This was a space located who knew where.
It resembled a laboratory somewhat. Instruments surrounded it, wires covered nearly the entire floor, and screens formed from Inherent Skills even surfaced on the walls, flashing with images and data from time to time. It looked remarkably high-tech.
At this moment, a visitor arrived in this space.
"Oh?"
The assistant to this place's owner voiced his surprise at the visitor's arrival.
"Isn't this the Chief of Staff?"
Rather than a voice produced by human vocal cords, it was more fitting to call it a voice emitted by a machine.
Its owner matched that voice perfectly: a bloated robot.
The robot was not a Crimson Realm Denizen, but a Rinne.
However, this Rinne clearly possessed an abundance of emotions. Upon seeing Belphegor enter from outside, it immediately sprang forward and began waving its arms around.
"To think the Chief of Staff would honor us with her presence! Welcome, welcome! Ah, although I'm not the owner of this place."
The robot's somewhat guileless tone made Belphegor smile.
"Domino." Belphegor asked the robot-shaped Rinne, "Is the Professor here?"
"He is, he is~~" Domino flailed his limbs repeatedly, then ran toward the deepest part of the laboratory like a little train, shouting as he went, "Professor! Professor! The Chief of Staff is here! The Chief of Staff is here!"
That overly loud voice was nearly noise, thoroughly infuriating the laboratory's owner.
"Do~mi~no~!"
Drawing out every syllable, the laboratory's owner emerged from the depths.
He was a mad scientist in a white coat and glasses.
The mad scientist cried out, and one of his arms suddenly shot forward.
"Click..."
Amid mechanical sounds, the mad scientist's arm rotated, transforming into a mechanical hand that abruptly extended. Its end became a pair of pincers, which clamped onto Domino's cheek