by volume 1
I took on a shrinking posture. I could not help but laugh at myself in this situation.
I really am a good for nothing.
“So, please have a seat”
“O…Okay……”
I was led to sit in front of the counter.
How can I say it, but I was sitting right where the counter turns in a right angle. It was located right at the corner of the bar, if I lean backwards, I would touch the wall. Because it was a corner seat, so there was no other seat next to me, and thus, no one would come over here to sit. It feels like sitting by yourself facing the boss at the counter? Looks like it was specially arranged for me, who was a newcomer, by Seal-san.
This way I wouldn’t have to consider about the other people’s gazes and could enjoy my meal at my own pace.
Seems like she takes care of me quite well.
“Are you Seal’s customer? Haha, Although you’re an adventurer, you look kinda cute!”
Leave me alone.
Facing the female dwarf boss at the counter, I used an out of character, depressing gaze and looked at her. Originally, I was struggling with this problem……
“I heard that you are a big eater that would make us grief! This old lady would continuously serve you dishes, you can relax and continuously hand out your money!”
“!?”
Hearing the words from the female boss, I was suddenly shocked.
I immediately turned to face Seal-san, but I did not imagine that she, who was staying beside me, would have actually turned her face to the side.
She looked away! This person looked away!
“W…When did I become a big eater! ? Even for me, it was the first time I’ve heard this!?”
“……Ehehe.”
“What Ehehe! ?”
I will not be fooled anymore! This person is a demon!
“About this, I told Mia-mama that I wanted to serve an guest I’ve just met, so please help me treat him with hospitality…….As a result, the situation became like this”
“It is intentional, right! ?”
“I will cheer for you!”
“First, get rid of all the misunderstandings okay! ?”
She was a devil! Who said that she was a beautiful woman on the streets!
“I absolutely cannot eat and drink that much!? In the first place, my
“……The hungry me cannot use any power!……It must be because I forgot to eat breakfast!”
“Please don’t say such a script without any emotions okay! ? Anyways, you really are despicable!?”
It was obvious that you forcibly gave it out, now you’ve also forced me to repay the debt of one meal, what kind of fraud is this!?
“Ah ha, of course I was just joking around. I only expect a little effort on your part. Please enjoy the meal at your leisure.”
“……A little, huh?”
How experienced……
I tried to hold back my sigh and faced the counter. I carefully placed the menu into my hands, ignoring the content and first looking at the price was the main point.
Today the amount of money I exchanged was 4400 Varisu. Due to the fact that I defeated more monsters that my previous record and that it luckily dropped consecutive loots, today I earned a much bigger revenue than before. I usually only average around 2000 Varisu.
Although a single meal that cost 50 Varisu was enough to fill yourself……But adventurer’s equipment and items were rather expensive. Just even a health recovery potion would be priced at least 500 Varisu, so until now I have not purchased a new weapon. And weapons, itself, also include a reparation fee.
The current dagger I use also cost me 3600 Varisu. And it was purchased through asking the guild to lend me money. Although I have finally finished repaying all my debt including the defense gear, adventurers must consider the circumstances.
After all, I do not want to spend a lot, and save up money.
In the end, I just randomly ordered pasta. But even that cost 300 Varisu. Ugggh.
There were lots of tricks and fashions for cooking. Although it was my first time to eat at a bar, but perhaps it was because the shop had carefully cooked it well, so the price was slightly expensive.
After the female boss’s question of “Wine?”, I thought for a while, and then rejected it. Although I would not say any childish excuse such as I’m still underage, but after all it would cost a lot of money.
But I did not expect that the female boss would actually ignore my words and place a glass of brewing wine onto the table.
There was no meaning to asking……
“Having fun?”
“……Completely lost to the boss”
After eating half of the pasta, Seal-san came over to see.
I told the somewhat stingy feelings I had to her.
Her light-colored hair swayed left and right while she removed her apron, then she took a circular chair from the side of the wall and sat next to me.
“Don’t you have to work?
“The kitchen is very busy, but there are enough waitresses. And right now I have lots of time”
Can I? Seal-san used her gaze to question the female boss.
The female boss also lifted up the corner of her mouth as if she consented.
“Um, Anyways, I am really grateful about the matter in the morning. The bread was very tasty.”
“No problem. This way I also gave you means to work harder.
“……I’d feel that you’ve worked harder to sell is more correct.”
Facing the unexpected expensive dinner, I could not help but complain a bit.
