Chapter 708 – E112 Aoi and Sonia Heading to the Cache of an Abandoned Villain Organization.
“This is the sky. Sister Sonia!”
“I see… Right?”
Aoi’s green eyes sparkle.
Aoi’s bright eyes were shining brightly, unlike the cloudy light green eyes she had seen back then, perhaps because she was a bit obnoxious when they first met, or because she was very shy towards people she met for the first time.
“It’s even better to come out with Sonia…!”
“Ah… Haha… Thank you Aoi. Let’s eat some sweet chocolate ice cream on the way, which Aoi likes.”
As I am very shy, I am even more so because of yesterday’s incident, but seeing the girl with sticky light blue hair and the protruding hair sticking out to Sonia’s street clothes and blouse made me smile, Sonia, the hero of Sky City. .
“Originally, it would only be a simple walk in the park… Aoi, do you know where we are going now?”
“Yes! Convenience store. To buy ice cream.”
“Uh… Uh… You’re not wrong… Do you remember where we’re going next, Aoi?”
Aoi said, ‘Gathering the things left behind by the bad people who harassed the doctor! If it’s dangerous, run away immediately!’ When I answered with a smile, Sonia returned the smile.
2 months old… I was a little uncomfortable with the fact that Aoi, who was less than 2 months old from the date of manufacture, was being taken to the possibly dangerous villains’ supply cache, but now, on the streets of Sky City, there was Aoi on her back, or to be more precise, Aoi. It was Sonia who decided to trust the light blue bodysuit with a power pack attached.
If anything happens…! Sonia feels the weight of the plasma pistol on her waist. If you are a moderately successful adventurer or hero, use beam-type or energy-damaging weapons such as lasers or plasma rather than live-fire firearms that deal less damage.
Perhaps that’s why, among the heroes and adventurers of Sky City she encounters, she often sees people walking around wearing bodysuits that are excellent at resisting energy damage, so Aoi looks at them in amazement, but the people who look at Aoi’s bodysuits with just as much wonder are beginner heroes and new adventurers. There were also many.
[Tiroring~ Lucky Eleven is always open!]
Walking down the street during a hot lunch hour is a difficult task that is both tiresome and very tiring for lazy Sonia.
Aoi, the only sparkling sweetness was low-quality chocolate bars from convenience stores, a brand made for military use, emergency use, and dungeon raiding.
Of course, it’s not an ice cream specialty store, but just machine-pulled ice cream from a local convenience store, so it’s not huge, but seeing the green eyes sparkling just by looking at the advertising panel, I’m glad I came to this convenience store… That’s what Sonia thought.
“Hello. Thank you for visiting today.”
“… Sister. That’s a robot… Right…?”
“Hmm… Since it’s a Humanoid, wouldn’t it be a robot?
Ah. I would like one chocolate ice cream and one vanilla ice cream, please.”
Nod. Sonia answers while nodding.
A humanoid who receives Sonia’s order and mechanically walks in front of the ice cream machine and performs the specified movements.
Of course, the answer that comes back from Aoi is, what is Humanoid… Sister?
It just came out thanking me for visiting, but the mouth didn’t open and the aircraft… Should I say the sound came from the robot body itself? Should I say it’s the sound reproduction function of a computer with a built-in sound card that doesn’t have a speaker called the mouth? …
Of course, Humanoid seems to have been leased and assigned to that convenience store company. Of course, the uniform assigned to Humanoid is a luxury. After removing the basic paint, it is ‘painted’ in orange, the company’s theme color. Unless the contract with Humanoid ends, the paint is used as clothing and indicates the purpose of use.
A Humanoid with a shiny design from the neck down in orange, the theme color. A card that was welded onto the left chest of that Humanoid, like a business card… Like a resident registration card. Looking at the person’s face and the resident registration number written next to it, it appeared to be the resident registration card of the person who became the Humanoid.
[I agreed to the Humanoid mechanization procedure myself.
Name of entity: xxx Date of consent: xxxx-xx-xx Current consignment company: Lucky Convenience Store 32]
“…”
I still didn’t know much about Humanoid, but to explain further, why does Humanoid have people who have been mechanized and modified to work as simple drones for work assistance? There are mecha-mecha parts hanging all over the streets, and even robot antennas for ears. Aoi was almost certain to ask the Humanoid, who was obediently following the high-ranking AI in a maid outfit.
