episode_0101

Midas approaches, leaving behind Sheila and the general.

“Hey!”

As I held him in my arms with both hands, he began to move around in my arms.

“Midas, did you have fun?”

“Yes!”

A loud cry and a tail that won’t stop.

Maybe it was because he was a golem, but he didn’t seem to get tired.

A tireless puppy. In a way, it’s cute, but also scary.

“Chris.”

“Huh?”

Solas spoke to me as I was holding Midas.

“The research is complete, but regular checkups are necessary to check Midas’ physical condition from time to time.”

“Well, if you do that, I’ll be grateful.”

Because I didn’t have that kind of equipment.

For Lund… there is, but I thought Solas’ serotonin science would be more certain in this regard.

“Lund, come here.”

“…?”

The wolf-shaped Lund didn’t understand English, but he moved according to my words.

“Solas! Thank you!”

While holding Midas, he bowed his head to Solas and expressed his gratitude.

My other hand made Lund bow his head.

“Why do I have to bow my head too?”

“That’s because you and I are expressing our gratitude together.”

“…?”

Lund still looked like he didn’t know.

He immediately shook off my hand and headed towards Solas.

“Lund, this is the first time I’ve been thanked by you.”

“Is that so?”

“See, isn’t it nice to finally express your gratitude?”

“It’s noisy.”

While Lund was showing an un-presidential side.

widely-.

As the door to the inner space opened, Sylvie appeared with Johnny and David.

“Chris?”

“Ah, Sylvia. This is Midas.”

She seemed surprised to see the golden puppy in my arms.

“I heard the sound of an airplane. Mr. Solas was here.”

At Sylvia’s words, Solas waved his hand as if he was glad to hear her.

I tried to explain the whole story to Sylvia, but Ilseong came first.

“Chris, I’ll have a quick word with Ilseong first and then I’ll be back.”

“Yeah!”

***

Although it was a little disappointing, time was on my side.

It would have been enough to tell Sylvia after she finished talking to Ilseong.

Meanwhile, as Sheila and the general followed Midas and came near me, David also naturally approached me.

“Sigh.”

Johnny joined the party dressed as a bartender, helping Lina and Lillian.

“So what’s this guy’s name?”

“Midas.”

“Midas?”

“That, you know, the golden golem we fought at the Sasau Quarry.”

“Ah….”

David hid his expression as if he had just remembered.

“Do you know Dad too, sir?”

But Midas asked faster than me and David.

David couldn’t bring himself to lie to the curious puppy’s face and nodded.

“How was our dad?!”

A very difficult question.

David, at the time of the assignment, was a thorough sniper, so he probably didn’t know much about Gordius.

“Well, it was a little scary.”

“…Were you scared?”

“Then! There is nothing scarier than a parent trying to protect their child.”

“Oh.”

Even I, who was listening to David’s answer from the side, was impressed by it.

“Wait, so David also gets stronger when the kids are in danger?”

“Don’t say such nonsense.”

Tack-kong!

“Oh no!”

David’s honey chestnut hit me hard on the head.

Midas, surprised by the sight, broke free from her embrace and went down to the floor.

“Ah.”

This was immediately followed by a welcome from Sheila and the General.

“Eww!”

It was quite pitiful to see Midas being held captive by the two and tossed around.

“Master.”

“Ah! Surprise.”

I turned my head toward the sound and saw two people.

Leia and Psylocke.

Among them, Psylocke was right behind me, holding my ankle, which was shining golden.

“…What is that?”

“Ah, Midas asked me earlier.”

It goes without saying that he cut off his ankle before the effects of the golden flower spread throughout his body.

“Master, what should I do with this?”

“Hmm. Well?”

But since it’s gold, I was thinking about putting it in a mimic wallet.

But then a better idea crossed my mind.

“Ah, give it to me.”

“Yes.”

***

The golden anklet I received from Psylocke. Was my ankle this heavy?

No, since it’s gold, it would be difficult to simply compare the weights.

“Johnny, Lina. Is there a place I can put this?”

I asked the two bartenders nearest me for help.

“What? Where did this suddenly come from?”

I wondered if I should repeat the same thing I had said before. But when I said I just wanted to decorate the bar with it as a simple souvenir, Johnny placed it in a suitable place for the captain.

“….”

“What do you think? Isn’t that better?”

Psylocke’s expression was a bit subtle.

“Yes, Chris. I think so.”

On the other hand, Lyria, who was next to me, agreed with my opinion, unlike Psylocke.

“Our director would be shocked if he knew the identity of that ankle.”

“Sylvia?”

Well, if you knew that I had my ankle amputated because of Midas…

Maybe Midas was caught by Sylvia and was going to get scolded.

“Well, so what? It’s all in the past now.”

“He may look like an adult on the outside, but he’s still an adult on the inside.”

“Do you understand now?”

At David’s words, I exclaimed as if it were a given.

“Lina! Give me and Ray more drinks!”

“Okay, I got it.”

Lina’s movements became more hectic, and when she asked Ray if he was okay, he said he was.

“Come to think of it, my ankle is just an ankle… I wish I had something else too.”

“For example?”

I answered David’s question right away.

“Oh, Shylock’s head?”

“Ugh.”

Ray and David paused for a moment. Psylocke, who had heard this from the side, instinctively covered her throat with her hand.

“Or maybe Leia’s pretty hands?”

“Chris….”

Laia and Psylocke were clearly different. However, since Laia had pretty hands, if I had to give an example, I would say her hands were good.

Then, Laia’s expression also changed to a bad one.

“Why? Not really?”

Even vampires don’t feel pain during the regeneration process.

But the pain of having my ankle cut off was somehow bearable.

