Labyrinth Restaurant

Get off on a theater boat to the outer perimeter of the island, from where you can rest in for an entire day and a little bit.

The Alans. One line finally made it through the woods to the Koyama in the middle of the island.

The goal we are setting this time is to reach the top of this hill, but as you can see from what I dare describe as a "small", it is only a kind of slope that can be described as a larger hill, with precision less than four hundred meters in altitude.

There are no cliffs or anything else to be wary of falling rocks, more solid soil ground than poorly scaffolded rock, and cluttered wildflowers bloom everywhere. The more people who like to climb the mountain, the less they will feel. If those who are confident in their health are concerned about it, it may not be impossible to rush up from the mountain hem to the heavenly side for a breath.

But the purpose of this one is only to enjoy the adventure itself. The line took us on a relaxing walk and from time to time we climbed the mountain looking around and enjoying the view.

It will be because the altitude is not as high.

Near the top of the mountain was covered in flowers on one side, making it a paradise for small animals such as rays and chestnuts that feed on them and butterflies seeking flower nectar. The sun is pounding and warm, and even a nap like this would surely feel great.

The kind of carnivore you occasionally see in the woods doesn't seem to come up this far. Some flowers emit a unique fragrance that seems to divide preferences, so that may be the beast avoiding effect.

"Ugh, arrival!

It was a very slow pace, but by the time I said I started climbing the mountain after noon, it would usually be afternoon tea time, I'd already reached the summit of the mountain.

If you look back and look behind you, you have a view of the island that has come this far. I didn't realize it when I was walking, but there were also several rivers, springs, etc. in the forest at the foot, and the forest animals appeared small coming from the gaps in the trees for a drink of water.

"It's a nice place to have a view ~"

"I'd like to build a house like this in my old age and relax in the sun."

"... nice ~"

May, hearing Alan's strangely jizzy hopes, was blushing her thin cheeks for some reason. Apparently, he's also delusional about himself and Alan's future statue.

As for the image...... a beacon of log house-style houses on a spectacular high ground, the sight of May, who is completely old, and Alan, her husband, who has accompanied her for many years, relaxing and sitting in a wooden chair.

A relaxing and comfortable old age enjoying a day of knitting and reading.

In the flower garden right in front of us, a large number of grandchildren ran around fine, and they watched over it with Nico… and imagined it roughly like this.

Well, I actually haven't even been able to confess yet, and I have to say that the road is a long way off.

I heard that Alice, the master of Mae's cooking, was engaged to the Demon King, and I'm hoping to continue with that, but it doesn't seem to be going very well.

"Good luck ~"

"Work hard? Yeah, we need to work hard on saving from now on for a stable old age."

"... that's not what I'm talking about ~"

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Now, until four of the five of us reached the summit, we took our time thinking, resting or delusional, but only one, the wizard Eliza, was dazed and hardened with cold sweat somehow nervous.

I heard other faces noticing how she was doing like that. If even a sudden illness happens, you have to deal with it quite a bit.

Fortunately, however, Eliza's cause of tension did not appear to be attributable to ill health. Though that might have been better in a way, given the developments that followed.

She pointed to flowers that seemed seemingly devoid of any kind of philosophy, growing innumerable beneath her feet. It is a black and discreet flower that cannot be said to be particularly beautiful on this occasion, where cluttered varieties of flowers grow.

"... these flowers, they're called elha grass."

Eliza had been shown a slightly creepy tampon-like flower with a black petal color by her magic master only once a long time ago. They say this elha grass is traded at a very high price as a raw material for a certain spirit medicine, considered one of the secrets of alchemy.

"I don't know more about alchemy because I don't specialize in alchemy either, but I can make a medicine called" Kami's Psychotropic Medicine "from these flowers."

"... God's Spirit Medicine?

Even if you don't know the effect, it seems to be the secret of alchemy, a drug with an obviously awesome name.

I waited for the word to follow with a drink of Gokuri and Tuba, wondering if it was a great product.

"One theory tells us that even if the country perishes in search of this drug, there are millionaires who have run out of all their wealth and gone bankrupt."

"No way... immortality pills or something?

The academic research purpose of alchemy is diverse, but it is said that three of them are particularly typical: "refining gold", "exploring truth", and "immortality".

