Chapter 164: Surname
When the sun rose and morning arrived, Adyr’s Earth body prepared breakfast with his family, ate, and then headed to the Player Headquarters.
Once in his room, he changed into clean, comfortable pajamas and swapped his usual Crocs for the training shoes assigned to him. Just as he finished, a notification blinked on his wristband.
When he opened it, he saw that it was from the Player Administration Office. It confirmed the approval of the status request he had submitted earlier.
This kind of request usually didn’t take long. Eren, for instance, had received his approval the same day he submitted it. But in Adyr’s case, the process seemed to have taken a different route—more deliberate, almost as if it had gone through extra evaluation.
He doubted it had anything to do with Dr. Conrad, the psychologist who’d visited him. The request had been submitted even before the Cannibal incident.
There could only be one reason for the delay. And that reason made itself known a few seconds later when the wristband vibrated again.
Adyr glanced at the digital display. The caller was Defense Minister Henry Bates.
"Hello, Mr. Bates. How can I help you?" Adyr answered with a dry chuckle, his eyes resting on Henry’s image floating above the screen.
He hadn’t spoken to him since delivering the Cannibal’s corpse. Henry, for his part, hadn’t reached out until now, so there had to be a reason behind this call.