Robot Protection Zone Chapter 90

William moved and came down to the living room with Didi.

As soon as he was given the contact number, Didi, with an excited face, immediately made a call in front of William. William sat on the sofa and silently watched Didi press the call button with a throbbing expression.

“Ah, Enoch! Hello!”

When the other person answered the phone, Didi greeted them with a bright voice, as if he had been waiting.

“This is Didi, do you remember me?”

A voice, which sounded like a man’s, faintly flowed from over the receiver. William strained his ears to hear the content, but being separated by a table from Didi, who was sitting opposite him, he couldn’t hear a single word of their conversation.

Didi exchanged pleasantries with the person on the phone, and a smile quickly spread across his face. William watched him quietly. The fact that Didi had built new relationships in a place he didn’t know was excessively unfamiliar.

“I heard you asked to meet with me… When would be a good time to go?”

Didi, who had been greeting the person for a while, cautiously asked a question. Then, after listening to the answer from over the phone, he quietly nodded his head.

“Yes, I’ll ask my master and call you back.”

Didi, who had finished the call, looked at William with a rarely flushed face.

“Master, they said I can come now!”

“Right now?”

“So, I was wondering, could you possibly take me to that house…? I was just staying there for a while after getting lost, so I don’t know the address…”

William remained silent and just stared at Didi. Didi, who had been asking with a bright expression, belatedly remembered that he had been avoiding William, and his voice gradually grew smaller as their eyes met.

Didi, who was glancing around, trying to read the room, opened his mouth again.

“You must be busy, Master, so you can just drop me off…”

“What?”

At those words, William’s expression hardened in an instant. What was he supposed to trust to leave Didi alone in a house like that and come back? In a stranger’s house, and especially with someone Didi was this happy to see, he could never do that.

“No. I can’t send you alone.”

“Huh? Then…”

“Get ready and come down. I need to meet the owner of that house myself.”

William decided to go along after all. If it seemed like the owner of that house harbored any strange feelings for Didi, he intended to take Didi and leave immediately.

After a short wait, Didi could be seen changing his clothes and coming downstairs.

As summer passed and the weather began to get chilly, Didi’s attire had also become much thicker. William paused as he looked at Didi’s clothes.

A thick cotton shirt and beige pants. It was an outfit he had once chosen for him.

In the past, he used to pick up and wear drab clothes that didn’t suit him at all, so he had to fix them one by one, but now he was quite capable of choosing for himself. It wasn’t just the clothes. Didi no longer needed William’s help at all.

Yes. William had no choice but to admit it. Didi was no longer a being who needed his touch. If Didi, who had perfectly adapted to the new world, decided to leave this place, this time he might really disappear forever.

“…Let’s go.”

William left through the front door with Didi, seen off by Sophia and Eve.

As he sat in the driver’s seat, he saw Didi looking out the window, his face filled with anticipation.

“Are you that excited?”

“Yes. I never thought I’d be able to meet Enoch again.”

William shut his mouth in displeasure, watching Didi casually and familiarly say another man’s name in front of him. He didn’t like that the other party was a human-bot, and the familiar form of address also bothered him.

The whole way to their destination, Didi’s face was full of excitement. He seemed happy just to be going to meet them. And this was the same person who wouldn’t even show his face to him, and who would get flustered and hurriedly run away if their eyes even met.

While a contrasting atmosphere flowed between the two, the car drove for a long time and arrived in front of a huge mansion.

William got out of the car and looked around. It was quite far from the city center, so the only sound to be heard was the leaves rustling in the wind. He didn’t like the strangely quiet atmosphere.

“Master, I’ll knock on the door then.”

William, who was watching Didi about to knock on the front door with a very excited face, leaned over without a word. Then, he bit down hard on the nape of Didi’s neck. As if that wasn’t enough, he chewed on it before sucking strongly.

“Ngh!”

Startled by the throbbing pain, Didi quickly pushed him away. In William’s vision, who had obediently let himself be pushed back by the negligible force, Didi, with his eyes wide open in bewilderment, came into view.

“Master, what…”

“It’s done. Let’s go in.”

Only after seeing the red mark clearly imprinted on Didi’s neck did William finally wear a satisfied expression. He knocked on the door in place of Didi, who had frozen in surprise.

After a short wait, the door opened, and a familiar face appeared.

“Ah, you’re here.”

“Enoch, it’s been a while.”

It was the human-bot who had told him of Didi’s whereabouts before. William checked beside the human-bot who was exchanging greetings with Didi, but the owner of the house was still nowhere to be seen.

“Would you like to come in? My master is inside.”

Enoch held the door open and guided them inside.

William followed him into the mansion with Didi. Is he finally going to meet the owner of this house? Let’s see, I need to check just how great of a person he is to be so hard to even get a glimpse of.

However, what greeted William when he actually arrived at the reception room was the bright voice of a child.

“Didi!”

And it was just one little pipsqueak who probably couldn’t even reach his waist.

Didi smiled brightly and hugged the little girl who was running towards him. William was dumbfounded seeing that. Damn it, was he jealous, letting his imagination run wild, all because of a little kid like that?

Hah, a hollow laugh escaped.

The human-bot named Enoch also seemed to be nothing more than that little girl’s nanny. It seemed he had misjudged, and very badly at that.

William, letting out a hollow laugh, plopped down on a nearby chair and watched Didi, who was laughing with the child.

Didi was genuinely smiling here. Just like he used to smile by his side in the past.

William tapped his fingers on the table and recalled what Didi had said a few days ago.

‘Did he say the problem is that he’s a robot…’

For William now, the fact that Didi was a robot was not a problem at all, but for Didi, it seemed to be the opposite. It was likely that William’s past behavior of always drawing a line, saying Didi was a robot, also had a clear influence.

He didn’t know it would turn out like this back then. Looking back on the past, it was nothing but regrettable, but he had even less intention of giving up on Didi like this. Now was the chance, while Didi hadn’t completely given up on his feelings yet.

It was time for a plan to win Didi’s heart back.

“I will bring tea then.”

While I was exchanging greetings with Amy, whom I had met again after a long time, I saw Enoch about to head to the kitchen. I also shot up from my seat to follow him.

“I’ll help too!”

I turned around to say I’d be right back, but my master was sitting in his chair, deep in thought about something. Thinking I might disturb him if I spoke, I quietly closed my mouth and headed to the kitchen after Enoch.

As I was preparing tea with Enoch and waiting for the water to boil, he struck up a conversation.

“Didi, have you been well?”

“Yes, and you, Enoch and Amy?”

“I have been well. My master, however, has been whining every day that she misses Didi.”

Imagining Amy looking for me, the corners of my mouth crept up without me realizing it. Enoch carefully continued.

“Didi, did you hear that I contacted your master first?”

“Yes… I heard.”

“You said last time that you left home because you were no longer needed by your master… but the master I saw was desperately looking for you. So I contacted him, thinking there might have been a misunderstanding between you two.”

I kept my mouth shut and lowered my gaze. Enoch looked at me like that for a moment, then apologized to me with a sincere voice.

“If what I did was unnecessary, I apologize.”

“No, it’s okay.”

I answered, shaking my head slightly. I knew his actions were for my sake, so there was no way I could blame him.

“Did you have a good talk with your master?”

“Well…”

I muttered softly, avoiding the answer. There had been plenty of opportunities to talk until now, but I couldn’t tell him the truth… that I had always been avoiding my master, so there had been no time to talk.