episode_0112

I stood up to the unfounded suspicions directed at me.

“Then I’ll contact you?”

“It’s nice to see Chris being so proactive.”

“Hey, that’s not true.”

Sylvia continued to build her own conspiracy theory.

Well, anyway, I picked up the terminal and contacted the Ildong office right away.

“Yes, this is Ildong Office.”

“Deoksu! Hello?”

“What, is that you, Chris?”

“That reaction doesn’t seem wise.”

I’m doing the favor of inviting everyone in the Ildong office to a cheese party.

“Do you remember Martin, the bartender when we were at Silver Side?”

“Oh, of course. But why Martin?”

“Martin sent me a ton of good cheese. We’re having a party at our hideout with that cheese. Do you want to come?”

“Oh, really?”

Deoksu seemed to have finally caught on.

When he told me to wait a moment, I waited quietly.

Not long after, Deoksu’s voice was heard again.

“So? You’re coming, right?”

“Hyungnim and Youngmin will go.”

“…what about other people?”

“We have our own things to do.”

“Hey, don’t do that. Since we’re doing this for a while, come here!”

“I’d like to do that, but work is work, you know.”

Stop.

Okay, that’s just the right number of people.

Although I pretended it didn’t happen in front of Deoksu, it wasn’t a bad result.

Now that the call was over, all that was left was to wait for Ray and Ilseong to arrive.

But before I could rest easy, I checked Midas.

“Midas?”

“Hey!”

“Eat and talk, I said.”

There was no way I could answer properly when I spoke with my face buried in the food bowl.

He approached Midas himself and took his face out of the food bowl.

“What, you already ate all the cheese?”

“It was delicious!”

“Yeah, yeah. It looks good because you ate well.”

“Really?”

“Okay! Of course, it seems a bit excessive… but I can’t help it.”

After briefly removing Midas from the food bowl, I filled it again.

“How is it? Can you eat it all?”

“I want to rest a bit and eat!”

“…Huh?”

Did Midas have the option of a temporary retreat?

Actually, I was planning on keeping Midas here so he wouldn’t interrupt our cheese party.

But Midas quickly left my room as if life were a real battle.

“Midas, what do you think?”

***

Midas, who had come out into the living room in an instant, was already chewing on the brick cheese that Sylvia had handed him.

“…It’s soft!”

“It looks like Midas has a taste for it.”

“Huh?”

Midas looked as if he was wondering what that meant.

Honestly, I doubted whether Midas could really taste it.

No matter how much he liked to eat… Midas was a golem after all.

A golem with a sense of taste? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

It’s an inefficient idea from the start.

But Midas acts as if such conventional wisdom doesn’t matter.

“No, I’m just saying it because I find it interesting.”

“I want to eat more!”

“Oh, you can’t do that before the party even starts.”

“No way?”

At my words, Midas just looked at the cheese and drooled.

I couldn’t stand to watch so I cut up some Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.

It was such a large cheese that I was able to cut it without a separate grater.

“What do you think? Which is tastier, the cheese you ate earlier or this?”

“I don’t know. They’re both delicious!”

I’m not sure which cheese is better, but I’d say they’re both delicious.

It seemed to be more difficult than I thought.

“Sheila, help me out for a minute!”

“Yes!”

As soon as the cat-like Sheila appeared, I held out Midas.

Midas was busy eating the cheese I cut for him.

“Can you look at Midas for a minute?”

Since the general was sleeping, all I had to do was worry about Midas.

I was going to play around a bit, but I couldn’t do that when I saw Sylvia diligently slicing cheese in the kitchen.

“Sylvia, I’ll help you too.”

“I alone am enough.”

“But if we do it together, it’ll end faster.”

Sylvia didn’t deny that part either.

While I was helping Sylvia, something suddenly occurred to me.

“Sylvia, by the way, should I call the people at the bar too?”

“Well, I guess it would be hard to suddenly empty the bar.”

“Then… the only ones left are Leia and Psylocke.”

But Leia is still taking care of David.

Psylocke will also be busy playing with David’s children.

