119. After work (1)
Ten days have passed since the conversation with Edith Rock.
During that time, Oliver served as Jane’s bodyguard at the complex cultural facility ＜Sapphire＞ for five days.
Actually, the horse was the bodyguard, and it was just a rest.
After the conversation with Edith, Jane locked herself in the room and did not take a single step, because Pinkman took over the actual security mission.
Meanwhile, Edith also disappeared without a word, and there was nothing Oliver could do.
So Oliver read a book or newspaper, or practiced personal black magic.
While spending time like that, Edith, accompanied by a lawyer, came to Jane on the last day of the security guard and presented Jane with a document to formally transfer part of her property.
Oliver stayed by Jane’s side only then.
She signed with a very cold attitude, and that’s the end of the mission.
There was a sense of hesitation about the end of the match that almost died twice a day, but that didn’t mean there were any dissatisfaction.
Rather, I was not happy. I feel bored, but isn’t it better to finish things peacefully?
Thanks to that, Oliver came home safely and was able to practice black magic here.
Pajak–!!!
“- ね.”
Oliver felt pain and waved his hand.
a tingling sensation in the bones.
I was currently practicing mixing emotions, vitality, and magical power, but it was quite difficult.
Mixing emotions and vitality wasn’t too difficult, just a little annoying, but adding magic to it was a different matter altogether.
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
Not at allI thought that the failure in the fight with Duncan was due to the dire situation of being in battle, but now that I tried it again, I realized that it was not at all.
Emotions, magic, vitality. It was very difficult to mix these three together.
At the most, it was best to mix and press the millet by force.
Oliver felt a fresh sense of joy as well as annoyance at his first hardship.
It may sound strange, but I didn’t hate it when things didn’t go the way I expected. Rather, it was enjoyable.
The joy of meeting new and strange things.
I couldn’t imagine what kind of joy would come if I could overcome this hardship.
Maybe it was thrilling enough to meet Joseph for the first time and learn how to handle emotions.
“But one thing is certain. It’s not just that Puppet-nim hid so tightly and used so many tools… I feel sorry all of a sudden.”
Oliver said sincerely.
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
No matter how urgent it might be to die, just breaking an artificial soul and using it.I feel sorry for Puppet.
It wouldn’t have taken normal effort to create an artificial soul of that size.
“Should I apologize later?”
After saying that, Oliver took an empty notebook from the bookshelf and began to draw something.
A device and a device for creating an artificial soul that I saw that day.
I can’t remember completely, but the rough structure and form came to mind.
Some of the dogs were known to Oliver.
Each item was not worth a penny or two, and the total would easily exceed several billions.
It is a device that cannot be dreamed of right now. Nevertheless, Oliver drew as soon as he remembered.
Just for the sake of the future.
“Hey, hey, hey…”
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
Near the completion of the painting, a foreign sound was heard from a corner of the laboratory.It was a cry that was neither human nor beast, and its source was a test tube placed on a table in a corner of the laboratory. To be precise, it was the Child who was recuperating there.
As soon as I heard the sound, I went towards it.
Then I looked at the child’s condition.
“Is there any problem?”
At Oliver’s question, the children squeaked and said they were hungry.
Oliver immediately extracted life and emotions from the test tube and then pulled out another barrel.
The iron cask resembled a milk cask. Instead of white milk in it, there was a clear liquid fuel.
Its official name was shortened to ‘heartstone liquefied fuel’ and was called ‘HLF’ or ‘LF’.
It is a crystal of new technology that enhances ease of use and versatility by liquefying rather than cutting with a newly developed magic stone processing method.
Oliver stretched out his hand to the liquid.
Then I focused my attention on the eyes.
Shuhahahaa-!
Translucent magical energy gathered in Oliver’s hand along with the sound that was being extracted.
When I first fought Duncan, it was surprising and strange, but now I’m pretty used to it.
As before, Oliver ripped out emotions, vitality, and magic to the size of a millet and mixed them together.
Break-up! Break-up!
It caused a repulsion and gave me pain, but I tried mixing it up anyway. Then the children chime in! Cheeky! started to get excited.
