episode_0082

Sasau at Devils Park.

Our base was set up there to carry out the request.

It was located halfway between the Sasau Quarry and the security office at Devils Park.

We needed to be well prepared before entering the quarry.

I was with Sylvia, Lund, and Scylla in the operations conference room located on the first floor of the base.

“Let’s see, everyone is doing well?”

“Chris! What are you going to do?”

“Just look at me quietly. Silas.”

“….”

Silas really listened well at times like this.

I easily contacted other members of our office from the table in the operations conference room.

“Ah, ah. Johnny? David?”

“Huh? What’s going on, sister?”

“How is the investigation going well?”

As soon as I reached Johnny, David, and Lina, I heard Johnny’s answer. We had assigned three people to investigate information near the Sasau Quarry.

“Well… it’s still the same.”

“Is there really no new news?”

I asked David just in case, as he answered in a way that was too calm even for me to hear.

“Sister, first of all, I visited all the survivors who returned from that mine. But what these guys say is all the same.”

What Johnny mentioned was something I had already confirmed.

When a golden giant suddenly appeared and touched a fellow miner, he instantly turned into gold on the spot.

Not all miners became gold with one contact. There were individual differences, such as those that required two or three contacts to become gold. However, the problem was that the standard was not known.

“Okay, but if anything comes up, please let me know right away.”

“Of course. Sister.”

Lina seemed to be more tired than Johnny and David because she didn’t say anything.

“You can research a little more and return if you still don’t get much results.”

“Okay, confirmed.”

After contacting David, I contacted the following people.

To Eslok and Lillian, former Sixth Tribe couple of the Lidocaine Society.

“Ah, ah. Can you hear me?!”

“Yes, Chris.”

I heard Eslok speaking softly.

“…If it’s a difficult situation now, should we do it later?”

“I think that would be a good idea.”

Lillian’s voice that followed was the same as Eslok’s.

I exchanged glances with Sylvia and Lund, and they both nodded.

“Okay, don’t overdo it.”

Beep! The communication between the two people ended with a beep sound.

“Okay, then let me do it now.”

After my turn, Lund, who was in his true form and not in his wolf form for a long time, began giving various instructions to the Tetracaine Association’s forces.

“Let’s leave for a moment.”

“Is that so?”

At Sylvia’s urging, I quickly got up from my seat.

“I want to go too!”

“No, Silas. You stay here.”

Sila tried to move without missing it, but Lund was faster.

***

“Chris ugh!!!”

“Sorry, Sheila! Please stay with Lund!”

Silas shouted in a sad tone towards Sylvia and I… but there was nothing we could do.

Because of the incorrect parenting in second place, Lund was a grandmother who needed affection.

As soon as we left the strategy conference room, Ilseong and Ray were seen approaching from the other side of the hallway.

“Oh! Hi Ray!”

“Are you ignoring me?”

“Is that possible? Goodbye to Ilseong too!”

“….”

Although the greeting was a bit late, Ilseong did not question it further since he said hello anyway.

The only two people from Ildong’s office who participated in this request were Ilsung, the director, and Ray, the ace.

“Silvia, has there been any progress in reconnaissance?”

“It looks like Eslok and Lillian have discovered something. Although it seems like it will take some time to get an accurate report.”

“What is the current location of the two people?”

“First underground floor of the mine.”

The Sasau Quarry has four underground levels, but it was on the third underground level that King Gordius was seen.

However, as a considerable amount of time has passed since its first appearance, it is quite possible that it has risen above the third basement level.

“Silvia, then it is possible that the target may have made it to the first floor?”

“Well, I guess we can say that nothing is certain at this stage.”

As soon as Sylvia finished answering Ray’s question, Ilseong asked for my opinion.

“Because the miscreants were loitering on the second basement floor, they probably didn’t come up to the first floor right away.”

“Is there any evidence?”

“Yes, he has something important to protect.”

“Chris, what is that?”

“His son.”

“….”

Inside the body of King Gordius is his son, young King Midas.

The fact that the difficulty of this quest increased over time also depended on how much Midas in Gordius’ body grew.

So, from King Gordius’s perspective, there was a reason to take more time, but there was no reason to act hastily.

Meanwhile, Ilseong made a not very good expression after hearing my answer.

In the relationship between a father and his child… The iron mask from before was definitely named Deokbong.

Anyway, he might have remembered something about his younger brother who decided to take a different path from him.

“And we are still conducting preliminary reconnaissance on tetracaine and serotonin. If there is such a change, we will know right away.”

“…That would be nice.”

Ilseong responded as if he was leaving some room for what I said.

“Chris, is it okay for Ilsung and I to continue waiting here?”

“Yes!”

“….”

Even Ilsung, who was next to me, seemed speechless at my seemingly obvious answer.

“We and 6th place are the core forces for this request. First of all, it is important to get enough rest and be in good health.”

“…Does that also apply to me?”

Suddenly we heard a familiar voice behind us.

It was Laia, the former deputy leader of the second tribe of the Lidocaine Association. She was wearing a fancy coat like those worn by medieval nobles.

“Lia!”

“…Chris.”

It wasn’t just the clothes.

Even the angle at which he lowers his head towards me and the momentary posture of his hands and feet.

There was a sense of elegance in each movement, as if there was some etiquette common in vampire aristocratic society.

***

Of course, either way, I transformed into a baby bat.

As soon as I landed on top of Laia’s blonde hair, she called me again without moving from that spot.

“Chris?”

“Huh? Why?”

