The Automated King

Freshman's Day

 “Good day, Reginald. A pleasure to have you gathered here with your fellow freshman. For the premier day of your duty, I will be here as your main escort.”

Ehm, I am the man in desolation, a pair with Ellen and her humility. I’m stranded to the void from my loneliness as the newcomer of this place.

“Sorry for the interruption of excitement, Ellen. Where are the others? I’m not sure I could follow the clamor of my recruitment at all.”

“Alright, follow me to the lobby, please.”

She is ignoring my insinuation. I wonder how much they have for the crew? This is intriguing, indeed, as the facility is too grand for 5 persons to live by themselves.

“In prior to your question in front of the decoy house, Mr. LORD had stipulated a  conformity to our squad. We’ve had quota of 100 persons to occupy the slot of our agency, and you’re the only member for today’s application.”

“So, it doesn’t fade on top or below of the standard? Wow, how tidy.”

“Yes. If you pose a query to that notion, ask to Mr. LORD itself with this.”

Hoo, the agent run-of-the-mill technology. So cool!

“You can access every compulsory and optional tasks throughout this bracelet. For the additional function, you can also create a video call, map-tracking, or some special stuff that could be configured in specific by our tinker.”

“Even for arms, Ellen?”

“Yes, even for arms, Regi. Our craftswoman could re-animate the beast on your wrist to be the advocate of our cause.”

The device is compatible with my left hand in perfect fashion.... splendid way to start my day as a secret agent, eh.

“Anyway, Allow me to escort you for a little sightseeing, Regi. You are entitled to understand more of the drills around this place.”

Haha, this is exciting...Private tour, here I come!!

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From the structure, I can say that this place must be their laboratory. White-painted background, layer of white coat inside the wardrobe, all in the nature of clarity and spotless tone.

“A nice timing to have. Reginald, the woman right here is our finest and lone wolf inventor of our team. She is the one with the needle yesterday, if you got absent with her presence.”

“Hello, Reginald Lambardi. How is your bottoms doing? I’m Merry Lumosina, but you can have ‘merry’ for short.”

“In justification, the venom have a bundle of side effect to my body. Nothing happened last night, but I am still exhausted in mentality.”

Yeah, I am dubious to the remedy’s effect to the venom. My head is randomly twitching in jumbled timings, and the ouchies were still intact, so it's a kind of unfortunate issues for me.

“You can pay a visit to this laboratory anytime you wish, Regi. This sanctum is my shelter, my lair of invention. I will inject several medication to ease off the side-effect of the venom, if you do swing by for the time being.”

“I will, Merry. Thank you for the invitations.”

“Come-come, we have to run the next course for you, Regi.”

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“This is our most-memorable avenues, Regi. The sports center, best spot for you to bulk up muscles and familiarity to the abilities of other members.”

Sweet tooth-fairy, you must be joking. How could the old and nearly decapitated house of the front yard have this awesome facility for practice?

“From my basic prejudice, this place were constructed down under. The width and square-sized wall of the upper house frame weren't be fitted with these much rooms, logically speaking.”

“Correct. Merry is the person for the layout and blueprint of these masterpiece. She is our jack-of-all-trades personnel to all the refurbishment of our facilities.”

Wow, a gym filled with steel and dead-lift props, high-grade swimming pool, basket-ball and tennis court, even a running track was built underground. How can they manufactured these place to reality?

“To wrap up the tour, there’s the last room you’ll be required to visit. It’s the meeting lounge of Repugnare, the essential place for heated discussion and tactical briefing. I would give you some short description of the drills and the monetary incentive to our deeds.”

The chiming sound of the money and provision is tingling my nerves. I am not invigorated by the commission, yet the added rewards would not hurt and dysfunctional to my dedication to the job nonetheless.

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“Here it is, Regi. The final destination of your half-day vacation, our very own living room of war. These place is fundamental for every top-brass discussion and topics for us to brief and devise.”

Whoa, She’s not kidding. The huge monitors are capable to bring a sheer force of reminiscent from the movie’s council of war. Two square tables placed neatly to the middle. I don’t know how the entertainment given us the imagery of grayish board of discussion, since they tinted their own with white.

“The table was Merry’s job. I don’t realized at first of how absurd the coloring would be until this monstrosity came in.”

“If you don’t fond of it, why do you have to retain the board?”

“Simple. Merry is the designer, so we have to rely with her taste. She would be reluctant to do her contribution onward if we don’t have ourselves fond with her art.”

Hoo, a sentimentality to her feelings. I could concur of what might be occurring if they lost her touch, as drawing vectors and bars would be hard without being accustomed to it for long.

