episode_0019

Blue Heart Office and Ildong Office.

Solvers from both offices were able to successfully complete the request.

After the crown was removed, the chief returned to his original appearance.

Later, I heard from the two office workers that there must have been an error in the process of removing the crown…

It seemed like all his hair had fallen off.

“…Well, it’s not permanent hair loss or anything like that, right?”

“We are not sure about that either.”

I hoped I hadn’t caused someone to lose their hair.

Of course, there was a time in the real world when I trembled with the fear of hair loss.

Unfortunately, my parents’ family was all bald, so they were full of people without exception.

My grandfather is tough, and my father is also tough.

Even if it was an atavism, it was tough, and even if it was just hereditary, it was tough.

I haven’t faced the consequences of becoming a gangster since I’m still young, but if I hadn’t come to the worldview in Dream City, I would have become a gangbang someday.

A fate that cannot be escaped no matter what. For me, hair loss felt like that.

So is that so?

The day after completing the second request.

As soon as I woke up, I checked my hair.

“…Huh?”

Hair so fluffy and abundant.

Just in case, I checked in the mirror. Beautiful silver hair and two turquoise eyes that stand out through it.

When I looked at it like this, my eyes looked like real jewels.

‘ah….’

Speaking of eyes like jewels, there was a guy like that in this city.

Sometimes a collecting maniac with jewel-like eyes like me.

He was originally a problem solver, but he lost precious things one after another in his life.

I tried to stay sane by somehow making something precious for myself.

In some ways, he was a guy who did his best to survive in this city.

However, the method is very distorted.

It suddenly occurred to me that it was a quest related to one of the characters who is not a colleague but can be dated.

I didn’t know if I would be the perfect target for him right now.

“Hitch!”

Is it because I have spooky thoughts?

Suddenly I sneezed. As I sniffled, I heard someone approaching my room.

“Chris? Did you catch a cold?”

“Are you already up?”

I wanted to welcome Sylvia, but… I didn’t move from under the blanket.

Meanwhile, Sylvia approached me and checked the heat on my forehead.

“Hmm… I think it would be better to take a break and not work at the bar today.”

“…I still feel tired because I lost a lot of blood yesterday.”

It wasn’t cold enough to catch a cold, though.

Sylvia listened to me and said that it would be better to rest even more.

Then, he poured blood from a vampire blood pack in the refrigerator into a glass and handed it to me.

I savored the blood like an innocent kid drinking tomato juice.

Hmm… I finally felt like my body was coming back to life.

-Soak.

After drinking all the blood, my body naturally laid down on its side.

When I pulled the blanket and got completely under the blanket, Sylvia thought it was cute and started to laugh a little.

“How about covering yourself with another blanket?”

“Good idea!”

As I shouted loudly, Sylvia left my room for a moment and brought another soft blanket.

Huh… I felt like my body was melting while I was under two layers of blankets.

I feel like I’m the yolk in a hot Ssanghwatang.

I am the yolk of a mite. Mite yolk.

When I closed my eyes and showed my face and reacted like an old child, Sylvia stroked my head again.

“Silvia, if you keep doing that, you’re going to catch a cold from me, right?”

“I’m fine. Even when I was a troubleshooter, my body was very strong.”

“…You’re still a problem solver, right?”

“That’s true too. So I have no problem.”

Ugh… when I think about it, I have good regenerative powers, so why do I catch a cold?

Could it be that the regenerative power of the cold virus is also amazing? That’s a bit troublesome!

Inside the two layers of blankets it felt like heaven.

But when Sylvia went down to the bar on the first floor, she felt like she was left alone.

***

As I became a child, did my heart really become a child as well?

I came down right away, covered with a blanket.

“Chris?”

“What is it, sister? Why did you come down when you said you were sick?”

Sylvia and Johnny quickly reacted to my appearance. Martin looked at me too late and was embarrassed.

“I’m bored because I’m alone!”

“Hahahaha!”

Johnny laughed heartily when he came up with an answer that suited my appearance.

“Sister, then sit here for a moment.”

“Why?”

Despite my question, Johnny didn’t answer.

Instead, I suddenly started making something that wasn’t on the bar’s menu.

Eggs, spices, and finally a few oil bat eyes were added to the beer.

Since the oil bat’s eyeballs were a substitute for butter, it was like adding butter to beer.

“I have a cold right now so I can’t drink?”

“Don’t worry.”

Johnny replied and started boiling the beer with the ingredients in it.

uh?

Plus, Johnny added sugar. I was glad they didn’t add blood because I’m a vampire.

The finished product… Johnny called it oil bat beer.

Oh, in the real world it’s like butterbeer?

“But this is alcohol, right?”

“All the alcohol must have disappeared while boiling.”

If that’s the case, I can’t refuse.

Plus, something freshly boiled and hot seemed like just the drink I needed right now.

“Keuuuu!”

To anyone, it may look like a kid with a cold drinking alcohol!

Not at all. By the way, this is pretty delicious.

“Johnny, you have more talent than I thought.”

“Right? There’s nothing better than this when it’s cold.”

Johnny seemed to be in a good mood at Sylvia’s praise.

“Hooo.”

Meanwhile, I savored the butter beer Johnny made.

There were many good things about becoming a blood leader, and some of them were applicable to everyday life.

as soon as! It’s okay to burn your mouth by eating something hot!

This was possible because the torn mouth quickly regenerated. Of course, it would be a fool to keep burning your mouth.