“I want you to get out of my head.”

“Ah? No?”

“No, not necessarily.”

Watching her bewildered by me reminded me of our first meeting, which wasn’t a very good one.

“Laia, according to what Chris said, your abilities will be put to great use in this job along with Lina. You are no exception.”

Meanwhile, while I was thinking for a moment, Sylvia answered Laia and asked if this was a sufficient answer.

“If you say so. I understand.”

“Ah, Laia. This is Ilsung and Ray, the heads of the Ildong office. And Ilsung, Ray. This is my third descendant, Laia.”

After Laia finished answering, I introduced Ilsungi, Ray, and Laia, which I had forgotten.

Then Ilsung responded as if he already knew.

“Yes, I heard it from Youngmin.”

“Uh-huh, it’s not Youngmin, it’s Ray.”

Even after I started calling him by his real name, Ray, Ilseong steadfastly did not stop calling me by that strange name.

“This is Youngmin.”

“Ray!”

“This is Young Min.”

“Re.i!”

Ilseong and I kept asking each other persistently about Ray’s name.

“….”

Ray couldn’t bear to watch the scene properly, so he quickly turned his head and covered his face with one hand.

“Mr. Ilsung, I think it would be better to talk about that later.”

Sylvia came between me and Ilseong and recommended that we stop at this point.

I was about to quit after seeing Ray and Sylvia’s reactions…

Suddenly Laia opened her mouth.

“This is just my opinion, but in this case, I think it is right that Chris’s opinion takes precedence.”

‘huh?’

I wanted to say something, but Ilsung reacted before me.

“…What does that mean?”

“This boy is Chris’s first descendant.”

“Even if that were the case, Youngmin’s opinion is more important.”

Ilsung did not go into detail about the relationship between Youngmin and his family, but he did say something that implied that Youngmin had some bad memories.

‘Uhm. If that’s the case, there’s nothing we can do about it.’

“Chris, I’m fine.”

Ray told me it was okay, but I thought there might be nothing we could do under such circumstances.

“As long as you are a member of the Jinjo’s family, it is natural for us vampires that the wishes of the Jinjo, the owner of the family, take precedence over your personal wishes.”

However, Laia was concerned that someone might be a vampire aristocrat, so she began to develop logic suited to that category.

If I did this wrong, the lid on Ilsung could be opened, so I decided to intervene before that happened.

“No, Laia, it’s okay.”

“Chris.”

“Let’s do this instead! If it’s a bit difficult to use your real name, Lay, then you can just call me by a name other than Youngmin.”

“…?”

Ilsung looked like he didn’t really understand my answer.

“No, why that good name…”

“Because you think that way!”

It was fortunate that he wasn’t a ‘deok’ min like the other problem solvers in Ildong’s office.

***

Of course, I couldn’t think of a suitable new name for Ray or Youngmin right away.

Still, it’s just one person’s name, but he’s smart, so you can never give him a name like Youngmin.

We decided to keep it the same until we decided on a suitable new name.

Ilseong calls me Youngmin, and I call him Ray, in that awkward state.

Meanwhile, after catching up with Sylvia and Laia for a moment, we headed back to the strategy conference room and Lund greeted us.

“Welcome.”

“Lund, has there been any contact from Eslok and Lillian?”

“Before you arrived, I received a call from those two. They told me to let them know right away when you arrive.”

After saying that, Lund tried to contact the two people by pressing the button on the table.

Sylvia and I were seated around the table, and Laia was positioned behind us.

“Chris!”

Meanwhile, Silas, who was on Lund’s lap, looked at Sylvia and came out and shouted in an angry tone.

“Sila, come here.”

“I don’t like it!”

I asked Silas to reconcile, but she didn’t seem to be in that mood yet.

“Tskcha.”

But that didn’t mean I could stay still.

I immediately turned into a baby bat and sat on Scylla’s head.

Sheila shook her head back and forth to try to get me off, but she had no luck.

“Chris.”

Meanwhile, a force field with the faces of Eslok and Lillian appeared on the table.

“Oh, so you found something?”

“Yes, it looks like we found a new route from the first basement level where we are to the second basement level.”

“…Was there something like that?”

“It is not an existing passage, but a new passage opened by the golems.”

Eslok said that he and Lillian watched the golems clearing the passage from a reasonable distance.

Why is King Gordius, who will be on the 3rd basement floor, opening a passage from the 2nd basement floor to the 1st floor?

I thought it was an intention to secretly send out the golems.

“You haven’t been caught by those guys yet, right?”

“Yes.”

At Eslok’s answer, I looked at the other people in the conference room.

“Eslok, Lillian. Wait there. We’ll go there too.”

“Okay.”

As soon as the two figures disappeared, we stood up.

“Chris. Is it okay if I jump in right away?”

“I think it would be better to deal with it before they do anything strange.”

“You guys go first. I just give instructions to each unit and have them join right away.”

“Yes!”

“Oh, don’t forget to bring a walkie-talkie and night goggles.”

“Yes!”

I answered confidently and briefly to Lund’s continued words.

“I should also tell Johnny and David to return immediately.”

“You two may not know each other, but please tell Lina to come. Oh, and I also have to see how far the general has come.”

Medusa Lina, who has the ability to petrify, and Laia, who can create barriers using blood.

These two were essential to King Gordius’s attack.

It was clear that if it were just the two of us, Ilseong and Ray, who can only demonstrate their abilities in close combat, would be able to perform without any worries.

“Okay, then shall we head straight to the quarry?!”

It had finally begun.