Chapter 107. God Does Not Play Dice (1)
“You’re here? I’ve been waiting for you.”
When Yukgap reached the agreed meeting place, the man who had ordered the chocolate was already waiting.
Yukgap immediately shoved the box toward him and emphasized,
“Here. Your chocolate.”
“This thing is insanely dangerous, so don’t open it carelessly.”
“But it definitely works on women, so you can relax about that.”
The man blinked.
“Wait. ‘Women’?”
“Yeah. Why?”
“The coworker I’m in love with is a man, just like me.”
“Whaaaaaaaaaat?!”
Yukgap froze at the completely unexpected answer.
He had never even considered that the confession might be to someone of the same sex.
The customer blushed and continued as though nothing was strange.
“But the confession already worked out.”
“He decided not to leave after all.”
“I guess I really did the right thing by gathering my courage and confessing.”
“Well, since things turned out this way, I’ll still give him the chocolate.”
“Hahahahaha...”
All Yukgap could do was laugh hollowly.
“You’re right.”
Victoria nodded lightly after hearing what had happened.
“There’s no reason the person a man loves has to be a woman.”
“I guess even I had a narrower perspective than I realized.”
Yukgap, who had suffered through all kinds of trouble because of the delivery, felt completely deflated.
“Anyway, never make something like that again.”
“I seriously almost died.”
“Oh, come on. You came back perfectly fine.”
Victoria waved him off.
“Isn’t being loved by that many women supposed to be every man’s dream?”
“What dream?”
“I want nothing to do with a dream like that.”
Having every female in sight cling to him regardless of age or even species had not been pleasant in the slightest.
It had felt more like being caught in a natural disaster.
Victoria, on the other hand, seemed to find the whole thing amusing.
“Still, I didn’t know your jaguar friend could be that aggressive.”
She sounded impressed.
“A woman should have that kind of initiative.”
“I learned something new.”
“Don’t learn that.”
Yukgap answered immediately.
Victoria’s intelligence combined with No. 7’s initiative could create a disaster beyond imagination.
For the sake of everyone’s safety, he desperately wanted to prevent that combination.
“Why not?”
Victoria grinned.
“It sounds romantic.”
Apparently, she had decided the entire situation qualified as some kind of sweet romance.
Yukgap had no idea which part of it was supposed to be romantic.
For him, the entire ordeal had been exhausting.
“Love really is impossible to understand.”
Victoria thought about that for a moment.
Then she nodded.
“I agree with you there.”
“I’m back.”
No. 7 staggered into the hideout.
She looked exhausted, as though she had been through something unpleasant.
No. 8 noticed something was off and cautiously asked,
“Where have you been?”
Bang!
Instead of answering, No. 7 slammed her fist into a nearby wall.
A hole opened in it, and cracks spread across the surface.
Her eyes gleamed dangerously.
“If you don’t want to die, don’t ask.”
“Y-Yes.”
No. 8 immediately shut his mouth.
His instincts told him nothing good would come from saying anything more.
No. 7 then sharply questioned him.
“Where’s Lambda?”
“No. 11?”
“He’s in the laboratory.”
Ever since his body collapsed during the bacterial attack, No. 11 had remained confined to the laboratory.
No. 7 immediately headed there.
“Hey, Lambda!”
“I’m here!”
No. 11, dressed in a lab coat, greeted her.
“You’re back?”
The moment she saw him, No. 7 demanded,
“So when is your body going to recover?”
“I’m going insane from boredom. Hurry up and give me something to do!”
“As it happens, we received new instructions from Abraxas.”
No. 11 spoke gently, as though he understood exactly how she felt.
Then he handed her a document.
“What’s this?”
“Thanks to the previous bacterial infection, we have roughly completed a DNA map of Koreans compatible with Alpha.”
“The accuracy is not perfect.”
“But it should be sufficient to create a vessel capable of containing the Wisdom of God.”
No. 7 had already heard that the large-scale infection was intended to identify people with genetic compatibility similar to Alpha.
It had taken No. 11 some time to recover from his collapsed body, but apparently the original objective had still been achieved.
“A ship will arrive soon.”
No. 11 continued.
“And here, we will construct a magnificent vessel capable of containing the Wisdom of God.”
No. 7’s face brightened.
“So I’ll finally get to go wild too?”
No. 11 answered as though soothing a child.
“As it happens, Alpha gave an instruction.”
“She said, ‘The sixth friend is coming to meet us.’”
“Oh?”
No. 7’s eyes flashed again.
She looked exactly like a predator spotting prey.
No. 11 knew perfectly well what she was thinking.
“Please wait just a little longer.”
No. 7 answered firmly,