It would also be impossible for them to associate it with what they heard was considered a spirit medicine for the depths of alchemy, with a great name.

But actually, it was a little, no, quite different.

Hair pills.

"" "... Huh?

"So hairy pills. If you take that" kami's psychotropic pill, "you get hair."

It wasn't God, it was a hair spiritual pill.

No, it's not something I fooled around with hair-growing pills.

From ancient times to modern times, people will never stop worrying about the amount of hair they have, and not many people will want to spend a fortune if they hear that there are special effects that work on bald heads.

Nor is it a lie that there are bankrupt people whose country has perished or otherwise over this drug. It is the kings' commitment to research into the production of drugs that has reduced the power of the nation, and the ancient nation that was eventually swallowed up by its neighbors is real.

And even after the demise of that nation, Kami's method of making spiritual drugs was secretly passed down in history. The main ingredient, elha grass, is so scarce and expensive that it rarely comes on the market, but even in modern times, when it is auctioned off about once every decade, the royalty and nobility of each country compete at an awesome high price.

Well, it's a world that has no ties to the general public, and existence is only known among some big rich people and wizards to prevent information from spreading and prices from soaring.

"We'll take a little less of our share because processing will be left to the alchemist in office, but if we add up all the grown up here... maybe it'll be enough for a small country to buy the whole thing? Quote less,"

Amount you can buy a whole small country even if you quote less. In some cases, the word "small" may disappear from there.

Typically, Elkha grass is a plant that grows only one potpound in the back of an unpopular (one piece) mountain, and it takes a lot of work, time and money when it comes to collecting the minimum amount required for processing.

People often say, "The world is gold, there's nothing you can't buy with gold," etc., but that's a mistake. People's minds are often cited as examples of things that cannot be bought, but even those that fall into the category of goods are extraordinary.

It doesn't matter how much money you have, especially if you're rarely out there, popular, and don't have the coverage for the next opportunity to come around. Luck, power, connectivity, force and so on… In short, there are a few things in the world that money “just” can't buy. And this Elkha grass was also an item on that side.

But whether it's a matter of soil or climate, there are countless rare plants that are native to this place. Aside from the fact that even the five of us can't take it, it's even possible that if we study the growing environment in this place, we'll be able to produce artificial cultivation that we've never been able to because of the small number of samples.

"Oh, oh, my God, I just stepped on quite a bit...!?"

Dan is still upset that you've made him unknowingly upset. Alan and May were shaking up the same way without even being able to speak up.

While Eliza had been out of function since earlier, the other four were walking around without thinking deeply, and there couldn't be a well-maintained road or anything, so they had trampled and scattered nature and the elha grass growing around here. If I didn't know it was worth it, it was just plain flowers, but now that I know it's worth it, I can't even walk in a detour anymore.

Now, when we learned that we were in the middle of a blooming flower of gold without a tree of gold, Alan and the others held their heads. The troubles would be similar to those of the pricey winners of the lottery, by analogy.

What if you win the lottery and a lot of money rolls in your nostalgia?

What if I were to inherit the legacy of a distant relative whose name I don't even know?

The people of the world can enjoy such an imagination because it is highly unlikely that it will become a reality. If you actually get a lot of money, you don't even want to know it's not all fun.

In the example of the lottery, it's like the Alans picked up a big winning lottery ticket by chance this time. I haven't even bought a lottery for dreaming of a win, and I really just picked it up by accident. So I didn't even have time to be mindful.

Besides, it's not a cheap sum (if translated into Japanese values) of about 100 million or a billion. Even if you calculate it into a big mess, two or three more digits will go up. We can all play and live our whole lives at our leisure, even if we divide them equally. Rather, it's a level where you struggle to figure out how to run out.

"... what shall we do?

If the amount was less, I would have been able to afford to think about buying the clothes I wanted or new to better gear now, but if I made so much money so far, I wouldn't be able to afford to imagine exactly what I would buy.

Besides, be it financial or power, those who possess it are destined to take responsibility for it as well.

Assuming you auctioned a large quantity of psychic drugs made from elha grass on this occasion, naturally you said, "Who did?" "Where did you come from?" There will be those who will remember the question.

While seller information is basically a secret in that hand competition, there is no guarantee that the auctioneers who host the competition will keep their mouths shut if a number of powerful people exert pressure with that hand.

