Chapter 214

Star: "You've been giving out gifts for half a day already — you still haven't finished?"

Star: "Rich people really are something else, just paving the way with money."

Topaz: "Friend, remember this — no matter when, having money makes everything easier."

Topaz: "And if something can be done with money, it doesn't even count as a problem!"

Paimon: "That's so nice....."

Paimon: "I really want to be rich too....."

The video continued.

Topaz grew more and more uncomfortable,

but he still forced himself to stay alert,

and once again walked up beside a shop security guard.

【Uh.... are you looking for me?】

【Sorry, I thought you were looking at something behind me.】

The guard, seeing Topaz staring at him,

asked in some surprise.

【Mr., a little gem for you.】

Topaz pulled out a gem.

【This.... is a gift for me?】

【Are you sure there's no mistake?】

The guard couldn't believe it.

【Just a small token, nothing to speak of.....】

【Just take it.】

Topaz forced a smile.

【Is this real?】

【I'm actually receiving a gift from someone?】

【Not for my parents, but for me.......】

【Thank you, thank you so much!】

The guard grew a little emotional.

【Friend, don't get worked up.】

【I just want to ask you about something.】

Topaz explained.

【...... sigh.】

【I knew it.】

【What do you want to know?】

【My father, or my mother?】

The guard, hearing this, asked with a preconceived notion.

【Uh.... neither.】

【I just wanted to ask you — have you ever heard of death in a dream?】

Topaz corrected him with some helplessness.

【Oh, what you said is exactly what my father always says......】

【He told me danger is everywhere, and even in dreams you can't let your guard down.】

【He's a mechanoid, so the way he enters dreams is different from organic life.】

【If real danger appeared, he wouldn't be able to protect me in the dream, protect......】

【In this kind of thing I'm far inferior to him.....】

【Haha, how ironic, how ironic.......】

No one knew what blow this person had suffered,

but clearly deep down he felt very inferior.

【..... Friend.】

【Look on the bright side.】

【Gold will always shine.】

This person's mood was so low,

there was no way to get anything more out of him,

so Topaz casually offered a word of comfort.

and had no choice but to leave.

Star: "Wait.... I kind of want to ask something."

Star: "This is clearly a person, and he says his father is a mechanoid??"

Star: "Does that mean there's no reproductive isolation between organic and inorganic life?"

March 7th: "Is it possible he was adopted?"

March 7th: "So his mother is human, and his father is a mechanoid?"

Asta: "Since he was adopted, it's also possible both his parents are mechanoids."

Star: "Oh, that possibility is pretty high."

Stelle: "Anyway, I just can't figure out how a robot and a human could even have a child..."

The video continues.

【Su Leda's demon, the danger in dreams, the ghost of nightmares....】

【As expected, in the beautiful dream promised by the family, death is bound to be a topic people love to gossip about.】

【Although there are many rumors, the clues useful to me.......】

【Sigh, before I knew it, the bag is almost empty......】

【Let's see if this last lucky one can give me one more surprise.】

Topaz looked at the last few gems in the bag,

and set off to find the last suitable person to question.

He walked for a while,

finally locking his target on a Pepeshi girl looking at a billboard.

But when he walked up to this girl,

a dizzy spell forced him to drop to one knee.

【Remember what I said?】

【You Zlargonians belong under a manhole cover.....】

【Hey, look at you sneaking around!】

【Sniff here, sniff there—】

【—does the smell of death really pull you in like that, little Kong Que?】

This Pepeshi girl transformed in an instant, suddenly becoming Sparkle.

【Hmph.... so it's you.】

【I should have guessed it long ago — after the Robin died, the stand-in on TV was you, wasn't it, Masked Fool.】

Topaz struggled to stand up,

saying in a somewhat weak voice.

【I heard your family put a curse on you?】

【Sigh, I gave you such a direct hint..... go make friends with a mute, listen, just that simple sentence....】

【And the result?】

【Not only did you botch it, you even threw yourself in.】

【I told you to befriend a mute, not to charge in and become one yourself — what a waste of someone's good intentions.】

Sparkle deliberately said in a wronged, pitiful tone.

【.... What do you mean?】