episode_0057

“Kaaak!”

“If anyone hears it, they’ll think you’re harassing me!”

No, is it true that Youngmin is tormenting Silas, who was held in his hands?

Silas, who had been completely subdued by Youngmin and me and stroked countless times, did not move as if she had been completely white and on fire.

“Silaa?”

“….”

Scylla is a water-loving cat that has no adverse reaction to water.

I know this very well because I personally washed Silas at Cat Mom’s home base.

But now you’re even pretending to be dead. Even though the level is high, it’s still too high!

“It was because I was happy to see you after a long time.”

“….”

Silas still didn’t move.

uh? Thinking about it makes me angry?

If you think about it, didn’t the incident start when Silas climbed on my head first?

When I didn’t say anything, only then did Silas turn to me.

“This guy!”

“Aaaah!”

I tried to grab Scylla without missing that moment, but Scylla easily escaped my touch, as if to prove that cats are liquid.

“Why don’t you come here?!”

Silas escaped and headed to the corner of the bar.

I asked Lina when I saw Scylla hiding using stone statues she had never seen before.

“Lina! Are these really guests?!”

“Oh, wait a minute.”

Only then did Lina break away from her argument and come towards me.

“Look at my mind. I was going to release it 10 minutes later, but I forgot.”

As Medusa began working as a bartender at Sylvia’s bar, the bar gained new content.

The guests who committed the truth are turned into statues for a moment and are forced to take time to reflect!

Companions and other guests had no repercussions no matter what they did while the person was turned into a stone statue.

This is because the person who has been turned into a stone statue has no idea what has happened.

A bit of light erupted from the many eyes of Lina and the white snakes that were the same as her hair.

When turning someone into a stone statue, the light was green, and conversely, when removing the petrification effect, it was yellow.

When the yellow light in Lina’s eyes was about to disappear…

Several Jinsang guests began to move as if life had returned to their bodies.

“Huh?!”

In fact, it seems that the guests did not even realize that they had turned into stones.

Regardless, I ran to Silas, who had been hiding among the stone statues a moment ago.

In the form of a baby bat, of course.

“Chris! Don’t do it!”

“Then come out quickly!”

Scylla, who was cornered, tried to remove the blade from her head, but it was no use.

***

While I was fighting with Sheila, David was checking out the surroundings near Sylvia’s bar.

Just like when he was active in Miller Town, he had a sniper rifle and binoculars in his hands.

In the case of binoculars, they had been replaced with more expensive ones after Eslok’s slush funds were injected into the Blue Heart Office.

Binoculars powered by horsepower, not ordinary binoculars.

As a result, it is possible to identify targets that are hiding their appearance through various methods using transparent force fields or magic power.

“Phew….”

David thoroughly checked the area around Sylvia’s bar.

After a large bounty was placed on Chris’ head, the repercussions were felt throughout the Silver Side.

A town that once had one spoonful of retired fixers and one spoonful of refugees has now added three spoonfuls of bounty hunters.

Refugees are hard to find these days because they have moved to places other than the Silver Side just to survive.

“There’s fighting on all sides.”

Instead, bounty hunters and fixers completely took their place.

Those of a certain size did not make any hasty moves, but those who moved on a small scale were clashing with each other on a daily basis.

-Taang!

Some of those guys ended up becoming David’s prey.

Like the guy who just died from David’s sniper rifle.

Checking the skin color, it was clear that he was an orc. No matter how strong an orc was, the chances of survival if hit in that area were extremely low.

Sylvia said that David’s actions could provoke his enemies, but David himself did not move recklessly.

I was even more anxious as I watched the numbers grow like weeds if I completely let go.

Despite what others may think, David thinks of himself as nothing more than an ordinary person.

It’s not like Chris, and it’s not like Sylvia and Johnny who went on a splendid rampage in their old days.

He is not born with a sturdy body and great strength like Astobi.

He was just an ordinary human being.

Nevertheless, David was able to work as a problem solver thanks to the presence of guns and numerous efforts.

Effort does not betray him.

Unlike when a trusted colleague targeted his wife.

While he was thinking that, the heavy trigger of the sniper rifle was pulled again. Immediately, David felt a large recoil in his shoulders and arms.

After repeating the process several times, David headed to Sylvia’s bar.

David did what he had to do before he could even see the bartenders, who were twice as many as before, and the bar becoming more crowded.

I headed to the inner space of the bar and reported to Sylvia what she needed.

Of course, there was me next to Sylvia, wearing Silas like a scarf.

“What, did something happen?”

David didn’t answer me right away, but closed the door completely.

Silas, who had been subdued by me before I knew it, was wrapped around her like a scarf, and only her eyes were shining brightly.

“There was another collision near the bar.”

“…How big was it?”

“It’s not that big. It’s just a few guys sticking together among themselves.”

“What, then it doesn’t really matter?”

David’s answer didn’t seem to be enough to worry me.

“But there are people like that everywhere. It seems like people of a certain size avoid conflict among themselves.”

“Ah, it would be a bit difficult if those guys got together.”

“Not a little.”

It seemed like we had let our guard down a little.

I thought it was inevitable that the associations and organizations that wanted me would clash with each other. That wasn’t just my thought, it was all of our thoughts as well.

