[OfficialRowena (Spector): You planned to create an intense storm and boil away the dome's air supply?]
"Is there a quicker and more efficient way to destroy the base without revealing Spector?" Adam asked in return.
[OracleRomy (Elysium): I'm relieved to learn that you have decided against such actions.]
"Their parents might be terrorists or involved with them, but those children are innocent," Adam replied.
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): That you know of.]
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): What do you mean?]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Surely, as the leader of a galaxy, you have heard how terrorist organisations use child soldiers?]
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): …]
[OracleRomy (Elysium): I'm assuming that's still a thing on Earth?]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): It's rare, but they do unfortunately exist.]
[LadyErkath (Aqua Primus): It's the same out here in the universe, though the Universal Senate has tried to put a stop to it.]
"Are they enslaved?" Adam asked with a frown as he continued down the street.
[LadyErkath (Aqua Primus): Sometimes, other times they have been indoctrinated.]
"Something tells me I'm going to have to deal with slaves in the future," Adam said with a sigh.
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): Why do you say that, honey?]
"Just the fact that they keep being mentioned recently- slaves isn't something people normally bring up in conversation," Adam replied.
[LadyErkath (Aqua Primus): You're the one who brought it up this time.]
"Good point," Adam conceded and just as he finished speaking, someone shouted from behind him.
"HEY! YOU IN THE DOCKWORKER OUTFIT, STAY WHERE YOU ARE."
Adam turned to see a security officer pointing at him while the people on the street stopped to watch what was going on.
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Uh oh, busted. Kekeke.]
[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): Better make a run for it, streamer.]
"Took them long enough," Adam muttered.
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Huh! He wanted to get caught?]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Confused.com.]
[OrangeeyedStace (Spector): Well, that would definitely get him a meeting with Fiere Lucent.]
[RealOtaku (Earth): That's what I said.]
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): OrangeeyedStace is starting to understand the ways of Agent 69.]
[OrangeeyedStace (Spector): What?]
Adam waved at the security guard with a wide smile before walking into the alley he just so happened to be passing.
"HEY WAIT!" the security guard yelled before running after Adam while he held his uniband up to his mouth and spoke into it.
"Suspect matching the identity of the target spotted in sector seven, I'm in pursuit, requesting back-up."
After Adam calmly entered the alley, he picked up the pace and dashed towards some sort of futuristic-looking dumpster and hid behind it while pulling out his universal force staff.
[HackerSu (Trillion): So he plans to ambush him.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Good plan. He can copy the guard's clothing after dealing with him.]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palaxia): A guard's uniform would certainly let him move around more easily.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): Especially since only a few people have seen his actual face and we know that security footage featuring him always ends up corrupted.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): I wish I had an overpowered AI when I snuck into places in the past.]
As the guard turned the corner and rushed into the alley, he slowed down and took out his sidearm before looking around carefully for Adam.
"I know you're in here; come out," he said as he carefully advanced down the alley.
"No harm will come to you; Miss Lucent only wants to…" the guard continued, but stopped as a blue energy bolt hit him square in the chest and he crumpled to the floor.
"Yeah, as if I would believe that," Adam said as he stepped out from his hiding place while storing away his force staff.
[OrangeeyedStace (Spector): It was totally a lie.]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): For all that guy knew, he might have thought he was telling the truth.
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Only if he's an idiot. Kekeke.]
Adam knelt next to the security guard and held out his form bracelet and as he did so, his dockworker outfit faded away to reveal his combat armour.
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): So the outfit disappears as soon as the form bracelet is removed, I guess that makes sense.]
"Scan outfit," Adam instructed.
The familiar beam of light emitted from the form bracelet and quickly ran over the unconscious security guard.
[[Outift scan complete. Please choose a name for the outfit.]]
"Flamyre security guard," Adam stated.
[[Outfit registration complete]] Spector announced before adding.
[[You can now equip outfit: Flamyre security guard outfit.]]
After Adam slid the form bracelet back over his combat armour, before saying, "Equip Flamyre security guard outfit."