And especially if just a young man without power or the back shield of force is known to be a seller, it doesn't necessarily mean that there's no one out there who doesn't have the shorthand to "let it go," etc.

Honestly, I was in the mood to get away from this place pretending I didn't see it, pretending I didn't realize it, but I have a crowded monetary appetite with them. You can't miss your luck because of it, you just have to be on your way.

Fun adventurous mood and other fogging until earlier, the four of them poked each other in the face and shut up.

Yes, just the four of us.

Only one person on this occasion, Freya, was without any tension.

Because Freya also managed to remain conscious until she talked about Elkha grass becoming an ingredient in the medicine, but when the content of the story became a difficult story about how financial value, and the associated responsibilities, etc., she drowned and just started taking a nap.

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Suddenly, after about three hours since then, all of a sudden Alan and his troubles have been resolved.

"Well, these flowers have become the ingredients of medicine."

"Yeah, Alice! They say so."

I finally woke up. Freya called Alice by ringing the magic tool bell because she was hungry.

And Alice, who brought the ingredients for dinner and the tools, looked at them and Elkha grass and said:

"By the way, Freya. Did I tell you guys that this flower is a weed treatment that grows everywhere in the demonic world?

"Ah."

Yes, it is.

This has happened so often in the history of the planet that luxury goods in one area are sometimes not viewed as cheap or, in some cases, worthless garbage elsewhere.

In the case of the demonic world, Elkha grass had been native everywhere for a long time, but was no longer visible when it was found to be unsuitable for consumption. There are as many more beautiful flowers as there are for ornamental use, and one way or another they are treated as intruders.

Well, naturally it is common in the demonic world, and to tell the truth, the Elha grass that exists in the human world, when the previous generations of demon kings opened the gate and invaded the human world about five hundred years ago, before anyone noticed it, its cotton wool travels in the wind between worlds, and the object that is rooted in it is ancestral (as the tampon-like appearance suggests, it has the nature to fly seeds on cotton wool).

Much of that was never increased without the soil of the human world fitting, but only the cotton wool that happened to fly far from the human habitat to this island, with good conditions such as soil and water, would have increased so far.

"And that means ~ …"

"It's hard to say...... maybe the value in this world is about to crash"

Oddly enough, the general human race has been able to enter the demonic world for some time now. Some of them will know the value of Elha grass… or they have no reason to know, but just around the same time there were only a few human merchants who were stunned and ecstatic that Elha grass was treated like weed in the demonic world.

Instead of being troubled by the demons taking weeds, it seemed rather like they were thankful for taking the initiative and troublesome grazing.

More than Alice knew the value in this way, there would be measures to be taken, such as selling it for a considerable amount of money from now on and regulating it for take-out, but I can't say "I knew you'd give it back" once I gave it to her.

Thus, the scarcity that was or will be the biggest problem is gone.

"At least I don't know if this is the reason why people are going after their lives, or if it's the amount the country can buy."

Listening to Alice, the four adventurers, with the exception of Freya, fell on the spot like their whole body was out of strength. Representing their current state of mind, is it something like 90% safe and 10% sorry?

Nevertheless, it will still be months away in this world where the collapse of value actually takes time to transport supplies and communicate information.

For the record, Alan and the others succeeded in safely letting go of the Elkha grass they had collected following Eliza's master's handover at a time when the price drop had begun and they were deducted from the fee and the stopping fee, but ultimately they were able to make enough realistic money out of their hands.

And for the record, this island, which was an uninhabited uninhabited island, was taken from the name of the native herb and named Elha Island.

In later years, with the rapid development of marine technology, the island of Elha will be visited by tourists from all over the world as a beach resort in the South. On the first page of its history, the names of Alans were inscribed as the discoverers of the honorable island.

However, it seemed that they, as individuals, had become an unpleasant black history of sweat and shame for useless calculations, and they never talked about adventure tan then, even if the rest of us wanted it.

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For dinner tonight, a teppanyaki grill overlooking the starry sky at the top of the hill.

Alice and Lisa brought the ingredients, tools, charcoal, etc. earlier, and morphed the holy sword into an iron plate for cooking, as we call it for convenience, but not iron, and all we have to do is cook and eat.

Sometimes it worked out somehow that I was carrying (wasted) hard work until earlier, and everyone was eating and drinking with a yake-fucking momentum.

