episode_0058

Blue Heart Office’s offices located on the Silver Side of Cabrini Green.

There, Adem, a goblin who had almost been imprisoned, was working in the office.

Astoby was in charge of monitoring Adem.

When Adem tried to run away after learning that there was a large bounty on Chris’ head, it was Astoby who caught him.

“Phew… Phew….”

Of course, she didn’t stop exercising even while she was watching Adem in the office.

In fact, it could be said that Adem was being monitored while he was exercising.

“What, when did it pile up like this?”

“…What?”

Astoby came closer, reacting to what Adem said in passing.

Adem showed her the monitor screen as if he had nothing to hide.

“What is this?”

“What can I say? These are the guys who are passionately courting Chris.”

“…?”

Adem’s words were only a metaphor.

Even though he appeared to be just a kid on the outside, a being that looked like a true ancestor suddenly appeared.

Additionally, the Lidocaine Association offered an absurdly large bounty.

There can be no clearer evidence than this that Chris is the real one.

When the situation became like this, even those who were skeptical about Chris took action.

But Astoby seemed to have accepted Adem’s words as they were.

“I will see all the crazy people. What is it about courting a child so young?”

“No, that’s not really true…”

Adem highlighted the screen on the monitor, showing those who had contacted the Blue Heart Office.

“…is this all?”

“Yes, it seems like it moved because the lidocaine was moving.”

They were not individually strong enough to overwhelm the lidocaine association.

But working together might be enough to solve this problem.

For Adem, who had already failed to escape, this was the only way for him to survive.

It wasn’t long before Adem compiled a list of organizations that could be helpful and sent it to our office solvers.

-Tiring.

Of course, I was too lazy this time, so I just looked around and turned off the device again.

“Ha, aren’t these things tiring?”

As I spoke with a sigh, Youngmin responded by drinking the drink he ordered again.

“The Lidocaine Association… is strong, but it also has many enemies. Aren’t you trying to take advantage of this opportunity somehow?”

Probably so. There was a high possibility that it was just as Youngmin said.

However, what I was worried about was the possibility of being stabbed in the back by pretending to fight together with the Lidocaine Association.

However, others were carefully looking at what I had easily passed over.

“What is it? Was it important?”

When I quickly turned on the terminal again, I was able to check the contents sent by Adem.

There was also a list of organizations that had contacted the Blue Heart Office to combat the Lidocaine Association, and one association had the most familiar name.

That is the Tetracaine Association.

This association, with a similar name to the Lidocaine Association, has a good reason.

***

Mikhail Langabes, ranked 2nd in the solver rankings, had a considerable number of children due to the number of years he lived.

However… I remember that the children’s role in the Dream City game was not that large.

He appears as an unlucky NPC who only trusts his father’s help and dies while playing tricks on him, or was this guy also the second-best child?! Does it feel like that?

However, there was an exceptional case: his eldest daughter.

She was the most popular colleague in Dream City, but also the most disliked colleague.

That’s right, at the time of the main episode of Dream City, she is a whopping 108 years old!

Of course, compared to her father, who has lived for hundreds of years, she can be said to be relatively young.

However, despite this, due to his age of over a century, he became a victim of all kinds of gossip. In particular, it is treated as a kind of tactical nuclear weapon.

Of course, because she was a vampire, she had a very pretty appearance.

Could it be that the gap between the inside and the outside drove the players crazy?

There is a saying that a true superstar drives everyone crazy, and in that sense, she was Dream City’s unwavering superstar.

‘No, we don’t know yet.’

Johnny alone has all the elements of his fellow characters, but has a different name and some details.

In the first place, this is a poor parody novel based on Dream City.

The Tetracaine Association’s setting may have changed as well…

‘But I still want to see you soon.’

As my face brightened with anticipation, Youngmin and Silas looked puzzled.

“Chris, would you like to come here for a moment?”

“Yes!”

I was the only one Sylvia called, but there were two people and one animal that moved at the same time.

This was because Silas, who was in my arms, and Youngmin, who was next to me, naturally followed.

“….”

Sylvia paused for a moment, but she seemed to think it wouldn’t matter.

As we headed into the inner space, David and Eslok, who looked like a giant mole, followed us.

“What, they just all follow one after another.”

“Well, there’s nothing wrong with having a lot of people to think with.”

It is not for nothing that they say that if there are many boatmen, the boat will go to the mountains.

Still, I decided to listen to Sylvia first.

“You all confirmed that Adem sent it, right?”

“Uh.”

David and I answered almost simultaneously.

However, since Youngmin and Silas were not able to do so, I opened the list on the terminal and showed it to them.

While the two were still checking the screen, Eslok nodded quietly.

“So far, neither Chris nor I have paid any attention to these types of communications… but I don’t think we can completely ignore them.”

“I think it would be a good idea to join hands with someone who can give you an estimate just by looking at it, like Tetracaine.”

“Tetracaine?”

“There is an association founded by the second-ranking daughter.”

