Chapter 40: Hiroshi senpai’s girlfriend

After wandering here and there in the underground market, it was finally time for Xin to enter the technical division and meet with the JSDF research division head.

As expected, the building was quite magnificent. It was a business type building with glasses fitted all over its wall. Xin whistled and complimented, "awesome!!"

Aisen and Hiroshi smiled at him and said that it was just the beginning. He will get more astonished when he will see the inside structure of the building.

Xin also was getting curious about it and containing the same curiosity in his heart he entered the building with the other two. Yet again, he had to show his ID card to a security guard and let them check his backpack. After giving him a green signal, Xin went to the reception area and found both the cadets accompanying him were talking with someone.

A girl in her 20s, with brown hair and round glasses. She looked towards Xin, then turned towards the other two again.

"Is he the one you two were talking about?" asked the girl sitting at the reception table, while adjusting her glasses from the right side rim.

"Yes, yes. He is the one!!" both of them replied at once.

The girl was a little startled by seeing their excitement and asked Xin to present her his ID card.

"Oh, sure. Here," Xin handed over his ID card and waited for the explosion to get triggered.

The receptionist took the card casually and had a look at its content.

"Umm…. Name of this boy Xin, MVIP guest, signed by Yamamo….."

She instantly stopped muttering and looked at Xin with her eyes widened.

"Aaaa….An MVIP guest?!!" exclaimed the receptionist.

On the side Aisen and Hiroshi were laughing to their heart content and were enjoying the live face slapping scene before their eyes.

The girl clenched her fist and shouted, "Cadet Aisen, Cadet Hiroshi, why didn't you tell me that you have brought an MVIP guest with you? Hmph!! I won't talk with you for a week."

Meanwhile Xin, 'Am I the only one who is getting this feeling, or this girl is your typical tsundere type character?'

While he was thinking about this, the receptionist turned around Xin and glared at him like he had committed any crime.

"Hmph!! I won't talk with you too. How dare you trick me like that?!"

She stood up from her chair and went out of the building towards the botanical park of the underground city.

Xin was totally clueless on what to do thereafter. He just entered the building and showed his ID card as asked by the receptionist. God knows what made the girl angry, and she left the building.

He turned towards Aisen and pointed his finger towards the outside direction, asking him what to do now. Aisen nodded and pushed Hiroshi to go after the receptionist.

Hiroshi looked towards Aisen and slowly whispered, "What about Mr. Xin?"

Aisen didn't reply and instead placed his hand on his chest, conveying leave it to me, don't worry.

Hiroshi nodded again and ran after the girl towards the botanical garden of the underground city. Xin somewhat understood what was going on there and what's the relation between those two.

All this time he was giggling inside and once they left Xin couldn't contain himself and asked, "So she is Hiroshi senpai's girlfriend?"

"Pfft, hehehe," Aisen burst out and started to laugh.

Seeing Aisen laughing without any control, Xin too got caught up in it and joined him in his laughter. After laughing to their heart's content, Aisen gradually stopped and told Xin about Hiroshi's girlfriend, Aka the receptionist.

Her name was Takaki Chihiro, and she indeed was a real tsundere character.

"Oh~~!!" Xin exclaimed and began to ask questions about those two. Aisen started to tell Xin about those two and at the same time was leading him to the upper floor where they needed his help.

After some time of talking, Xin got the information that both of them started to date each other one year back, and entered into a relationship some months ago.

Aisen was gonna tell him some other interesting things about the couple when his phone began to ring and he excused himself from there. Before going, he showed the way to the Software Research and Development room to Xin and asked him to head inside without him. Xin nodded and went in the direction as instructed by Aisen.

"So this one is the SRD room," Xin murmured and barged inside the room without knocking or asking for permission.

Inside of the room was pitch dark, only some computers were on and a big monitor was hanged at a distance. Xin went inside and had a look at the various rows of computers and desks. Not a single staff was there. It was weird as in a room as large as that not a single one was present.

After checking through some more rows, Xin went near the big screen and started to read the contents on it. Since it was a pain to read everything while standing, he sat on the chair nearby and continued his read of the contents.

Fifteen minutes later, Xin finished reading all the contents on the big screen and found out it was the outer framework program of Project SEDS.

The two big blocks of the program that he had solved earlier, including the third block, were the core logic program. And the program before him was the outer framework project.

When combined together it would create a seamless Operating System for the aircraft that's gonna be used in Project Space Exploration Delta Spaceship.

One more thing that he noticed was its complexity and unnecessary coding lines. While writing a computer program it is advised to keep use of minimum lines and make it as simple as possible to avoid any type of error later, but the program before him was filled with complex logics of multiple lines, that can be written in a single line or two, without increasing the length of the program.

"Mhm…. Line number 1052, if we change the X into !X and A+B into (++A+B) the program will run better."

"Yes, but what about the extra cache generated in it?"

"It won't generate, I can vouch for it."