This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 91



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 091

64. Daphne (1)

I don’t know what was in my mind when I finished the entrance exam.

First of all, I remember that when I appeared in the sky on a hoverboard, not only the examinees but also the cadets who were supervisors opened their mouths and were speechless.

I gave a pass to the guys who moved to catch me even though I was on the hoverboard, and the guys who calmly grouped up and rushed at me after I got off the hoverboard.

And then there was this guy who was either bold or stupid enough to ride an abandoned hoverboard and roll around in the snow.

The idea was good, so I gave him a pass and decided to give him player training.

Taejung, Banggu Seok Yeobo, and Shin Eunjo also passed without any problems.

I explained the player production plan to them only after they passed.

Banggu Seok Yeo-bo, who heard the whole plan, said in admiration.

“You really only think about cheating.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

“But can I say that when other zone players are listening?”

“I didn’t really want to hear it either.”

Shin Eun-jo, who was gently stroking the Luna Moon in her arms, glared at Bang Gu-seok Yeo-bo and then looked at me.

He looked a bit uneasy about hearing about my plans.

“It’s true that I asked to take the entrance exam, but… I’ll be returning to the district soon. If you’re not planning on sending me back… … .”

“That won’t happen. I don’t want you to stay here too long either.”

Anyway, I have to stay for the time being.

Because I need to ask Shin Jo more about the CEO of Cthulhu Games.

‘But you have to ask carefully.’

After hearing the story of the other addict, it seems that the additional opening condition has to do with the fact that my father possessed us… … .

I thought that the fact that there had been no additional disclosures even after Shin Jo met with the CEO of Cthulhu Games might have had to do with the fact that he had not remembered the name of the game company, Cthulhu Games, until recently.

If I ask the wrong question about my father and Shin Eun-jo’s system is opened up, both Shin Eun-jo and I will be in trouble.

It would be better to approach it cautiously.

Then Taejeong raised his hand and asked.

“I understand that you’re going to have NPCs educate players. But if you’re going to educate players… shouldn’t it be the players who are doing the educating? Who’s going to do the educating?”

“Player training will be taken care of by Banggu Seok Yeobo.”

There were mixed reactions to the words I said thoughtlessly.

First, look in the corner of the room.

“Oh yeah! You’re being promoted from student to teacher!”

Well, as usual, my head is in a state of flower garden.

This guy received a note from a drug addict and didn’t even let me know… I thought it was possible that he had completely forgotten that he had received the note.

‘Let’s ask about the note from the addict later.’

If he finds out I’ve been meeting with him in the meantime, he’ll ask me what we talked about.

anyway.

Unlike Banggu Seok Yeo-bo who is excited, Tae-jung and Shin Eun-jo… … .

“Is it…salty?”

“Are you out of your mind? Who are you trusting with what?”

I guess this is the reaction of a player who thinks.

Banggu Seok-yeo got angry and shouted because the two people’s reactions were quite unpleasant.

“What! Why! A dopamine addict wants to leave it to me! How rude to the teacher? I’ll deduct points from all of you!”

“… Are you really going to entrust education to a place like that?”

Shin Jo looked at Bang Gu Seok Yeo Bo with a tired expression.

That kind of appearance of Banggu Seok-yeo was actually what I wanted.

“Seeing that makes me more confident.”

“What?! … Are you crazy?”

“Brother… Are you sick somewhere?”

I nodded to both of them and then said.

“If you’re going to raise a salty player anyway, it’s better to raise someone like Banggu Seok Yeobo.”

“……under?”

As I’ve said before, the intelligence of the NPCs in the Cola area is not that high.

Therefore, it is very difficult to mass-produce highly intelligent players.

But what if the player model looks like a corner of a room?

This means that it can be mass-produced as much as you want.

“It would be nice if my speech became similar to that guy’s. Then I could attack his mind just through conversation.”

“Wasn’t the humanity of the NPCs in this area the only good thing… …?”

I couldn’t really understand Taejeong’s words, so I asked back.

“Why is having a good personality an advantage?”

