Chapter 78: Violet Rose.
Free time—a side effect of being a freelancer with few jobs to work on. It had been a constant problem ever since Dante switched to this line of work. Without school or a stable job, one has to be creative about the ways they spend their time, and Dante didn’t have many hobbies.
In fact, he didn’t have any at all. That’s what made the last four days excruciatingly slow. After doing what needed to be done following his return from Factory Town, the most he did was rest and watch some movies. He couldn’t even go to the gym thanks to all the stress he had put his body through.
’What do you think, Volcan?’
[How about going back to Mr. Sokolov’s place and asking if he has more jobs?]
’... Forget it...’
Sighing, Dante decided on a very long walk. It was a little surreal. While he was in a rush to upgrade his body so he could make use of VOLCAN, reality kept forcing him to slow down. He already gave it some thought and realized that, even if he were to get all the funds he requires, it would still take him months, or maybe even years, to complete the change.
Replacing one’s flesh with machines wasn’t as simple as switching the parts of a car, after all.
Dante knew all too well that, in order to achieve his goal, he couldn’t allow himself to get impatient. One slip-up would be all it would take for everything to blow up in his face. Still, four years have already passed with him barely making any progress, and just when it looked like he was making a big leap, he was forced to stay put and go back to a snail’s pace.
It was impossible not to be frustrated in such a situation, and that made the free time he had all the more infuriating. Every second he spent sitting on that power without doing anything with it played with his mind, slowly pushing him to a place he didn’t like.