Labyrinth Restaurant

"... oh?

This morning Alice felt slight discomfort at the same time she woke up.

But I didn't know exactly what that discomfort was, so for now, I decided to start doing my morning routine as usual.

Get as familiar as usual and complete your breakfast with the Demon King.

The Demon King didn't say anything in particular, and Alice herself had already forgotten that she was uncomfortable around the end of breakfast because she had concentrated on various tasks.

And Lisa came when she started preparing to open the store. Apparently, it's Sunday in Japan, and I've been here for a long time with the intention of working part-time with a gut.

But Lisa looked at Alice's face when she walked into the store and gave her a strange look that she wouldn't normally show.

"... Alice"

"What's wrong, Lisa?

As for Alice, I don't know why Lisa looks like that, she just tilts her neck. Lisa, with a face of seriousness itself, asked Alice a question with a Kyotong look without knowing why.

"Hey, don't you feel worse than usual? You have a fever, you have a stomachache."

"If you ask me...... speaking of which, you seem a little hotter than usual. And a little bit of nod and headache............... ah"

Having said that, it seems that Alice also finally realized that the identity of her discomfort since she woke up was sole.

Sole means:

"You have a cold."

"You have a cold."

I had a cold.

The exact name of the disease is Cold Syndrome.

It's that disease that causes fever, headaches and abdominal pain and coughs and scissors.

Gastrointestinal cold, just a cold.

As it's also called the source of all the illnesses, it's never a good disease to be alert to.

"I have a cold."

That's how Alice at the time was oddly impressed.

Anyway, the first cold I've had in five hundred years... and Alice herself assumes so, but the truth is only slightly different.

Even Alice has a cold.

I just wasn't aware of it until now.

Seriously, because of its strong resistance and resilience to disease and physical distress, most cases of infection with germs will heal before they originate. Or even if you have mild symptoms, you do not realize that you have become ill after confusion with mere fatigue.

"Nantka doesn't catch a cold" is not really an uninfected phrase, it means stupidity that you don't realize you got sick, but I'd have to say Alice is that Nantka on this matter.

Alice was impressed by the fact that she had a cold and then tried to get back to the opening.

"... what are you trying to work normally!?"

"Huh? But we have to get ready."

"I'll do that, quick! Back to your room!

I still don't seem to have so bad symptoms, and it's something I'm likely to heal on my own without doing anything, but that's why I can't possibly work when I'm sick. I don't care what Alice thinks of herself in the first place. I won't let Lisa do that.

"Sure, if you ask me, you shouldn't lie to customers. Well, I'm also doing paperwork in my room today."

"That's not what I meant! No work today, get some rest!

"Yes..."

Lisa's sword curtain is also filled with Alice.

In the meantime, I was pushed back and forced back into the room, stripped of my clothes and forced to change into sleeping rolls (pyjamas), and thrown into bed.

◆ ◆ ◆

The sick man's job is to cure the disease.

To do this, I should start with adequate nourishment and sleep, but I had a decent breakfast when it comes to nutrition, so there's no problem for now.

But Alice was beginning to suffer from the status quo as soon as possible.

"... I'm bored"

Keeping in bed even though I'm not very sleepy is quite a pain in the ass. For long-term inpatients, daily boredom can sometimes be more painful than sickness or injury.

It doesn't compare to that, but within three hours of being thrown into bed, Alice was about to make a sound.

I understand the logic that "you should get some sleep to cure your illness," but I didn't stay up late last night anything. I slept a good night, and I'm sleepy and I can't help it.

But I told myself it was the duty of the sick to lie down in bed, meditate my eyes, and try to rest my body.

If you were then activating your metabolism by spinning magic all over your body, your fever would have almost healed already and you would have disappeared to such an extent that you wouldn't have noticed if you weren't also aware of headaches and nod pain. At this rate, will it take another hour to fully heal?

But you won't let me work right away because I'm cured.

As Alice, I feel like a whole day off is too long, but given the potential contagion to customers, I can't do the restaurant job.

Then I thought I'd do some paperwork that I've been accumulating from day to day.

