag on the table in the middle of the office.

“I bought ice cream.”

“Ice cream!”

It was not me but Lane who answered Victor’s words.

Rain, who had just woken up, jumped down from her seat and ran to the center table.

I also ran to the center table with Rain.

Tadadot- As I approached with small, hard footsteps, a large bag full of ice cream was waiting for me.

There was a lot of ice cream.

I didn’t buy the two I mentioned, I bought dozens.

I was quite excited as this was the first time I had ever seen so much ice cream in front of me.

I reach out with both hands, pick up the ice cream I like, open the packaging, and put it in my mouth.

It was so cold that it made my tongue numb, but I couldn’t put the ice cream down because of the sweetness that followed.

“Huhhh.”

Shine, who didn’t seem to have any intention of getting up from her computer, was already sitting next to me, eating ice cream.

I had to eat as much as possible as quickly as possible.

If Amy saw this sight, she would definitely have everything confiscated.

Victor took an ice cream cone out of the bag and left the office again.

It seemed like he had no interest in this place anymore.

The rest of the ice cream naturally became ours.

Rain would know too.

If Amy comes back, all this ice cream will be confiscated.

She didn’t stop talking.

Hau Hau – Even with white breath flowing out of his mouth, he reached for the next ice cream.

The cold lips turn blue.

But even so, it didn’t stop.

Amy came back just as I was finishing my twentieth scoop of ice cream.

While I was sucking on a long, round ice cream cone, I made eye contact with Amy, who was coming into the office.

Her gaze moves down from me, to the ice cream wrappers scattered around me.

I moved my mouth as I looked at Amy.

I was frozen so cold I couldn’t move much, but I managed to smile somehow.

“What is all this?”

“Hey, Amy…”

“How much did the three of you eat?”

I lowered my eyes at Amy’s question and began counting the packages scattered on the floor.

One, two, ten, twenty.

There were so many that I couldn’t even count my fingers and toes combined.

I gulped down the ice cream that was melting in my mouth.

“Oh, a lot.”

Amy put her hands on her hips and let out a small sigh at my answer.

She watched us silently, then began to walk towards us with brisk strides.

Shine and I hugged each other.

I ate a lot of ice cream, and a sweet scent wafted from my mouth, but I didn’t have time to appreciate the scent.

“Didn’t I say I only have one ice cream a day?”

“Yes…”

“But how much have you eaten now?”

“Yeah, ten…?”

“Ten? Exactly?”

Amy asked back with a serious expression at my answer.

I answered again, hugging Shine’s shoulders tightly.

“S, twenty?”

Rain and Shine probably won’t be much different.

Because most people ate similarly to me.

Amy said, placing her hands on Shine’s and mine.

“Twenty? Really twenty?”

“Yes!”

“No ice cream for the next month.”

“No!”

The moment I shouted at Amy’s words, a strong pressure was applied to my head.

“Giyaaah!”

Instead of honey, the punishment that came was finger pressing.

As Amy’s five fingers pressed hard against his head, an indescribable pain came over him.

After that brief moment of pain, Shine and I fell sideways, peacefully.

Thud – the gaze tilts to the side.

In the field of vision I was looking at, I saw Lane biting an ice cream stick with a frightened expression.

“Hey, Amy…”

“Rain, you told me to keep an eye on the kids.”

“Okay, I was watching you closely…”

The moment Amy’s hand grabbed Lane’s head.

“Yaaah!”

Rain screamed and slumped over.

The ice cream stick he was holding in his mouth also fell to the floor.

“Did Rain buy this? Rain’s card was confiscated too.”

Amy searched through Lane’s arms, pulled out a chick-shaped wallet, and took the cards out of it.