Chapter 456 – Accusation
『A guest has arrived.』
Housing management artificial intelligence ‘Juri’.
The name was given by Suni.
The artificial intelligence of the demons has no self-learning ability.
They say this is because of the regulation of artificial intelligence… It can be said to be similar to Sunni, which was the voice artificial intelligence of the early battle suits.
It’s good at what it tells you to do, so you can use it without any inconvenience as long as you set up what you need.
The artificial intelligence of Android created by demons is also similar to Juri. I can’t erase the stiff feeling in my tone of voice or actions.
It seems like they were aiming for that.
“Customer? Not a miscellaneous merchant?”
Juri pops up a hologram screen in front of me.
I saw a woman in front of the house.
It’s a woman dressed in a suit.
He looks a little strict wearing pointy glasses.
Still, she was a pretty young woman, like a demon.
And there were two security androids standing behind her.
『I came from the Zepia Office of Education.』
“Office of Education? What Office of Education?”
I am not a miscellaneous merchant.
It may be a police station, but it’s surprising that it’s an office of education. First, I decided to go out and see what was going on.
When I opened the front door, the woman flinched when she saw my huge size.
The woman, who was momentarily taken aback, quickly regained her composure and asked me.
“Zepia Office of Education. The home education supervisor, my name is Gabia. Are you Mr. Bark?”
“Yeah… That’s right.”
“Mr. Bark, please give me your hand.”
“Hand?”
Although I was puzzled, I did as she said and held out my hand.
-Slap!
Gabia put something like handcuffs on me.
“…?”
When I looked at her with her bewildered expression, she said with her stern look.
“I will take you into custody as a suspect for child abuse.”
“… What?”
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“First name: Bark. Last name rhymes. Is that right?”
Gabia raises her slanted glasses and asks with sharp eyes.
“That’s right… So.”
I was taken to a place called the Office of Education, not the police station.
Although it was an office of education, the atmosphere was reminiscent of a police station.
And for some reason, I was being interrogated in handcuffs.
“Is your child Miss Chaos?”
Sunni created a fake identity, and Chaos was my daughter on paper.
At first, I wondered if it was because of what happened at the power plant. But that didn’t seem to be the case.
‘Chaos guy… Did he cause some kind of accident?’
“That’s right.”
“The complaint has been received.”
“Accusation? What accusation?”
“We have received an accusation that you are abusing our child, Miss Chaos.”
“Who?”
“The principle is not to reveal the identity of the accuser.”
“Still, I’d like you to tell me.”
I used the power of deception.
Gabia’s sharp eyes soften slightly.
“… I don’t know either. In the first place, complaints are anonymous. This complaint comes from the top, so there is no way for me to know.”
It seemed like she didn’t know either.
She thought about using the power of deception to escape.
But she was reluctant to do so.
This was not something that this woman kept to herself.
If an official letter came from the top.
If she had to trick her into leaving, someone else might come, or if she was unlucky, the situation could have escalated.
“The accuser is not important. Is it true that you never sent your child, Miss Chaos, to the academy?”
“That’s…”
It’s true, but…
It’s not that I didn’t send it… I had nothing to do other than send it to someone who wasn’t even a demon in the first place.
“Yes! No! Just answer!”
For some reason, this woman named Gabia seems angry.
“I didn’t send it…”
“Ha… So you can still call me a parent!!”
They are not real parents.
But I can’t say that.
-Clap!
In the end, I was locked in a detention center.
“…”
Why did this suddenly happen?
Is it Rebellion?
Claire or Cowra?
It doesn’t seem like there’s a chance, but… My smartphone was confiscated, so there’s no way to check right away.
The family came to visit.
“Honey!!”
Suni, who saw me locked up in the detention center, calls me with a sad expression.
“Sunni, why are you making such a strange expression?”
“Hmm…”
Chaos and Celestia’s expressions… Are grave. The expression on his face asks what he is doing inside the cage.
“You’re here. Please follow me.”
Gabia appeared and headed to the interrogation room with three women in tow.
Imprisoned in a detention center, I decided to expand my consciousness and expand my cognitive scope to take a look at them.
“Did he kill someone?”
Sunni looks at Gabia and asks.
“Murder… You mean? That’s not true. A complaint was received that Ms. Chaos did not even receive mandatory training.”
“Yes? Of course, compulsory education? Well, that’s…”
Gabia, seeing Sunni’s confused look, frowned and asked Chaos.
“Miss Chaos, was there any abuse from Mr. Bark? You can speak with confidence here. Your safety is guaranteed.”
What on earth are you looking at me for? .
“It’s abuse… There’s nothing like that. Master… No, my father and I get along perfectly. We have sex together… So much!!”
