episode_0014

To summarize the contents of the request, it was very simple.

Cabrini Green’s Policing Fixers Office to the Blue Heart Office.

It was a request to track the flow of drug distribution in the Silver Side area.

“Drugs? What drug?”

“Wait a minute, I think I need to explain.”

Before giving a full explanation, Sylvia summoned all the solvers belonging to the Blue Heart Office.

The place was not the office, but Sylvia’s bar.

-Tiring.

Johnny’s friends appeared with a cheerful doorbell ringing.

The old ladies who had been calling me ‘sister’ before, as well as several other problem solvers.

Excluding me, Sylvia, and Johnny, there were five people. In this case, the total number of people in the Blue Heart Office was eight.

“Hello everyone!”

I greeted them in casual clothes, not bartender clothes.

“Oh my, my sister!”

“….”

It was I who told Sylvia that it was helpful for people to misunderstand my age. But it still feels weird to hear people call me your sister, doesn’t it?

“These people in the bar right now are all the problem solvers in our office.”

“Oh, except Martin.”

“Why Martin? It would be nice to do it together.”

The other solvers asked Martin if it would be a good idea to join them since he was already out of retirement.

But Martin answered firmly.

“No, I’m fine.”

I couldn’t tell his expression because his face was covered by a metal mask, but I felt like I could just imagine it.

“This is about the first request from the Public Security Maintenance Office.”

Sylvia showed them the request, and they took turns checking the contents.

“As you all know, when the Conakry office entered the area, the number of drug dealers began to increase.”

“? Did you do that?”

“That’s right. That’s also huge.”

The solvers both nodded in response to Sylvia’s words.

In particular, Johnny seemed to have suffered a lot from drug dealers, perhaps because he had the appearance of being a bit addicted to drugs.

“But those guys… lost, right?”

“That’s right. But drug dealers haven’t left the area yet. Although it will fall out someday.”

“Ah, so you’re saying we should catch their tails before they fall out?”

“That’s right, sister.”

“It is said that there are two main types of drugs that drug dealers mainly deal with.”

The first was said to be a narcotic painkiller, and the second was a narcotic stimulant.

“…both of these are often used by solvers, right?”

“In addition, there are many retired problem solvers here, so many people are suffering from withdrawal symptoms.”

“….”

As soon as Sylvia responded to my words, Martin’s eyes became harsh.

“For your information, Martin was also an addict in the past.”

“Ah, boss!”

Martin was embarrassed when his secret was suddenly revealed, but the solvers just laughed it off.

“Well, with that much.”

“Huh?”

It turned out that most of the problem solvers here were addicted to two types of drugs.

“Then what about Sylvia?”

“Of course I’m not. Although I did get some help from painkillers.”

“Ah….”

Still, I guess that’s a good thing.

Even in games, narcotic painkillers and narcotic stimulants were virtually treated as essential consumables.

This tendency was especially severe because human solvers had average abilities.

To the point where there are a lot of builds and strategies that assume the use of stimulants, minimize their side effects, and maximize their effectiveness.

“There were many offices that even forced its use.”

“The office I was in was like that too.”

The reality for solvers was that they had no choice but to use painkillers and stimulants, voluntarily or unwillingly.

Although these drugs slowly eat away at the body… at least immediate pain and death were avoided.

But it was also a shortcut to getting closer to death.

“Wait a minute, the more I think about it, the more shameful it becomes. Don’t you mean they came to this place on purpose and tried to sell it?”

“Yes, that’s right. That is why retired solvers in this region supported the Ildong office over the Conakry office.”

Silvia answered like that and mentioned the Conakry office’s intentions again.

They said that their intention was to push out the office and, once they took over this area, sell a lot of narcotic painkillers and stimulants through the drug dealers they were cooperating with.

Of course, it was a story that made the problem solvers gnash their teeth.

‘Hyena guys, their crime was worse than I thought.’

Plus, the guys who were photographed at Sylvia’s bar were like that too. No one in their right mind could side with the Conakry office, right?

While I was internally freaking out, Johnny and the other solvers continued to ask questions about the request.

“Okay, then, are there any more questions?”

“Me!”

“Chris, tell me.”

“So what exactly do we do now?”

“…Chris, you didn’t listen to me.”

“Huh?”

At Sylvia’s reaction, the other solvers started laughing all at once.

***

It seemed like he was distracted from an important part.

“In other words, the full-scale eradication of drug dealers is the responsibility of those who maintain public order. Our role is to discover the hideouts of drug dealers and secure as much information about them as possible.”

