Labyrinth Restaurant

"Hey, we're both here to pick you up."

The Demon King, who says it that way, looks as swallowed as usual as nothing else.

But it shows an unusual stunt of pinching Lisa's holy sword with her left index finger and middle finger, and also pinching Alice's wrist with her right two fingers to stop her fist.

Moreover, it was completely powerful to prevent damage from recoil from being inflicted on both of those who received the move.

It must be something that can be done lightly (though with both hands) in one effort for this degree of artistry, the Demon King.

What's even more amazing is that this is not the result of some kind of magic or special ability, but of pure physical surgery.

In the first place, neither Lisa nor Alice were aware of the existence of the Demon King until a moment ago.

Were you hiding somewhere, spying on a stopping machine?

No, he came here after they moved towards the last clash (...).

The word "moment" denotes the smallest unit of time that there is supposedly sixty (or sixty-five) between playing a finger once, but it broke into the middle of the two in less than one of those "moments," diverting the attack of maximum power between the two.

"If we don't get back soon, the food's gonna get cold, right?

I guess the extent to which I just did it is really nothing for the Demon King. More than that triviality, I was worried that the dishes we all made would cool down because of it.

It must be because of how well the Demon King put it.

Alice and Lisa returned it to me.

It's like I went back to sanity the morning after I was terribly drunk and remembered numerous ugliness...... not anywhere.

Anyway, look around.

A flashly chopped mountain.

The crater is becoming a new bay with sea water flowing in in its current progression.

The surrounding ground is unbroken and full of holes, or evaporated deep into the ground.

Whether the plates that make up the continent were affected by the aftermath of numerous attacks or even earthquakes and tsunamis with seismic intensities of about two to three.

At this scale at the source of the earthquake, the impact on the inhabited areas of mankind seems unlikely, but it is still a splendid disaster. If I were to add or subtract at all, and if the last clash hadn't ended with an attempt, the aftermath of the battle might have spread throughout this planet in the form of a natural mutation.

No matter how badly drunk you are, you wouldn't normally bother on such a scale. Such are as many gods and demons in mythology as those (locudenasi).

"............... Um"

".................. eh"

If you return it to me, all that remains there is a tremendous amount of awkwardness.

Making it an argument just now is mostly irrational rhetoric and childish bad talk matches. Once you've calmed down, I don't really think you're right about what you say anymore, etc. Now shame and regret were pushing at once.

"I'm sorry!

"No, the... sorry about this one!

"No, welcome."

No, it's my fault.

The apology match is going to start next for the bad talk match.

The Demon King, who doesn't know what's going on, just looks at the exchange between the two of them in a strange way, and if it stays this way, a second round could start.

Fortunately, it didn't.

".................. pu"

".................. hehe, hehe"

"Hahaha! What is it, just now!

"Ugh, heh! I wonder what we were doing with 'Stupid Idiot'!

Now we both started laughing a lot.

The more I remember, the dumber our ugliness seemed until just now, and it kind of seemed like we were laughing bottomlessly.

"" Hahahahahahahaha!

"" Ha, ha, ha!

"" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I kept laughing as hard as I could without stopping, whether I cried or coughed up breathing more painfully.

Eventually the laughter subsided, they told the Demon King with a strangely refreshing face.

"Shall we go home, demon king?"

"Well, I'm hungry for exercise."

"Oh, yeah, right... let's go home"

The Demon King is a little lonely because he came to pick me up but for some reason he ignored me.

In addition to that, I had such an unknown sense of fear for their incomprehensible laughter, which I should have seen well, whether it was some kind of madness or psycho-horror.

I spoke to the two laughing people several times from the side, but they never noticed me, and I was framed to taste the creeps and alienation.

Though unconscious, they may still be fearful, the ones who threatened this demon king.

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Omake

Just before returning to the restaurant.

Lisa made one suggestion to Alice.

"On second thought, it's kind of other people's behavior... this is crazy"

"Yes?... yeah, that might be good too"

Hearing Lisa's thoughts about hissing and ear punching, Alice was happy with the proposal.

"I don't know, it's a little unsettling,"

"Well, you're used to this kind of thing."

They had a light cough with Cohon and then said to each other.

"Keep it up, Alice (...)"

"Nice to meet you, Lisa (...)"

Alice, not “honey," Alice.

Lisa, not “mr." Lisa.

It's an extremely small change, but the two of us who really and genuinely bumped into each other seem to have gotten along just a little bit better than before.