“But the point is that they haven’t collided head-on yet.”

“If you continue to have time to think, there will be people who cooperate.”

“There are many of them, but there is only one Chris, so I wanted them to keep fighting among themselves.”

Sylvia responded to David and I and said she would contact Frank to work more closely with him.

“Now that I think about it, what happened to Silas? Did you really buy it?”

“What? Hey, it’s not like that.”

Afterwards, David said while looking at the Silas hanging around my neck.

In fact, it is true that I was trying to buy Scylla from the cat mom on the silver side until a few days ago.

“Olivia, I have a lot of money!”

He explored the possibility by expressing his desire to buy Scylla, paying attention to the title as Sylvia calls him.

“No.”

“…Really?”

“No.”

But what came back was a very firm answer.

Well, I saw with my own eyes how much Cat Mom cared for her children, so in a way, it was an expected reaction.

-Click.

I didn’t back down from there.

I took a picture of some of Eslok’s slush funds with a terminal and showed it to Cat Mom.

“Even if it’s like this?

“No!”

However, it seemed that even a gold bar showing off its brilliant golden appearance was not enough to move her heart.

***

In the end, I had no choice but to compromise.

In the first place, I felt sorry for Silas, who would be separated from the other brothers if I brought her with me.

The compromise between me and the cat mom was to get Sheila a job at our office!

It was not completely dependent on our office, but commuting to and from work.

“How about it? Are you okay?”

Cat Mom didn’t respond right away to my suggestion.

When I told her that I would increase Sheila’s salary, she started asking me more and more questions.

As a result, Sheila appeared at our office as if she were going to work.

Youngmin also heard the news and started coming to visit me these days.

Well, from my perspective, both Youngmin and Silas were always welcome, so to be honest, it wasn’t a bad thing for me at all.

Back to the present.

While I was reminiscing about negotiating with Cat Mom over Scylla, Sylvia and David were already talking about Adem.

“Why Adem?”

“You can’t keep detaining them in the office. You never know when I might do something strange.”

“Then… let’s handle it?”

David didn’t confirm, but he didn’t deny it either. He looked like he could do that if necessary.

I thought it was inappropriate for Silas to hear.

“Sila, go out for a moment and play with Youngmin.”

“I don’t like it!”

“Then stay still!”

It’s difficult to call it a substitute, but I carefully put my fingers in Silas’ ears and blocked them.

“Now, if you do this, you can’t hear it?”

“Aaaah!”

Silas writhed here and there, but there was nothing he could do.

In fact, Adem’s behavior of trying to run away after a large bounty was placed on me was a completely normal reaction.

Rather, it could be said that the strange ones are Johnny, David, and Astoby.

The three of them were planning to go to the Blue Heart Office as if nothing was wrong.

Speaking of which… Adem was too smart for that. Or maybe it’s because I’m not as strong as them.

“Still, I feel bad about killing him since we have such affection for him for so long.”

“If we just let them live, it’s obvious that they will sell our information here and there.”

“Would you give me a few gold bars and tell me to move to another place and live there?”

“Chris, gold bars are not always the answer.”

Sylvia said something to me, who had been spending less money since taking Eslok’s slush fund.

“Silvia, isn’t it because there isn’t enough gold in those times?!”

“….”

Sylvia seemed at a loss for words, but she soon said that instead of releasing Adem’s detention, she would strengthen surveillance on him.

David also volunteered to check on Adem’s condition whenever he had time.

***

After the important and bloody talk was over, the three of us headed to the main table again.

Youngmin and Deoksu hadn’t left the bar yet, and were drinking drinks that suited them.

“Oh, what is that?”

Of course, what Youngmin was drinking wasn’t alcohol, but just looking at the color, it looked delicious.

“Would you like to drink it?”

Youngmin casually offered me the cup he was drinking.

‘Oh… is this an indirect kiss?’

But for me now, savoring my first drink was more important than an indirect kiss.

“Hmm! Does it taste like mango juice? It’s sweet.”

Are there mangoes in the Dream City universe? I’m not sure, but it felt close to mango juice.

I was interested in the alcohol that Deoksu drank, and since it was a special day when he received his registration certificate as a troubleshooter, I thought drinking would be okay… but for some reason, I wasn’t attracted to it.

Does your body instinctively avoid alcohol as appropriate for your age?

“Huh?”

But when I came to my senses, I realized that Youngmin had drank all the drink in his glass.

“Hehe. Sorry….”

“It’s okay. You can order it again.”

Youngmin asked Martin for another drink as if there was nothing to worry about.

“What is it? Have you already drank all that?”

“Yes!”

When I answered on behalf of Youngmin, Martin muttered ‘water pig’ in a very quiet voice.

“Hey! Who calls me a water pig!”

Where can you find such a cute water pig?

While I was getting angry at Martin, an alarm went off on my terminal.

“Ah, you damn bastards. How on earth did you get my number?”

Not all of this city became my enemy after the Lidocaine Association placed a large bounty on me.

It was a very natural phenomenon that forces that were hostile or competitive with the existing Lidocaine Association approached me.

Of course, I did not respond at all to their approaches and contacts.

It is quite possible that it was a trap set by them… under the pretense of antipathy toward the Lidocaine Association.

But I had no idea.

The contact I received this time was from very special people.