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- David, do we have any plans for today?
- Nah...
I shook my head, and finally finished making breakfast and started putting it on plates.
- ...I thought we'll spend another day at home today, then we'll go to the Clan, check how things are going there and work there. Maybe change direction a little, since the training chips still need your attention...
- Mm-hmm... I'll invite an acquaintance?
I shrugged.
- Invite her over. I don't mind, just let me know if there's anything I need to cook, or if this friend is coming over for lunch or dinner....
Judy's eyes lit up again, and then faded again, and she approached the bar.
- Are we eating here tonight?
- No...
I shook my head.
- We'll eat here, like we almost always do in the dining room. Now I'll load our breakfast into the food lift and that's it.....
- Okay. I've invited Maiko, she'll be here closer to lunch. So it would be best to have something prepared for the extra guest....
I nodded a couple of times.
- Okay, I will.
- You're the best!
Judy quickly climbed over the bar and kissed me on the lips. She pulled away from me quite quickly and jumped over the bar in the opposite direction and walked towards the stairs, wiggling her ass appetisingly.
- Damn...
- Yeah... she's so...
Lucy was next to me, though I hadn't forgotten she was on the ground floor, so I wasn't too surprised.
- What are you doing here?
- I thought I'd give you a little help.
Lucy started to help me carry my breakfast into the lift and I could see she was a bit uncomfortable.
- Lucy, what's wrong?
- Well... it's just that, frankly speaking, I've been thinking recently... how normal is it that in our crazy company, which threatens to turn into one crazy family, the only man is cooking?
- Normal...
I shrugged.
- ...it's better to cook for the one who is better at it, and it's also good that this reasonable person likes it....
I was provocatively silent.
- Well, we're in luck here.
I glanced at Lucy, who was looking at me with laughing eyes.
- What, did you want a dramatic pause?
- Well... yeah.
I didn't see the point in denying the obvious.
- But, as you can see, it didn't work...
- Well, if I didn't know you better, I'd believe you were angry that you had to do the cooking. But...
She grinned.
- ...you know, remembering how spirited you look when you cook, especially if you're grilling kebabs outdoors, I just can't believe you don't like it.
Now I'm grinning too.
- That's right.
We loaded up all the breakfast and closing the lift door I pressed the button for it to take it all up to the dining room, where Lucy and I headed.
- But you know...I'd like to learn to cook.....
- Well, if you want to, we can cook dinner together.
- What are you two talking about?
Becca, who was already sitting at the table where all the other girls were already gathered, looked at me and Lucy, who was coming up after me, with interest and a certain amount of jealousy.
- It's just that I offered to help David with the cooking.
- You don't know how to...
- Well, I'm not going to let her cook anything complicated, we'll start with something simple... cutting food... stirring... nothing complicated.
- Right.
And we got a very suspicious look.
- What's clear to you?
- Are you trying to get ahead of me too?
- Who knows?
Lucy grinned and walked with me to the hoist, from which she took the food out and began to help me set it on the table. And the chatter quickly subsides as the girls start just exuding the urge to pounce on the food as soon as possible....
- Enjoy your meal.
- Mm-hmm.
It sounded extremely synchronised and the girls immediately pounced on the food. Literally devouring it. And it made me feel good about myself.
- Look, we're gonna get so fat.
- No.
I shook my head.
- You won't get fat, we're too active and intense. By the way, I've found a funny thing here that went out of date forty years ago....
- Hmm?
- Well, I'm still looking for that shooting gallery I promised Becca, but so far I've come up empty, but I found something that might be a lot more interesting.
- And what did you find?
- Old virtual reality pods.
- What's so interesting about them?
All the girls looked at me with great interest.
- The thing is that in addition to the function of actually immersing in virtual reality, they had the function of maintaining muscle tone.
The girls silently digested my words.
- You mean...
- Yes...
I nodded to Becca.
- If we reprogrammed this capsule and used it as a shooting gallery instead of a virtual toy... It could be just as good as that shooting gallery. Just imagine, combining a virtual capsule that can act on muscles and connect through a socket. We could make such a shooting gallery!
I shook my head.
- We'll be able to practice anything we want!
- You could put my idea in there, too....
Judy thoughtfully bit the nail on her right thumb.
- ...if you change the polarities of the connections a little, tweak the perception and data transmission....
- Exactly.
I grinned.
- I think I'm gonna order six of these capsules soon. And once you've cracked the chips, we'll be upgrading them beyond Judy's project....
