NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"I won't bother with your artificial idiot."

“Who is the artificial idiot!”

When Anik, who was secretly proud of himself, heard a human calling him an idiot, he got angry and stomped hard on the sea of ​​consciousness under his feet.

"Without me, you would have gone crazy! You ungrateful bastard! You scumbag! You lecherous bastard!!!"

“Hi~?!”

After half a month of getting acquainted with him, Phoenix no longer felt any fear towards this Anik.

"Not only do you have no permissions, no data, and can only surf the public Internet, but you also beat me in seconds during the simulation training. I'm giving you face by not calling you a voice assistant, and you still dare to call me a pervert?"

"You have had erotic dreams nine times in fifteen days. If you are not a pervert, then what is that?"

As soon as Anik opened his mouth, he realized something was wrong, and quickly shut up and floated back guiltily.

They had agreed in the terminal room that one of them would not spy on his dreams and inner thoughts, and the other would not kick her into his subconscious stream.

"I, I didn't watch it! I don't even know who the heroine is! It's you who every time you have that kind of dream, your sea of ​​consciousness becomes particularly active, and I have to know it even if I don't want to!"

"That's it..."

Phoenix's voice echoed faintly in the space of consciousness.

"So what you mean is that as long as I send you into my subconscious, you won't be able to see it?"

Feeling threatened by someone's words, Anik curled his lips and said reluctantly: "...I'm sorry, I will sleep when you sleep from now on."

Unfortunately, Phoenix didn't buy it. Although he didn't know what would happen if he kicked Alnik into his subconscious stream, it didn't stop him from using it to threaten the other party.

“That means you knew the solution from the beginning, but you chose to watch it for 15 days without saying anything.

And he just called me an ungrateful bastard, a scumbag, and a lecherous bastard."

As the saying goes, a man who knows the current situation is a hero. Anik has not learned anything else these days, but he has already understood this sentence to some extent. He only heard her give in reluctantly:

"Then I won't call you an ungrateful wolf or a scumbag anymore, and I won't say you're a lecher anymore, okay?"

"What do you mean? You're calling me obscene, right?"

Phoenix himself was someone who loved playing word games, and as soon as he heard it he knew that this AI chick was acting retarded again, so he sneered, and then, with a stream of consciousness, he slapped her hard on the butt.

Snapped!

"You called me vulgar, right?! Then I won't be vulgar for once, I won't be slandered by you in vain!"

"Humph! I'm not a human being, I don't have this kind of physical concept!"

After getting slapped on the butt, Anik looked nonchalant, but Phoenix only thought about it for a moment and easily saw through her disguise.

“Wow~ There is nothing wrong with your statement alone. Artificial intelligence does not have human social ethics, which makes sense.

But since there is no social morality, why do you still call me obscene? To say the word obscene, you must be able to feel it, right? "

call--

Another stream-of-consciousness slap struck Anik's back. The artificial idiot, who had been exposed again, stopped pretending and immediately fled in the sea of ​​consciousness of some scoundrel.

"You, you, you! If you spank me again! I will tell these things to your future lover!"

"And then? What are you going to do after you file the complaint?"

Snapped!

After the slap, Phoenix exhaled in relief.

"You still don't believe me when I say you're artificially retarded. Before you do anything, you should first figure out if you have a way out. Do you understand, girl?"

Snapped!

"……Well."

……

……

When the door of the Level 1 confinement cell was opened, Prison Guard Voss looked at the restraint chair that was still moving and rotating on the circular track, his face as if he was facing a great enemy.

The reason for designing this 360-degree rotatable device is mainly to prevent prisoners from suffering from blood circulation obstruction and muscle necrosis due to sitting for a long time.

It is completely different from the amusement park rides that provide a sense of excitement and dizziness, and the speed of rotation is also very slow, which will be automatically ignored by the human brain over time.

but……

Why can that guy still close his eyes and look so relaxed?

Unable to come up with a reasonable explanation for what he saw, Voss could only attribute everything he saw and felt to a universal reason.

mental illness,

This guy is definitely mentally ill!

Chapter 27 A Brand New Job

When the prison guard nervously led Phoenix out of the solitary confinement cell and reappeared in the public activity area of ​​the first-level detention area.

The prisoners who were betting on how long the newcomer could last half a month ago now all shut their mouths consciously, and secretly glanced at the gentle-looking young man with complicated eyes.

They lost.

According to prison rules, everyone has to owe this animal a month's worth of extra meals.

So go, go quickly.

Don't stay here. They are just ordinary serial killers, antisocial elements, and perverted sadists. How can you be a cellmate with a madman who has been in solitary confinement for half a month?

