21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 182 Visit - Part 2

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The hulking metallic machinery bore a distinct steampunk style. Although Jounouchi Hiromi wasn't too familiar with this style, she wasn't exactly a good girl during her high school days and had her own experiences with various non-mainstream art styles. She had even worn smoky makeup and leather jackets like a boy, so she knew that the object that just passed over her head must have been a robot.

Even though the robot's design resembled a high stool supported by four curved long legs and seemed rather wobbly when it moved, one couldn't deny the charm of its heavy industrial aesthetic. Feeling its presence up close inevitably inspired awe and admiration.

Despite her fondness for the giant, Jounouchi Hiromi still found it quite strange and asked Chen Yu, "Mr. Chen Yu, this doesn't have anything to do with necromancers, right? Robots and such..."

Jounouchi Hiromi didn't know how to describe her feelings. It was like expecting to eat a delicious chocolate cake, but when you take a bite, you realize it's not chocolate but soy sauce.

"Why can't robots have something to do with necromancers?" Chen Yu burst into laughter upon hearing Jounouchi Hiromi's comment, clearly enjoying the success of his jest, "Should necromancers only be associated with piles of bones and corpses, emitting an awful stench of decay and looking like overworked zombies, constantly plotting schemes or spreading a plague after decimating a city?"

"That's all prejudice! Of course, Hiromi, if you'd like to see what a so-called traditional necromancer looks like, I can conjure up a Lost Souls disaster in Tokyo, create a zombie siege or some other grand spectacle. Would you like to see it?"

"No, thanks!" Even though she knew Chen Yu was just joking, Jounouchi Hiromi quickly exclaimed in rejection. As one of the world's largest cities, Tokyo had a population of tens of millions; if Chen Yu were truly to do such a thing, he would end up killing more people than anyone in recorded history.

Being stopped by his girlfriend, Chen Yu naturally wasn't serious about causing chaos and thus did not pursue the topic further. However, noticing Jounouchi Hiromi's curiosity about the robot they had just encountered, he led her through the greenhouse to an open space, where a robot approached and then crouched down in front of her.

It was only when the robot crouched down in front of her that Jounouchi Hiromi took a closer look and realized that, while it was three stories tall when standing, it now seemed only about the height of an average person after bending its four long legs in a special way.

The entire robot resembled a rectangular box full of gears and bearings, mostly made of metal and wrapped in wood. On the side facing her, there was an intricate device that looked like a lens, almost like an eye.

"Actually, calling it a robot, its principle isn't much different from the clay doll you saw earlier," Chen Yu walked up to the robot, opened a cover on its bottom to reveal something inside, and motioned for Jounouchi Hiromi to come closer to take a look before continuing to explain, "This is the core of the robot, stuffing a soul into this mechanical heart provides the intelligence for this big guy, while it's powered by magic power.

So, in reality, it's still a magical construct; it's just a product of magic industrialization."

The idea of magic industrialization made Jounouchi Hiromi's eyes widen in surprise. She of course knew what industrialization meant, but had always thought it pertained to the domain of science, while magic was supposed to be mysterious.

Seeing his girlfriend's amazed face, Chen Yu wasn't surprised. After closing the cover on the robot's bottom, he led Jounouchi Hiromi to the back of the robot and pulled down a hanging ladder, gesturing for her to climb up.

"What is this for?" Jounouchi Hiromi didn't quite understand what Chen Yu intended to do, but still took the ladder and climbed up.

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After Hiromi climbed up, Chen Yu naturally followed and climbed up as well, then he pulled up the ladder again, turning it into a railing.

Seeing the railing on top of the robot, Jounouchi Hiromi had a guess about what Chen Yu planned to do by having her up there, so she quickly grabbed the railing, and only after she had steadied herself did she turn to Chen Yu, "Mr. Chen Yu, you can't possibly be thinking..."

Before Jounouchi Hiromi finished speaking, Chen Yu grabbed the other side of the handrail, and then the entire robot stood up.

The sudden elevation of the view and the vibration coming through the soles of her feet startled Jounouchi Hiromi, causing her to scream and nearly fall. However, once she steadied herself, she realized that although the vibrations kept coming, they were only from the movement of the robot's internal parts. The giant machine walked with exceptional stability, and she felt not the slightest shake.

This filled Jounouchi Hiromi with wonder, but after calming down, the experience of viewing the scenery from atop a three-story-tall robot was unlike anything she'd ever felt before. Her spirits soared and she couldn't help but shout happily toward the front.

Looking at the joyously uncharacteristic Hiromi, who was no longer the usual intellectual beauty, Chen Yu walked beside her, smiled, and asked, "How do you like it, Hiromi? Do you enjoy this place?"

Facing the mountains and the sea, Jounouchi Hiromi certainly loved this place from the bottom of her heart. But instead of answering Chen Yu's question, she turned around, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him firmly on the lips.

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When Chen Yu returned to the office with Jounouchi Hiromi, whose excitement had yet to subside, her face still bore an unnatural blush, and she couldn't help but adjust her clothes again. She also gave Chen Yu a reproachful glare—not that anyone had seen them earlier, but the sheer enormity of the experience left her somewhat mortified.

Still, having thoroughly understood her boyfriend, Jounouchi Hiromi found herself falling even deeper in love with this man.

To the ordinary person, he was a talented professor of surgery at Eastern University Affiliated Hospital, with hopes of winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine, having developed broad-spectrum anti-cancer agents that could benefit all humanity.

Yet, beyond his ordinary side, he was the immensely powerful Necromancer, owner of a vast private island, and possessed knowledge and powers far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

But now, this man was her boyfriend, who had already proposed to her, wanting to spend a lifetime with her... No, in the case of a Necromancer, perhaps that time can't be described using something as brief as a lifetime. Maybe the term should be 'until forever'?

Jounouchi Hiromi wasn't too adept with these grammar details and didn't know which adjective to use, but she knew one thing for sure—that falling for Chen Yu was the most correct decision she had made in her life.