Sunni quickly closes Chaos’s mouth.
The supervisor’s eyes shine sharply when he sees that.
“Sex? Seo, you can’t say… Se, sex!”
“Oh, of course not! This kid is talking about coloring.”
What kind of coloring game does a grown child do?
Sunni was embarrassed and was just saying anything.
「Chaos: Are you talking about the white semen coloring game?」
Chaos shuts his mouth and sends out a raid message.
「Suni: Chaos, are you crazy? Do you want to put the owner in the dark?!”
「Chaos: What did I say wrong?」
「Suni: Of course it’s wrong! Originally, there was no sex between father and daughter!”
「Chaos: Hmm… Demons don’t allow fathers and daughters to have sex? You didn’t know that. Demons often say this… Isn’t it because Suni-senior made me the master’s daughter in the first place? It’s a senior’s mistake. It’s not my fault.”
「Suni: What?!」
Sunni’s expression becomes distorted.
“Mother. What are you doing now? Take your hands off Ms. Chaos.”
Gabia said to Sunni with her stern face.
“Yes? I’m sorry. Hoho… He’s still immature…”
-Slap!
Sunni’s arms were handcuffed.
“Well, why am I…”
“I didn’t want to do it this way either… But looking at your current attitude, I highly suspect that your mother is also abusing Ms. Chaos.”
“Oh, no! Well, how good are we with Chaos? Chaos~ Right~?”
Suni looks at Chaos with an awkward smile. But Chaos snorted and turned his head.
“Miss Chaos, please come here first.”
Gabia separated Chaos and Sunni and placed them next to her.
Gabia’s full-scale interrogation has begun.
The interrogation was similar to mine.
The reason I didn’t send my child to the academy.
Education supervisor Gabia’s shouting about how serious this is.
Suni repeatedly bowed and apologized to Gabia.
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“Hmm… It’s your first offense, and Ms. Chaos said there was no abuse, so I won’t go as far as separating her. But! You must send her to the academy for compulsory education.”
“Of course…”
Sunni was sullen and answered.
Thanks to Chaos’s active defense, I was able to get out of the detention center easier than I thought.
“I will send my daughter to the academy for a month. I am always watching. No one can interfere with a child’s right to receive an education.”
“Yes…”
“Do you know Mr. Bark?!”
“Hmm… I understand.”
I promised to send Chaos to the academy, and I was able to leave the detention center.
There was a limousine-like vehicle parked in front of our building.
This also seems to have been prepared by Sunni.
“Master, please eat this.”
As we got into the car, Suni took out some steaming fresh tofu from the inventory.
Raw tofu is tasteless.
Perhaps with that in mind, there was plenty of seasoned soy sauce on the side.
I didn’t go to prison, but I decided to eat out of courtesy.
After a long time, I ate warm tofu dipped in seasoned soy sauce, and it was quite delicious.
“Now that it’s like this, I’ll decide to look for Helena at a place called the Academy.”
Chaos said with an expressionless face.
There was no choice.
It is said that demons receive 30 years of compulsory education.
It seems long, but…
Considering the lifespan of demons, it doesn’t seem that long…
Tuition and education costs are all free.
It’s strange that parents don’t send it.
‘But what kind of person reported this?’
I think I would know if I turned over the office of education… But it was annoying.
Should I say it feels like flies flying around?
If you try to catch it, it disappears.
It’s a hassle to actually find and catch it.
First, I contacted Kaura, the suspect I can most conveniently contact right now.
I don’t think so… But I couldn’t think of anyone else.
“I was accused.”
『… So… We reported you? Why us?』
“I don’t know that either.”
『What kind of accusation?… What?! She didn’t even send her daughter to compulsory education? She deserved to be accused. If you had known, I think you would have reported me too.』
“…”
I don’t think it’s Rebellion.
I whined and couldn’t even get my money back.
『Anyway, why am I not receiving any calls?!』
“Connected to Pantera.”
『Ha… During the last mission, didn’t you feel anything strange inside the magic stone storage?』
-Hot.
“I have to say it’s strange… I don’t think I would have known that since it was my first mission. What is the Magic Stone Vault… Again?”
I made a fool of myself.
『The building you entered during this mission, saying it wanted attention, is the Magic Stone Storage.』
‘… Were you watching?’
Is there any evidence?
If there was evidence, the conversation with Cowra would not have been this smooth.
She said she would paralyze the power plant and destroy all security data within it.
I think they must have been watching us carry out our mission from afar.
“Ah… Ah… Are you talking about that? Well? I’ve only seen robots…”
I decided to keep pretending not to know until clear evidence was presented in front of me.
“Really?… By the way, aren’t you interested in taking charge of an operation team?”
“… Team?”
