Cyberpunk, but urban

However, Oscar only turned the two girls' attacks on himself. Soon Pamela started to yell in dissatisfaction: "I didn't make things difficult for him. It was Pamela who was talking to herself."

"Well, Philip, could you please cheer up and chat for a minute now?"

Oscar wanted to talk to Philip alone, but the old man seemed to be just like Ye Lan, unable to persuade his own little girls. In the end, he could only continue to negotiate with Philip under their constant attention.

"I'm sorry, but we were dealing with a twisted case in the district. The victims of the 'Eight O'Clock Circus' were putting on a crazy show just for their own pleasure. It was a carnival from hell and we suffered a lot."

"Look, I changed my body, and this one doesn't look right..." Parmelia shook her body and said to Philip.

Pamela and Pamela, just from their names, you can tell that they are actually a pair of sisters. However, unlike their current image of twins, the blonde Pamela is actually three years older than the silver-haired Pamela.

This good girl had her entire body bitten to pieces by a lion from the eight o'clock circus. Thanks to the status quo preservation box they carried, her head was saved. She then had the opportunity to use the Finisher Insurance that she had bought at a high price to clone her sister Pamela's body and replace it with hers.

"…You have a prosthetic body? But doesn't this appearance violate the Ethics Amendment?"

Her words surprised Philip. In his impression, the only way to replace the body is with prosthesis. But in fact, through living cloning, urban people can also replace their body parts at will. This replacement method is more restrictive than prosthesis.

"That's not a prosthesis, but a body part cloned from me. I bought a living body repair insurance before. Pamela's body has been torn into pieces. There is no other way."

Pamela said a few words briefly and then skipped the topic. She and her sister Pamela did not have much good feelings towards Philip, and Philip did not have the energy to care about anything outside the library.

Back to the topic, Oscar asked Philip his own question: "Philip, what do you think? Is there a connection between the library and the distortion phenomenon?"

It's not that he thought Philip would be able to answer it, but because Philip was the only one who had escaped from the library, he asked for his opinion.

"I don't know. I've never seen distortion myself. But it's weirder than anywhere else I've ever been. The master and the seniors there... turned into books..."

It's a pity that Philip, who was only focused on returning to the library to take back the books from his predecessors and master, had no intention of discussing this with Oscar at the moment.

Oscar saw what he was thinking and gave up the discussion. The old friend from Salvador thought about it and finally asked Philip, "Although this is unavoidable, his wife and children must be very sad at the moment. Have you comforted them?"

"No... not yet."

This time Oscar was really confused. This troublesome young man entrusted to him by his old friend Salvador might have many more problems than Salvador said, and they were much more serious.

"Why?"

“…Because I don’t have the face to do so.”

Philip's cowardly, hypocritical and unconscious answer made Oscar completely lose the desire to communicate. He sighed and said to Philip: "Get ready, our next stop is the library."

"……thank you."

"Don't get me wrong. I took you there only because we have the same destination. Besides, I have to fulfill my minimum responsibility to my old friend. Personally, I won't let a closer like you join our firm. You will only muddy the waters."

Just after saying thank you, Philip was rebuked and rejected by Oscar mercilessly. Even though Oscar was such a senior, Philip still refuted excitedly after being slapped in the face.

Pamela was so annoyed by his words that she couldn't sit still anymore. She pouted and said to him angrily:

"I'm too fed up to listen to it anymore. How did he say anything negative about you? It's just that our firm doesn't accept people who think like you. Don't be so conceited. People like you who are easily swayed by emotions are more unreliable than anyone else."