I really don't have that ability.

So, under everyone's expectant gaze, prison guard Voss led Phoenix out of the detention area without stopping.

Also taken away with it was the nervous emotions of the evil people.

Thank God, the first-level detention in a rehabilitation center is not enough to accommodate this great man.

……

……

"Oh! Friendly! Youthful! Virile (masculine)! Boy beyond imagination!"

At the entrance of the rehabilitation center, in front of several machine guns on the wall, a man dressed in an overly avant-garde outfit was leaning against a golden luxury car, clapping his hands excitedly while looking at the young man in plain clothes who had just been released from prison.

　"Do you know me? Are you interested in coming to Tetra and becoming an idol for thousands of girls?"

"...Mr. Mastin?"

When Phoenix saw the CEO of Tetra coming to pick him up in person, he was completely unprepared and was shocked.

He thought about Anderson, Ingrid, Burnim, and even Shuen as the people who bailed him out, but he just didn't put this person's name in the box of the lucky wheel.

What reason does an entertainment industry tycoon have to bail himself out?

And he came to pick her up in person?

What, the central government’s attitude towards me has completely changed? ? ?

"Mr. Ma Shiding, I am so happy to meet you at the entrance of the rehabilitation center... I am a little slow to react."

Although he was surprised, Phoenix still remembered the identity of a star-chaser that he had established very early on.

That was originally his plan to raise the price in front of the three major companies. Now it seems that it must have played some unknown role that he had not expected.

"Oh~Boy~, let's go into the car for communication. There's another person named Nikke in there. You have to meet, meet."

In response to Mastin's invitation in a mixture of languages, Phoenix nodded and thanked him, then calmly got into the rich man's stretched limousine.

When it comes to who is the weirdest person in Ark, this boss is undoubtedly the one.

When it comes to who is the easiest to talk to in Ark, this boss comes out on top.

But what Phoenix never expected was that when he sat in the front seat of the stretch sedan, he found that in front of him, on the rear seat, sat a little girl with pink twin ponytails holding a black whip.

Ok?

Why are there the pair of Missilis in the car of the boss of Tetra...

"Commander, I'm Yuni."

　Without waiting for someone to express their doubts to the artificial mental retardation in their consciousness, the little girl took the initiative to explain to Phoenix in a voice that did not quite match her appearance.

"Well, according to Shuen, Yuni is here to 'protect' the commander on behalf of Missilis."

Protect the commander?

Protecting a commander in an underground ark?

Phoenix did not expose Yuni's lame cover-up, but asked frankly.

"What about the one who represents the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss?"

"Pure Land is quite busy recently and lacks sufficient staff. You may have to wait for a few days."

Ma Shiding, who got on the car later, happily answered Phoenix's confusion on Yuni's behalf, and continued:

"Now that everyone has finished the introduction, let's move on to today's theme! Boy~, I heard that you are a fan of our Volum?"

"……Yes."

Listening to Mastin's opening remarks, someone cooperated quite well and showed a hint of surprise.

Not too much, not too little, just enough to match a fan's desire for his idol and a commander's self-respect.

"Are you going to let me be Volum's bodyguard, Mr. Mastin?"

“No~No~No~, after a new round of sentencing against you by various parties, you are required to work in a job mainly involving social contact at Tetra during the suspension period.

so~

Ingrid told me that you are a fan of Volum, so I decided to hire you to be Volum's Agent! "

The boss of Tetra shook his long hair, enthusiastically took out two glasses of champagne that had been prepared long ago from the fully automatic mini refrigerator, and handed the glass in his left hand to Phoenix.

"Yes?"

"Or No?"

……

……

"So now, you are my new agent?"

In the dressing room, the red-haired woman who was sitting on the booth with her legs crossed lazily lifted up her sunglasses with her right hand, tilted her head, and looked up and down at the man in a suit in front of her.

Uh-huh?

What does the agent introduced by the boss this time look like...

Somewhat tranquil?

But why, even though he was just standing there quietly, he gave people a strange feeling of discomfort?

"I heard that you are my fan? To be honest, there was once an agent who was my fan, but three days later he complained about me privately in front of others." Wollum said, turning her sunglasses with her wheat-colored fingers.

"As for me, I hate it when someone says bad things about me behind my back. What I can't stand the most is when they say bad things about me and I know about it."

"So did he resign on his own initiative, or was he fired by you?" Phoenix glanced down at the schedule on the tablet, then looked up and said with a smile:

"By the way, did you beat him up?"

"what?"

The moment he heard the words "beat him" coming out of the new agent's mouth, Wallem almost thought there was something wrong with his auditory receiver.