[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-the-cleanup-crew":3,"chapter-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-924":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm the Cleanup Crew!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2286760,4472,"Chapter 924: 522 Forgiven Past and No. 0","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-924",924,"\u003Cp>\"You really...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the martial middle-aged man could finish his question, Prince Andrei spoke up, stepped onto the platform, snatched the hour hand scepter from his grip, then turned and walked toward the Queen’s seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Audacious!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the hour hand scepter—the symbol of the King’s identity—snatched away, the martial middle-aged man’s eyes widened in shock, and the entire hall erupted in uproar, voices filled with anger shouting and rebuking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop! Do you know what you’re doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Madman! That thing is not yours to touch!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Put down the scepter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guards! Where are the guards? Come and seize him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a nuisance…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shouting in the hall hurt his ears; Prince Andrei instinctively wanted them to shut up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since Filia had been taken, Atifé 01 wasn’t by his side, and he’d lost the ability to forcibly silence them, Prince Andrei sighed, walked to the Queen’s side, and extended his empty hand toward her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mother, can I have the minute hand scepter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the hand extended before her, the Queen on her seat blinked in confusion, then asked with wide-eyed bewilderment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who are you? Why do you look so much like my Andrei?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Andrei, Mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He showed more patience with the Queen than with the King; amid the clamor of the hall, Prince Andrei endured the noise and explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Think of me as coming from over ten years in the future. I need your scepters to accomplish something—can you give them to me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… seems inappropriate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a slight hesitation, the young-looking Queen—apparently not much older than Andrei—clutched her scepter tighter and shook her head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The minute hand scepter is vital. I can’t just hand it to anyone. Even if you truly are my Andrei, you must give me a reasonable reason. And how could you treat your father like this? Give the scepter back, or else he’ll….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh… What a hassle. I should’ve just left the scepters upstairs instead of placing them here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With another weary sigh, Andrei ignored the Queen’s words, rose, walked behind the martial middle-aged man’s seat, fumbled for a moment, found a clock with odd markings, and snapped all the hands to their extreme ends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Click.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the crisp sound of the mechanism settling under spring tension, the once-noisy hall fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Andrei stepped back into view before the martial middle-aged man, the King—still dressed as before—now looked ten years older, his face suddenly relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Andrei, there you are.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smiling at Prince Andrei, the aged King said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today is your ascension day. Once you take the hour hand scepter from me, you’ll be the next King of Krook. Come, let me— Huh? Where’s my scepter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Father. I’ll keep it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without expression, Prince Andrei turned and hurried back to the Queen’s seat, snatched the minute hand scepter before she could react, then carried both scepters down the platform and walked toward the metal spiral staircase on the hall’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if stunned by the spectacle of the Prince seizing the scepters, the seated figures in the hall stared in shock at Andrei’s back, none daring to speak—until the old King slammed his armrest, roaring in fury:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop! Andrei! What are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Andrei! Are you rebelling against me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Speak! What do you intend to do with my scepter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how the old King demanded answers, Prince Andrei remained silent, climbed the spiral staircase with both scepters, ignoring him entirely as he ascended—until…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re going to see your so-called sister again? The real Filia is dead! She’s now part of Atifé! Wake up!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if triggered by a keyword, Andrei’s steps halted at the old King’s roar. He turned, glaring at him with fury, as if ready to unleash a torrent of resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing the old King, no matter how enraged, still unable to rise—only shouting from his throne—he let out a bitter chuckle, shook his head, turned away, and stepped up the metal staircase out of the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after he’d left the hall, the old King’s furious roars still echoed from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Andrei!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Monster! Come back here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… come back! As my last son! If you return, I’ll forgive everything…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all this, what’s the point of “forgiving everything”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slightly shaking his head, Prince Andrei’s metal staircase slowly ascended, carrying him to the palace’s highest level, before a massive clock over three meters tall, its second hand ticking relentlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After checking the time on his pocket watch, Prince Andrei took the scepters seized from the King and Queen, slipped them over the exposed central shaft of the clock, and locked them into their corresponding positions on the dial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Click.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crisp sound of the mechanism locking in place—when both scepters touched the dial—the three-meter-tall clock retreated backward, then rolled clockwise to the right, revealing the hidden chamber behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Andrei?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Prince Andrei could enter the chamber, the voice inside made him shudder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weak, trembling call—echoing Filia, Princess of Krook, in tone but utterly different in emotion—filled the dark chamber: sorrow, shock, pain, disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you come this time to shut me off?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t mimic her voice!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds of silence, Prince Andrei said with disgust:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Atifé, this is my final warning: if you truly don’t want to be shut down, stop this nonsense with me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Andrei’s warning, the voice in the chamber chuckled softly, then shifted into a familiar female tone, gentle and soft:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How about the Queen’s voice? Among all the voices I’ve used, hers makes you most relaxed. At this moment, your patience is highest, and you’re most likely to give in to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do as you please.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if too weary to argue with “Atifé” over this, Prince Andrei snorted, his expression dark:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hand over your core. I’m taking it to Research Zone One.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice in the chamber asked curiously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though Atifé 01 was created by me, I—the imperfect prototype 0—can control no more than a twelfth of 01’s processing power. Since you now have the superior 01, why risk activating me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because Filia was kidnapped. Her whereabouts are unknown. But I need her to do something.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With no fondness for this “Atifé” using his mother’s voice, Prince Andrei said coldly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I’m reactivating you. I’ll redirect Atifé 01’s processing power to temporarily seize control of the entire Krook Kingdom, find Filia as quickly as possible. If I can’t find her, make me another 01.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1074,"2026-06-20T03:18:35.371Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","bfc2b11b1bc53fb4a4743b4d611d56b49fd63e5f092b68ca8e16cccbbc2bb734","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-925","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-923",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]