episode_0039

I looked away from the video David showed me.

…Still, I’m glad I didn’t kill him?

The Silver Side of Cabrini Green was not a very important area in the Dream City game to begin with.

It was just one of the areas where many retired fixers lived.

‘I’m sorry, Silverside.’

They were refugees who were attacked by swarms of rats, and now they are religious people.

If this had been reflected in the game, it would have become a very unique area.

“Chris?”

“Huh?! Why?”

Sylvia suddenly called my name.

I thought I knew what she was going to say, like the saying that a thief loses his feet.

“It’s him, right?”

“Well… I guess so.”

“Who is that person?”

David seemed to have no idea.

Oh, by the way, you never told David what happened with Frank?

No, I thought it would be a good idea to take this opportunity to tell you what I asked for.

Let’s start with what scenes we witnessed on the way back to the Silver Side from Cat Mom’s home base.

“….”

“Well, I think I know what you’re thinking…”

“No, you did well.”

Did you do well?

David was already looking at me with eyes filled with wonder.

The moist eyes visible behind the glasses. He suddenly grabbed my hand.

“Because it is unacceptable to kill parents in front of their children. And vice versa.”

David talking while crying.

Looking at that, I could understand one thing.

Maguspol, a good place for shitheads to live.

But he was not a man fit for this land.

I decided to add David’s forced move out of the city to my mental bucket list.

“So, can you help me?”

Although I asked as a formality, there was no need to ask.

Look at David’s head nodding repeatedly, even though he hasn’t even heard what I’m going to say.

However, David’s mood seemed to have been contagious. Even Astoby responded willingly.

Before we started talking in earnest, there was something I wanted to confirm with Sylvia first.

“Silvia, our office is also cooperating with vigilante activities, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

There was a need for something other than Frank and alcohol discounts.

Plus, I wanted to try patrolling as a vigilante anyway.

***

“Then, you two, please help me cooperate with the vigilante group.”

“Is that okay?”

While David was crying, Astoby asked instead.

“Three people would be enough to cooperate with the vigilante group. By the way, Chris, are you okay?”

“Yes, me and the two of you are enough.”

“You’re not trying to do anything strange while cooperating with vigilantes, right?”

“Ah, anyway, those who go too far while working together within the vigilante group can just inform Frank and deal with them later.”

Absolutely perfect crime!

Frank wasn’t killing them, but reforming them into religious believers, so I thought this might be better.

Sylvia looked worried after hearing my answer, but reluctantly nodded.

Cooperating with vigilantes and tracking down companies behind them.

The Blue Heart Office was to cooperate with the Public Safety Office on two fronts.

It was decided that I, Astoby, and David would be in charge of cooperating with the vigilante group, while Sylvia and Adem would be in charge of tracking down the companies behind it.

Johnny and Badek decided to leave it on standby for now.

Afterwards, I cooperated with the vigilante group and patrolled certain areas of the Silver Side with them.

But this… I felt very heavy as I was wearing a vigilante vest, walkie-talkie, flashlight, and other equipment as a child.

Meanwhile, most of the vigilantes were made up of local Silver Side residents, most of whom were retired fixers.

One day, the vigilantes I was patrolling with suddenly started talking.

“Hey, did you hear that?”

“What?”

Apparently, my little self didn’t seem to care.

“It looks like the guys patrolling in other areas have gone crazy again.”

“Damn, aren’t we going to suffer if this continues?”

It seemed like Frank was doing well.

Frank turned some of the problem solvers who were devoted to hunting refugees into religious figures.

I had no idea how the process worked. To be honest, I didn’t even want to know.

“Blessings and glory to this cramped heart where there is no room for disbelief!”

At that moment, a religious figure shouted as he passed by us.

“Tsk.”

Then the vigilantes clicked their tongues as if they had no luck.

Those religious people seemed to have become believers in the church.

In addition, although they did not want to go that far, they were eager to help the church and provide relief to the refugees who had come here from Miller Town.

While some took a serious attitude to atone for the sins committed by hunting refugees, there were others who pretended to be friendly to refugees out of fear of Frank.

‘Heh, my strategy worked better than I thought?’

I couldn’t stop laughing at that sight.

I may not completely trust Frank, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t have expectations.

And he lived up to my expectations very well.

I wanted to further reduce the distance from which they monitored me, but I didn’t take action.

Anyway, if we keep going like this, should I say that 90m will one day become 10m?

There was a slight anxiety that such a future might not come.

On the other hand, unfortunately, my actions did not fundamentally resolve the situation.

Even though there are more pleasure-seeking fixers at Sylvia’s bar than there are refugees harassers.

Even if the religious cultists reformed by Frank take the lead in helping refugees.

There were limits to improving the situation of all refugees who flowed from Miller Town to Silver Side.

Of course, I didn’t aim for that level of change with my plan.

David also sympathized, but he just… didn’t want to see parents and children dying side by side and becoming corpses.

“But this is the best we can do.”

“I guess so?”

David put his hand on my shoulder and defended our actions.

Now that I think about it, the Ildong office also cooperates with vigilante activities… I was curious what the situation would be like there.

I contacted everyone’s office using the office’s shared terminal.

“Uh, is there Deoksu there by any chance?”

“I’m Deoksu?”

“Huh?”

***

Although it was different from what I expected, I secured Youngmin’s number through Deoksu.

After that, I called Youngmin on the shared terminal.

