Labyrinth Restaurant

"Good evening!"

"Oh, there you are, it's been a long time. Oh, are you alone today?

Some time after the sunset fell across the horizon, a redhead girl came alone to the Demon King's Restaurant. This is Angelica, a vampire girl who lives in a den in the human world.

I was with Eric, a vampire boy as well when I visited a few times before, but rarely is she alone today.

Alice, who welcomed me, noticed that and wondered.

"Yes, Eric's been asleep all summer with bats. As a matter of fact, the eagle was not long ago..."

"Oh."

Vampires are known among demons as powerful species, but their number of weaknesses is also famous. The same goes for garlic, silver weapons, etc., but I don't particularly like strong sunshine. That is, summer, when the sun is strong and the sun is long, is a gateway for vampires.

The Angelicas, whose blood as vampires is thin, don't get ashed in direct sunlight, but they still burn and sore like their skin burned if they were walking out on the surface in the summer, and drain their strength.

If you inhale blood, your health will temporarily recover, but this is what makes you stronger as a vampire, i.e. to your weakness, by vampire. It's like being forced to delude fatigue while drinking a nutritional drink to work if you like, so it's inevitable to take the limit somewhere and get sick.

It's not like life-threatening because of its strong underlying health and magic. It's a severe summer bat, but by the end of summer every year, half of the village is down.

Much of the work is done during the night, but some things like farming and caring for livestock have to be done during sunrise, so you don't go to the wax where you rest all summer because it's hard.

The older (although the appearance can be an age-inappropriate young man) vampires with powerful powers can't work all year long, not just in the summer, because they can really die, and the relatively younger generations of the Angelicas and their parent generations will be in charge of nature and daytime work.

Summer bats would also be inexorable, as they wore sun-drenched clothes that covered their bodies perfectly, very hot and painful soles to look after their fields and livestock in flames.

"That was tough."

"Yes, it was tough..."

Alice herself is not a vampire, but the Angelicas' struggles were well understood.

Vampires who live in the demonic world also have ideas for getting along well with their weaknesses when they take long vacations in the summer or work only at night.

Not just vampires, but species like snowwomen, snowmen and ice ghosts alike don't like summer, so it's a constant sight in the demonic world for them to join a clan and go on vacations up to Snow Mountain.

Conversely, winter is a vacation season for those who do not like the cold, so they are able to live properly. This is why you are familiar with Alice, who is in a vice presidential or presidential secretarial position in the organization, as vacation applications on grounds of race characteristics are to be accepted as a priority in the Demon King's Army.

If it was the demonic world, a number of races could work while compensating for their bad taste, but not in the hiding place of the human world, where there was only a single race, and I guess I had to work hard with my guts even if I let my body force me.

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"Speaking of which, Lisa told me. You guys want to work in this shop, too?

"Oh, that's..."

Angelica said words that unfortunately followed.

"Not until you're fifteen. Because your father and mother. And Eric's house uncle and aunt."

"Well, unfortunately, I can't help it."

Apparently, the part-time job I used to talk to Lisa was dismissed by her parents.

Anyway, if you just come to visit from time to time like this, it's a difficult distance to pass from the village like every day if you're going to work, and as her parents, it must be a lot of anxiety to put Angelica, who is only thirteen years old, to work elsewhere. Maybe it's because you work at the Demon King's shop.

As far as distance is concerned, laying down a transfer formation like an elf village might solve it, but it's yet another matter of whether you can win the permission to lay it from the adults in the vampire (when you're in an elf village, time rounds up the village elders with a mouthful to get proper permission).

Besides, Alice's position is that there's no strong reason to hire a minor without parental consent, so she wasn't going to say anything about the transfer team from herself.

"Well, if you're making money, you don't have to do it now."

"So is the money... I thought if I worked here, I might be able to cook like a demon king"

"Oh, you too?

"Also?"

"No, this is the story. Could it be that the food is popular?

Alice, who for some reason is a cooking teacher in the stream here recently, had that sentiment. Of course it's actually just a coincidence.

"Hmm, so what about this?

