Chapter 230 (1/2)
Volume 8 / Chapter 230
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
“… Where is this?”
Cha Jun Sung’s eyes and voice are full of wariness.
He did not pull out Hades or show combative behavior however.
He is positive this is an unfamiliar place, but it doesn’t have an atmosphere of danger.
It is just a little uncomfortable.
The three choices for a Lifer who completes a mission are reality, briefing room, and Mechanic City.
There is nothing else.
Of those, the return locations for reality and Mechanic City are different according to summons locations, but they aren’t in places that Lifers don’t know about.
“It this a hotel?”
The overall configuration is that of a large, luxurious room comparable to that of the royal or diamond room of a top hotel.
Its difference from a modern hotel is that it is a little more futuristic.
It is like a newly-built hotel, as if it is completely outfitted in Life Mission store products.
No. It really is.
“Odin. Odin?”
Cha Jun Sung kept calling for Odin, but he doesn’t respond. He looked at his PDA, but it only functions as a watch. It doesn’t do anything.
It won’t go into the store, and he can’t contact Odin. His return is blocked as well.
Only the number indicating the time in reality changes.
“What is it now?”
“I apologize. I invited you, but it isn’t an invitation that I got consent for.”
Cha Jun Sung was surprised by the sound coming from behind him, but he didn’t react.
It is just seriousness in which he can’t sense animosity.
“Hologram?”
A hologram in the form of a person, smiles at Cha Jun Sung.
It is amazingly clear.
It is as though a real person is standing in front of him. It is so clear that if he hadn’t been wearing his battlesuit or if he wasn’t a Lifer who had gone through body modifications, he wouldn’t have been able to tell if it were a real or virtual image.
“I’ll apologize once more. It is bad manners not to go out to greet a guest, but please understand that I cannot do that.”
“What are you?”
It is a middle-aged man.
He looked older than himself, so Cha Jun Sung addressed him as an elder.
“We don’t have much time. I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to explain everything. Take a seat.”
The man walks.
Cha Jun Sung follows. He directed Cha Jun Sung to sit across from him in a gentleman-like gesture.
“I’ll skip the small talk and get straight to the point. Odin will explain the rest.”
Cha Jun Sung nods.
If time is limited, he needs to hear what is important.
Cha Jun Sung doesn’t know anything at this point, not even why he is in this place.
However, he doesn’t need to hear the information he can get from Odin. He’ll hear what he can’t from this man, and then fit everything together like a puzzle.
“Great. You make decisions quickly. I didn’t know we’d meet like this, but it’s a pleasure. I’m Jigneon, the General Manager of Life Mission.”
***
Meeting General Manager Jigneon.
The chance of this happening is like that of getting stabbed randomly in the street. But even if Cha Jun Sung had been expecting this to happen, he would have been surprised anyway.
The person who created Life Mission, which is inexplicable with modern science and is something that might appear in the story of a novel, is right in front of Cha Jun Sung’s eyes.
And that person is telling him something incredible.
“Are you saying that this Borteth went against a promise the supervisors made, got out of control, and ‘started interfering’?”
“That’s right.”
“But this sounds like an issue within your group. Why are you telling me? The officials can just figure it out among themselves.”
Cha Jun Sung shows a little antipathy toward Jigneon. He is going through missions of his own will, but he doesn’t like that he is being used as a specimen for experiment.
Jigneon didn’t continue speaking right away. He took a sip of the tea he had been stirring in his hand. He was drinking tea in real life, too.