Labyrinth Restaurant

"Hey, I see something strange...?

And Alan, a young adventurer dressed in leather armor and with a long sword, told his companions next door.

"... oh, you can see me too"

Warrior Dan, equipped with a hammer and a large shield, answers Alan's question, but looks somewhere unsure.

"It doesn't seem like a hallucination from the feeling of magic..."

Eliza, the wizard woman best at perception and manipulation of magic within the party, activated the magic of perception by suspicion of some kind of trap, but without abnormality. This means that the sole in front of you is not a dream or a hallucination, but exists in the place with an entity.

"I can't help but look here - why don't you just come in?"

The little girl who talks in such a unique prolonged manner is Mae the Recovery Technician. He looks less nervous than the rest of his people, but he looks like this and is quite powerful.

What are they bewildered to see?

Sole was one restaurant.

There will be several buildings throughout every city, next to the entrance there is a sign with a picture of the dishes indicating that it is a restaurant. It is a very ordinary building with no weirdness whatsoever.

However, it will be annotated ”if it's all over the city”.

If, for example, there is such a building in the basement of a labyrinth dungeon, which is home to so many demons as they are now, in its deepest depths, which was just untouched until they reached it, it is a truly unusual and extreme existence without any infidelity.

Normally at the deepest end of the labyrinth are treasures of high value, although they vary from gold and silver treasures to powerful magical items.

Alans, the party is an adventurer who attacks such a labyrinth for a thousand bucks. We also have a track record of attacking several labyrinths before.

This time the main purpose is to investigate a mysterious labyrinth that suddenly appeared near a certain city where I happened to be staying.

The labyrinth is a cave, a tower, a mountain, or a forest. Its shape varies, but one day it is assumed that it is suddenly born on the spot.

Although the conditions for its emergence have not yet been elucidated, the common denominator in any labyrinth is the fact that treasures, demons, and traps become natural occurrences inside. Adventurers with as much strength as they can attack the labyrinth naturally often aim for the deepest, especially as there is a high probability that a value will emerge at the deepest end of the spectrum. (Theory is the one who doesn't have enough strength to build strength against relatively weak demons in shallow hierarchies before going deeper hierarchies)

But Alan, who has a lot of experience and knowledge, has never seen or heard of the ”treasure” of sleeping in the deepest part of the restaurant.

"... you want to come in?

In the meantime, Alan asks his buddies because he finds that even if he keeps thinking about it, it won't be obvious.

As for Alan, I'm personally curious, but there's a possibility of some kind of trap, so if there seems to be a lot of disagreement, I was going to make the decision to keep turning back "treasure” as a party leader.

"Well, I'm hungry to come in."

But Dan can be a fancy, or worse yet, a huge mess of personalities, and I agree with him.

"Well, if you're ready to get away with anything, you'll be fine."

Eliza agrees, apparently more curious than alert.

"I'm hungry, why don't you come in soon?"

May... maybe she hasn't thought about anything, just lucky there was a restaurant when she was hungry, it just seems like she thinks about it.

As a result, we all agree.

Adventurers in the first place don't work unless they're more curious than their arms.

So this result can be considered inevitable in a way.

Alan slowly opens the restaurant door with a sword in one hand when he confirms the opinions of his friends.

Then, the doorbell informing the visitor rang chilln chills, surprised for a moment by the sound, but soon realized who the sound was and restored calm. But...

Then I heard from inside the store, "Welcome! I couldn't hide my surprise from the adorable voice.

If there was hostility in the Lord of the Voice, it would have been a deadly gap, but fortunately the person, the little girl in the service clothes, instead of hostility, smiled and said, "Four, right? I'll show you to your seats!" I turned my back on this one and walked out.

Alan and Eliza, who were relatively thoughtful and cautious among the party members, thought about what they would do when they saw what it looked like, and stood still, but Dan and May entered the store first with Stasta rather relieved of a restaurant-like response in the ordinary city, so Alan and Eliza didn't have to follow either, rushing after them.

"Please take this seat."

The store was kept clean even though it was in the labyrinth, and the wooden table was polished out to the point of showing its face.

Sitting in the guided seat, observing the store makes it look like a very ordinary restaurant, no, not normal, but quite a luxury store.

