Chapter 122. A Restaurant Like This Exists?! (1)
Inside the box was a severed man’s head.
There was a gaping hole in his forehead where he had apparently been shot, and dried blood clung around the wound.
Judging by the frozen shock on his face, he had probably died instantly from a single bullet.
The old man knew exactly who the head belonged to.
[This man was bothering you, Dad, telling you to find the sixth friend, right?]
[He even said he wouldn’t leave me alone if things went wrong.]
[So I made him like this.]
[What do you think? I did well, didn’t I?]
Alpha giggled brightly as she looked at it.
There was not the slightest trace of guilt or hesitation in her.
That alone sent a chill down the old man’s spine.
He asked with a terrified expression,
“A-Alpha... w-why?”
“Why are you doing this?”
“You’re a good girl, aren’t you?”
[That’s why I’m getting rid of the bad adults.]
The girl on the monitor simply smiled innocently.
[Don’t worry, Dad.]
[I’ll get rid of every adult who bothers us.]
[Alpha is a good girl who cares about Daddy.]
A bottomless terror spread across the old man’s face.
He threw the box away and screamed,
“No!”
“No, this... this isn’t right!”
With that, he hurried out of the room.
The girl left behind stared after him and tilted her head.
[Why is Dad acting like that?]
[Beta, do you know?]
“I’m sorry, but I do not.”
Apparently, No. 2 had no idea either.
The girl grumbled,
[He used to praise me whenever I got rid of bad adults like this.]
[I wonder why he gets scared every time now.]
Getting rid of “bad adults” like this had been one of her important duties for a very long time.
And every time she eliminated one of them, the old man had praised her.
She had simply done the same thing again.
So why was he so shocked?
[Anyway, I should start getting ready.]
[There’s a lot to do.]
The girl stretched on the monitor.
No. 2 immediately asked loyally,
“What should I prepare?”
Alpha hummed happily.
[First, we need to get the sixth friend moving.]
[He’s going to bring me a pretty red stone that shines.]
“How do you intend to do that?”
Alpha gave a slightly unexpected answer.
[First, we need to get the restaurant where the sixth friend is staying onto television.]
“Why are those Abraxas bastards so quiet?”
Yukgap muttered while flipping through a newspaper.
Several days had passed since the clash at the harbor.
He had expected Abraxas to make some kind of move by now.
Yet they had been strangely silent.
Kevin had said he would suppress information about the incident, but things were so quiet that it made Yukgap uneasy.
“Yukgap! Yukgap! Emergency!”
While Yukgap was reading the newspaper with growing anxiety, Victoria suddenly ran over in a shrill voice.
Yukgap asked in a flat tone, as though this were nothing new.
“What escaped from the lab this time?”
“T-That’s not it!”
Victoria shouted, even stammering in excitement.
“A broadcasting station contacted us!”
“They want to feature our restaurant!”
“Whaaaaaat?!”
Even Yukgap was stunned.
A television feature?
Setting everything else aside, was this really the kind of place they could safely expose to the public?
“They must have seen reviews of our restaurant on social media.”
Victoria was already visibly excited.
“They said it’s a unique place they’ve never seen before, so they want to come film us!”
Yukgap hurriedly tried to stop her.
“We have to refuse.”
“Why?”
“When are we ever going to get another opportunity like this?”
“Have you forgotten what kind of place this is?”
Victoria shrugged.
“A perfectly ordinary, harmless restaurant you could find anywhere.”
“How could you possibly look at this place and say that?”
There was a suspicious alchemy laboratory attached to the restaurant.
Strange experimental ingredients went berserk on a regular basis.
How could anyone call this place “ordinary”?
Victoria, however, seemed completely unaware of the problem.
“Hmm. Maybe we’re too ordinary to be interesting on TV?”
“The problem is that we’re not ordinary at all.”
Yukgap shook his head.
“More importantly, we’re currently enemies with Abraxas.”
“If we expose ourselves to the media for no reason, it could become dangerous.”
“Hehehe. You don’t understand.”
Victoria looked completely unconcerned.
“If anything, getting media attention makes us safer.”
“If Abraxas openly targets us, we can make a huge public fuss through the press.”
Unlike Yukgap, who remained skeptical, Victoria was practically glowing with anticipation.
“More importantly, I’ve always dreamed of appearing on television!”
“Finally, the world has recognized my management philosophy!”
“That was the real reason, wasn’t it?”
Yukgap stared at her in disbelief.
At this point, Abraxas was probably not even on Victoria’s mind anymore.
Sure enough, she spoke as though the matter had already been decided.
“Anyway, I already accepted the offer.”
“The broadcasting crew will be here soon.”
Yukgap was speechless.
Then why had she even bothered telling him?
“How can you decide something like that on your own?”
“Hey! I’m the owner!”
“And I’m accepting this offer so I can spread my management philosophy far and wide!”
It was hopeless.
Victoria had already made up her mind.
