episode_0096

Two pieces of news for me and Ray.

“Chris?”

“Uh, I’m listening.”

A restrained voice coming from beyond the terminal.

It made me wonder how it was possible to feel such elegance just by hearing his voice.

After asking to confirm that it was me who had received the call, Laia got straight to the point.

“Successful recovery of Psylocke’s slush funds.”

“Well, there were no traps or anything like that?”

“….”

I didn’t hear Laia’s answer right away. It seems like there was something there.

“Yes, there was none. However…”

Her voice trembled, and the elegance she had felt at first began to fade from her voice.

“Just? Didn’t you have an accident?”

Psylocke couldn’t be trusted, so she sent three people, Eslok, Lillian, and Laia, with her.

Wondering what on earth had happened, I pressed Laia for an answer.

“There were some unexpected situations.”

Leia added:

It was said that Psylocke’s slush fund was in a large safe that can only be found at a bank.

Of course, since Psylocke was the owner of the safe, that wasn’t a problem.

…It had to be that way.

“So?”

“Psylocke kept getting the safe number wrong.”

Laia said she couldn’t tell if it was intentional or not.

“You said the slush fund was recovered?”

“Two other people other than me forced open the large safe.”

Maybe the large safe wasn’t that big of a deal?

Otherwise, I was confused as to whether Eslok and Lillian’s powers were that strong. However, listening to Laia’s voice, it seemed closer to the latter.

“…So where are you now?”

“I escaped from the slush fund hiding place and contacted you from nearby.”

I wondered if there was any reason for Psylocke to deliberately misrepresent the number of the large safe. This is because I personally accompanied him to the site.

“Was there anything wrong with the contents in the safe?”

“From what Psylocke said, it seems like the amount is a bit insufficient.”

“Then was it the work of another third party?”

The leader of the sixth tribe… didn’t know that a third party was stealing slush funds from his safe?

Also, the safe number had changed without your knowledge?

I don’t think it makes much sense.

“…Okay, come back first.”

“Yes, Chris.”

***

After the phone call with Laia, Ray and I were wondering what to think about this.

“Do you think Psylocke is a bit suspicious?”

“Yeah, I don’t think he’s that stupid.”

“But is there a need to provoke us by doing something like this? I would just be warned for no reason.”

“If you think about it that way, it’s still true. It’s a bit weird that I didn’t know until that situation happened…”

Rey thought my opinion made sense, but she didn’t think Psylocke was that stupid.

I also thought that neither assumption fit neatly.

“Chris! …Give it to me too!”

In that situation, the general suddenly appeared. The little general ran towards me and asked for mango juice.

“Do you want to eat what I used to drink?”

“Chris, I’ll just give you another drink.”

“Good!”

Lina answered quickly, but the general accepted the glass I had been drinking a moment ago.

It was so cute to see him politely receiving it with both hands, so while he was drinking the juice, my hand was constantly stroking his head.

“Lina, give it to me too!”

The general is drinking juice and being cute to me.

This was not a cat that would just sit back and watch.

“Okay, wait a minute.”

Lina hurriedly poured mango juice according to the order of new arrival Sheila.

Now that I think about it, just by looking at her appearance, Sheila seemed to be the oldest among the four of us.

Do you feel like an older sister to me and the general, and an older sister to Ray?

“Ah!”

I screamed involuntarily at the sudden vibration I felt in my body.

“Chris?!”

“Oh, I got a call.”

An office worker took out his terminal as if he was answering an urgent call.

The name of the object that appears on the screen is Sylvia.

Without further ado, I picked up the phone and asked Sylvia about the results of the meeting.

“I would say it was neither particularly bad nor good.”

“Really?”

Sylvia’s answer was very ambiguous. In fact, there may be nothing more ambiguous than that situation.

“Thanks to Chris accompanying Mr. Lund, there were no major problems. I guess I have to say thank you for that.”

“Ah, that’s what General Lundrang will hear.”

“Are you a general?”

“Ah, the general used some effort to persuade Lund.”

Some might say it was a threat, but from the general and I’s perspective, it was nothing more than sincere persuasion.

“…Mr. Lund was not in a good mood.”

“So in the end, nothing much happened, right?”

I quickly changed my mind.

Sylvia said that she had entrusted a task to the public order maintenance office accordingly.

“No, it’s been so long since we’ve been here that they already gave us the job?”

“Thanks to Mr. Lund and the Tetracaine Association.”

The introduction of Lund may have been a benefit, but it also appears to have been a disadvantage.

I also wondered if there were two sides to anything.

“But it’s not that difficult since it’s your first job here, right?”

“Okay. In some cases, it may be said to be difficult.”

***

We decided to talk in detail after Sylvia, Johnny, and David returned.

“Hmm….”

“Chris, what does Sylvia say?”

“Thanks to Lund, it was okay!”

Ah, is this a too short answer?

“And I heard that the public order maintenance office entrusted us with a job?”

“…already?”

Ray had the same thoughts as me.

It was most likely due to the fact that it was believed that the Tetracaine Association was behind us.

It’s like a new office on Grove Avenue.

This was especially true since the Blue Heart Office and Ildong Office were not large in size.

“What is going on?”

“Sure. First of all, Sylvia said she would come back and tell me more details.”

I agreed with Lina’s words.

Now that I think about it, Lina seemed to welcome us to Grove Avenue.

You might be able to meet your friend, the fairy hacker Tina.

Auckland is on the border between the southern and eastern parts of the city, so it was relatively close to the southern part where Tina was located.

It would be a much better situation for Lina than, for example, remaining on the silver side of Cabrini Green.