“Yes, this is Youngmin from the Ildong office.”

“Ah, it always resonates every time I hear it.”

“Yes?”

As soon as Youngmin answered the phone, he was quite embarrassed when his name began to be reviewed.

“Youngmin, it’s me! Chris!”

“Ah….”

What, what is your reaction? Am I satisfied with that review?

Anyway, I confirmed what I needed to confirm with Youngmin.

“Youngmin, are you also cooperating with the vigilantes?”

“No, I’m concentrating on resolving the request with Ilsung.”

Youngmin said that although he is not cooperating with the vigilante group, other trustworthy brothers are cooperating with the vigilante group.

“Then can you please identify one?”

“Yes, but which one?”

Youngmin also answered first that he would like to find out rather than confirm what my request was.

Are you really saying that Youngmin and David are too nice people to be embarrassed?

I’m starting to wonder if I should add Youngmin’s forced relocation out of the city to my bucket list.

“Can you tell me what the behavior of the vigilantes who cooperate with your office is?”

“What do you mean by conduct? Do you have any guesses?”

“No, these days, there are some people who hunt refugees and things like that. There are a lot on our side, so I was wondering what your side is like.”

“Well… I’ll look into it first and contact you.”

“Yes! Thank you!”

So I ended the call, thanking Youngmin.

I decided that when we meet later, I will look like a baby bat and give Youngmin a peck on his head.

I’ve never done anything like that before… but I felt like Youngmin would like it more than anything.

“Chris, you. Now I’m completely shaking that guy.”

“Ehey. What is that expression? I should say we became friends!”

In response to Astoby’s inappropriate expression, I personally provided a more appropriate expression.

She was dumbfounded by my boldness, but she didn’t criticize me or anything.

We couldn’t change all of the refugees’ situations, but it wasn’t a bad thing.

Little by little, but the situation was steadily improving.

That was enough.

With that in mind, I spent my busy days working as a mascot and waitress at Sylvia’s bar, and helping out with the vigilante group in my spare time.

But suddenly, some crazy person threw a stone at my peaceful daily life.

“…What is this?!”

“Everyone is still upset.”

The piece of paper David showed me at Sylvia’s bar had exactly what I needed written on it.

Recruitment.

Dangerous activity, low pay, violent refugees, uncertainty of survival, routine and fame if successful.

Silver Side Vigilante Temporary Headquarters.

No, what kind of Ernest Shackleton are you?!

Just as when Shackleton was recruiting for a trans-Antarctic expedition, advertisements for vigilante groups were truly touching men’s dreams.

It’s an honest story about how being a vigilante is extremely dangerous, and yet the reward is low.

An advertisement that stimulates the hearts of those who, even though they have already retired, were problem solvers to their core and are still problem solvers at heart.

Who would have thought that there would be a bastard in the vigilante group who knows how to stimulate romance and emotions to this degree! Ah, this is my defeat!

I cursed the vigilante who overturned my best-laid plan with just one advertisement.

Why did God give me this desire?!

If you gave me the desire, I should have given you the talent!

In an instant, I felt like Salieri was jealous of Mozart.

“….”

But I am different from Salieri.

I don’t know if Salieri was jealous of Mozart in the first place, but he couldn’t face defeat so gently.

“Chris, do you see that person over there?”

“Who is it?”

Meanwhile, David pointed to an orc.

He wore glasses and was not very tall, but what came across was intelligence.

“Is he the one who planned this advertisement?”

David nodded.

My eyes remained fixed on that orc. A few hours later, the orc left Silvia’s bar with his companions.

“Silvia, I’ll be back soon.”

“Chris, please don’t do anything strange.”

I’m sorry, Sylvia. I can’t make any promises this time.

As I left the bar, several people at the bar also left quickly.

what? I wondered why he was moving along with me. But I focused on what I had to do.

It quickly changed into the form of a bat.

Can other people know how good it feels to fly in the night sky with a red moon shining on it?

When we got some distance away from Sylvia’s bar.

I glared at the orcs in my field of vision with the eyes of two little baby bats.

Then mosquitoes started gathering from everywhere.

In an instant, the number of mosquitoes increased, and the orcs were unable to do anything in this sudden situation.

“Please help me!”

The orc’s companions began to run away, ignoring the mournful cries.

Instead, there were people approaching him.

Wrapped over their heads was a cloth with the red letters ‘Hell of disbelief’ engraved on it.

I had no intention of killing the orc.

That’s why I couldn’t help but be taken aback by the appearance of religious figures.

‘what?!’

He ordered the mosquitoes attacking the orcs to stop immediately and prepared to attack the religious figures at any time.

“You must have realized it now! You stupid guy!”

‘huh?’

The religious figures took advantage of the gap between the mosquito swarms and approached the orcs.

“It is God’s will to help refugees!”

“Stop this nonsense right now!”

“Sleep, wait a minute!”

The religious people said one word at a time with angry expressions, but instead of harming him, they helped him up when he fell.

Then the orc said he would remove the part about refugees from the advertisement.

As if the religious groups were not satisfied with that, they began to criticize the vigilantes’ hunting of refugees.

….

I guess I won’t need it anymore.

There was no need to watch the situation further.

Afterwards, I returned to Sylvia’s bar with a satisfied face and pressed the heads of Sylvia and the others.

Time passed by so quickly… Before I knew it, there was only one month left until my apprenticeship ended.