Chapter 2: This robot can’t get away with it!

As my first job in this new agency, I have to escort a Prince as a mission.

I’m used to another kind of work, what a pain.

But that one pays well and I really need that money.

Thinking is not my forte but I’ll find a way to do it without messing up.

The names I go by are usually more scary sounding, like Vritra or Bashmu, or even the letter Schwa, but today it’s ARTEMIS.

A goddess of the hunt. Sounds fitting.

In this beginning of Fall, I put my leather outfit and my reinforced boots on and take my “bow” with me.

I follow the company’s instructions and arrive at the top floor of a prestigious hotel. The highest tower in the surroundings.

Unfortunately for them, with its mere 60 stairs, it’s not the highest tower in the city since that’s the Stargazer, twenty kilometers away but twice as long.

I’ve heard many things about this hotel, the Meritocratic, but I had never set foot inside before. That being said, I’ve set foot in many luxurious hotels for my jobs so I’m not really impressed by this one.

I thought the Meritocratic was paid by our agency to close their eyes on all our stuff, but two clerks at the reception ask me to leave my “bow” before going further.

This is ridiculous, I hate having others keep my stuff because I’m worried, they forget who has left it in their care and then someone else barges in and says that it’s their own very convincingly… And then they would give it to them and I would be fucked and this thought alone makes me want to cry.

But I follow the rules and leave it behind, not without showing them the scariest look I can before walking away.

I push the button for the elevator and finally get to the rendezvous point.

At the 60th floor, after a short corridor, there is only one entrance for the deluxe suite, and after knocking like I’ve been ordered to, I push the door and get inside the lobby.

Apparently, there are other people waiting there.

A muscle head and a head muscle? Both have short and straight blonde hair and they seem pretty friendly. It’s like they know each other, I can tell that because they’re murmuring into each other’s ear.

The guy is around 2 meters tall with 100 kg of muscles. Probably the kind of person who needs to get shot around 10 times in different places to get taken rid of. It’s almost like they have a “revive” skill in their character build.

The girl is the hot secretary know-it-all type with high heels and long glasses. A goody-two-shoes with pretty green eyes, who can probably name the 20 first decimals of pi backward in an instant if asked, and I wouldn’t be smart enough to tell if she said various random numbers with so much self-confidence that they can only be true.

They both wear formal looking suits as if they came for a job interview in a business agency but they most likely have Kevlar jackets hiding underneath.

I would like to make sure of it by feeling them with my hand but I realize that fondling someone else’s body without notice might seem extremely awkward.

I just noticed the back of an old man’s head floating above the comfy armchair, in the living room, facing the large window. The skyscraper’s height gives a great view of the city at night, and with the docks nearby, I can’t help but think it would be a great place to do my work.

Knock knock knock.

“OOF! I’m not too late, thank God!”

The last person who came in … looks outrageous!

What idea of fashion does this person have! She looks like she’s wearing everything she has found in a trash can.

Her oversized shirt is badly rolled up inside her skirt, and she definitely doesn’t know how to wear a tie, so why is she using one? And what’s that? Sports pants? Under her skirt? And running shoes?

That being said, her face is not too ugly, with her slightly curly and long black hair and her big glasses… She could look kind of cute after a relooking, and if she removed the baffled look in her eyes.

The ribbon on her hair and her earrings were the only ornaments that didn’t look totally out of place on her body, even though they actually ARE out of place for this kind of job, what the hell was she thinking?

“Your Highness, all your guests are here.”

The voice came from the unplugged phone on the low table, lying next to the armchair, on which the old man is dozing off maybe.

So, he finally stands up and approaches us with the help of a beautifully carved ivory cane.

He wears a very fashionable and expensive brown suit with waxed black shoes, and if I cross him in the streets, I would think he is some kind of super-skilled British secret agent, or a time traveler from a steampunk 19th century Victorian era, since he only misses the top hat, the eyeglass, and that fancy pocket watch with a chain.

“Four? So that’s the most they could send us? I know our budget is tight but still, they’re not taking us seriously…” he sighs. “Come into the living room and state your names!”

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Now that hurts!

“What happened?” Asks a voice nobody but me can hear.

Shut up! Because of you, parasite, everybody here must have thought I’m an idiot or something!

“It’s Abhi, can you hear me?”

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SHUT THE HELL UP!

At the other end of my earphone, a young boy’s voice is speaking non-stop, asking obvious questions and being an annoying brat since the reunion started!

Flashback:

“Good evening, Schwa, it’s Abhi, I just woke up.”

This kid is finally awake, but the reunion has started so I can’t answer that it’s already 9 p.m.

“I notice on the radar that you’re already at your job, should anything interesting happen, don’t forget to fill me in.”

“ARTEMIS and DIANA…”

“The top floor is guarded by 21 surveillance cameras, and the suite is a sort of high-tech fortress. It is the highest skyscraper around so you shouldn’t expect snipers or physical interventions. Look around you, is there a robot of any kind?”

“Yes…?” I notice the cleaning robot standing behind us and answer aloud by reflex.

Shit, what a mistake, I didn’t mean to speak now.

“If they’re going to attack tonight, it must be by hacking it. They might render the cameras useless and use the robot to engage hostilities. As long as there is only one, you don’t risk anything. I see on the heat signal that there are four more people around you, so maybe you should let them tank the aggro and watch from afar. By any means, don’t break it, we need the information it can give us, so if it can get immobilized, you should keep your rifle for—.”

Why does this brat need to speak so much! I missed half of the conversation now!

“Excuse me, your Highness? I did not follow the last minute, please could you say it again?”

There you go! With that he should understand that I can’t listen at the moment.

“Bitch.”

I smile.

End of the flashback!

This robot punched me in the back with the strength of a professional boxer!

Good thing I’m not the only injured one or I would feel like a clown, even though being as bad as that girl doesn’t sound glorious either…

“DARIUS, STOP!” ESMERALDA shouts.

SCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

That inhuman screech isn’t from the colossus but the robot. It makes my head hurt in addition to my back.

“If you break it too much, we won’t get the information! It’s definitely controlled by distance. That, or it has been pre-programmed before we came in.”

“The hardware is barely injured.”

“We’ll see, give me the time to plug my computer in.”

I can’t care less about the meaning of all that commotion, the only thing I can think of, is that this robot can’t get away with it!

And so, I stand up and give it my best kick on what looks to be its head, conveniently lying at the height of my foot. Not that I couldn’t do it if it wasn’t. My body is very flexible!

CRACK!

And now my leg hurts too!

But that wasn’t the sound of my bones.

“What the hell are you doing, you idiot!” says DARIUS who is holding down the body.

The robot’s head got smashed to pieces under my foot.

Unfortunately, that was the place where we’re supposed to plug the computer in…

“Don’t tell me you…”

I can hear this brat facepalm in my earphone, just by his bewildered tone.

ESMERALDA who was getting her laptop out of her bag took a few seconds to realize what had just happened.

“Hehehe…” I laugh awkwardly.

Now I’ve done it…

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