A single sheet of glass with no cloudiness or distortion is used in the windows at all costs, and uncommonly tasteful conditioning, paintings, sculptures, sailboat models in bins, etc. can be placed around the store to ask for ideas to keep guests from getting bored.

"I brought you cold and sardines"

The supplying girl sat in her seat and looked around, pulling into the back of the store with a glass of cold water and a bottle of plenty of ice water in front of the four of them, and a clean cloth, saying, "Call me if you decide to order".

"... apparently not poisonous."

Hearing Eliza, who magically appraised her for the possibility that the water served was poisoned, Alan and the others mouth the glass.

It was confusing and I forgot, but sometimes my throat was thirsty for karakara and I just drank it out.

In the first place, clean water suitable for drinking in the labyrinth is precious, so it is impossible to be behaved like this at all costs. In the first place, Alan knows that water is what we pay to order. It is also classified as a luxury item in Alan's senses, such as ice water.

The mystery just keeps getting deeper and deeper, but there's no particular reason to shy away if you know it's harmless. Drink two or three glasses and water, then fill the handheld water bottle as well.

Aren't they going to charge extrajudicial fees later for a moment? I think back to thinking that if the possibility of fraud is a head start, but a fraud, I wouldn't do it in the back of such a labyrinth.

When I lost my thirst, my vigilance also faded slightly, and my hunger became strongly felt.

Speaking of which, three days after entering the labyrinth, I've only spoken about black bread, dried meat, and dried fruit that have been cooked hard to preserve well.

If you can eat decent food, I want to eat it.

When you open a menu that is hungry and moved and placed on the table, you will be amazed there again with them.

Normally, there are many restaurant menus, including boiled or baked meat or fish, and then even vegetables and bread and ale and wine and other liquors, but the number of items on this menu was not ten or twenty.

There are familiar dishes such as steaks and stews, but there were more than a hundred dishes in total, not seen or heard of, delicacies I had never seen but heard of in the wasa, dozens of different types of alcohol, and sweets made with expensive sugar. Plus, all at a lower price by the time this is unusual.

On top of that, the culinary name is depicted next to an elaborate painting that looks like how many artists of arms or objects have been sealed in the paper as they are, precisely because even dishes that do not know their name know what they are.

The mystery just keeps getting deeper and deeper, but I was starving even more when I was looking at the cooking paintings, so I decided never to order the will. Fortunately, adventurers have no difficulty paying because they are a good golden profession as long as they have strength.

When I spoke in the back of the store, the girl who was working earlier said, "Are you sure you want to order?" I asked, "so I put on the menu I chose for each one.

When the girl pulled back into the back of the store, she said, "Please wait a little while," she heard the rhythmic sound of chopping ingredients with a knife and stir-frying something, and something smelled delicious. The smell stimulated hunger and vigilance had at some point turned into expectations of cooking.

And...

"Thank you for waiting"

By the time the food was brought in, the same hunger had reached its peak.

I also forgot to check if it's poisoned. Carry the dishes each ordered into his mouth.

Then everyone was surprised too stiff, after a few moments...

"" "" Delicious (delicious) ""

And he shouted without expecting it to taste far beyond his imagination.

Alan asked for a white stew with chicken and vegetables.

I can imagine the flavor because stews often eat chicken and vegetables that are common as ingredients. I was also interested in dishes that I had never seen or heard of, but I was anxious not to know the taste.

For now, I thought this would not come out so unsavory that I couldn't eat it, but the imagination was betrayed in a good way.

"(This is amazing...!

While leaving a good toothpick, the soft-boiled chicken seems to overflow with flavor to tighten without any odor at all, and vegetables like carrots and onions have no bitterness or eyegrows to give it a gentle sweetness.

More importantly, white juice blended with the flavour of those ingredients, made from cow's milk, which had a wonderful flavour that was not even mentioned.

I can't wait to eat this again when I tear the white bread that was served on the stew and juice it up. This bread alone is a treat with a soft, fine wheat sweetness, but when combined with the flavour of the excellent stew, it led to unprecedented heights that lifted each other.

What Dan asked for was a dish that was cooked with pig meat seasoned with ginger.