Bulk intake of animal proteins such as cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, fish, shrimps, crabs and seafood along with alcohol, followed by a small amount of vegetables in your mouth as well.

It's self-evident that you should eat in balance with all sorts of things for your health, but being in a yak eating mode, they had made their immediate appetite take precedence over your health tomorrow. By the way, no one tries to stop their bulimia because that's usually the mode for Freya, who wasn't stressed out by just one person.

Well, it's not just about stress relief, it's also about fun eating in scenic places, which is why food goes so far. When I started eating, they even stuffed the meat in their mouths without worrying about how the meat was cooked, and they gradually regained calm.

"This is rice for fried rice - and this is noodle for yaxova - which way do you want it?"

"" "Both!

These fried dishes such as fried rice and yaxova are the unique pleasure of grilling iron plates that cannot be grilled. May will be in charge of this cooking, whose culinary skills have recently improved sharply.

Differences in experience will make Alice and Lisa more delicious to cook, but these outdoor dishes are among the pleasures and delicacies of making their own. I know that, so I seem to have just dared to give the ingredients as they are without lending a hand.

The main piece of equipment was finely chopped in hella with pieces of meat and vegetables that remained on the iron plate.

Add rice or noodles so that they are tangled in the fat of the meat, break the eggs off from the top and mix, flavoring them lavishly with the sauce you were using to eat the meat.

The cooking procedure is extremely simple.

I can't say it's pretty cluttered and looks good, but the burning scent of sauce intensely stimulated my appetite and everyone said they ate so much meaty seafood, but the next moment Mae declared they could, they started eating it as if they were taking it away from each other.

First of all it's fried rice, but this one smokes a lot of different kinds of beast fat, and I can tell it has a pretty wild heavy-duty taste. Something slightly scorched with iron plate heat seems to be a novel flavored pancake combined with the sweet and spicy flavor and aroma of sauce.

And it's yaxoba, but this one is like seafood yaxoba mixed with a lot of seafood flesh pieces. The seasoned base is sweet and spicy with fried rice, but my personality changed a lot because of the difference in ingredients, and also because of the difference in rice and noodles.

And because one person was in charge of both cooking on the same iron plate, and not least was drunk with alcohol and insane at hand, underfoot and sight, he was able to do a shimmering state bump between the two for an indefinite time.

Looking over the whole thing from the top, it feels like the three varieties of fried rice, horseradish and yaxova are mixed in gradient state from the edge. It must be because my cooking arm was drunk over immature, but I also feel clever the other way around when I get here.

More and more alcohol is going on because of the intense flavoring of gradient carbohydrates, and they're all starting to get kind of wacky.

The food was soon gone beautifully refreshed, but I drank a bunch of strong alcohol, and gradually my feet fluttered and Lu Rhythm stopped turning, and eventually I fell asleep rolling to the ground as if I were going to pass out one person after another......

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How many hours have you been asleep?

"... uh-huh?"

May, who has a tough liver against his childish appearance, wakes up to his eyes, and his friends around him. It was sleeping on the ground sprinkling the smell of alcohol.

May, who saw it, was as comfortable as the drunkenness that remained in his head pulled off all at once. Even though there is no visible danger around us, there is no danger that everyone will get drunk without the protection of the Holy Sword, as was the case last night.

In case the carnivores in the forest at the foot had come this far in a whim, it was also possible that they had all gone into the afterlife before they realized it. Luckily, there didn't seem to be any anomalies this time around.

"What happened to Lisa?"

They were supposed to make a safe bunk today, just like they did last night, but I don't see anything like that around. Maybe not so much time has passed since everyone fell asleep?

Well, we should do an analysis of the current situation after we wake up our people and make sure they're safe.

"Please wake up ~"

Mae, it might be enough if one person was awake, but she rocked Alan, who slept with a liquor bottle in her arms nearest by, saying that there wouldn't be much to be drunk about anything and rolling on the ground.

"... ugh."

"Oh, I'm up...... right!?"

And May noticed at the stage when Alan started to wake up groaning.

Southern paradise.

Colorful flowers beneath your feet.

Overhead is a starry sky full of heaven.

And it's just me and him that's awake.

Yes, if you realize it, there was already a great chance of confession, somewhat deliberately, rolling into this place right now.