episode_0074

Instead of getting drunk on the immediate victory I had in the lab, what I chose was to hold on strategically!

Right at Sylvia’s house.

Even though Frank and Ilsung came to Sylvia’s bar, they couldn’t make it to the house on the second floor.

I couldn’t help but be thrilled by the perfect defense of Sylvia, who called herself the owner of the bar and my mother.

“Uaaaa….”

“How long on earth do you plan on rolling around?”

“Huh?”

Of course, there were foolish people who did not support my strategic hold.

This was the case with Lund, who took the form of the White Dire Wolf, also known as Hwadaul.

How much it bothers me when I come into my room instead of the living room and settle down in my soft bed.

I, who was lying on the bed in bat-patterned pajamas, answered as if I was annoyed.

“Hey, it’s nice to take a long break.”

“It’s already been a few days since you’ve been lying around.”

“Lund, don’t do that, come up!”

“I don’t like it!”

Lund rejected my offer and ran away into the living room.

‘Tsk, it doesn’t taste cute anyway.’

If it were Sheila, she would definitely have come running if she liked it.

As I rolled around in bed with that thought in mind, I fell asleep again.

I felt like I had already slept a lot, but I was wondering why my sleep never seemed to end even after sleeping like this.

“Umm….”

How much time has passed? When I looked out the window with slightly opened eyes, it seemed that it was not yet night.

So I closed my eyes again…

‘Why do I feel something in my stomach?’

“Uh, …Sila?!”

“Chris Ugh!”

As I turned my sights toward the boat, I saw Silas sitting calmly on my boat.

As soon as I noticed her, Silas responded by lengthening her sentence, as if asking why I was only now noticing her.

“Ugh!”

What followed immediately was Scylla’s jump!

It also stuck to my face and wouldn’t come off.

“Silaaa!”

The epic fight between me and Scylla trying not to separate from Scylla did not last that long.

It was a victory for me as I lifted Scylla with both hands without having to change into my baby bat form.

I struck a pose as if a mandrill monkey was lifting a baby lion off a cliff.

“Oh, but when did you come?”

“From earlier!”

“How much was it before?”

“…Not even ten minutes have passed.”

I flopped down and lay down on the bed while talking to Sheila.

Scylla was released from my hand and naturally climbed onto my stomach again.

“Do you like it that much?”

“Chris has the softest tummy.”

Yes, since it’s a boat, it’s natural for it to be soft.

By the way, the way Sheila was sitting on my stomach looked like she was baking bread.

It was a little different from the bread that ordinary cats bake.

It looked like a whole chicken as its limbs protruded slightly forward.

“Foot.”

“Chris?”

Silas tilted her head slightly to the side.

“No, it’s just that Sila looks a bit like a whole chicken.”

“…Chris’ pajamas are also tacky!”

“What? This!”

How dare you touch my bat-print pajamas! I love how the sleeves and hem look like clothes worn by witches!

When I tried to get up from the bed and hold myself up, Sheila quickly ran into the living room.

“Lunduuu!”

“What, what happened again?”

Before he knew it, Sila, who had clung to Lund’s back, asked Lund for help.

Then Lund rose up in his wolf form and confronted me.

***

“Chris is bullying me.”

“You’re that old and you’re bullying kids. You should be ashamed.”

Hearing those words in a tone like Lund’s grandmother made me very irritated.

“What?! When did I bully you!”

Now that I think about it, there was a saying like this in the real world where I lived.

If someone hates you for no reason, give them a damn reason!

‘I’ll really bother you!’

I transformed into the form of a baby bat and immediately jumped towards Scylla and Lund.

“Yaaaa!”

“Chris! Get away!”

Lund moved his body around to shake me off when he suddenly attacked me, but it wasn’t enough.

As Lund was jumping up and down, I attacked Silas again.

“Sila, you liar!”

The sight of a bat and a cat fighting in a wolf’s fur… wouldn’t be very grand.

To others, it may have seemed like a bullshit fight, but the parties involved were extremely serious.

“Okay! I’ll stop!”

“It should have been like that a long time ago!”

The result of the fight was, of course, my victory.

I headed over Lund’s head and said to Lund, who was shaking his body all the time.

“Lund, stop now!”

“Then you too, come down quickly.”

“Okay, okay. You can just go down.”

After coming down from Lund’s head, I returned to my original self.

“Sila, come here.”

Because Silas was defeated by me, she had no choice but to follow my words. No, actually, I think he would have come to me even if he hadn’t lost.

After all the commotion, the three of us started watching TV in harmony.

“Let’s watch the news.”

“Chris, you don’t know how to watch anything other than the news.”

“Well, the news is the most fun. And you need to know something about how the world works.”

“If you think about it that way, I think it would be better to just go outside.”

“Ah, I’m saying I’m holding on strategically now.”

After answering Lund’s words, the images of Frank and Ilseong, their eyes burning towards me, came to mind.

“Are you planning on leaving that vampire hunter alone?”

“Um… Well, I’m not a bad person. Also, there is a saying that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”

“An enemy of an enemy is just an enemy.”

“…Then are we enemies too?”

As Lund spoke confidently, I brought up my relationship with Lund.

That’s because we had a relationship where the second place was the public enemy at first.

Then Lund gave a different answer than I expected.

“No, that’s not what I said.”

“Well, then you can do that with Frank too.”

“No, but the case is a bit different for vampire hunters.”

“Ah, the constant fighting between the church and the vampires is now a thing of the past.”

“Chris! Lund! I can’t hear the TV!”

As Lund and I talked non-stop, Silas said something to both of us.

