"Amazing..." Tina sighed in admiration, but it was only for a short moment as she immediately went back to her calculations, completely ignoring Zaldros who was currently flexing his strength in front of her...
Sadly for Zaldros, he was being completely ignored by Tina!
*Sigh* [Tina really never changes does she...] Zaldros sighed, but it wasn't a sad sigh of a person being ignored, in fact, it was actually a relieved sigh as Zaldros thought:
[Only Tina has the gall to ignore me like this, haha...]
People around him always overestimated him to the point of deification! Despite him being a normal person on the inside! If you removed the fact that he had overwhelming power that came from a mysterious source, an immortal body, and that he was the Overlord of a whole Galaxy, Zaldros was pretty much your average Otaku! (Yup... totally average! I mean what Otaku doesn't have his own Galaxy, am I right?)
There was this one time when Zaldros was excited because he got an invitation to a newly budding restaurant which many people thought had great potential. Even Zaldros who didn't really care much for food really liked their menu he saw online.
Sadly, as Overlord of the Octagrad, he had to pretend indifference as he majestically sat inside the restaurant as he ate while countless cameras and video recording devices watched him.
Zaldros was quite hungry at that time, and so the moment he smelled the savory Steak in front of him he immediately took a big bite out of it. To his surprise, the steak was incredibly hot!
The steak's juicy deliciousness and heat coupled with his nervousness due to being watched by the whole Galaxy as he ate led to him dropping his forked!
The Octa-net EXPLODED at that moment!
{The food must suck if it made Zaldros dropped his fork!} A Scythid commented on Booper, a social media site famous on the Octagrad.
{How dare they make him taste such slop!} Another Xerclodian hatefully commented.
The restaurant eventually got boycotted by a lot of people, Zaldros even tried to make things clear to the public by uploading an official video.
"The food tasted Good! If anyone dares to defame the sanctity of that restaurant shall pay to ME! The Great Zaldros!" Zaldros majestically uttered, which made the Octa-net... explode again.
{Such kindness and forgiveness! Truly he's the Overlord!} A Gulperian commented, completely forgetting the issue with the restaurant...
Eventually, people started to treat that restaurant as a divine place... now it's always fully booked!
Even Zaldros couldn't get a reservation now as he cried alone at the irony of the situation...
Sometimes Zaldros really wonders if he really is the Overlord or not as everyone around him takes respecting him to over absurd levels that even he couldn't control them!
This was why Tina was a blessing to Zaldros as he dubbed her "The only normal person around him"
"Zaldros! I have five more! Kill them... please?" Tina shyly asked with her gentle voice.
Well, she was as normal as they got on the Ocatagrad...
"Fine! Let's get started!" Zaldros confidently shouted as he charged towards 5 other mechs of the same caliber as the first one!
5 seconds later the Mechs all fell to the ground while Zaldros was still effortlessly standing in one place.
"Good good, if I add it here..." Tina was busily adjusting and improving her Mech's designs as she sat in the oval designed chair.
Zaldros made a caring smile as he looked at the busy Tina who was enjoying the newly found data she had acquired from watching Zaldros beat her designs.
[So Cuteee!] He thought she was quite cute when she was busy in designing...
Zaldros couldn't help but give in to his urges of patting her cute head.
"hmm? Zaldros?" Tina looked up towards the hand that was patting her head. Then she made a cute smile towards him.
[Uwaaaa!] Zaldros was blinded by the Kawaii levels she emitted. [I almost died there] he thought...
"Zaldros. Zaldros..." Tina suddenly tugged on his sleeve. Zaldros continued to stay next to Tina for a while as she modified her designs. But after 30 minutes of conversation, Zaldros couldn't think of any topic for conversation anymore, and so he kept quiet. But the conversation was halted as Tina asked him a question:
"Why do you always wear a helmet? Is it because you're incredibly ugly?" Tina, once again with her oblivious and innocent questions gravely hurt Zaldros' pride...
Being called ugly by his first love was indeed a traumatizing moment for Zaldros... And thus another trauma was added to Zaldros' pool of traumas...
"I'm not ugly!" Zaldros retorted as he took off his helmet.
"See?" He said while showing off his face to Tina.
"Woah... you're pretty handsome aren't you!" Tina brightly said which made Zaldros incredibly happy. [Maybe this was what true happiness meant] Zaldros thought. But in the end, Zaldros put his helmet back on as he explained:
"I don't know... I just feel this sticky and uncomfortable feeling when I'm not wearing something on my head" Zaldros answered Tina.