Child ate any emotion, vitality, or magical power, but he liked the artificial soul that mixed those three things the most.
Up until now, Oliver had worked hard to help and suffered, so Oliver took the hassle out of mixing them all together.
It took a lot more time and effort than I thought to feed him because he was good at eating, but he recovered and grew so quickly that I didn’t think it was a loss.
I just thought of it as practicing concurrently.
‘Nevertheless, my skills do not improve.’
Oliver thought, recalling the mix of magic, vitality, and emotion that was still standing still.
Although I practiced dozens of times, my skills did not change from the first time.
It was a lot slower than doing anything once or twice to get the hang of it and becoming proficient after doing it five times.
What’s even worse is that we don’t know the cause.
But Oliver was not disappointed.
There is still too much work to be done to be disappointed with this.
The Child was well fed and almost recovered, but the cemetery doll was not. Most were severely damaged.
In particular, the prosecutor who was at the forefront had a broken back, so it would be better to discard it.
‘Honestly, that’s not a big deal.’
Oliver thought.
Because there were better materials. That’s right, Duncan.
It’s currently being stored in the glutton’s pocket, so maybe it could be a better invoice doll in place of the prosecutor.
The problem is that Oliver has never made an invoice doll from scratch.
I was a little nervous, but that wasn’t a big deal. From Glip’s journal and Puppet’s book, he knew the basics.
There was a problem that the cost of materials required to make the invoice doll was a bit high, but that was not a big deal as it was also a problem that would be resolved when the repairs came in soon.
Rather, the real problem is manpower.
It may be contradictory, but Oliver wanted to study on his own and at the same time he wanted help.
A being who will help you organize the small things and play an auxiliary role during the manufacturing of the invoice doll.
In fact, in Glip’s journal and Puppet’s book, it is recommended that there be at most two or three assistants as the manufacturing of the corpse doll causes considerable physical fatigue.
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
Needless to say, I had to work with a single person lying down, so naturally, a lot of energy went into it.Oliver had no intention of recruiting a disciple, so he had to solve it with a mortuary doll.
Invoice doll to replace the assistant role.
Fortunately, there was no way out.
Invoice dolls can basically use the specifications of the material they are made of, so
If you had a corpse with a manipulation-type warlock or medical knowledge, you could get high-performance support at once.
He also said that such a body can be obtained through a black market.
“There is nothing missing…. Then should I make another child?”
Then, after eating, the Child-First collided with a cock-cock test tube and caught Oliver’s attention.
Then he cried and said something.
It was as if he was saying he wanted to help Oliver.
Well, that might not be bad either.
The child’s food is so good that the maintenance cost is quite low.
Expanding without thinking was not a very good thing from an economic point of view.
“Think about it.”
Oliver said, rubbing the test tube lightly, and First shivered, rubbing himself in the same way.
It radiates the light of joy.
Queek- Queek- Queek- The other children, Second, Third, and Falls, wept dissatisfied.
At the sudden noise, Oliver put a finger to his mouth and told everyone to calm down.
Then I cleared my mind.
‘Aside from that, what else should I do? I have to meet Joanna and ask some questions, and I’ve read all the code words I bought at the bookstore, so I’m going to buy the next book…. ah! And we have to ask if Marie and the others are doing well.’
To be honest, it was funny to leave and ask questions now, but Oliver wanted to know nonetheless.
how are you all doing Looking at the situation, everyone seemed to have calmed down and returned to normal.
This was a pleasure.
If I can afford it, I also wanted to go down and see how it goes.
I wonder if I can feel the fun of meeting Cant again.
Besides that, when Edith received a book about the devil, I had to read it.
Come to think of it, there was so much to do.
The problem was that most of them were jobs that had to be paid for.
Just as I thought that it was time for the payoff to come, a beep was heard.
beep- beep- beep-
A communication device given by Forrest. Oliver got it right away.
“hello. Yes, Forrest-sama. Yes, then, I will go there.”
With those words, Oliver turned off the communication device and wiped himself with a towel.
Then I changed into a suit and went straight to Forest Restaurant, where Forest is located.
***
“Thank you for visiting. Dave.”
with daughter. with daughter. A restaurant open with sound. As always, Al welcomed him.
