Chapter 282 – VVIP
When I met Artemis again in the evening, she greeted me in an outfit she didn’t normally wear.
“Am I pretty?”
“Oh!”
A solid color dress with full upper and lower body that highlights the body. This style is commonly called the new city micro look.
However, according to her taste, a number of gorgeous pieces were included, giving off a quite unique atmosphere.
Hehe.”
Artemis showing off her figure with both hands on her hips.
The design exposed up to the knees, provocatively exposing legs that were tight in black stockings.
His face is full of satisfaction, as if the answer has already been answered through my expression, gaze, and voice of admiration.
I walked around her and admired her to my heart’s content, just like Artemis did during the health checkup.
“Your rude and sticky gaze isn’t a bad thing, but it would be nice if you let me know your thoughts.”
I hugged Artemis from behind.
“It’s so pretty. So much so that I want to cancel our dinner plan and kidnap her like this.”
“Cancellation is difficult. “It’s an event that we prepared with great care.”
Even if I say this, if I hold you here like a princess and whisper to you one more time, she will eventually listen to me.
My hands ran down her arms and stopped at her stomach. I enjoyed the slim yet elastic feel.
There are many women who don’t like having their stomach touched, but Artemis is tolerant of this, perhaps because she has complete confidence in her own body.
“You should have put it on sooner. It suits you so well.”
“Because it’s not really my taste.”
“That’s right. “Because you prefer clothes that are more difficult to wash.”
“It’s kind of an ambiguous expression.”
Artemis walks ahead, loosening my hand.
“It’s not bad to stay like this, but we have to leave soon. “I made sure the food came out on time.”
Because of the way she was dressed, the back of her hips and waist stood out even more than usual.
“What are you doing there? “Not standing next to me.”
She raised her arms as if to escort her.
“I will serve you as you wish.”
“Joy! I’m the one who reserves the seats and pays the money. If you’re a Shutterman, shouldn’t you be good at these things?”
“Actually, you take down and raise the shutter.”
If you think about it abstractly, sometimes this huge shelter feels like the womb of Artemis.
This is because everything surrounding me operates on its own to protect me, provide nutrients, and provide emotional warmth.
If we were to define this philosophically, it would be closer to the relationship between a baby and the womb rather than a residence and its occupants.
* * *
Since ancient times, high-ranking people have preferred high-rise buildings.
The higher a store is, the more expensive and sophisticated the products and customers are. The same goes for police.
Most of the polis is an area where wildness and promiscuity coexist under the theme of reconstruction after destruction.
It has sufficient infrastructure for water, electricity, various public services, and cultural life, but would it be a city where a fist that is much closer than the law is flashing in the corner of your eye? Sometimes the blades go back and forth.
Then, when you move to Prime, things quickly become orderly and dignity takes hold. Of course, there is a difference in level here as well.
The floors close to the ground, the section I wandered into for a while right after returning from Tanis, are often used by ordinary people and those who service them.
Of course, that mediocrity corresponds to a select few compared to the outside world.
When you go up to the middle level, people who can be considered upper class even by the standards of the new era appear, and from the top floor, a special area appears that only a few members use.
That’s where we’re headed now.
“Should we consider it a kind of police-style VIP area?”
“Exactly. However, even though they are VIPs, there are many people who are not cultured because it is the standard of a ruined world.”
We entered a restaurant with ‘Dorcia’ written on it.
In the moderately atmospheric darkness, a gorgeous chandelier hanging from the ceiling sprinkles light.
The carpets on the floor and the decorations on the walls were of the highest quality even by pre-war standards.
It is likely that the best trophies that the explorers risked their lives to obtain were selected and presented here.
The walls are tempered glass that allows you to see the outside. It was a structure that overlooked the entire cityscape of Prime and Police.
Guests with different ambiances befitting the luxury were quietly spending their time.
In one corner, a young woman wearing a revealing red dress is playing the piano.
“For some reason, the people there don’t have a very good impression.”
“How specifically?”
A laughing reply came from the side.
“Ta-da over there! If you look at the man doing it, he has a knife cut on his face, and the woman sitting by her window has a tattoo on her sleeve that looks like Irezumi? The man going to the bathroom over there is limping. It looks like he cut a tendon, not a sprain.”
“Wow!”
Artemis, who held my arm, hugged me tighter with an admiring voice.