When she finished speaking, I gave an expression of complete understanding.

“There are eight people, so let’s move in groups of two.”

“You can search for each area separately.”

Johnny said, slightly raising his green glasses.

“Oh, me and Johnny are going to the bar to find out information about a drug dealer.”

“Then we can go outside.”

It was a bit disappointing that I couldn’t move with Sylvia.

However, Sylvia and Johnny can act as bartenders at the bar, so that configuration would be correct.

“And due to the nature of the request, we decided to link up with Cat Mom of the Silver Side.”

uh?

As Sylvia said that, she took out a transparent case containing two cats.

I perked up my ears as I heard a rather pleasant name.

-widely.

As Sylvia opened the case, two cats came out of the case and onto the floor.

“For now, these kids will act together with us and once they discover the drug dealer’s hideout, they will infiltrate it.”

“Guys, what are their names?”

I asked while patting the backs of the two cats.

Then the answer came from below me, not above me.

“I’m Sheila.”

“I’m Ez.”

Two cats each said their names. You might be thinking, how do cats talk?

This was all the power of magic biotechnology.

In the first place, it is not such a strange sight since it is a city where crows serve as the city’s CCTV.

I don’t know the details, but in Maguspol, those who rent cats that can speak human language to the problem solving office are called cat moms.

In the case of dogs, it is called dog breed…

I don’t know why it was a dog breed, but I thought it might be because such dogs are usually rented for dog fighting purposes.

“Sila, Ezra. Please take care of me. I’m Chris.”

“Nice to meet you, Chris!”

I liked both cats, but it seemed like I liked Scylla too.

He immediately jumps on my shoulder and calls my name… Ha, I think he’s so cute!

Come to think of it, Cat Mom’s cats can even turn into human beings, albeit briefly, right? I’m already starting to get curious about what Scylla and Ezra look like in human form.

“Silvia, can I move with Silas?”

“Then we’ll take Ezra.”

The nominations of Scylla and Ezra ended quickly.

As I decided to move with Sheila without anyone else, the other groups became groups of three.

“Oh, and although it is not certain, it is said that there is a high possibility that the drug dealers this time are also hyena beasts.”

“Again?”

Hyena beastman… Hyena beastman… Ugh! The sexy pictorial I saw on the second floor of my office suddenly flashed through my mind.

To drive away the filth, I concentrated on thinking about Silas who was next to me.

***

“Then I’ll come back!”

I was the first to leave with Sheila.

The area assigned to me was the smallest. That was because I was alone with Silas.

“Everyone, please be careful.”

“Remember to avoid fighting as much as possible!”

I and the other solvers answered in unison to Sylvia and Johnny’s advice.

“Sister! Be careful!”

“You too!”

After parting ways with the old men who called me their sister, Silas came down from my side and was walking around me.

“You can keep on my shoulder.”

“It’s okay, Chris.”

Silas said that and started looking around.

Looking at the time, I saw that it was not yet time for the red moon to rise.

-Caw! Caw!

However, the red eyes of the guards can be seen between the forest of wires and buildings throughout the city.

With each step I took, amidst unidentifiable gazes, I felt a pressure that I could rarely feel in real life.

“Chris, are you okay?”

Sheila asked as if she could see right through my psychology.

“Yes, it’s okay. I had to think for a moment.”

Without realizing it, I clenched my ugly right hand tightly.

And we paid attention to gaze processing. If you make a mistake and show hostility again… mosquitoes will flock to you.

While walking the streets of Silver Side with Scylla, I learned something.

I thought there were more retired problem solvers than I thought.

People who were soliciting customers on the streets and people who were just quietly doing their jobs were carrying big and small wounds.

It’s like a medal for a problem solver… but now that you’re no longer a problem solver, it’s just a piece of the past.

Is it because I have a lot of random thoughts? It seemed like I couldn’t get full after the first drink.

I checked the area I was in charge of with Sheila several times, but we could not identify the suspected drug dealers.

Even though I sometimes tried to make insinuating remarks to residents who seemed to be soft-spoken… there was no great result.

Eventually, I returned to the bar with Sheila in my arms.

“Huh?”

But when I got back to the bar, Deoksu and Youngmin were talking to Sylvia in the captain’s room.

As I turned my gaze towards Youngmin, he too was looking at me and Silas.

A hand was naturally pointed backwards, as if hiding something.

what? I guess it’s not what I think.

But I don’t know why my uneasy premonition is so right. Youngmin started to approach me first while I was holding Silas.

Looking at your slightly flushed cheeks… Wow! I guess they’re going to give me a real gift!