“Should I ask the bartenders to come up if they want to?”

“I think it’s okay since I already gave you some cheese. If someone leaves for no reason, only the people who are left will suffer.”

“Ugh. Can’t help it.”

I wanted to have a cheese party with Johnny, Lina, Eslock, and Lillian.

“There probably won’t be as many people as I thought.”

“But still, there’s Midas.”

Oh, that’s right. I think Midas would do the work of at least four people.

“Come to think of it, it looks like the feed is about to run out.”

“…Already?”

***

Oh, even so, when I fed Midas a little while ago, there wasn’t much food left.

By the way, I didn’t know it would be this soon.

I thought it might be a good idea to buy a larger quantity next time.

“Sylvia, can I go buy some food with Ray?”

“Are you two dating?”

“Why not?”

Since Sylvia kept pushing me in that direction, I decided to come out confidently.

“No way. I’m rooting for these two people too.”

“Then that’s great!”

“I guess it was a date after all?”

“Oh really!”

I covered my ears and quickly left the kitchen.

“Sylvia, I’ll be back soon!”

“Don’t worry. Thanks to Chris’s help, we’re almost done.”

It was fortunate that there wasn’t much work left to do.

“Sheila, I’ll be back soon!”

I left the house before I could hear Sheila’s answer.

According to Deoksu, Ray and Ilseong left for this direction…

You’ll probably see it if you head towards the Ildong office.

It was scary to get on the elevator and get off on the first floor.

“Chris!”

“Ray!”

At that moment, I was able to run into two people entering the hideout building.

Taaak!

I ran over and gave Ray a high five.

“Hello, Ilseong too!”

“Chris, you always look so energetic when I see you.”

“Well, I’m still young.”

“…?”

After hearing what I said, Ilseong looked as if his thoughts had stopped for a moment.

It was quite interesting to see a Doberman’s face make that kind of expression.

“First, Ilseong goes up to the third floor.”

“Is it just me?”

“Yeah, Sylvia’s almost done getting ready for the party.”

“Chris, me?”

“Ray, you have somewhere to go with me. Can I borrow Ray for a bit?”

Ilseong looked at Ray’s face for a moment, then nodded.

“If Youngmin likes it, I don’t mind.”

“Ray!”

“….”

Ilseong said what he wanted to say and then followed my instructions and headed to the elevator.

“You really have to understand my stubbornness.”

“Aren’t they both equally stubborn?”

“What?”

“Oh, no.”

When I fired back with all my might, Ray took back his words.

“Okay, then let’s go buy some feed.”

“Feed?”

I relayed the bad news to Ray that Midas’s feed was about to run out.

“That much already?”

“Yeah, because I eat it every time I have free time.”

As Ray said, the feed was running out faster than expected.

“I’m planning to buy a little more this time. So… would you like to come with me?”

“Yeah!”

A smile appeared on my face as I saw him answer without any hesitation.

‘It was a good thing I said it.’

“Are you going to buy feed at the store you were at last time?”

“Yeah, I think that’s the best. Of course, I haven’t been to any other places.”

“If possible, it’s better to go somewhere familiar.”

Yeah, if possible, a place like that would be better. It was nice that the conversation with Ray didn’t require much talking.

***

“Just a minute.”

As soon as I left the hideout building with Ray, I was terrified and turned into a baby bat.

Then it stuck to Ray’s clothes.

“Okay, let’s go now.”

“Yeah.”

I wondered if Ray knew why I was doing this.

Last time, we weren’t careful enough, so we ended up getting caught walking hand in hand.

At least I won’t give those ragtag guys the pictures they want!

“It’s good to hold hands and go, but please be patient for a little longer.”

“I’m okay.”

Even though he said that, there was a hint of regret in his expression.

Before I knew it, I had reached a place where I could see a feed store in the distance.

“Is this okay?”

Ssung-!

At that moment, my vision flipped over and I was rolling around on the ground.

No, to be exact, only the head, separated from the body, was rolling around.

“What?!”

“….”