“Okay, it’s time for me to explain about the casual code around here. Regarding to the mission assignment, Mr. LORD had opted two distinctive points to abide. It’s assorted within your liberty of choices to pick the mission. The first one is mandatory missions. Usually, this one would be inclined towards the attempt of infiltration by our enemies outside the border.”

“On what kind of infiltration, Ellen? I don’t really understand of our threat...”

“Well, to say the least, the organisms beyond the fortification of our wall has brought an astounding development to their way of struggle. These animals were evolved to be smarter and feasible for founding a new generation of civilization.”

“Terrific. What’s the second preferences then, Ellen?”

“It’s labelled under the optional mission. You can choose to complete the objective or opted to postpone the task for indefinite time, all in your pace of working on such matters at hand.”

Okay, so we’re settled to accomplish the mission according to the credence of Mr. LORD and the importance of such task itself. Now, I need to clear up this trivial issue of yesterday’s business.

“Other question, Ellen. What’s with the honorific name? Slink for Marion, and you as the hound, I mean.”

“Oh, don’t worry about those, it’s not mandatory to have one. It’s an inside joke of this facility for your traits and abilities.”

Next on my notes: Disclosing Marion’s ability, and this grandma, too.

“For the other queries, you might have to learn it more in time. I have to undergo a meeting with the rest of the top-executives. See ya later.”

“You too, Ellen.”

Time to set forth to Merry’s safe haven. I wanna know more of these “monsters” in general.

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“Hello, Reginald. What can I help you? out of the remedy matters, of course.”

“I am a bit in qualms of the ‘creature’ that Ellen had disclosed to me earlier. What’s your suggestion to learn this all? Uhhh....”

“Hmmm? Close your eyes, blink for one minute... yup, the dose of remedy would be circulated in your veins for a day.”

Reginald is sitting on the operation chair of Merry’s laboratory. He is being instilled by liquid of medicine for the treatment of his illness, under the hope of lifting up his condition and well-being for good.

“All set, now I can shift to your query. Our database on the past decades were too barren to settle of the growth, due to shortage of surveillance missions to the neighboring countries, but you can access the historical documents from centuries of the epic Markoff Rigor’s adventure to clear the smudge off the window.”

 “Huh? Is the legend real? I can’t believe that it was actually persistent.”

“Oh, it was presumed as classified information, so I can’t tell you more of this. On the other words, you have to scale yourself up for the intelligence, Regi.”

Reginald, in his astonishment, tilting his head unconsciously.

“What? Classified? On how sort, if you could tell me more?”

“Using your own labor for discoveries would haul you enamored with the findings a lot more, Regi.”

Reginald nodding as short reply to Merry’s abstraction.

“I am bewildered by the quotes, Merry. Do you really have wide faculties of learning like what Ellen has told me? It sounds bold and brash.”

“Nah, reading was not intended to be my hobbies. I am a designer, inventor, and a concurring architect. I can’t endure the solitude of studying without appealing myself with tinkering the mold of science with my own hands.”

“You clearly must be digging deep to Earth for being so selfless. Your way to appease the compliment seems fishy to me... Anyway, could you tell me of the commission of Mr. LORD?”

Merry, in her elegant manner, placing her bottoms to the swivel chair and rolling it down in circle.

“ You are an employee of a store chain and losing the grip on the general code metric of business in this country? Are you certain?”

“Well, I've got hands on accumulating AoK, not the system itself, so it's kind of too blurry already for me.”

“To make it simple, we were entitled to be rich by all means. However, there’s two exception of them all: Exceeding the entire population’s wealth and real estate investments.”

In his force of perception, Reginald sets his hands upon the chin to bolster his energy to think.

“Any peculiar regulations of the exceeding part? I never knew such regulation existed in my life before.”

“There is. If your AoK, or Accounts of Kindness, surpassing the sum of total income from the residents of this country, our system would automatically re-distribute the extra allocation to the least moneymaker within the database.”

“And what is with the real estate part? Am I prohibited to buy another house for myself? Since I got my apartment through my savings, I guess i might be interpreted it wrong the whole time. ”

“You are precisely right, Regi. They ensued this to prevent mass-monopoly of houses, since our city has limited rooms to grow and expand. To be exact, the region usually enlarged by about 10 kilometers each year on every sides of the wall.”

The abrupt tone of an alarm blaring excessively and interrupting their warm conversation.

“Oh well, is that your dinner? It’s ringing like an alarm from your microwave to me.”

“And the cue for you to disembark, Regi. See you tomorrow.”