I wanted to answer Aoi’s questions, but if I told her one by one, I would have to explain modern slavery instead of taking the time, so I just said, ‘I guess… The doctor would know better than me. ‘Ask me later!’ Sky City’s Sonia passes.
“Yes. Sister too!”
“Well… I have to see the doctor again later… Huh… Have you already finished eating?”
Aoi thought she was going to lick it, but she was chewing the chocolate ice cream given to her by the convenience store clerk Humanoid, crushing even the part of the cookie until it was crunchy.
[Thank you for visiting. Guest.]
Sonia and Aoi wait at the bus stop in Sky City with their mouths not moving and the sound coming from the sound card inserted into the chest or stomach of the convenience store Humanoid.
Sonia says ‘two people’ as she gets on the arrived bus. Aoi sits next to Sonia and looks curiously out her window.
It wasn’t that difficult to get to the villain organization’s item cache that the Doctor had marked on the map.
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Sky City.
Of course, the number is absurdly small, but some public officials in Sky City seem to be stronger than other towns or this Sky City’s shiny jewel-level adventurers or S-level heroes.
Most of them are police officers or security guards, but of course their numbers are small, and they cannot respond to everything that happens in Sky City.
Therefore, with the structure of the city delegating cases to each association, there are always ample opportunities for heroes to receive personal nomination requests or encounter various cases even if the mission is not delegated in that way.
The job that such heroes, especially inexperienced or rookie heroes, can do is patrol the area. All you have to do is first announce where you are going for a walk, patrol the area, and report. Of course, the reward and association points are low, but as long as the routes do not overlap with other heroes and are not completely the same, you can apply for it at any time.
Of course, if you do something roughly, or if you get caught with gold coins through a false report, or if an incident occurred during that time, and you didn’t respond by sending the villain away… You will be given a penalty of your own… But anyway, I have no experience. A request sufficient for beginner heroes.
If you encounter a bad villain and don’t think you can win, you can just run away and report it, so the risk was relatively low.
“If I had known this would happen, I guess I would have just taken the express bus… Aoi…”
“? Aoi had fun. It’s fun to be with Sonia!”
The outskirts of Sky City. Even though it is on the outskirts, Sky City has more expensive land prices than other city centers. The closest bus stop that can be reached from the location indicated on the map, reached by changing between city buses and village buses two or three times.
Aoi, a girl with impressive light blue hair and wearing a combat bodysuit with a built-in power pack, got off at the bus stop.
Although there is a road, Sonia, the golden hero, is bent on the dirt on the floor of this bus stop full of mountains and grass after reaching the outskirts, drooling profusely as if motion sickness is creeping up on her.
The air definitely feels better, and the factory complexes look small from this bus stop where I am currently standing. Sonia seems to be feeling a little better after looking at the mountains behind the factory complexes.
The place I had to go was one of those numerous factory complexes.
When I open the wide map, I see factory complexes. Sonia had no chance or intention to know before, but she realized that most of those factories were implicitly illegal.
Gate phenomenon that explodes at any time, monsters that suddenly pop out. Of course, the surrounding facilities are being destroyed.
If you were to start a business in this world that requires a factory or research work, it would take less than a week to realize that it would be very difficult to run a business with countless wires and facilities bursting out.
The most outrageous thing is that businessmen who are not from Sky City are willing to pay a lot of money to build buildings, headquarters, factories, and research centers in this safe city…
Of course, it was not an easy task, and although it was difficult to obtain permission from Sky City, it was relatively simple to persuade the poor citizens of Sky City to become barge owners and build a research facility or production plant in a remote location.
Will there be a reward for reporting the clueless hero of Sky City…? I thought so, but of course Sky City is taking measures to harvest this illegal factory at the right time.
If it weren’t for that, we wouldn’t have asked many associations to do reconnaissance work around here.
“Hello. Good luck.”
“Take care…”
You just became a hero! I registered with the association! Sonia and Aoi pass by while greeting the same group of heroes.
Looking at Aoi’s shy appearance, she seemed like the type of person who would be very shy unless she was close to someone she was close to.
Sonia gently pushes open the door of the large factory where no sound of work can be heard, the factory marked on the map and bound with strong chains.
Sure enough, there were no containers or products that were supposed to be there, just an elevator going down to the basement.