"But I guess it's no good sneaking around to work"

If you do that and find me, Lisa will scold you. Earlier the sword curtain was awesome enough to give Alice the guts to be frightened. I don't want to bother stepping on the tiger's tail.

When Alice is working out how to kill time,

"Alice, can I come in?

The Demon King knocked on Alice's room door with a concoction.

"Yes, go ahead"

"Sorry to bother you."

The demon king who came into the room has a basin in his hand.

"How are you feeling?

What the Demon King brought was a hot swallow with warm sweet liquor.

Apparently, the Demon King came to visit Alice between jobs.

"Thank you for taking the time"

"You're welcome. And I'm sorry"

"Why are you apologizing?

Alice doesn't know why the Demon King bows his head, and she seems to wonder. In response to her like that, the Demon King gave her reasons for apologizing.

"Actually, Lisa scolded me so much earlier... 'I'm the person you're living with, so if you get sick, notice it the most and take good care of it!'......"

On this matter, it is also Alice's responsibility to behave as usual, without being deeply attached to her physical condition, but how the Demon King was also scolded by Lisa. Indeed, even if Alice herself hadn't noticed, she should have noticed how much redder her face was than usual.

"That was scary..."

"I understand..."

Alice also nodded cocklessly, remembering her earlier forceful Lisa.

I say I'm scared when I get angry as much as people who don't usually get angry, but apparently Lisa doesn't leak into the example of that word either (although this case technically means a little different because it's "scolding" rather than "angry").

"So sorry"

The Demon King also seemed scolded and reflecting, bowing his head again.

"No, no..."

As for Alice, it's enough to feel heartbroken the other way when she apologizes like that, but she seems to have reconsidered that not accepting the Demon King's apologies here would be disrespectful instead.

"Okay, Demon King. I accept that apology and forgive you."

"Thank you, Alice"

The Demon King apologized, and Alice forgave.

So this is the end of the story.

The topic has moved on to something else.

"Nevertheless, I never thought I'd be so bored sleeping the whole time"

If I could sleep, it would be a couple of hours, but the hatred and the eyes would remain closed. The cold is going to heal soon if it stays like this, but it's going to get a lot more boring on my mind.

Alice smiled bitterly, tilting the hot water swallows the Demon King had carried.

"This sweet drink is delicious."

"Yeah, it's got ginger jam in it"

The non-alcoholic sweet liquor made of koji and rice is nutritious with its crisp flavor of ginger.

It features a sweet, gentle and soft mouthfeel that I don't think it uses sugar.

The granularity of rice is the part where people divide their likes and dislikes, but Alice seems to have liked that feeling as well.

Sweet liquor is nutritious enough to be called a drinking infusion and is great for the sick......,

"Yeah, I think I'm feeling better because of the sweet wine. The cold has healed already!

Nevertheless, this works too well for whatever it takes.

Alice says she owes it to sweet wine, but whatever it takes doesn't work in seconds.

This would simply be natural physical recovery due to the passage of time. No, it's too soon compared to a regular person that I did that.

"But I have to catch a cold, so I'm taking the day off."

"Yes."

I'm bored, but I can't help it anymore.

Alice also decided to keep an eye on it and stay sick today.

"Cohon"

And Alice had one deliberate cough.

Obviously it doesn't seem to be a symptom caused by a cold.

"Demon King, I have one favor to ask you."

"What?

"I think I'm going to sleep for the rest of my life..."

Alice told her as she lowered the upper body she was lifting onto the bed and dyed her cheeks red as if she had a fever again.

"Until I go to sleep... Um, can you hold my hand?

The Demon King took the place of a response by gently holding her right hand.

Alice tells the Lord of that temperature, thinking of the heat she feels in her right hand.

"Demon King."

"What is it, Alice?

"Hehe, if I told you this, Lisa might piss me off again... but sometimes it's not bad to catch a cold"

Deep peace of mind and warmth coming from a gripping hand.

That only melts Alice's consciousness when she falls into a sweet, sweet sleep - -.

Warm, warm, their winters went by pokapoka and soothing.