Labyrinth Restaurant

"You mean 'love', it's a special 'like'"

"Really?

"Yes, it is."

The Divine Son made a direct point to the Demon King who is not properly aware of the current situation, but the Demon King does not seem to come pinned. Besides, there was one big problem here.

"Well, I can't say much about wasps, either, because I don't have enough experience."

Yes, there is no such thing as a love experience that Shinko himself can teach others, so he can't speak well about the difference between "like" and "love" that makes the story creepy.

As an instinct born with rather than as knowledge, I can be sure that there is a difference between those two, but because I don't have the experience gained with it as a real feeling, the key part of what exactly is special is really going to get bogged down.

The Demon King is also the Demon King, but the Divine Son doesn't have a very common life either, so he gets in trouble in situations where experience is questioned rather than knowledge like this one. In that sense, these two may be surprisingly similar to each other.

"I'm in trouble. How can I explain it to you..."

"Are you in trouble?

"Yes, I'm in trouble"

"Really, that's troublesome"

He doesn't even understand what the problem is with the Demon King, and he just gives a blurry answer. But if he understood, it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

"Right, for example... do you know that liking food is not the same kind of 'liking' as liking someone?

"Yeah, then, yes"

To teach the ill-defined Demon King, now the Divine Son has brought up an analogy story.

In the unlikely event that food and people were on the same 'like' axis of reference, it would be even more effortless, or if they did poorly, potential psycho bastard suspicions that could be appetizing to humans and demons would be raised, but the boulder demon king also seemed to distinguish his preference for food from his interpersonal preference.

"That's how most people use the 'likes' type."

"Were you?"

"Yes, it was."

Most people, conscious or not, use a number of 'likes' types separately.

Like a favor toward a respected great man and a favor toward a good friend.

Like a favor towards a trusted subordinate and a favor towards a thinker is different.

In the case of the Demon King, the type of favor has not been successfully used in the interpersonal.

Or you don't even unconsciously realize that there are other kinds.

Come to think of it, that may also be natural in some ways.

Ordinary people grow step-by-step as they overlap their relationships with their surroundings in early childhood, adolescence, and adolescence, but no part of the process exists in the Demon King. Precisely, I don't remember that.

It was in any case far from a general life, whether it was the character of the current Demon King, when he was saving many worlds by crossing them, or since he came to the Demon Realm and became the Demon King. It is not difficult to imagine how much bias it would create from the standpoint of personality formation.

"This is going to be deeper than I thought..."

There are few problems if this was a small child, not to mention the correction is unlikely to be a glimmer, just because it has been done for years with this personality and has completely consolidated its personality.

Fortunately, this is not the kind of problem that immediately causes some trouble.

But in the future, if the Demon King later realizes that his opponent has not been favored in a romantic sense, not to mention whether Alice or some other "someone," that "someone" will be deeply wounded.

Even if it's 'like' it's not 'love'.

Not special for the Demon King, no.

"That's very sad. It must not be."

However, there are not many things that can be done by a divine son who is an outsider.

In the end, I was only able to attach two promises to the Demon King.

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"Oh, has the Demon King been seeing her, too?

"Yeah, you met Alice, too."

After finishing the conversation with the Divine Son, the Demon King went straight back to the restaurant.

As far as he is concerned, although I understand that there seems to be something wrong with him, the specific part of it remains unknown.

Though it remains unclear, it still looks like you're going to keep what you promised.

"Alice"

"What's wrong, demon king?

"No, Alice says you like her hair pretty."

"Hey, what's all of a sudden!? No, I'm glad, though!

"There are other things about being a worker, serious things, the color of your eyes? Yeah, there's a lot I like when I think about it again."

"Duh, what's wrong, did you even eat something bad?!? No, I'm so glad!

In the wake of a series of delightful words that never come out of the usual demon king, Alice is making her eyes black and white as if the contents of her head had boiled.

Regardless, this is due to what I promised the Divine Son.

The first of the promises.

Specifically observe and confirm with the people around the Demon King what they like about what they like and why. I'm not instructed to speak up.

Maybe it is the maneuver of being able to experience the difference between 'like' and 'love' from the differences found by that observation. Some may see something if you deconstruct the quality of the favor in detail.

"Oh, now you've said something to her!

"Yeah, I am. Oh, but he said I shouldn't tell you why. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure why I was told to do this either."

And the second of the promises.

That is to keep the contents of today's conversation with the Divine Son a secret.

The Demon King himself is not conscious enough, because if Alice notices a difference in the kind of 'likes' from him, she will be very sad.

"Mmm, what a flattering, yet uncalled for secret between the Demon King and the two of us. Oh, but that's because of her, and I have to thank her later."

"Yeah, well, he said he wouldn't be here for dinner in a while."

"I see. Then you have to make lots of ingredients."