episode_0063

While Sylvia parked the car, we headed into the bar first.

-Tiring.

The sound of the doorbell is now beyond familiarity and feels boring.

However, the scene that unfolded before our eyes was not only refreshing but also disturbing.

Customers across two tables were shaking their fists at each other, and several had their hands on the weapons at their waists.

It would be a big deal if a fight with weapons broke out inside the bar.

“Lina! Those guys, 10 minutes!”

Just as we were entering the bar, Johnny, who had seen Lina, immediately shouted!

“Yes!”

Lina’s urgent yet characteristically drawn-out answer followed.

Lina moved her hands faster than her mouth and made a gesture with her thumb and index finger as if she was taking a picture.

Kiiing!

Could it be the sound coming from her eyes?

If not, is the sound coming from her hair made of white snakes?

Green light began to emanate from Lina’s eyes and the snakes’ eyes.

The green eye glow is the color that only appears when Lina is clearly petrifying someone!

The guests inside the gesture slowly began to stiffen without being able to put an end to the fight.

“Profit…!”

The process of petrification, starting from the extremities of the arms and legs and eventually reaching the face and heart, was very obvious.

“Oh!”

Rather than being shocked, I was excited to witness such a rare sight.

“Phew….”

Martin and Johnny, who were in the captain’s chair, sighed in relief, as if a day had been relieved.

“Where should I put these?”

“Put it somewhere in the corner over there!”

Eslok, who looked like a giant mole, began moving the petrified guests as Johnny had said.

Johnny reacted in disgust.

“Shall I help you too?”

I asked just in case, but Eslok answered as if it was okay.

“It’s okay. Chris.”

Immediately after, Johnny and Lillian, who were on the captain’s side, rushed over and helped Eslok with his work.

When Sylvia finished parking and entered the bar, everything had already been resolved.

Lund and I took appropriate seats in front of the captain, and Lina, after returning to her usual clothes, was helping the other bartenders at the captain.

“It was a little noisy. Did something happen?”

“Silvia, over there.”

Instead of giving a detailed explanation, I pointed at the petrified guests.

“….”

Sylvia checked a group of stone statues and sighed lightly.

“So what’s going on this time?”

While Martin and Johnny told Sylvia what had happened, I called Lina over to us.

“I just drank what I usually drink.”

When Lund said that in front of her, Lina moved as if she knew what it was.

***

What arrived in front of me in a glass like that!

Although he said it nicely… it was still blood for vampires.

I put some blood in the refrigerator on the second floor and put it in the refrigerator at the bar, and the bartenders gave it to me whenever I wanted.

Now that my spell is over, it’s Lund’s turn!

“Lund, what would you like to drink?”

“Anything is fine with me.”

Ah, the most annoying type of customer.

“What? anything? Really, anything is okay, right?”

Johnny quickly approached and asked the order that irritated the bartender the most.

“Then this is what vampires drink most often.”

In response to Johnny’s reaction, Lund showed some tact and ordered again.

‘Well, I passed!’

Lund’s order this time wasn’t bad in my opinion.

It was even clearer when I saw the look in Johnny and Lina’s eyes.

While Lina was following Lund’s orders with awkward movements, Johnny asked me about Lund.

“Oh, what should I say?”

“Huh?”

Johnny seems to have become even more curious about Lund’s identity after hearing what I said.

The old black orc’s eyes began to shine brightly.

“The eldest daughter ranked 2nd in the problem solver rankings?”

“…President of Tetracaine Association.”

I introduced Lund as concisely as possible before it was too late.

but! Sure enough, Lund mentioned his representative official status with displeasure.

“…This lady?”

“Even if he looks like this, he’s older than Johnny, right?”

“What, then you are also a sister to me.”

Johnny then started referring to me and Lund as ‘sisters.’

“Johnny, wait a minute.”

“Huh?”

But when Sylvia called Johnny, only me and Lund remained.

Of course, there was Rina who was working hard at making alcohol in front of us.

Considering how focused we are on making the drink, it’s practically just me and Lund.

“Wow!”

I responded by swallowing a sip of the cool blood in the glass.

If anyone were to see it, it would definitely look like he was drinking.

“I have one question to ask.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“I told you roughly my age earlier. But I don’t know anything about your age.”

“Oh, what should I say again?”

I quickly whispered in Lund’s ear.

“20s.”

“…?”

“If you don’t want to tell me, just say so.”

Lund’s reaction was very cold.

Does it feel like a cold cat scolding you not to play pranks?

“No, it’s true.”

“Then why is the orc from just now calling you sister?”

“It’s better that way because it’s confusing to others.”

“….”

Lund narrowed his eyes after hearing my answer.

Although it is a plausible answer, it seems as if there will be no doubt.

“No, really. And anyway, if I told you my age correctly, you would have the same reaction as you do now, right?”

“….”

“In the first place, if I were a hundred years older than you, why would I have this little body? I also like a mature body better than a kid body like this.”

When I answered while flapping my arms around, Lund reluctantly answered that he understood.

Perhaps he thought that if he didn’t react that way, I would continue to explain.

***

I was wondering how on earth I could make Lund believe my real age.

“I got a glass of Cosmopolitan.”

