Chapter 508 – Pocket Girls
Seong-il muttered to himself while watching Kyu-hyeon’s request and quietly began to amend the order as he wanted.
“Okay!! Thank you!!”
When his request is carried through to the research facility, he shouts with a joyful voice as if roaring.
“Whoops! Congratulations, senior!”
“Yeah!! Now, Area C will be able to stabilize a lot…!!”
After that, for a while, the repair robot walks around the facility and even inspects the inside to see if the command has been properly applied.
『…Partial instruction authority transfer completed. However, unlike managers who can give remote commands, delegates must visit this facility to give commands.”
“Is that so…?”
After figuring out the whole situation, Kyu-hyeon asks Seong-il to take part of the base management authority. However, when there are quite a few restrictions, Seong-il looks at him with a slightly puzzled expression.
“I can take anything up to that point. If I have to, can I call you and ask for an urgent matter?”
“Oh, that’s right.”
“Yes. In that sense…”
“…”
Kyuhyun gives another order as if he is not tired. He asks Gaia to drill an undersea tunnel from the ruins to Area C.
‘He’s such a passionate person.’
Seong-il feels strangely inspired by the image of Kyu-hyun, who goes out of his way as if it were his own work for the reason that it is helpful to the world and mankind, even though it is not of great benefit to him.
“Whoa… It’s over, it’s finally over…”
“How is it?”
“Yes. For the time being, rather than focusing on extreme production, the robots will do their best to supply and demand resources such as excavation and mining so that the base’s production line can be normalized.”
“Ohh…”
“In addition, a tunnel connecting to the stable C area will be built. By the way, I listen to their report and get the coordinates of the mine with scarce resources from the shelter and tell them to maximize productivity…”
‘I was just talking to you.’
As a matter of etiquette, after talking to him once, Kyuhyun spits out the words with the momentum to stay up all night, and Seongil puts on a slightly tired expression. And Kyuhyun, who may have read that expression, tells Seongil with an embarrassed expression.
“Ah…Sorry. I’m a little excited today.”
“No. No.”
Seong-il stops Kyu-hyeon from apologizing. Still, Kyuhyun brings up another topic with an apologetic expression, as if his feelings of shame have not subsided.
“By any chance, is there something you want to have while exploring the ruins? As promised, I’ll give you the right to acquire it.”
“Ah…”
At Kyu-hyeon’s words, Seong-il begins to think about what to receive.
“Uhm… I don’t have one right now? Originally, I was going to get a repair robot, but this time I got a maintenance robot from Gaia System… I don’t dare…”
After those words, Seong-il looks after Edward, who is floating by his side.
“Anything you want me to do?”
“No. Edward.”
A gentle middle-aged male voice coming from the repair robot.
“Hey… Is this robot’s name Edward?”
“Yes. The product number ED/WD-43 is the name, so I just named it after the first letter.”
“Hee!! It suits you!!”
In the meantime, besides Edward, other repair robots had surrounded the party, and Seong-il hadn’t introduced anything special, so his colleagues didn’t show much interest in Edward.
Even so, he had a more sophisticated appearance, but the design itself was not much different from the existing repair robots, so the party thought Edward was just a new type of repair robot, or Gaia’s direct attendant temporarily dispatched to help with the holy days. Did.
“This… You got this friend from the Gaia System!?”
“Yes. It’s a friend made of more expensive materials than the existing repair robots. Unlike normal repair robots, it can access the satellite system, so it has the ability to communicate with the Gaia system remotely.”
“Ohh…”
The gym directors look at Edward with greedy eyes. However, for a while, they remove greed from their eyes and sincerely congratulate the holy day.
“Congratulations. You deserve that state-of-the-art aircraft.”
“Yeah! That’s right! If the shelter’s superiors bother you, tell them. I’ll vouch for you anytime.”
After that, the two men and women give advice to avoid annoying situations about Edward. They even say they will help register Edward as an official aircraft of Shelter.
‘Oh… I think I can take her with me comfortably?’
Edward was a little burdensome to take with him as he was a peculiar being. However, Seong-il feels the burden disappear when the two directors say that they will use all means to guarantee it.
“Then… I think it’s over, are you going back?”
“Ah. That’s how it should be. The next step is that the repair robot may have to open a passage in area C anyway. By the way…”
“…?”
As Kyuhyun spoke again, Seongil looked at Kyuhyun with a slightly annoyed expression, wondering if there was still something left.
“Did you find an artifact you coveted while wandering around the ruins? If so, I’m willing to hand it over for you…”
“Oh, is that it?”
Seong-il realizes that Kyu-hyeon brought her up to keep the promise he made in the first place.
‘Keuk… I don’t have anything to gain…’
To put it bluntly, it’s just a machine that produces nanomachines, but it’s something Gaia would definitely reject, so Seong-il feels that there are no relics that he covets.
“Originally, I was going to ask for a repair robot, but I got this friend, so…”
“Ah… That’s right.”
Kyuhyun looks slightly puzzled at Seongil’s answer. He leans his back against the metal wall for a while and caresses his chin, then claps his hands to see if he has a good idea.
“How about this? I’ll give you my sub. Take it as a reward! You know how to drive that sub, too? It will be of great help to you.”
“Yes!? Are you serious!? Didn’t you say that it’s a very rare artifact?!”
When Kyu-hyun offers to give him a concealed submersible, a rare artifact that he said is difficult to produce even in a shelter, Seong-il is surprised and asks Kyu-hyun back.
“Of course I mean it. You deserve it. If it hadn’t been for the base you showed us today, our expedition would have had to bury everyone here.”
“Still…”
“Is that all? Even if you didn’t mean to, you gave our Shelter permission to manage this ruin anyway. Considering what repair robots will do for us in the future, they’re nothing like this submersible.”