Seal-san gave out a wry smile while she said “Sorry” and apologized to me. Hopefully, these were really her true feelings.
Then I chatted with Seal-san about things about this shop.
This
She only accepted female employees. It was said that people with various situations all gathered here, and the female boss would not care about what their circumstances are, and generously welcome them.
Then Seal-san was the same? So I decided to ask for a bit, but she replied with “Only because the work environment looks nice.” I thought that as long as it was with the same gender, the work should be relaxing and so I believed her.
“This shop, because it is popular among the adventurers, it is very busy. And the wages are also good.”
“……Seal-san likes rich people? Unless”
“Of course it’s a joke, a joke. And there are many people that gather here……”
After saying this, Seal-san raised her head from the counter and looked around the shop.
The dwarf that was making a pass at the shop employee and a waitress that easily handled the situation. Not only were there people smacking their lips at the elf who delivered the dish, but also Hobbits, who pushed the tables together, making a commotion.
Everybody was very passionate, lifted their glasses and smiled with their red faces.
“If there are a lot of people, then many would notice……that my eyes could not help but begin to shine and feel happy about it.”
Seal-san narrowed her eyes and said this sentence.
Suddenly noticing my gaze which had been staring at her from the start, she blushed and deliberately coughed a few times.
“Anyways, it is like this. To have contact with strangers gradually became my interest and hobby…… How should I say it, I feel somewhat touched.”
“……It is unexpected that you would actually say such a thing. However, I also understand this feeling.”
I also understand. Because when I came to Orario, I was also very excited.
Making new discoveries, th
is may be a privilege to the people here of this city.
Thus, when I was resonating with the words Seal-san had mentioned, suddenly a group of ten people entered the bar. Perhaps because they reserved it early on, they were directly taken to the large space that was directly diagonal of my position.
This group did not seem like a divided group of adventurers, looks like all of the members had amazing strength……
(Unn ——)
My heart suddenly jumped.
Like a sudden strike, what entered my vision was a blond hair that was shining like gold.
The detailed, fine and beautiful outline, giving out a feeling that it will shatter if it was touched, was almost more like an elf or fairy that appears in the stories instead of a perfect human doll.
The huge presence of her golden eyes was clear as a crystal, to the extent where people could not help but swallow.
Her upright eyebrows did not move at all, bring a calm expression to the beauty that was walking leisurely.
Within the multiple powerful individuals that entered the shop, the person that my heart longed for to the extreme, was indeed mixed inside.
I absolutely couldn’t have been mistaken.
Aizu Wallenstein……!
“……Hey”
“Ohho! A beauty!”
“Idiot, not that. Look at that emblem”
“……Gehh”
Once the surrounding customers knew that they were members of the
The placed their faces together and quietly whispered as if they were having a secret talk.
“That is” “……The giant slayer
All the sounds that entered the ears in waves all incorporated a sense of fear. Including, there were many people who whistled when they saw Wallenstein and the other female members.
As for me, I obviously couldn’t calm down.
I had never imagined that I would actually meet up with the person that I long for in this fashion.
W…What should I do?
“B…Bell-san?”
I should go deliver my thanks……nonono, if I apologize under the current situation, it would be viewed as a video material. And I should prepare what I should do in front of her. Should I say “I love you and please go out with me”? Calm down, you idiot. We are currently still strangers, how could you say such a thing?
I decided. I’ll first observe.
Anyways I didn’t know what the best thing I could do was. My brain had short-circuited.
“……Bell-s —an?”
Placing my red, blushing and heated face onto the counter, I observed the
Wallenstein’s position was directly facing me. I heard the sound of my own beating heart, and directly locked my gaze at her.
“Alrighttttt, good work on the dungeon expedition! Today is a feast! Cheers!”
One person stood up and took the lead. Because of my position, I could only see her back and could not see her face.
Afterwards, members of the
“ The
Seal-san, noticing that I was watching the
I understand, I absolutely won’t forget it.
If I come here, the chances of meeting Wallenstein will increase.
I, who had opened my eyes to the point that it was bulging, was completely immersed by Wallenstein’s words and gestures. At times she would give a wry smile to the wine glass that was pushed to her, at times she would converse with the vibrant female colleagues sitting beside of her, and also at times she would be like a small animal, using a napkin to wipe her mouth…….
Although this sort of hiding and peeking behavior was very disgusting, I, who had never known the multiple expressions Wallenstein makes, could only have my eyes staring at her.