Many steps were omitted to be considered an order at a bar, but the result was produced anyway.

Come to think of it, the other day… when Lina came to this bar not as a bartender but as a customer.

I definitely ordered Martin a cocktail called Golden Dream. It was amazing that, unlike back then, Lina was now the bartender serving drinks.

“….”

Meanwhile, Cosmopolitan’s owner, Lund, was examining the contents of the glass.

“Don’t you drink it?”

“Wait a moment.”

When I fussed next to her, Lund responded like a grandmother who was bothering her granddaughter.

‘Are you the type of person who enjoys drinking alcohol?’

“Lina, what kind of alcohol is that?”

When I switched to asking Lina, she gave a simple answer.

It is a cocktail made by mixing cranberry juice and lime juice with a vodka base.

The explanation was so simple that I was able to see more with my own eyes than Lina’s explanation.

The Cosmopolitan Lund received contained cold ice and rolled lemon peel.

‘It looks like they used a garnish like lemon twist peel or something like that.’

Jiyiing.

As I continued to look at the glass in Lund’s hand, Lund was already looking at me.

“….”

“Don’t you drink it?”

-Taaaak!

“Ahh!”

At my continued urging, Lund’s pale finger struck my forehead.

“Why are you hitting me?!”

“It’s because you keep acting so rude.”

Lund knew that I was a shame, but he didn’t seem to know what would happen if he hit me.

Immediately, Sylvia, Eslok, and Lillian came running from all directions.

***

What happened next was quite a mess.

“Aaaah! Silvia stop!!! Chairman! Chairman!”

The one who rushed over was the same as the other two, but after Sylvia figured out the situation, she tried to ask Lund about various things.

“Isn’t this too polarizing?”

However, Lund’s retort seemed like he didn’t understand.

That seemed to have irritated Sylvia quite a bit. Even after all this, I was Chris ‘Radomir’.

In some ways, she is Sylvia’s daughter?

“Boss!”

Before I could even verbally ask for help, Eslok and Lillian switched sides and started to stop Silvia.

“Lund, come here! Come here!”

I tactfully took Lund with me and left the bar.

Of course, Lund was holding a glass of the Cosmopolitan he had ordered in the midst of all the chaos.

“Shall we go to the second floor?”

Lund said that any place suitable for drinking alcohol would be good.

I took Lund up the stairs and headed to the second floor of the house.

“It may seem shabby to the Chairman, but.”

“That is prejudice.”

Lund asked back as if he was offended by my remarks.

“Silvia doesn’t really have that kind of personality… but she’s a bit sensitive when it comes to me.”

“It doesn’t seem like much.”

“Well, first of all, I’m Radomir too.”

“…?”

Lund did not immediately understand what I meant.

It was only after I mentioned that Sylvia’s last name was Radomir that she seemed to realize something.

“Are you her daughter?”

“Well, it hasn’t been decided for sure. First of all, it feels right, right?”

There was no response as if everything was useless because it was a fake family.

No, rather, the Lund I know could be said to be weak in aspects such as maternal love.

She hates her father so much… but on the other hand, she truly believes in and follows her mother.

I thought that perhaps her main motivation for revenge was not her own revenge on second place, but her mother’s revenge.

“By the way, is that drink delicious?”

“It’s not bad.”

Cosmopolitan. I thought I should try it too when I get a chance later.

– Beep.

I was bored and turned on the TV with the square remote control I had in my car.

“Now that I think about it, what do you plan to do with the second tribe leader?”

I was browsing TV channels when I was asked a very unexpected question.

“What does it mean to do something?”

“Like the sixth tribe leader.”

‘Do you think I will make the second tribe leader my subordinate as well?’

“Well, it was possible because Eslok had the same interests and also had a weak point.”

“….”

“But wouldn’t the second tribe leader be difficult?”

Lund didn’t add anything, but he seemed to have the same thoughts as me.

“Of course, the news would be best.”

I remembered the vampire blood that I couldn’t drink all of.

As I was looking through the blood packs in the refrigerator, I decided to ask Lund.

“Do you want to drink blood too?”

“Good.”

Hmm, if you look at it like that, it just looks like a noble lioness.

He poured the blood from the blood pack into another glass and handed it to Lund.

I immediately drank my share of blood from the glass.

But Lund was holding a Cosmopolitan in one hand and a glass of vampire blood in the other.

‘Looking at me like this, I look like a greedy baby again.’

***

While the President of our Tetracaine Association took turns drinking the contents of the glass in his hands.

Suddenly, I received a call from Adem on my terminal.

“What, what’s going on?”

“The director didn’t answer the phone.”

“Ah….”

It was too vague to explain at length.

Sylvia was upset because Lund hit me… I could explain it simply! If this happens, the dignity of Director Sylvia will not be respected.

“I’ll let you know right away. What’s going on?”

“The research institute said there is something they would like to request from our office.”

“What kind of research institute is this?”

To my question, Adem answered ‘Ahant Aquatic Biology Research Institute’ located in the eastern part of Maguspol.

“Oh!”

Coincidentally, it was a research institute with a name I knew.

It was a laboratory made up of dwarves… The quests related to this laboratory were truly amazing.