“Even customers who seem fine have a slightly different atmosphere. It’s already a ruined world, but how did they manage to gather only these people?”
“What a sharp eye. After all, he is a former elite soldier!”
“It has nothing to do with being a soldier.”
“As you said, the guests here are people who led great powers in the past or who still have that connection to this day. “The majority are cadres of a significant number of surviving warlords.”
A couple guests look at us. A woman with a surprised face covered her mouth and whispered to the man.
The man was wearing a suit, but the smell he gave off told me that he was of the same type as me. That’s a soldier. He was probably the leader of a local warlord made up of Korean soldiers before the war.
“Are these all remnants of the three years of searching for me?”
“Huh. Information is also divided into high, middle and low levels, so can’t we all be treated the same? There was a need to create their own spaces as a kind of morale booster and protocol.”
A small mumbling sound is heard.
In addition to the first couple we discovered, we felt eyes looking at us one by one.
No one was looking at them openly, and they seemed to be peeking at each other, pretending not to notice. It’s not very pleasant.
Kuuk.
Artemis’ foot quietly stepped on my foot.
“What’s wrong?”
“Looking at your expression, I thought you were trying to pull off some kind of undignified prank.”
“For example?”
“‘What are you pointing at? They say, ‘I am a barbarian!’ And go on a rampage.”
Yes! Artemis spread both hands to her chest in a pose. As expected, he was watching my movements after entering Prime.
“It’s an absurd idea.”
“Really?”
“If you do that, your level will be lowered. Oh my, we made you wait too long.”
The waiter was so nervous that he couldn’t even intervene and was as frozen as ice.
“This way.”
I was guided to a window seat that was half a floor higher.
Even in this place where only a limited number of people can enter, it is a famous place located on a higher ground.
When I looked down, the eyes that were looking in this direction quickly ran away.
“It’s a little better.”
Unlike before when you were at the same eye level, it will be difficult for them to spy on you since you are up in a higher place.
“Why don’t you get used to the gaze slowly? Jinsu There won’t be much in the future if you want to taste the scent of the person you like.”
“Wasn’t it because you were pretty?”
“It’s a clumsy flattery, but I’ll make you happy.”
Artemis smiled, resting her chin on his. Thanks to the candles on the table, the red glow on her white face makes her look even more alluring.
“Now that the manager’s return has been officially announced, the number of people who have noticed the promotional video or the portrait on the currency will naturally increase. It won’t be easy to walk around comfortably outside anymore.”
“Why do you seem happy?”
“Of course I’m happy. “It’s nice that my man is famous and treated well, but on top of that, it also becomes a shackle that prevents him from running around carelessly.”
“Anyway, it’s so pretty I’m dying.”
I took off her shoes under the table and tickled her thighs. The table has long beams that extend all the way to the floor, so it won’t be visible from the outside.
“Hmph!”
However, Artemis’s personality doesn’t just leave her alone. Immediately her counterattack came.
He punishes my groin for exposing the gap by pushing my feet outward with my stocking-clad legs.
I felt the right amount of pressure, neither too strong nor too weak, through my pants.
Artemis looked like ‘How do you feel?’, But honestly, this was closer to a reward than a punishment to me.
Even though a male employee is approaching us, she is still absorbed in the joke.
“Let’s stop soon.”
“You started first and then come now?”
Her footwork became even more mischievous.
I reached under the table and grabbed her feet. I felt the scratchy texture of stockings and the warm body temperature of Artemis in my hands.
She pressed her thumb to the exact center of the sole of her foot.
“Hiya!”
Boom!
Artemis’ knee bounced, and she hit the table. She felt a slight vibration, and she shook slightly.
The employee who arrived right away kept a blank expression and waited in a relaxed posture. As if I had never seen a skit between immature men and women.
Although he was dressed the same as the employee who guided us earlier, he was a different person from the start. He is nearly 2 m tall and has a strong body that can be seen even outside his clothes. Skinhead head and tightly closed lips.
The scar that runs from under her right eye to her lip is the highlight.
He must have gone through many struggles. If I were the person I was before undergoing strengthening procedures, I would be a man who would avoid close combat as much as possible.
“I should have been there from the entrance, but I’m sorry I couldn’t do that.”
A voice with a very dull tenor tone came softly. I think it will be a good match against the stalker robots I led.
“This is Scar, the store manager. “I am truly honored that you visited today.”