“What a psychopathic statement.”

Shin Eun-jo dismissed my question as a dismissive remark.

“Yeah… I get why it was okay for me to hear that. I would never do something like bullying other district players and raising district kids in the corner. You’d do anything to win. You really are… a scary person.”

“I’m scared of you too, hyung… … .”

Did these two forget that Banggu Seok-yeo was listening right next to them?

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but are you saying you, dopamine addict, want more players like me in this area?”

Well, fortunately, you only heard what you wanted.

“Yeah. That’s right.”

It met my requirements perfectly, even the things I didn’t understand.

I want NPCs to look like players, not smart enough to overtake me.

… Was this some kind of dictatorial thinking?

Banggu Seok-yeo raised both her fists with an enthusiastic face.

“I’ll try hard, dopamine addict!”

“Okay. Fighting.”

And I wonder what the consequences of this will be in the future.

I didn’t know it at the time.

* * *

The only surviving member of the original Chindaphnepa.

Lieutenant General Radu made a very big decision today.

‘Today, I poison Haytham.’

There are several reasons why I made that decision.

First of all, this wasn’t the first poisoning attempt today.

Ever since Haydam showed up at the executive meeting and asked about his child, saying he knew them well.

Radu has been asking his lover, who is also his mistress and a servant at the Commander’s residence, to poison Haydam’s food.

Even though he was a father who had an affair with a servant at the commander’s residence, he still cherished his child.

I couldn’t just leave Haytham alone, who brought up his own child at the site of Lieutenant General Bottom’s death.

But the story of Haytham being poisoned was never heard again.

The lover was really angry, saying that she had been drinking poison every morning, but Radu did not believe her.

Surely, her tender heart was not yet able to poison the young Haydam’s food.

Fortunately, despite mentioning his own child on the spot, Haytham seemed to have no interest in himself or his family.

That’s why Radu gave up on poisoning and wanted to live peacefully with two families.

Haytham forced Anton to retire – of course Anton had retired voluntarily, but he had gathered the officers together and told them that he was retiring because he could not stand the temper of a young man, so Haytham thought it was Haytham’s fault – and then he framed Lieutenant General Max as the culprit in the murder of a soldier.

‘I don’t know about former Captain Anton, but Max really isn’t that kind of person… … !’

Radu thought Max had been framed, and in fact he wasn’t wrong.

That’s why I thought again that I shouldn’t leave Haytham like this.

‘I have to do something.’

While I was thinking about that, I heard the news.

“Daphne… divorce?”

The shocking news that His Excellency the Commander and Lady Daphne were getting a divorce.

Radu knew that things weren’t going well between the two, and with Haydam’s arrival, he knew that the successor position would be passed on to him as well.

Even though His Excellency the Commander may not be interested in Daphne, he has never neglected her for over ten years, so she never imagined that he would divorce her immediately just because Haytham showed up.

The news that followed made Radu faint for a moment.

Daphne’s second marriage partner is Meursault Pendleton.

Because I heard that he was the son of a bitch who shot and killed Lieutenant General Bottom.

Even after waking up from fainting, Radu couldn’t believe the reality and his hands were shaking.

“The most… noble lady in the district, Daphne… …!!”

All of the Chindaphnepa executives were people who owed great favors to the former commander.

Because the former commander, unlike the current commander, was a dictator with a lot of compassion.

It may sound strange to call him a dictator who was full of compassion, but that’s what he was.

That’s why the Chindaphne faction leaders loved the former commander’s daughter, Daphne, as if she were their own child, and Daphne, who also had a strangely captivating charisma, was their daughter and lord, and she served the former commander with all her heart.

So she was demoted from the commander’s wife to the wife of a mere major general?

Your Excellency the Commander, you have permitted Daphne to remarry Meursault?

That’s impossible.

If something suddenly happens that has not happened before, it means that something new has appeared that has changed the situation.

That’s right, Haydam.

The commander’s illegitimate child suddenly appeared one day.

‘That kid is definitely… … !!’

There was no one among the executives who did not know that Meursault Pendleton had been fond of Daphne in the past.