Talking like that, smiling like that.
This led to my first time experiencing a weird sensation where even my heart was dyed red.
“Right, Aizu! Tell us about that story!”
“That story……?”
Whenever the name Aizu comes out from their mouths, my body will automatically stiffen up.
Looks like the young beastman sitting diagonally two seats away wanted to make her talk about something.
He was quite handsome and also had that feeling of a man……Even I, who was the same gender, also felt that he was very cool.
“About that, when we were heading back and accidentally let a few minotaurs escape! That last one, didn’t you kill it on the fifth floor! ? And also about that tomato boy!”
——Under a completely different meaning than before, my heart lost its calm.
Taking that and updating it, my brain stopped its activities as if it was frozen.
“Minotaur, was it the ones that suddenly attacked us on the 17th floor then immediately retreated once we counterattacked?”
“It is those ones! It miraculously ran hard towards the upper floors, causing us to desperately chase after them! They really aren’t considerate, we were exhausted because we were just heading back~”
If you have to use your own legs to enter the dungeon, then logically you would have to use your own legs to leave. Because there is no convenient way to head straight to the destination floor, whenever we, adventurers, add an additional floor, we would have to walk pass the same places multiple times.
Therefore, in the situation where you would head to a very low floor, you must be prepared for when you are heading there and for when you are heading back. Because if you head straight without preparing and as a result used up your strength, causing you to be unable to come back, it can’t even be a joke. For the
That was the summary of the information that I have heard.
When they were returning, they carelessly allowed the Minotaurs to escape.
Chasing after them, and finally forced the last one to reach the fifth floor.
Wallenstein defeated it.
Then, at the scene that person was ——
“Then, there was a weak little rookie adventurer there!”
——That was, me.
“That scene made me wanted to laugh while holding my belly, it was just like a rabbit being forced to a corner! Then it was pathetically trembling to the point that its face was still twitching.”
My entire body felt as if it was on fire.
To the extent that the inner heat could not find a single location that was not heated up.
“Eh? Then, how was that Adventurer? Did he survive?”
“Just when it was about to be finished, Aizu sliced the Minotaur into pieces, neh?”
“……”
Under the situation where even my teeth could not grit tightly enough, my nerves were already about to burst and was completely facing that person.
That person, frowned slightly.
“Then that fellow, was completely covered with the smelly cow blood……becoming a dark red tomato! Hahaha, I laughed to the point where my stomach is hurting……!”
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“Aizu, you must have did it on purpose ,right? Right? Please tell me you did it on purpose ……!”
“……No, there is no such thing.”
The beastman youth tried to hold back his tears of laughter, and the other members could not help but laugh uncomfortably, the others, that had listened to the story, also clenched their teeth to prevent from laughing.
“And? That tomato guy, actually screamed and immediately ran away……Haha! Our family’s princess actually let the person, who was saved, escape!”
“……Cough”
“Ah ha ha ha ha! It was great work! Aizu-tan, who made the adventurer afraid, was really moe!”
“Ha…. Ha…ha ……S…Sorry, Aizu, I can’t stand it anymore……!”
“……”
“Ah ah ah eh, don’t put up such terrifying eyes! That cute face of yours would be destroyed, you know?”
The
On the contrary, the place where I exist at seemed to have opened a large hole.
That place and here, it seems that the world has been isolated.
“B…Bell-san……?” Although I heard a female voice beside me, but the sound went straight through my mind.
Then they began to bustle again.
“Anyways, I haven’t seen such garbage for a long time, causing my mood to become extremely poor. He was undoubtedly a man, but he was weeping and crying.
“……Arara~”
“What a piece of garbage. What do you guys say, if you were going to start crying then you should not have become an Adventurer. It was really disgusting, isn’t it, Aizu?”
“……”
There was a feeling that my brain was cut off.
“It is because of these kind of people that our appreciation has decreased, I really can’t stand it.”
“Enough is enough, close your annoying mouth, Bate. Letting the Minotaur escape was our fault. We should be apologizing to that youngster that was involved in the unfortunate event, and we do not have any right to treat it as a conversation topic during our meal. You really don’t know any shame.”
“Yeah, Yeah, as expected of elf-sama, really prideful. But, what use is protecting that incurable fellow? Isn’t this just self-satisfaction to cover up for your failure? Why is it wrong to call garbage, garbage?”