"Listen you," Adam begin as his face turned bright red as he begin to shake in anger. "I don't know who you are but-"
"I am system 2235," 2235 stated interrupting him. "I am pretty sure that you heard Mr. Redwood call out to me earlier."
"I know that he might be blunt," Gabriel stated as he quickly made his way over to Adam when he realized that the man is about to blow up. "But he does not mean any harm. Look, I promise that I will give fifty thousand extra if you are willing to stay married to me and help out with this place."
Adam did a sharp intake when he heard that and he had to fight a pleased smile from forming. That proposal is very very tempting but what if it is just a ruse?
"Fine then I guess I help," Adam stated sighing pretending that he was annoyed about the whole progress but in reality, he was more than delighted about the situation. 'If it does turn out to be a ruse then I will just make sure that I just make sure that I will get alternative payments through this place.'
Gabriel could not stop the large smile from stretching across his face when the man agreed to his wife. 'That means I do not have to deal with the task of finding a new bride!'
Adam grimace when he saw how Gabriel's face lit up like an excited puppy and he felt a tiny bit of guilt for using this gullible man before shaking it off. 'In the end, he is using me too.'
"I am so happy that you are on board," 2235 stated truly happy that the couple was finally on the same page. With a wave of his hand, a large blue hologram appeared in front of him making Gabriel and Adam look at it in awe. "We now finally get started on fixing this place up."
"What is this?" Gabriel asked as made his way toward the hologram with interest.
"This is the progress board which shows the hospital's progress, tasks, and anything that you would like to view as long as you have a high enough clearance," 2235 explained before looking over towards Adam that stood at the same spot with a conflicted expression plastered on his face. "Please Mrs. Redwood come and check it out for yourself."
"Don't call me 'Mrs.' anything, got that?" Adam demanded sourly as he made his way over there painfully aware of how the heels that he was wearing clicked loudly against the dirty marble floor. "And can you please give me something else to wear? What is the point in wearing this if you already know that I am a man?"
"Do you have to?" Gabriel asked with a small frown finding the fact that he looked very pretty in the dress.
"Is that supposed to be a serious question?" Adam asked in disbelief before deciding that it was probably best to ignore him and focus on gaining as much information as he can.
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Ownership: Gabriel Redwood and Adam Redwood
Progress: 0
Rooms unlocked: Bedroom, one waiting room, and a patient room (101)
Task: Help five patients
Reward(s): twenty red crystals
Items achieved: One-star character card, Two-stars bronzed character card (2), Medical Kit, lover's room.
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"Twenty red crystals?" Gabriel mused as he flicked his eyes over to the system for an explanation.
"Crystals can be used to get some items that might be considered to be useful during your journey," 2235 stated as a red, blue, and white crystal appeared in his hand before tossed two to Gabriel and one to Adam. "Red crystals are the most common next will be the blue crystal which will involve having to deal with special cases while the white is a little rarer and usually comes during a life or death case."
Adam observed the red crystal that was given to him, it was as big as a coin and was deep red with what looked like tiny gold, teal blue, and white glitter swirling inside of it giving off a galaxy look.
"Look at this! It's cool ain't it?" Gabriel asked excitedly as he lean down some to show Adam the crystals that were in his hand. Adam nods his head in agreement as he looked at the dark blue crystal that looked mostly black with white, pink, and green inside while the white crystal was clear with light pink, orange, and blue.
In the instance, the crystals had disappeared from their hands leaving them to look over at the man who looked at them bemused.
"As much as I enjoy watching you two being amused by something so insignificant I will like to continue on as your guide." 2235 stated making the two a little embarrassed.
"So what are the items achieved?" Gabriel asked while clearing his throat, wanting nothing more than to get away from the subject. The man raised his eyebrow at that question.
"I am not sure how I am supposed to explain that," 2235 stated confused. "It is what it says it is. Items that are already yours, is that something that I really need to explain?"
"No," Adam answered dryly at his snarky comment. "However, how about a real name? Something that is better than a bunch of numbers."
2235's smile slipped for a second before it was back on before either of them realized it. 'Getting named by some human? I guess that all systems have to deal with something like that every once in a while.'
"Is there a name that Mrs. Redwood like to behold to me?" 2235 asked not bothered by the string of curses that came out of Adam's mouth when he called him that.
"How about Jovial?" Gabriel asked his partner as he patted his head to calm him down causing Adam's brain to short-circuit at the sudden touching.
"There's no need to touch me!" Adam snapped as he slapped his hand away. "And that name is stupid."
"Jovial it is." 2235 now named Jovial claimed as adjusted his tie. "It's a wonderful name just what I expected from the master of Rue Hospital."
'Fine anything better than what he was being called.' Adam thought before pointing at the 'lover's room.' "How about we check out everything we got then work on the patients? I refused to sleep in a dirty room and I'm pretty sure that nobody would want service from a place that looks like it is about to fall apart."
Adam might not see the rest of the place but he was more than confident that it was just as broken down as the bedroom. Gabriel flinched feeling guilty that he did not bother to at least tried to clean the place up before bringing him here while Jovial was not fazed at all instead he simply stayed quiet and choose to observe their actions.
"Very well then." Jovial said as the items for the lover's room and take form replacing the appearance of the dirty room while something much more warm and comfortable. The walls have light purple wallpaper, white carpet flooring, and a large heart-shaped red velvet bed that had white and pink pillows on it with two dressers on each side.
Gabriel whistled at how quickly the changes were made to the bedroom not at all bothered by the theme. When compared to sleeping on the old bed that hurts his back each morning, this was a step up.
"Impressive," Adam complimented clapping his hands at the magic trick that he had seen. "Now the cards."
"Do you wish to summon your servants?" Jovial asked while going inside his jacket pocket and pulled out three cards. "And if that is correct who is going to be the one doing the summoning?"
"I will," Both of them said at the same time before they look at each other in disbelief. "What?"
"There's no need for you to do it," Gabriel begin as he tensed up a little. "I am the one who brought you into this so I will be the one who would handle staff and the general responsibilities."
"Who are you trying to lie to?" Adam asked as he crossed his arms and tapped his foot. "You just want to do magic, right?"
"Of course not!" Gabriel lied through his teeth and pretend to be hurt by the accusation that was thrown his way. "Do I really look like a person that would do something so childish?"
"Really? How come you are not looking at me in the eye?" Adam asked again smirking when Gabriel flinched in response. "How selfish, I want to try to summon too as the victim who was blindsided by this wouldn't it be fair to let me do it this time?"
"….." Gabriel was speechless at how much of a hypocrite his wife was, Adam decided to take advantage of Gabriel's silence and went to take the cards out of Jovial's hand.
"Don't worry too much," Adam cheekily told the frozen man behind him. "I will make sure to summon some cool servants, kay?"