But I thought he had changed his mind because Daphne had married Commander Hayden and Meursault had become Commander Hayden’s aide.

The reason he was able to propose to Daphne so openly now was undoubtedly because Haydam was there to instigate him.

‘I warned Daphne like that… …!’

Haytham is an illegitimate child.

There is no officer who does not know that Commander Hayden and Luna Moon were lovers before Commander Hayden and Lady Daphne married.

From Haydam’s perspective, it was Dafne who took his father away.

He was a very cruel child who didn’t even blink an eye when someone died right before his eyes.

Of course, I would also want to take revenge on my mother.

‘The look in his eyes as he looked at the portrait that former Captain Anton had given him was unsettling… … .’

Haytham finally took revenge on Daphne.

Even by dragging her down to the position of Meursault’s wife.

“I can’t live like this… I feel sorry towards His Excellency the Commander.”

So Radu decided to poison Haydam himself.

Radu held a chocolate bar full of poison and waited for a ‘coincidental’ encounter with Haydam.

Haydam is very clever, so if I went looking for him on purpose, he would definitely be suspicious of the chocolate I offered him.

Then, I got information that Haydam was stopping by the military academy to prepare for the entrance ceremony.

Radu, who went to the military academy pretending to see his sponsored child, was able to meet Haydam without difficulty.

“Heydam, isn’t it? You’ve grown a lot since I last saw you.”

He used the last of his acting skills to pretend to be cheerful, but Haydam greeted him with a cold smile.

“Why are you here?”

As expected, I can see that you are suspicious right away.

It was a good thing we decided to meet by chance.

“I came to check on my children. They are now in a new grade.”

“iced coffee…….”

“Oh, I brought some for the kids. Heydam, you should have some too. It’s chocolate.”

There was a reason why it was prepared with chocolate.

Although cookies are still readily available in the area, obtaining chocolate, which has a complex processing process, is a real challenge.

That’s why I thought that since Haydam was a child, he wouldn’t refuse if you told him it was chocolate.

And from what I’ve heard, he grew up in the slums starving and obsessed with food.

‘There’s no way a child like that would turn down chocolate.’

And just as Radu had hoped, Haydam raised the corners of his lips slightly and accepted the chocolate that Radu offered without any resistance.

“Eat quickly before others see it.”

I’ve also heard that Haydam cherishes the children in his district.

Radu added that he should hurry up and eat quickly, fearing that he might give up the food to another child.

For some reason, Haydam suddenly burst into laughter and nodded his head in greeting.

“Thank you, I will enjoy the meal.”

I was a little taken aback by his brighter and more polite appearance than I had expected, but it was too late.

Haydam took a bite of the chocolate without any hesitation.

Radu looked at Haydam with great tension.

“however…….”

When Haydam opened his mouth again, the chocolate had disappeared without a trace, so Radu thought it wouldn’t be strange if Haydam collapsed and vomited blood the next moment.

But Haydam’s pronunciation was so clear.

He said as follows:

“Are you busy having an affair?”

“…………yes?”

Radu couldn’t believe his ears as to what he had just heard.

“Honestly, I get annoyed whenever I see you because you have moral problems, but strictly speaking, my father was an adulterer and Meursault was an adulterer too, so there’s nothing I can say. Just keep living like that.”

Haytham still had that angelic smile on his lips, but the words pouring out of his mouth did not match his appearance at all, causing cognitive dissonance.

furthermore.

‘Why… don’t… you die?’

Haytham walked past him without a care.

‘It’s clear that the poison was so great that it could defeat even a large monster in one hit, and it was poured all over the chocolate.’

Since he put it in himself and delivered it himself, there was no way it could have been delivered incorrectly.

Still, Haydam walked away without a care and disappeared from my sight.

I waited for news of Haydam’s death, just in case the poison would manifest later.

The next day, and the day after that.

There was no news of Haytham’s death.

And then finally, when the news of death came.

It wasn’t the news of Haydam’s death that Radu had been waiting for.

It was news of Daphne’s death.