As I continued to drink butter beer, I felt like my mouth was burning without me realizing it.

“No, have you already drank this much of that hot stuff?”

“Only I can do it.”

I made a V shape with two fingers while speaking as if I was bragging to Johnny.

While I was having such a peaceful time…

Two guests appeared beyond the station field.

***

“Huh?”

The last two office workers were a male and a female office worker.

The two said hello to Sylvia and I, and Sylvia said she had just been waiting.

“What brought you here today?”

“I came to deliver the compensation originally promised.”

Following the first request, it’s already the reward for the second request.

Since we have an office in Conakry, I thought we would have enough room to invest in other areas.

At Maguspol, we preferred to deposit the money directly into the office’s account rather than in cash.

Because it’s easier that way.

The two office workers also deposited their remuneration into the Blue Heart Office’s account, and Sylvia confirmed this.

“Confirmed. But it seems like the amount is a little more than what we agreed to receive.”

“Yes, the company acknowledged that such additional spending was within the allowable range.”

I thought it was probably because I was horribly crushed by the gargoyle’s attack.

That’s the end of it for me. That’s usually how it ends.

“And kid.”

“It’s Chris.”

“Ah, Chris.”

The female office worker acted like she had something more to give me.

What she gave me was…

Force field parasol!

“Oh!”

I’m guessing it’s a subcontractor doing development related to the station field.

It was already a car that I thought could not be helped by mosquitoes every time it was exposed to the sun.

Moreover, no matter how much it is a parasol, it is a force field… so it could be used as a substitute for a weapon or armor.

“Thank you! I’ll write well!”

The female office worker reacted to my reaction as if she was dying of cuteness.

Of course, Sylvia didn’t seem to like her reaction.

“One more thing.”

“What else is left?”

“Our manager said he would like to express his gratitude to Mr. Chris in person.”

“Oh, you don’t have to.”

However, the male office worker displayed a screen on his terminal.

On the other side of the screen, someone appeared in the form of a force field.

It felt similar to the civil servants I met when I registered as a troubleshooter at the government office.

It was a middle-aged man with balding hair, and he seemed to be wearing a hospital gown.

“You are Chris. Thank you for helping me.”

The manager on the other side of the screen bowed his head to me in a sloppy manner and expressed his gratitude.

I saw a person who was injured willingly bowing his head to a kid who looked younger than him…

Two things were clear.

The manager’s personality is far above Maguspol’s average.

And it was a good decision to entrust this request!

“Ah, it was you and the others who helped me first. ”

“Still.”

The man said that thanks to me, he was able to avoid being slaughtered by the company.

Oh, the content of the request clearly states that I don’t care about the man’s life or death.

I don’t know about you, but the high-ranking people in the company seemed to have an average personality.

After that, he bowed his head to me several times.

I thought it wouldn’t work, so I asked a male office worker to turn off the screen.

It seems like that will continue as long as I’m in his sight.

The male office worker probably had the same thoughts as me, asked for understanding from his boss, and then ended the video call.

“Phew….”

While I was sighing in relief, two office workers stood up and thanked me.

“What, are these two people like this this time?”

“Thanks to you, we were able to resolve the issue before more damage occurred, including to the manager.”

The male office worker spoke as if this was the treatment I deserved.

As I listened to those words, my shoulders shrugged without realizing it.

I’m still an apprentice troubleshooter… but I feel like I’ve already become a full-fledged troubleshooter.

Sylvia and Johnny just smiled happily when they saw me like that.

But the joy was short-lived… When all the butter beer ran out, I felt cold again.

“Hitch!”

“Oh, this won’t work.”

The two office workers found out that I had a cold and quickly left the room.

And I was grabbed by Sylvia and went up to the second floor of the house again.

“…Silvia, will I turn into a bat?”

“Are you suddenly saying that?”

“Then wouldn’t it be easier for Sylvia to move it?”

“It’s okay. The current Chris is also on the lighter side.”

“Ah… I guess that’s right.”

***

Although I agreed with Sylvia’s words, my eyes seemed to gradually close.

Really, even blood alcohol can’t do anything in the face of a cold.

So I suffered from a cold for several days.

According to Sylvia, Youngmin, who occasionally visits, seemed to be very disappointed that I couldn’t come to the bar because I had a cold.

Youngmin! I’m sure it’s a shame that I couldn’t take a picture of myself.

By the way, after Sylvia returned from work, she told me some news.

“Ilseong says he will be back soon.”

“Ah, the head of that office?”

“Yes, that’s right. From what Deoksu told me, it looks like it was headed towards the shining sea.”

“To the shining sea?”

I asked while sniffling.

A shining sea. It was a place I also wanted to visit in person.

I also enjoyed the quests and content there.

Of course, there were many things that were difficult for me to experience myself, rather than for the characters to experience.

Apart from the fact that the director of Ildong Office will return soon.

As my cold was almost getting better, a third referral came to our Blue Heart office.

This time, like the first request, it was a request from the Office of Public Security Maintenance and Resolution.

To be precise, would you say that a company requested something and that they brokered it to us?

“What request is this?”

“It is said that the job is to explore an abandoned factory that was owned by a company.”

Ooooh! It’s finally here! One of the problem solver download requests!

Solving a request in an eerie abandoned factory in a back alley. It was the picture that came to mind when I thought of Dream City.

“Each it!”

Sounds fun!