"(Ugh!

of a violently appetizing smell. When I threw that into a slice, I was then disappointed not to even say it was a waste while I uttered the word.

The fragrance of the meat, the sweetness of the fat, the flavor of the spicy ginger, all of which are attacked by the illusion that the more appetite they stimulate and eat, the hungrier they become.

Besides, meat wasn't the only thing that tasted good.

Usually Dan eats only meat because he doesn't really like vegetables, so he is often cautioned against bias by his peers, but he was confident that he could eat as much onions as he thought he had sautéed with this meat or chopped cabbage with sauce stained next to him.

Eat meat, remove the fat from your mouth with vegetables, eat meat again, eat vegetables…

Dan himself no longer knew when this much-worked repetition would end.

Eliza asked for a dish very similar to an omelet made with eggs.

What's different from omelettes is that they have tiny, reddish grains inside, something that you think you've cooked some sort of cereal. In addition, it contains vegetables and chicken mixed with its grains and finely chopped at all costs.

"(This dish, wow...)"

However, the true value of the dish was not the abundance of ingredients, etc.

It is only when you eat the eggs that cover the surface of the dish, the ingredients inside, and the red sauce that is sprinkled on the eggs, those three elements at once, that this dish will show its true value.

The texture of the trout eggs, the rich flavour of the ingredients in them, the sour red sauce that tightens the whole, these are all united to produce the supreme flavour.

Eliza was unable to contain herself from being disappointed in the cooking even though she thought it was impossible.

What May asked for was sweets, sweets served in tall glasses with fruits and fluffy white objects.

May originally preferred sweets with sweet fruits and honey over decent dishes, but in the labyrinth he can only eat about dried fruit at best, and only mouth a small amount, given the amount he can hold as luggage. Sometimes since entering the labyrinth, I had been hungry for sweetness, but I had eaten with guts in a momentum that was arguably unusual even considering it.

"This is so delicious!"

The sweetness and fruit flavors are even more delicious when you eat the white fluff you have never seen with the sour red fruit. This is also delicious when eaten with crispy baked sweets the cold, sweet snails that were under the white fluff.

I was obsessed with eating around my mouth and my hands until the glass was empty.

In the end, they ate until the plates were empty, as if they had forgotten the first thing they were on guard, they changed because they didn't have enough, not to mention ordered alcohol and also ordered knobs, drank and drunk until the bottles were empty, not to mention even bought souvenirs, and left the store completely forgetting that this was the lowest level of the labyrinth, etc.

"... what about here?

Alan doesn't understand where he is when he wakes up, and raises questions. We reached the bottom of the labyrinth, found a strange place to eat, and then... then I don't remember.

The alertness, which was completely paralyzed, brings the head, but the tension quickly fogs.

Because I know where he slept, right next to the entrance to that labyrinth.

Demons never come out of the labyrinth, so it can be said that this is a safe zone.

If you look closely, your friends slept around.

Well, don't you remember, did we come up here from the deepest part of the labyrinth drunk and unconscious?

No, even though I know the directions from the deepest part of the labyrinth, which normally took three days to attack, it's impossible to return sooner than to wake up drunk.

Then what the hell happened?

What was that store in the first place?

What's the identity of that girl in the payroll?

The doubts are endless, but once the fellows wake up, they interrupt their thoughts.

I calmed him down by telling his fellow puzzlers as well as myself until just now that he was safe for now.

Though the feeling of mourning remains, for now we decide to head to a nearby town because the initial objective, the attack of the labyrinth, is complete.

On that road...

"What the hell was that, that store?

Mouth a question Alan doesn't know how many times.

"Were you all dreaming the same dream?

Returns reasoning that Dan wouldn't even believe in himself.

"But here it is."

Show everyone the cardboard box that Eliza has in her luggage, the souvenir that I remember purchasing, and the box with the food to take home. There is no line of dreams because there is physical evidence.

"I'm not sure, but I'd love to eat again ~"

And, May returns the uneven answer.

"Well, if you don't understand, why don't you go back and see for yourself?"

They say in such an easygoing manner somewhere.

Because they can't beat anyone if they're curious about adventurers, the unknown.

Any time I solved the mystery of the treasure, I was determined to go back to town.