128 Vol. 2 pt. 65 Patch 11.0: The Not-So-Delusional Princess (1/2)

With everything and everybody loaded into the autocar, Ryouta, Serra, and Alice head back to his apartment. They have plans to go out and eat, but until they get all of this luggage dropped off, they can't do much. There is also the fact that Ryouta doesn't want to pay the outrageous price for renting an autocar for an extended period of time. They have a single hour to get back to his place, drop off her luggage, and then set the autocar to return to the airport before his wallet starts to really hurt.

”My hero, you need not look so worried. I have told you before that I can pay any expenses,” Alice says.

”Nope. I'm the boyfriend here, so I've got to pay for it. I have to try to at least,” Ryouta says. ”My pride as a man is making me.”

”Do you plan on holding this against me to coerce sexual favors out of me? Are you only paying because you believe that I will owe you my body as a result? Such a cruel man! Your kindness only lasts for as long as my virginity does!”

”You're something else, Alice, seriously.”

”I'm just another woman that you are keeping around for sexual favors is what I am!”

Ryouta sees Serra watching Alice's face, and when she catches onto him, she looks at him and calls him a ”horrible pervert” via signing.

”You of all people can't call me that,” he tells her and then returns to looking forward. A human is required by law to sit in the ”driver's” seat of any automatic vehicle whenever human passengers are present. He isn't sure why they can drive on their own without a human behind the wheel when there are no passengers, but for as long as there is at least one human in the vehicle, a human needs to be behind the wheel. The wheel won't even work unless the autocar faces a serious malfunction at which point the human's only purpose is to steer the vehicle off to the side of the road.

Of course, right now, Ryouta's biggest issue with automatic vehicles is how overpriced they are to rent from the airport. It isn't like electricity to recharge them isn't incredibly cheap now, and there are not a shortage of rentable vehicles for the lax airport.

Then it all makes sense.

”Those bastards,” Ryouta says.

”What, my hero?” Alice asks.

”They know that it takes more than an hour to get anywhere with the traffic in this city, and they start charging way more as soon as you rent the autocar for more than sixty minutes, and given how airports don't make as much money anymore from flights… they're totally depending on people renting these autocars and charging them a bunch of money to cover the costs of everything else. This service definitely isn't worth the money, it's just slightly more convenient than calling and waiting for an autocar from a third party.”

”Is it truly that expensive? I thought it was only fifty dollars for the first hour?”

”Yeah, and then two-hundred for every hour after that. These aren't meant to be rented for the long-term.”

”They aren't? From the few cities I have visited, we would always keep the vehicle for several hours. Two-hundred does not seem like too high a price for renting.”

Ryouta is starting to realize that Alice has a horrible perception of what is expensive and what isn't. ”You live in a mansion, don't you?” he asks.

”Oh! No, but we do have one as a summer retreat. We spend most of the year in our family's castle that was built in seventeen hundred!”

Of course she would live in a literal castle. If anybody was ever going to live in a castle, it would be Alice.

”You might be in for a culture shock then. From what I've seen in those pictures you love to spam me with, your bedroom is probably bigger than my entire apartment,” Ryouta warns.

”That just means we will always be close to one another!”

Ryouta thinks of another problem. What about Fantasy Tales Online? He only has a single headset, and characters are bound to their headsets. ”You bring your headset with you so we could still play together?” he asks.

”Of course!” Alice answers.

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He has a feeling that even if she didn't, she wouldn't have a problem flying back overseas to grab it and then come back. Or she would have a servant do it for her, or with how much wealth her family supposedly has, personally fly it over and airdrop it right in front of his building's entrance.

His hands shoot for the wheel when a couple of kids run in front of the autocar with a dog.