As I shouted loudly, I felt a presence around me.

Ray was confronting an unknown person without even thinking about picking up my head.

I had no choice but to control my headless body.

“Shit!”

I grabbed the neck and stuck it to the cut surface… surprisingly, it stuck.

“It was that monster after all.”

Who the hell are you calling a monster?…

I looked at the place where the voice came from with a look of discontent.

There were two men and two women there.

She had blond hair like Ray and shining red eyes.

“…Oh, really?”

“Ray, come back with us.”

What I just heard made my doubts become certainty.

Ray’s brothers. Ray also happened to be referring to the two as his older brother and sister.

“No matter how much they are Ray’s older brother and sister, they are so rude.”

I said, twisting my neck this way and that.

“Shut up, monster.”

You’ve been going crazy since a while ago, you’re really going too far.

If that’s how it came out from that side, I had a way too.

I quickly changed my appearance. Of course, it wasn’t that of a baby bat.

It didn’t even look like a whale in the sky.

The most effective form against Ray’s brothers. That’s… the second-place form!

As my skeleton changed, I instantly transformed into a pale-skinned Jinjo troubleshooter.

Pale skin similar to Lund’s, and silver hair that seemed to glow in the red moonlight.

And even has red glowing eyes like Ray and his brothers.

***

For the Kresnik family, the arch-enemy of vampires, he was a terrifying presence.

The Kresnik family, which has lived for so many years and has disappeared into the back alleys of history, is countless.

“…!”

As expected.

Ray’s older brother and sister quickly adjusted their posture.

But even though I don’t know about my older sister, Ray’s older brother had really weird clothes.

Although she was wearing white clothes, underneath she was wearing black full-body latex.

His body type was also quite slim for a man, which gave him a strangely feminine feel.

‘Still, that attack earlier…’

At that moment, the same attack as before was launched.

I couldn’t keep up with it with my eyes.

I just raised my right hand based on instinct.

When I realized it, the blocked sword was already held in my right hand.

“…Tsk!”

Ray’s brother quickly stepped back.

Even giving up his own sword.

Kwajik!

The sword in my hand shattered in an instant.

“Chris, are you okay?!”

“Ray, it’s not that monster you should be worried about, it’s us.”

As Ray came near me and spoke, Ray’s older sister shouted.

….

But, Ray glared at his brothers with a fierce look, making his older sister’s words seem meaningless.

“….”

Even Ray’s older sister was flustered by that reaction and broke out in a cold sweat.

“That idiot.”

Ray’s brother shouted as if nothing was going right.

“Then let me go this time.”

Even the speech was made as similar as possible to the second place.

As soon as I finished speaking, my body split into several bats.

It was a method used by many vampires, including the second-place winner in the Dream City game.

Ray’s brother and sister began to back away as several bats suddenly came towards them.

“You’re late!”

A few bats had already arrived behind the two men.

I immediately released my transformation, and appeared behind the two people in the second place.

One on each arm.

He held Ray’s older brother in his right hand and Ray’s older sister in his left.

“…?”

However, Ray’s older sister was a bit strange. In this situation, shouldn’t she have looked angry or a bit scared like Ray’s older brother?

But then her face turned red, as if she was excited.

“으.”

I felt a physiological aversion.

Without realizing it, I let go of the hand that was holding Ray’s older sister.

“Now!”

As soon as Ray’s older brother shouted, Ray’s older sister swung her sword and aimed for my right hand.

….

But nothing happened.

Because my right hand had already been transformed into its original, evil right hand.

That level of attack wasn’t enough to cut through the dragon’s body.

Ray’s older sister, who sensed the difference in status in an instant, quickly stepped back.

“Okay, so what should we do here?”

I looked back and forth between Ray’s older sister, who was stepping back, and Ray’s older brother, who was being held by me.

I have no intention of killing them because they are Ray’s family.

But I couldn’t just leave it alone, because just a moment ago my neck was blown off.

“Brother, sister. You both know how lucky you are.”

Even I felt incredibly uncomfortable saying this while in second place.