"I don't know... I just feel this sticky and uncomfortable feeling when I'm not wearing something on my head" Bop replied to Beep's question.
"Ehhhh, so that's why you never took off your face film..." Beep realized the reason why all this time Bop still looked like a white balloon because of the white face film covering his head.
"I'm more surprised you already removed yours! Don't you feel the sticky air trying to bite away at your face?!" Bop was surprised that Beep could handle the icky feel of air on her face.
"What sticky air? My face feels pretty normal though..."
"Y-you mean it's only me that feels it?! I thought ALL clones felt the same..." [Am I more defective than I thought?!] Bop felt scared as he realized he might've been even more broken than he initially thought.
"Bop why are we wasting time talking to this girl? She won't be of any use during the mission" Meiyu angrily snorted while she watched Bop and Beep talk so intimately...
[W-Who is this "Beep"... Why are they so close? Are they l-lovers???] Meiyu asked in her mind as she became subconsciously jealous of Beep.
"Relax, Beep can handle her own... I think?" Bop tried to convince Meiyu, who tagged along with him to do one of Soli or Mussolini's requests.
"Yeah! I'm not useless... I'm a certified 'fugitive' ya know!" Beep tried to impress Meiyu with the term fugitive as she thought the newly learned word sounded cool.
Meiyu, heiress to the Xia Clan, a large criminal organization stared at the oblivious criminal wannabe, Beep. All of her initial jealousy was replaced with a protective maternal instinct instead as she looked at the innocently oblivious Beep.
"Are you sure the two of you can keep up with me?" Meiyu worried for Bop and Beep.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sure "smuggling" some plant isn't that hard..." Bop laughed at Meiyu's incessant worry.
"Yeah, its just plants! How hard is it to get some plants?" Beep agreed with Bop's logic...
"Huuuu, fine, just don't complain when we get there" Meiyu sighed.
*Huf Huf Huf* "Why do we need to lug these 'Lentivo' again? Can't we just go through the gate? And not around the whole damn city!" Bop complained as he tried to catch his breath. The two girls in front of him were simply too fast with their superior physique when compared to his.
"The front gate?!" *Bam* Meiyu angrily hand-chopped Bop as she lost her temper at his incredibly stupid question.
"Lent is illegal in 53's area!" Meiyu angrily explained at the uneducated Bop.
*Sigh* But in the end, Meiyu's anger subsided as not many people in 53 know of Lent (Lentivo) since it was a drug only popular within Gorgrog communities.
People in the HPG call their cities by number, hence Meiyu calls the place they were at "53"
"D-D-Drug?! You meant narcotics?!" Bop suddenly realized he was smuggling illegal drugs right now as he thought: [First it was helping out a fugitive, then it was blackmailing a politician, AND NOW smuggling weapons and drugs??? Did I join something I shouldn't have?]
Bop regretted his life choices of getting dragged into crime by beautiful women...
"Yayy! We're both criminals now!" Beep gave Bop a thumbs up as she felt happy being in the same status as Bop...
Without knowing what it meant to be a criminal...
As the three were talking a square television-like robot floated towards them.
"Hello, citizen! I am HyperCop Version 23, Number 3372.
You can call me Policeman Bob, due to your inconspicuous attire and situation, I am programmed to operate a questioning procedure to you three, please answer my questions truthfully and with full honestly"
*Tch* Meiyu clicked her tongue when she saw the RoboCop, it was because as long as they answer the questions correctly, it would probably release them.
So she saw the HyperCop more of a nuisance than an actual threat.
[Why did they even make these things? Stupid Capitalist... Do they have so much money they just want to throw it away?] Meiyu angrily thought.
"Question number 1#: Are you currently involved in any criminal activity?"
[Asking a criminal if he's a criminal? What is this stupid HPG nonsense? No one that dumb could possibly fall for this...] Meiyu thought.
"Oh! Me me me! I'm a criminal!" Beep cheerfully shouted.
"Criminal! Must detain!" Officer Bob shouted.
"No no no, we're just playing games right now, Policemen vs. Criminals! See, I'm a Policeman and she's a Criminal hehe" Bop sweated as he tried to explain away Beep's innocent stupidity.
"I see... Program error, subject 1 criminality denied. On to the second question..."
[Whew... Thank goodness these robots are idiots...] Meiyu sighed.
"Question number 2# What are you transporting in those boxes?"
"Well, some illegal drugs of course! Not that I'll tell you though kekeke"
[Well, some fragile porcelain plates of course! We can't open them cause the might break haha]
"Oh no..." [Why do these occur at the worst times...] Bop realized as he cursed his malfunction.