‘…Honestly, considering Edward’s value, you wouldn’t think so.’
There was no reason to refuse when he offered something precious, but Seong-il hesitated because he had already received a valuable reward.
“Don’t be afraid to accept it. If you want to go to Area B or D, you have to take a boat to avoid the contaminated area anyway. Wouldn’t it be a waste of your time to wait for the once-a-month high-speed floating boat?”
“…That’s true, but was the submersible capable of long-distance operation? The director also came by regular floating boat when he came to Area C this time, right?”
“That’s right, if Soo-yeon contacts you about an abnormal natural phenomenon, you can’t ride it because you’ve parked the submersible in area C for a long time to do a quick exploration.”
“Aha…”
“By the way, I didn’t tell you because time was running out and I didn’t need to explain, but the cloaking sub can run at high speed while floating on the water without diving mode. So take it. It will make your pilgrimage much easier in the future. Ah ! Don’t worry about management. If you put the name of Nana or Suyeon on the shelter, the technicians will take good care of it. It will cost you some credit points.”
With his meticulous personality, Kyuhyun even tells us how to take care of himself. Seeing that, Seong-il eventually decides to win his favor.
“If you say so…”
“Congratulations!! Seongil-ah!! Our trip will be a little more comfortable in the future? It’s so good!!”
Hana seems to have received an unusual reconnaissance mechanical owl as a reward, and celebrates the holy day by hugging and stroking the owl in her arms.
“Okay. Then let’s go back.”
***
“Oh… It’s completely blocked?”
No matter how much time has passed, repair robots have completely blocked the passage they had pierced. At that time, when the party was embarrassed by the neat handling of the work, Edward approached Seong-il and said.
“I think I should go, but…”
“…You? How do you know where it is? It’s a machine I’ve never seen before, so how do I drive it?”
When Edward says he will explore the polluted sea alone and drive the submersible to the dock, Kyu-hyeon doesn’t understand.
『Ah, because the nanomachines inside Master Seongil’s body and mind are interlocked. What you saw is also my memory. So is technology. Especially if it’s machine manipulation.”
“Wow…!! You’re really versatile!?”
At Edward’s words that he reads his master’s thoughts and knows how to act accordingly, Hana’s eyes begin to shine like a girl in love for the first time.
“It is an honour. A beautiful lady.”
“Ah… Beautiful le… Lady…!?”
The one that even blushes on his face at Edward’s flattering words.
“Haa… Leave that out and go find a submersible.”
『Leave it to me.』
After saying that, Edward puts a protective force field on his body, casts stealth at the same time, and tries to dive into the water at his pier.
“It takes quite a while…?”
When Edward doesn’t come back after almost 30 minutes, Soo-yeon gets a little nervous and talks to herself in front of the dock.
Ugh!!!
『Dock door open upon request.』
The time when Soo-yeon was anxious. The door to the dock opens and something starts to pop out from under the water.
“Huh? A submersible… Huh?!”
However, the appearance of Leviathan, not a submersible. Perhaps because they couldn’t be repaired during their long wanderings, they began to enter the ruins with slightly broken bodies.
『Repair request. Request for repair.』
‘Where’s the crazy bastard…!!’
Leviathan clambers onto the dock and communicates to the base’s security protocol to request repairs. And Seong-il, who had nanomachines in his body, hears his cry and curses.
“The request is denied. No access to base. If you do not leave the base within 15 seconds, it will be bombarded.』
『Repair request. Repair request.』
Despite security protocol denials, Leviathan repeatedly says he wants repairs, and endures until the base’s guns begin to fire mercilessly at it.
Drurrrr
EMP, bullets, lasers, energy bullets, etc. All kinds of things start to shoot at Leviathan.
‘There’s no need for me to step out…?’
Just as Seong-il feels, Leviathan can’t even properly resist the attack from the base’s defenses and is beaten. Then, they no longer appear from the dock, as if they eventually gave up on entering due to the overwhelming firepower.
『You waited a long time.』
Then, as if waiting, a submersible emerged. The party cheers at the sight and runs to the submersible.
***
“Huh… It was a short but intense adventure, right?”
“Huh.”
The party returned to the shelter in Area C by submersible. As soon as Sungil returned to the shelter, he and Hana were lying on the bed, fiddling with the D and E gym badges Kyuhyun gave him.
“Now, if you collect only the gym badges in area C-2, the adventure will end early, right?”
“Ugh! That’s right. But I’m going to venture up to Area E! Seong-il, what about you?”
“Umm…Well…”
“Ah~ don’t do that~”
Hana cutely acts cute to Seong-il and begs him to accompany him. Seeing her cute appearance, Seong-il laughs and strokes her hair.
“Yeah… What…”
A hyper-dan boss will reside near Area E anyway, so Seong-il decides to act together as one request.
‘Unlike women in other worlds who started dating through sex exploits, coercion, and ruse, Hana and other women in the Pocket Girls world genuinely like me… It’s really hard to refuse when they ask.’
Thinking so, Seong-il holds Hun-na tightly in her arms again and begins to gently knead her breasts.
“Huuuuu… Hard…”
“…You’re also a kid with consistent tastes.”
Hehe! I like being strong. I like being dominated!”
“Well… I’m the opposite. I’ll rule you to your heart’s content today.”
That’s when Seong-il set the mood to do her hearty act again with Hana. An unexpected alarm rings on his phone.
“Ah~ What is it? Break the mood.”
Hana seems to be annoyed by such an alarm. Seong-il lightly strokes her cheek and picks up her phone.
『Seongil-nim~ Hello~! I’m Perisha~ Are you doing well on your trip…? *It’s very cloudy here*
“…”
The appearance of a familiar name. And when an expression to use in case of bad contact is written on the phone, Seong-il frowns and moves to her shower room.