- Hmm...
The Ranershis looked at each other. I could see that they were all interested in the project, as well as Judy's. And now they were literally torn between dropping everything and running to hack the training chips.
- Now, let's not get too frantic, walks and food. I don't want you to get all gaunt and zombie-like.
- I mean, food's fine. No one in their right mind would turn down the delicious food you make. But walking?
- You have to keep fit.
I shrugged.
- Well... I think our exercise together will be enough for me... and I think Kiwi will be happy to do it as often as possible.
- Hey hey! You're not the only ones who want to have sex with David! So there's nothing to say here about how excited you are about these 'workouts' and say you're ready for more of them!
Panam glared unhappily at Judy.
- Actually, we're here too...
Becca raised her voice, which was slightly disgruntled at being left out of the sex talk with me.
- Of course we're here, but the problem is that you and I never got into bed with David, so they're ignoring us for now....
Lucy's been a little more restrained in that regard...
And that's when Lucy chose to get up from her seat and sit on my lap and kiss me on the lips.
- ...so, personally, I intend to change this state of affairs as soon as possible, especially for me, as a ranger, 'training' to keep fit is very useful.
- Tsk.
- So...
I took Lucy off my lap and sat her down beside me, while she hugged my arm obviously not intending to let me go far away from her.
- ...enough of this tit-fighting. It's pointless and thankless. You better plan your day. I'll try Regina and Bestia for orders. Of course, they won't be able to do combat orders now, but in terms of weapons repair and maintenance, they can be a go-between....
- What, are you afraid you're gonna blow all your money in a month?
- Becca, I'm just being reasonable about our spending... and so far, despite our best judgement, we have items such as: 'major unplanned expenses.' Those training chips were VERY expensive. I expected to have to pay for everything as much as one cost... but as you can see.....
I shrugged.
- Yes, we sold the information to our fixers, we were able to recoup some of the costs, and we raised our reputation in their eyes, as we did not demand anything, letting them determine the value of this information for them... But even so, our coffers are rather poorly filled... and even the fact that we cleaned up the accounts of one scum did not make us much richer.
- Your coffers... ours are properly filled... and all because one scum spends his money without asking us whether we want to invest in projects or not. And yes, I'm warning you in advance, I'm buying all the parts for my Brains project myself.
Judy looked quite amused as she tried to appear stern.
- No problem...
I shrugged.
- ...Your project, you do what you want with it.
- I'm good with guns, too, by the way...
- You're a good shot, but you don't know how to modernise it. Well, you might as well learn how to do that when the girls hack the chips. There was a tech chip in there, too. I think if you have the will, you'll be up to speed in six months to a year. Especially if the idea of pods where we can practice most of our skills comes to fruition.
- Okay.
My eyes lit up and I decided to dial Regina first.
- I'm not giving out orders right now... I told you that already.
- Yeah, yeah. I don't mean about orders, I mean about them, but not the ones you might think. I just figured since you're on break, the solos who work for you have a window. And since they have a window, they might want to upgrade their weapons...
- Go on.
- Anyway, I can offer my services as a gunsmith to maintain and upgrade weapons.
- That's interesting. I'll do a mailing to my solos, I think a lot of them will want to take advantage of this offer. What about the price?
- Materials plus a ten per cent mark-up as labour.
- That's pretty cheap.
- I'm not a corporate man who wants to strip the people around me of their trousers.
- That's also true. Anyway, I'll pass on your offer. I think some of my solos would definitely be interested.
- Good. (chuckles)
After we agreed, we disconnected, and then I dialled Bestia and gave her the same message. And she naturally agreed. But she still managed to surprise me.
- I'll send a couple of my thugs over to you, see what they're up to with their weapons?
- No problem.
- Will you give your fixer a discount?
- No.
- Greedy.
There was no resentment in her answer, but rather a slight sneer, mixed with understanding and approval.
- ...but I'm the same way, I won't even scratch without payment.
- That's right.
I grinned.
- ...in general, I told you my offer, you heard me, and now let me take my leave, we have guests planned today, we need to make something delicious.
- Yeah...I see what you mean...okay, I'll see you later....
- I'll see you later.
We're out.
- Okay, I've warned the fixers, so we're waiting for orders, Bestia threatened to send us her thugs to work on their weapons... so there will be work... in the meantime... Judy, how exactly do you want to destroy your friend?
- А?