I can't hire you as a job. But I can teach you to cook when the store is free. May is the only current student, but you'll see some more if you want to take care of him.

"Yes, that's fine! Please!

Angelica jumped without one or two to Alice's suggestion.

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"Because of this, should we make something now?

"What, now?!?"

"We'll start with something simple, so you don't have to be."

It's late at night and there are fewer customers in the store.

All that's left is a regular I know on my own, and it'll be okay for Alice to pull into the kitchen for a little while.

"So, do you have any hope of what kind of food you want to cook?

"Yeah, cooking that works for the summer bat... oh, no, it doesn't matter, Eric, my eagle father is still in the summer bat."

This is Angelica, who is tuned on her own even in situations where Eric herself is not there. I try to blush my face red and delude my heart, but I interpreted it as if I wanted to remember to make it to my father like he said because the sweet person was Alice.

"Right, to the summer bat...... what crop are you making in your village at this time of year?

"Huh? Uh, pumpkin on cucumber, pepper on tomato on soy..."

Angelica remembered the state of the village fields and named the crops as she counted them in her fingerfolds.

"We keep chickens in the village, don't we?

Check for chickens after the name of a single crop comes up,

"Now let's go with an array that's easy, tasty and works for summer bats"

Alice decided to cook to teach Angelica this time.

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The next day, still early in the morning before dawn.

Angelica, who hurried back to the village from the labyrinth city, was now visiting Eric's house with a basin with a plate on it. The dish on the plate was remembered a few hours before, and I've just made it at home again.

"Eric, how are you?

"I don't have much appetite... what's that?

"Alice taught me, and I've been making this based on whether Eric can eat it too... oh, no, I didn't, I brought it to my eagle father because I made it and he had extra."

"Uh, thank you? Oh, Angelica made it!?"

Eric received a basin from Angelica, who was blushing for some reason, and shifted his gaze to that dish.

"That's kind of a different dish."

"I had a good taste, and your father said it was delicious, so I don't think it tastes bad..."

Angelica's father, who had a cooking tasting, was eating in tears with his daughter's first hand cooking. I tried to get my hands on Eric's share with the momentum as it stood, so I took a bitter blow to the body from my wife and daughter and should still be rolling on the floor of the house right now.

Aside from that, Angelica was staring at Eric with excitement and nervousness. As for Eric, he seems to be staring at me and I'm a little uncomfortable, but that's the usual thing to do, so I carried the dish to my mouth with a fork without worrying.

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"What do you think? Oh, if it doesn't fit your mouth, you can leave it..."

I can't imagine from the strength of my usual temper, Angelica asking for Eric's reaction in a fashionable manner, as if she were someone else. Sometimes Eric gets silent after a bite and looks anxiously at his face and plate alternately.

But that worry was worrying.

"Yummy! Yummy, tomatoes and eggs go together."

"Well, I was surprised at first."

Alice taught Angelica to fry tomatoes and eggs.

It's easy to eat even if your stomach and intestines are weak because it doesn't contain meat, and it's great for summer bats because it makes up for the vitamins and proteins you tend to lack.

Just cut and fry so even beginners can easily make it by just practicing a few times. There are some advanced recipes that contain other ingredients or use many different condiments, but this time it's not a problem because it's a simple one that can be made with just the ingredients that are in the village.

Fire-through tomatoes are soft and sweet in acidity and easy to eat, and even when you don't have an appetite thanks to the tropical palate of the eggs, they fall into the sultry and stomach.

Eric, who looked somewhat more pale and faded than usual, appears to have developed redness on his cheeks and returned strength and strength as he continues to eat.

"Oh, it was delicious. I'm feeling better!

"Oh, yeah? Good for you...... hehe"

"Thank you, Angelica"

"You're welcome, Eric. Well, I guess the eagle's going home."

It's almost dawn.

I went all the way to Labyrinth City to go back and cook, and Angelica, who was busy moving around all night, is scrubbing her eyelids like sleeping. But you look so tired, you look like you're having so much fun.

"Heh heh, Alice, I have to thank you. Now what kind of cooking do you want me to teach you?