“Yes, nice to meet you. Mr. Al. Forrest-sama has been contacted.”
“Yes, I know. I was waiting for that too. I am with Miss Coco right now, and I will guide you right away.”
“That’s nice.”
said Oliver.
There were times when I usually had to wait a few minutes, but in the current situation where I want to get paid as soon as possible, it was a very happy word.
As he walked through the dining room to enter the office, Oliver captured the emotion of interest with multiple eyes.
When he turned his gaze reflexively, he saw a muscular man sitting in several places, a stern-looking woman, a middle-aged gentleman in a suit, and a student wearing glasses, with their heads bowed and smoking.
As Oliver made his way back, he heard a small chatter over the back of his head.
“Is that friend that friend? Contaminated area?”
“Uh, he said he survived fighting the puppet.”
“I don’t think so? Isn’t that a fake puppet?”
“It won’t be. One of the survivors is my brother-in-law, and they say they’ve been swept away by an army of zombies. It’s not about rushing around, it’s about being organized.”
“You also killed Hero the Northland Marauder and Hilton from the Hoffman family? It’s also an invoice doll.”
“Invoice doll?! Then the rumors will-“
“-Ahh. watch your mouth The Invoice Doll doesn’t necessarily have to be related to it to be able to use it. It’s not like that at someone else’s place of business.”
Oliver was itching in the back. It was the first time I felt it.
To be honest, it didn’t feel very good.
“Why? Dave.”
said Oliver, stopping the way he was going.
“Ah, it seems like everyone is looking at me and saying something.”
“It may be presumptuous, but it’s not the same thing, it’s true.”
“Is that right? Why all of a sudden?”
“What happened in the contaminated area is spreading.”
oh·····. Come to think of it. I heard that even if the city kept it a secret, it would eventually spread.
At the time, I thought it was, but I hope it will really spread. Is it because of that, I felt the gaze of someone watching me when I went out on the street?
“But it’s kind of weird. The contaminated area isn’t long, but it’s been quite some time.”
“Recently, the story that Dave killed Duncan seems to have been re-examined.”
“Is it great that you killed Duncan?”
Oliver asked.
It was true that Duncan was strong, but it was questionable whether the person working under Edith was so famous.
Al answered this skillfully too.
“It has been more than 20 years since he retired from the bottom of the solver, so young people may not know it, but people with strong bones in this field remember it. He was also a person who stood out as a Pink Man… Everyone is surprised by the loss of such a person to a solver who has been less than a year since their debut. As a result, even the contaminated area is being re-examined.”
“ah····. okay.”
Oliver didn’t know what to say.
Then, I touched the pilgaret that I had in my arms.
A pilgaret made with Duncan’s feelings. I started doing this as soon as the job was finished.
The quantity was quite large, so I narrowly made two.
With that in mind, it wasn’t too strange.
The fact that he radiated as beautiful light as Joseph had built up such a reputation in the past.
However, he doubted whether the reputation would be good for him.
Of course, it is necessary to increase the ransom as a solver, but people’s attention was another matter.
Then Al handed Oliver a notebook.
“What is this?”
“This is a notebook in which I write my work as an employee, my daily life here, funny anecdotes, store slang, and jokes. Didn’t you ask me to teach you how to work as an employee?”
“ah····.”
Oliver remembered the past he had forgotten.
I lied to the old man at the bookstore that he was a restaurant worker, and asked Al to teach him about restaurant workers to make up for that lie.
The problem is that I didn’t come here to learn because I only asked for a favor.
Oliver apologized.
“this····. sorry.”
“no. Rather, I can only thank Dave for his hard work as a solver. Thanks to you, the boss is regaining his former reputation.”
“Past fame?”
“ah····. Forget that. That’s not the area I’m talking about. Anyway, thanks to Dave-san’s hard work, we are also making a huge profit, so we’re just giving it to you. There is no need to thank you or apologize.”
Al said so, but nevertheless, Oliver was sorry and thankful.
You asked me to teach you, but you didn’t learn it properly, and you put so much effort into it.
“····thank you.”
“It was nothing. Then, I will guide you again.”