Scar. Of course, it’s not his real name. I think I know why it got that nickname.
“It’s a stage name I gave myself. It suits you well, right?”
Artemis rested her chin and smiled.
“It’s not something you should say to yourself.”
I looked up at the store manager.
“I will apologize on your behalf. Because she’s a girl who lives in her own pride.”
“No. “I am very satisfied with the stage name the hostess gave me.”
For an instant, a crack appeared in Scar’s diamond-like face. The first emotion he showed was embarrassment. It seems he never thought he would receive an apology from me.
“The dish is already ready.”
Two employees stopped in front of us, each pulling a cooking cart.
“It smells good.”
Even though the lid is covered, my mouth starts watering.
“I like the cooking I make, but you said you miss the cooking done by people, right? However, I couldn’t just feed them anything, so I placed an order with the management here.”
Scar personally placed each dish on the table. Just in front of me, as expected.
It looks like this girl just wants to watch me eat today.
After finishing setting up, Scar stood two steps away and waited in a resting posture.
“If I need anything, I’ll call you separately, so can you save me a seat?”
“All right. Please call me anything, even if it’s something trivial.”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
I greeted him at 90 degrees and called him as he was leaving, and he hurriedly returned to me.
“It’s just a personal curiosity, but are you a former soldier?”
“No.”
The second emotion he shows.
“I traveled around the battlefield as a mercenary.”
It was a smile.
That’s how dinner began.
* * *
I picked up a fork and knife and cut the steak on the plate in front of me.
As the blade penetrated the dark brown grilled exterior, the red flesh was revealed. It is the inner flesh with meat and fat arranged irregularly.
“The meat served here is not cultured meat. “We receive meat using the old-fashioned method of slaughtering and removing the flesh from livestock.”
Artemis raised her thumb and pointed to the city view outside the window.
“The way the world is, fresh pork or beef is really rare. Prime’s residents also mainly use cultured meat supplied by the shelter for land meat.”
Her thumb pointed downward this time. Other guests who are eating.
“Cultivated meat is superior in terms of taste and nutrition, but humans value emotions, right? This place, which only serves ‘real meat’, gave them pride and a sense of belonging. It wasn’t much, but it was effective marketing.”
This is Artemis, who must have maintained relationships with various external forces while searching for me for three years. If you can gain their gratitude and bond with trivial marketing, it would be good business.
“So, how do you feel? Jinsu: Isn’t this the ‘human-smelling’ place and taste you’ve always wanted?”
“Good. “I feel like I’ve returned, at least a little, to the pre-war world.”
I poured wine into Artemis’ empty glass. She refuses to eat, but she enjoys drinking more than I do.
“Of course it tastes much better when you make it.”
“This flattery was pretty good.”
“I’m serious.”
Artemis smiled and lifted her glass to her lips.
“Do you think it’s okay to drink while being so appalled at eating?”
In front of Artemis, there is only a glass filled with clear liquid and a basket filled with flowers.
“Drinking is classy, but eating is dirty.”
“What is that strange standard?”
“You cut and break it with your teeth, move the debris to your tongue, and swallow the messy lump, leaving debris all over your mouth.”
Artemis shuddered.
“Ugh, just thinking about it makes me feel unclean.”
“Are you really planning on not eating anything for the rest of your life?”
“Then you thought it was a joke?”
She lifted the napkin and wiped the sauce from around my mouth.
“If you don’t have the pleasure of eating, half your life is lost. Wasn’t it for complete satisfaction and joy that you gained a body?”
“When it comes to satisfaction and joy, whatever you give is enough.”
“… Don’t move people by surprise.”
“This is what flattery does.”
Artemis smugly brushed his hair behind his shoulder.
The red liquid in the glass disappears beyond her lips.
Every time a grunt sound is made, the white and thin neck cord moves. I felt the blood flow in my body speed up as I saw that somehow sensual appearance.
By the time she had put each piece of meat into her mouth and devoured the dessert, there were several empty bottles in front of her.
“Whoa.”
As Artemis sighed, a sweet, sweet scent hit my face. It had a sweet heat.
In an instant, I felt a chill running down my spine, and fierce blood flow rushed to my lower body.
“What’s wrong?”
“Because you are so pretty. “I am the happiest man in the world.”
“I drank alcohol, but why do you think you’re drunk?”
Artemis looks at me with a bright smile.
I also smiled while my erection was poking my pants.
