21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 183 - 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.

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.