“Now, both of you, stop drinking juice now.”

While waiting for Silvia to pass the time, I spoke to Silas and the general.

There is a saying that having too much is not as good as lacking.

Sila is Sila, but the general was literally drinking as much juice as the glass was filled… to the point where everyone watching was worried.

“Would you like to drink more!”

“Hey, that’s it for today. The end!”

In addition to the juice, I tried to persuade the general to drink vampire blood later.

“….”

Of course, the general’s eyes immediately turned to me.

The general’s eyes look like he can’t be satisfied with vampire blood. As I was looking at those eyes, I felt like I was getting goosebumps and chills without realizing it.

“General, no.”

“Why?!”

The person who stopped the general was Ray.

Ray gave a concise answer to the little general who asked as if he couldn’t understand.

As the first descendant, you are the first….

“…?”

As someone who was quietly listening to the story from the side, I was embarrassed.

However, the general seemed to be convinced by Ray’s logic.

“Phew….”

Seeing that Ray was also relieved, I wondered if he had said this with an ulterior motive to calm the general down.

‘I guess that’s what I thought, right?’

“Chris, am I okay?”

“Huh? No, that’s a bit.”

In this situation, Silas suddenly burst in.

It seemed like the traffic had been sorted out somehow, but the general, who had calmed down for a long time, started to make my blood pump again.

“Ah, Silas!”

***

When Sylvia and the other two came right back.

I transformed into the form of a baby bat and was running away from Scylla and the general.

“Silvia!!!”

“Chris, why are you crying all of a sudden?”

I quickly jumped on Silvia’s shoulder and pointed to Silvia and the general.

“Please save me!”

“Oh, it’s because of the blood again.”

Unlike me, who was eager, Sylvia responded as if she was used to it.

The reaction I wanted was a more urgent and serious one.

Yes, I guess you could say it’s a good story.

“Now, come here.”

Meanwhile, David wonders who might be the baby’s father. He skillfully picked up the general and pulled him away from me.

Johnny went straight to the captaincy and joined as a bartender.

Now that I think about it, it was surprising that Sylvia arrived before the four people who went to retrieve Psylocke’s slush fund.

“So what happened?”

“Youngmin, would you like to come here too?”

“It’s not Youngmin, it’s Ray!”

“Well, I’m not familiar with the changed name.”

“It’s not a changed name, but Ray is Youngmin’s real name?”

“….”

Sylvia seemed to have nothing to say about that and immediately brought up another topic.

Grove Avenue in Auckland.

The task that the Public Safety and Security Office here gave to our Blue Heart Office was somewhat unusual.

“Gang related?”

“Yes, it’s not about subduing gangs or anything like that, but we need to attend a meeting to mediate disputes between gangs.”

There appears to have been a feud between gangs based in Auckland.

Since it was an area where a lot of orcs lived, it was clear that any gang would be full of orcs.

“You’re not telling us to wipe them out, right?”

“I heard it was quite large, so that’s not true.”

Sylvia seemed to think it was impossible.

My thoughts were a bit different, but there is also the Lidocaine Association, so there is no need to turn on the orc gang here as enemies.

“So, what are the details?”

“They say it was the government office in Auckland that arranged for dispute resolution between gangs.”

“Public power?”

“Yes, we can attend the event as attendants of the representative of the government office.”

“Have you decided who will go?”

“No, I think we need to think about that.”

“Is there anything more you can say?”

“He said he would like the problem solver to look as threatening as possible.”

“Then, first of all, how is the unity between me and the office?”

“I don’t know about Ilseong, but I can’t agree that Chris is a threat.”

“Oh, but my face is also somewhat known.”

Like little Jinjo or something.

It may be just a false reputation, but fame is fame. There I happened to have a good idea.

“I think it would be a good idea to include Johnny and Eslok as well.”

“Those two?”

“Wouldn’t Johnny be a bit of a threat if he gave the minigun to his side? As it happens, I just need to ask Eslok to change into something decent.”

“Hmm… After listening to it, I don’t think it’s a bad idea.”

The reason Eslok was included was because of the characteristics of a vampire.

Because it can change its appearance to become threatening at any time.

There were Lillian and Laia, but Eslok seemed to be enough. Eslok’s true form is sufficiently threatening, right?

“I’ll have to talk about it once everyone comes back.”

“Did everyone go somewhere?”

“Oh, that’s… actually.”

In Sylvia’s ears, I told her exactly what I had heard from Laia a little while ago.

“…? It’s his safe, but how could he not know?”

“So. First of all, I made it for my family, but it stinks a bit.”

Sylvia asked about Psylocke’s vault.

I definitely received praise for ordering the recovery of his slush funds.

I could get help from Chairman Lund, but then I would be completely economically dependent on the Tetracaine Association.

Following Eslok’s slush fund, it was clear that Psylocke’s slush fund would bring a brilliant blue signal to our office’s financial situation.

“The southern slush fund has been recovered, so now there are two places left.”

“Yes! I don’t know about the northern part, but I plan to retrieve the eastern part soon.”

I was talking about various things with Sylvia.

We need to confirm whether the Ildong office will really help us with this matter.

Regarding Scylla’s future, things like the need to adjust the existing contract with the silver side’s cat mom.

Tiring!

In that situation, the doorbell rang inside the bar. At the same time, four people appeared.

They were the ones entrusted with recovering Psylocke’s slush funds.

Eslok, Lillian, Leia, and Psylocke. Meanwhile, Psylocke had a majestic look on her face.

As I was looking at that, I unconsciously had the urge to grab a honey chestnut.

Just one! There really is only one!