I thought it might be possible for Lyria and Psylocke, who had been vampires for longer than me.

“Hey, just kidding, just kidding.”

“Chris, you are becoming more and more like my former master.”

…uh?!

What the heck, am I being compared to second place?

Suddenly my body started shaking. I never thought I would hear such humiliation in my life!

“Chris, are you okay?”

As I became very agitated, Ray started asking me repeatedly if I was okay.

“…I’m starting to resemble the second place?”

Leia took a few more steps back after seeing my reaction, but she didn’t take back what she had said.

In this situation, Lund, who was next to Solas, approached. Naturally, he had a very fierce expression on his face.

“You say whatever you want with your mouth open!”

“Lund.”

“Now you are Chris’s subordinate. A subordinate saying such things to his master. I heard it myself, but I still can’t believe it.”

Lund reacted violently, as if his teeth were chattering.

For her, second place is that level of insult.

“….”

Laia admitted her mistake in response to Lund’s violent reaction.

“Sorry, Chris.”

“Still, my head was a bit too much.”

While Lyra was bowing down to me and apologizing… Psylocke suddenly came in without notice.

“Shut up.”

“….”

Leia didn’t want her sincere apology to be watered down.

“Ray, do you think so too?”

I asked Ray with a tearful expression. Then Ray answered while placing a hand on my shoulder.

“No, not at all. So don’t take it too seriously.”

Ray then said that even Leia must have said it as a joke.

I was joking too, so I responded with a joke.

However, the situation has become a bit ambiguous since Lia has already apologized politely.

Suddenly, I transformed from the perpetrator to the victim.

Before I was compared to the second-place quirky vampire with terrible parents, I was the one who said harsh things to Leia first.

However, Lund still growled at Leia as if he was still angry.

“Lund, don’t do it.”

“But. There are things to say and things not to say.”

“Okay, okay, calm down.”

If someone saw me, they would think that it was she, not me, who got the second place joke.

While trying to appease her, I told Leia that I would accept her apology.

***

With this, the incident of Leia’s foul language has come to an end.

….

“…But are you really joking?”

“Sorry Chris. I was just joking.”

I asked again just in case, but I got the same answer.

Even though they are my subordinates, I can’t even know their thoughts.

He could have ordered the Blood Lord to tell his followers his true feelings, but it was too vague to use for something like this. There was no need to confirm it to that extent in the first place.

After all the commotion.

After a brief silence, David spoke first.

“Chris, so what are you going to do with that Midas guy?”

“Hmm. Well? It would be nice if I could take him around, but… wouldn’t it be nice if I left him in a normal family and let him grow up normally?”

“What does that mean?”

“David, do the kids like puppies?”

It might be a bit of a stretch to call the David family a typical family.

However, there was no change in the fact that among us, he was the owner of the most suitable conditions.

“…I like it, but that guy is no good.”

“Why?”

“It’s too dangerous.”

One father answered quickly.

Ray, who was listening to the story from the side, seemed to think that this wasn’t right.

“Chris, I think it might be a bit dangerous to leave Midas and the kids alone.”

Come to think of it, Midas in Greek mythology also turned his daughter into gold.

Although the structure is a little different, I really had no desire to recreate the mythical tragedy within the Dream City worldview.

“Okay. Then I guess I’ll just take you with me.”

“…Is that possible?”

“It’s okay because you can just leave it to the bar while you’re on a mission. And…Since there’s Sheila and the general, I’ll just tell them to get along with their friends.”

I quickly gave up the idea of passing Midas to David.

As Laia said, am I really becoming like the second place? When I became aware of that, I thought it would be better to refrain from doing anything strange.

It was definitely not because I was stabbed.

“Midas!”

“Yes!”

When I called, the guy came over again right away.

The sight of Sheila and the general being beaten was nowhere to be seen.

“You really don’t seem to get tired.”

“…?”

“It’s a compliment, it’s a compliment.”

“Is that a compliment?”

Midas quickly began to wag his tail as he perceived my words as a compliment.

They say praise makes even whales dance.

This may be true for the whales in the sky, but it was at least true for the little puppy in front of me, Midas.

“David, isn’t he cute?”

“Yeah. It’s cute. I think my kids will like it too.”

David then took out his terminal and started taking some pictures.

Ray instantly leaned closer to me.

Suddenly, I found myself taking pictures with Ray and Midas over and over again.

As soon as David’s photo shoot was over…

“David, please give me that picture later too.”

“Huh? Oh, I got it.”

David was a little taken aback by the proactive attitude, as he was not used to it.

Meanwhile, several incidents and accidents occur at Sylvia’s bar.

Elsewhere on Grove Avenue, a secret meeting was underway.

“….”

“Did you understand what I said?”

“Okay, I understand.”

The location was an office of an office that managed Grove Avenue.

However, the two were talking in a dark place in the office where there was little light.

The identities of these two people!

The head of this office has, strangely enough, had his entire head replaced with a prosthetic body.

And he was the boss of one of the three gangs.

The relationship between the local gangs and the troubleshooting office was very close.

Of course, the head of the office had already finished investigating the Blue Heart Office and the Ildong Office.

“It’s a real hornet’s nest.”

These were offices where there was nothing good to be had by touching them.

“Yeah, we know that too.”

I agreed with the boss on that point.

What the gang boss wanted to do was… not to check the two offices, but to make a suggestion.

It’s like asking an old friend in front of you to act as a bridge between the two forces.

“Phew… I can’t help it.”

The office manager stood up from his seat, a red light emanating from his body that showed no trace of a human being.

“Can I go straight there?”

“…The faster the better.”

“He’s telling me to go right now.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

The boss also stood up following the office manager.

So the two of them left the room together… but they were heading in opposite directions.