The form bracelet began to glow as before and soon began breaking apart and covering different sections of the combat armour.
The different sections then began to expand and reconnect until they covered the combat armour in an exact copy of the Flamyre security guard's outfit.
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): That piece of tech really is broken.]
[LadyErkath (Aqua Primus): Any thief or the like would love to get their hands on it.]
After his new outfit was complete, Adam picked up the security guard before dumping his unconscious body in the futuristic-looking dumpster, after which he calmly walked out of the alley.
***
"The fuck was that?" Shalendra cursed in surprise as she watched Adam walk out of the alley.
The seven women were currently sitting comfortably on couches in the room prepared for Liluth while eating and drinking snacks that Andria had ordered the crew to deliver.
"Oh, that was some of Adam's tech called a form bracelet; it lets you copy outfits and equip them without changing clothes," Becky explained excitedly.
"I had no idea it could copy clothing that someone was wearing," Tessa said in surprise.
"Not that," Shalendra replied before saying, "I'm talking about his weapon."
"Oh, you mean his universal force staff?" Becky asked with a smirk.
"Universal force staff?" Keerla repeated before asking in shock, "He's a Universal Senator's bodyguard?"
"That's not possible; I've never heard of a Terran Universal Senator's bodyguard," Riniya stated.
"Because our race has yet to be given the privilege," Tessa said with a sigh.
"You're wrong, mother; Adam isn't a Terran," Liluth stated.
"Really?" Riniya asked in surprise before taking a closer look at Adam on the holographic screen.
"He's an Earthling," Liluth replied.
"I've never heard of such a race," Riniya replied before asking, "Is he from outside the known universe?"
"That's correct," Liluth replied.
"That explains his advanced tech, but not how you met him," Riniya replied while giving her daughter a suspicious look as she said, "but how can someone from outside the known universe be a Universal Senator's bodyguard?"
"You'll have to ask Senator Pevaphio; she's the one who wants Adam to be her bodyguard at the upcoming Universal Senate Supreme Speaker Selection," Liluth replied.
"Senator Pevaphio?" Riniya asked in surprise before saying, "she's never accepted a bodyguard."
"If memory serves, she's always stated that none of them meets her standards," Keerla added.
Riniya fell into thought for a moment as she kept her eyes on Adam, who was now walking along the street again, before she said, "I need to speak with Orym about this later, but for now I have another question I want you to answer, my daughter."
"Yes, mother?" Liluth asked with a smile.
"How did you and this Adam meet? All you have ever been willing to tell me is that you met him fifty years ago." Riniya asked.
"I did, though that's only partially true, as that wasn't the first time I met Adam," Liluth replied.
"Is that so?" Riniya asked with sparkling eyes.
She had, after all, been trying to get Liluth to tell her more about Adam for fifty years now and this was the first time that her daughter willingly gave up more information about him.
Instead of replying, Liluth turned to Keerla and Shalendra before asking, "have you managed to figure out where you met him?"
"He really does look familiar?" Shalendra muttered to herself thoughtfully.
"I was thinking the same thing," Keerla replied before adding, "Little Liluth did say that we've met him before, but I can't think where."
Liluth put on a hurt expression before saying, "I would have thought you would at least remember the man who prevented my kidnapping."
As she finished speaking, Riniya's, Keerla's and Shalendra's eyes all widened in shock before Shalendra asked, "him? The strange Terran who wanted to visit the university with his wife?"
"Ding, ding, ding," Liluth said playfully.
"He's married? You plan to marry a married man?" Riniya asked in surprise.
"Is that a problem?" Liluth asked while raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, it's a problem," Riniya said with a sigh before continuing. "Do you really believe that your father and grandfather will allow you to marry an already married man, not to mention a streamer, after what happened in the past?
You're the first princess of the Solarian Kingdom and widely regarded as one of the smartest people in the universe."
"And that's reason enough for me not to be happy?" Liluth asked with a frown before adding, "honestly, this is why I never revealed Adam's identity to any of you earlier."