Labyrinth Restaurant

Lisa was asked to do me a favor by the elders, but the response was:

"I'm sorry."

That was a no.

Indeed, this old vampire must have committed a great crime once. But Lisa couldn't bring her to justice.

I've killed animals as ingredients and demons as vermin many times, and I may be more selfish to say this now, but the biggest reason was that I was afraid to get a life that was almost no different from humans.

But before that, just because you're a brave man in the first place, you didn't think you had the right to cut someone off.

And also the Demon King,

"I refuse"

And I told him the same.

Unlike Lisa, who was lost in her eligibility to plead not guilty, in her position as head of the Demonic Nation, he clearly has the right and duty to punish for his sins. If there was a man who broke the law, the exchanger had a duty to punish him.

So the truth is, the Demon King got lost quite seriously before coming to this conclusion.

This is unconscious for the Demon King himself, but he is unconsciously bound by the rule that "we cannot help others" by the things underlying his existence. Helping is limited to what I can see, what I notice, and I'm not feeling uncomfortable because that also fits the nature of the vegetables, and I'm not feeling bitter, though.

This situation was very troubling for that demon king that judging the elders, or killing them, was a help.

The ultimate criterion of judgment is the presence of the people of this village.

They will be very saddened if she dies, even though that is what the elders themselves want. So I decided to turn down the favor for the other people who admire her, not the elders themselves.

Brave and Demon King.

I was turned down by both beings who appeared over five hundred years, who might give me the right judgment, and the elders seemed to have been tempered and depressed,

"Well, then you have no choice."

Surprisingly, I was taking the result lightly.

It's as if we knew this result from the beginning. They said they turned down their wishes for over hundreds of years, but they didn't try to convince them or to resent them at all.

"I bet that guy says, 'Don't come over here yet'"

Or maybe it was too accustomed to giving up, but late, objectivity.

Thus an old vampire with a quaint fate gave up lightly on dying and getting easier, and decided to continue raw that could never end.

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"Sorry, you totally darkened the vibe"

The air on the field was completely darkened, but the elders who caused it switched moods early. Thanks also to the speed of that transformation, both Lisa and the Demon King were kind of out of their minds.

"Shall we go back to the hall over there and continue our meal?"

"... before I do, can I ask you one thing?

"Oh, what is it?

I'm done talking about the elders, but Lisa had one question I really needed to ask. When I heard the old story earlier, I realized it.

"Excuse me, would you mind staying back?"

That question can't be asked by the Demon King “yet”.

Instead, I encouraged him to leave the room, and where he was alone with the elders, I inquired.

"Elder."

"Yes, what could it be, a brave lady?

This is an important question for Lisa, but hearing it might break the elder's heart. But all this time, after figuring that out, I had to ask.

Lisa opened her mouth slowly after closing her eyes for the first time.

"Are you... were you and your husband happy?

The Demon King, although the head of the Demon Nation, is not born in the Demon Realm, and it is not even known to him what kind of race he is.

But from what Lisa had heard, it was that in the last hundred years since the Demon King became the Demon King, he had never aged at all. At least, you can't go wrong with being much longer than a normal human being.

Assuming all the other issues are cleared up and Lisa is tied to him, Lisa will almost certainly die first in less than a hundred years.

Even while you are alive, there is the problem that only one of your spouses remains young and only you are old and fading. That must be very hard and sad.

Besides, they may let the Demon King carry the same endless loneliness and pain that the elders have, depending on Lisa's decision.

Was there no regret that those with very different life expectancies tried to walk with each other?

Temporary happiness and much longer solitude afterwards. Which should be given priority?

No matter how much I imagined in my head, I didn't get a definitive answer.

That's why Lisa couldn't help but ask the "seniors" who had already had that experience, knowing it was a rude question.

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In response to Lisa's question, the elder answered instantly with a laugh.

"But I didn't expect to hear your husband's love story for an hour after that..."

The elders who rap about the charm of their husbands, who died four hundred and decades ago, and the days they spent together, seemed to have regained the youthfulness they deserved.

Later in the conversation, I felt sick of regretting inadvertently asking questions, but for what it was worth, Lisa came to one certainty.

Whether the race is different or the time to live is different, you can still grasp happiness.