David didn’t seem to know much about the tetracaine association I mentioned.

Huh, if you’ve looked at Maguspol’s gossip magazine, you’re bound to know this.

“Eslok, do you want to talk?”

“Yes. Then I will speak as concisely as possible.”

Eslok found himself talking about his lord’s old faults, but he didn’t seem to have any objection to it.

“First of all, I don’t really know the whole story.”

That’s right. By the time Eslok found out about this story, the story had already been greatly exaggerated.

***

“Chairman, there was a human woman that Mikhail Langabes first loved.”

Eslok immediately added an additional explanation.

In vampire society, marriage with a race other than one’s own is not recognized as a formal marriage.

Their daughter, a mixed race between a vampire and a human, was the person who would later establish the Tetracaine Association.

Even after the runner-up married a spouse suited to his status, the child was a purebred child who got along well with his pureblood younger siblings.

However, blood and lineage stood in the way of the child’s happiness.

The child could not be the successor to the second place. Because the child was a dhampir.

A dhampir is a mixed-blood vampire born to a vampire father and a human mother.

A dhampir’s appearance is closer to that of a human than to a vampire, but its strength and abilities are more similar to those of a vampire. However, it does not have vampire weaknesses such as sunlight.

And dhampirs have a special, mysterious power that allows them to detect vampires around them.

The church took note of this and worked hard to turn dhampir into vampire hunters. The Dhampirs, who had been ostracized because they were of mixed race, willingly held on to the church’s hand.

Although it is a being that has vampire blood flowing through its body, it has a history like this…

For second place, the child was like a burden.

“So what did you do?”

“Exiled to the southern part of Maguspol.”

To be precise, it was not an expulsion, but rather a transfer to the Lidocaine Association branch located in the southern part of the city.

But considering the background of the Lidocaine Association based in the northern part of the city… it was a clear demotion, a clear expulsion.

The innocent daughter, abandoned by her father and forced to turn her back on her mother’s hometown, gritted her teeth in the southern part of the city and longed for revenge and a legitimate succession.

While sharpening his sword, the ambitious younger brother in second place created an association named Procaine with other brothers.

Ai also did not miss the opportunity and created his own association, the Tetracaine Association.

“…Vampires are more like bean powder than you think?”

“In some ways, doesn’t it make more sense? Because they have to deal with each other for more years than us.”

“Is that also true?”

David expressed his honest feelings, but it seemed like he felt that Sylvia’s answer was plausible.

“Oh, the Procaine Association is also on the list.”

I said while looking at the terminal screen that Youngmin and Silas were looking at.

‘Wow, it’s like people flocking to kill their father and brother just because their daughters and younger siblings like it.’

“Okay, this is a long story, but what we need to do is decide which of the organizations on this list we want to join hands with.”

“I think it would be a good idea to add tetracaine and procaine first.”

“I have the same opinion, but it takes a while for the church and Frank.”

Oh, definitely…

“I will try my best to do something about that. That guy isn’t the type of person who can’t communicate well either.”

“I think Chris is the only vampire who thinks that way about vampire hunters.”

“Is that so? Hehe.”

Although it wasn’t a compliment, I decided to treat Sylvia’s words as if I had received a compliment.

Meanwhile, Silas looked at the entire list, but because she didn’t know much about it, she gently closed her eyes.

It seemed like I just decided to enjoy this moment of being held in my arms.

“Chris, how about this office?”

“Well…?”

Youngmin mentioned an office on the list, but as it happened, it was an office I was unfamiliar with.

Fortunately, there were three people: Sylvia, David, and Eslok.

As I looked through the list, there were a total of six factions that were deemed worth joining.

Of the six organizations, I was able to include the Tetracaine Association and three others after my strong insistence.

Because these four forces were trustworthy during the quest related to the second place in the Dream City game. …maybe?!

Compared to him, I wasn’t sure if I could properly trust the other two forces.

Procaine, an association formed by the second-ranked rebellious younger brothers, was one of them.

“Then I will send a reply to Adem?”

“I can do it.”

“Really? Then, if you get a response from them, let me know right away.”

I said that and stood up.

“Are you going to go somewhere?”

“Yes, take Youngmin and Silas out for a shopping trip.”

“…I don’t think it’s a very good idea.”

Sylvia said that she did not recommend it due to the circumstances.

But when the look in my eyes changed as if I was going to insist one way or the other at any moment, she suggested another compromise.

“How about taking David and Eslok with you?”

“Feeling like a guardian?”

“You could say that.”

“Good!”

I wasn’t without thoughts either.

Anyway, if two people stick together, the probability of danger will be reduced.

In David’s case, depending on the situation, he was good at performing the role of a sniper.

It seemed like having me and Youngmin there, along with Eslok, would be enough to repel the enemies who were looking for an opportunity to ambush us.

“Okay, let’s go then!”

“….”

David seemed dumbfounded at being suddenly involved in my shopping.

Eslok had a humble expression that could not be imagined from the appearance of a giant mole.