As I was listening to the official language on TV news, I remembered the broken official language translator at the research institute.

Ah, now that I think about it, it’s not like I have any spares….

I felt like I needed to take one with me when I went to the next request.

“Lund, Scylla.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Do you know what the situation is at Ildong’s office?”

“It has nothing to do with me.”

“I hate Youngmin!”

“Ah, don’t do that!”

Lund and Sheila’s reaction was completely different from what I expected.

Lund was not interested at all, and Scylla seemed to know something, but she showed antipathy toward Ray.

“Sila~ Don’t do that!”

“Then pet it!”

Sheila climbed onto my lap and started tapping me with her front paws.

***

Anyway, I was the one at a disadvantage in this situation.

Scrunch. I started caressing various parts of Sheila’s body until my hands were worn out.

However, this was most important when petting a cat at a moderate speed that was not too excessive.

In fact, while stroking Scylla, I secretly touched Scylla’s soft meatballs, touched Scylla’s stiff tail that looked like an exclamation mark, and even touched both of Scylla’s ears, which felt nice.

“…I think I like you more than Silas.”

“What? Me?”

Lund must have seen me smiling sinisterly as I stroked various parts of Scylla’s body.

I quickly stopped pretending, and Silas was also concentrating on me stroking her, so it wasn’t a big problem.

Meanwhile, some pretty important news was coming out on TV.

It appears that miners went missing as a group at a place called Sasau Quarry, located in the northeast of Maguspol.

‘uh? I think I’ve heard this before somewhere…’

Up to this point, it was just a guess.

However, new details were gradually mentioned in the news, and among them there was crucial information.

According to the testimony of miners on site, there were rumors about fellow miners turning into gold.

The location is in a mine in the northeastern part of the city… A person turned to gold?

At first glance, it was a quest related to a dungeon.

In the Dream City game, there was a dungeon boss based on King Midas, famous for the idiom “Hand of Midas”.

The boss’s name was Gordius, the father of King Midas.

In the past, Alexander the Great was the king who originated the legendary knot that was said to have been undone by cutting it with a single sword.

‘Now that I think about it, the father is a knot villain and the son is a golden villain?’

Anyway, in place of his son, King Gordius comes out with the brutal ability to turn anything he touches into gold.

The location of the dungeon was one of the mines in the northeastern part of the city, so there was an element of uncertainty.

“Lund, can you do me a favor?”

“No, I don’t like it.”

“Oh, really! Don’t do that!”

“Then let’s listen first and then judge.”

“Please tell me about the quarry information that just appeared in the news.”

“…It’s possible, but is it really necessary?”

Lund said there was no reason for us to help the miners in that quarry.

“The miners are not important. The guy who made the miners like that is important.”

“You know something.”

“At least he’s someone who can be helpful to our military power, right?”

“…If you lie, I won’t let you go.”

Lund said so, but said he would listen to my request.

As expected, when meeting with the anti-lidocaine forces, there was a reason why one of the representatives said that Lund was a good person after getting to know him.

“Thank you!”

“Nyaaaang!”

I hugged Lund, and although I’m not sure, Scylla followed me and hugged Lund.

“Get away!”

“Ah, Silas. Can’t you tell me now?”

“What?”

Even though I was petting her like that, she suddenly looked as if she had completely forgotten about it.

“Japan, Dong, Office, Office, and So!”

“Ah, okay!”

***

While I kept both eyes on the news related to the Sasau Quarry, my ears were focused on Scylla’s words.

Multitasking to this degree was not a task for me.

“I guess Youngmin is trying hard to persuade the director there.”

“And?”

“Uh….”

I hoped that wasn’t all the information Sheila knew.

Fortunately, Sylvia and her colleagues at the Blue Heart Office also seemed to have helped Ray and tried to persuade the Ilsung and Ildong offices.

Of course, I told Sylvia she could use as much of my gold as she wanted.

When I mentioned that part, Sheila shook her head.

“There was no talk of money!”

“Really?”

After all, Ilseong was not the kind of person who would take money to cover up the problems that arose with his stepbrother.

“But I guess it’s to that extent thanks to Ray’s help.”

“I don’t understand.”

“What?”

Meanwhile, Lund said something.

“You and the director of that office.”

“Huh?”

“I wonder if there was a need to make that kid a servant. Since the fixer in his office has become a member of Jinjo’s family, the possibility of him dying completely has decreased and he has become stronger, which is a good thing from the director’s point of view. Isn’t that a bad thing?”

“Ah, if you ask me, that’s true. There is such a thing as the human heart.”

Even if it were me, I would have been angry to hear that Sylvia had suddenly become someone else’s slave.

Is this a situation where my child falls for some strange bully and calls him his master?

“Still, I think it would be better to hold on a little longer for now. Because I think time will tell.”

“What does the vampire hunter plan to do?”

“Once the matter at the Ildong office is resolved, I will meet with you in person.”

“Hmm… Do you even have the confidence to persuade me?”

“We can’t communicate… Because we’re not the other person?”

“Why is it in question form?”

I also tend to answer interrogative questions in interrogative form.

However, Frank certainly seems like a good person, but he also seems to be broken in some way.

Just like fanatics usually do.

“Haaam. I’m sleepy!”

“Stop sleeping.”

“That’s right! Chris continued to sleep!”

“What should I do if I’m still sleepy!”

Although Lund and Sila were full of complaints, yawns kept coming out of my mouth.

What is the situation of the Doridocaine Association after the incident, what are the trends in the Kehern office, which did not attend the meeting among the anti-lidocaine forces, and the status of the reconstruction of the research institute, etc.

I confirmed various news with Lund and Silas.