Labyrinth Restaurant

How many years has it been since then?

Since Lisa (I) was summoned as a brave man.

Ever since I met those two, him and her.

And since he told me that word.

I remember a long time ago and immersed myself in sentiment, probably because I'm sure the color of the sky was too pale and clear and that color looked just like one day or another.

Ginkgo trees on the university campus are just dazzling golden in the light of the sun.

I can't believe it's like a cross section of stuck baked potatoes, which reminds me of the hunger I forgot about.

The more you put up with it until you get home, the more food you have to sell, but you might want to stop somewhere before you do. I feel like eating warm tea and even something sweet.

It's somewhat better today because of the strong sun, but the wind has gotten colder lately.

Shall we pull the winter coat, or shall we buy a new one out of the blue? When I was bothering my head about that, I heard voices that I knew unexpectedly well.

"Hi, hello"

"Hello, Demon King"

By chance, it's not.

I'm sure he waited in anticipation of my time to return.

Still, you don't look good in a suit and tie, this guy.

Even though it is necessary for it to be inconspicuous, this is going to make it look bad. I personally seem to have a subtle confidence.

I remember hearing that it was from this luxury brand, but that Mr. Cosmos, who undertook the coordination, doesn't look good enough to throw a spoon, or that he is worn in a suit..., perhaps not in desperate compatibility with a fundamentally loose temper and a cut-throated suit.

My classmates have also worked hard on their jobs these days while being (...) dressed in suits, but even they look like businessmen in the war compared to the Demon King today.

Well, when I said my candid thoughts with Alice before, I was depressed for the whole day, so I wouldn't put it in my mouth.

"Is Lisa going to the store?

"Yeah, 'cause this is my shift from the evening"

Today, I live a life in two pairs of grass shoes (scissors): college students and cooks. It's my own decision, and I never like it, but this is hard.

Work when there is no class, classes when there is no work.

Even though I have little time off from early morning to late night, my unit is still critical for my retention year.

Every day like a roundabout, asking my family to help accommodate my shift by saying I can't do it, and this again asking the professor to meditate on the number of attendance days I tend to lack by saying I can't do it and issuing additional reports......

I can't even afford to get my hands on circle activities even though it's my college life because of it. As it is, I'm going to graduate unrelated to the campus life of flowers.

But if you have to, you won't be able to twist it out for an hour or two using the back moves.

Specifically, cheats like zeroing the time you're usually supposed to travel by train, bus, or other transport, on a space trip. You can't abuse it though because if you use it too much, you risk someone witnessing it.

"If you like, how about some tea nearby? There's a coffee shop near here that serves delicious cheesecakes."

Apparently, the Demon King has invited me to tea.

He should be pretty busy with him, too, but he must have bothered to make time for it.

Then it means that if you say no here, the woman will be abandoned. You never got caught in the bait called delicious cheesecake, did you?

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"I blend NY cheesecake."

"I'd like the same thing, please"

The Demon King's recommended coffee shop was far enough on foot from the university. Sometimes it's the opposite direction to the station I use to go to school, and I had no idea it existed.

In the atmosphere of pure coffee with an atmosphere like that of an ancient hermitage, the jazz of a calm atmosphere flows as a BGM. It's built secluded in a quiet residential area, and if you don't know that, you don't seem to notice that there are shops even if you go through it in front of you.

The Demon King said it's a hidden famous store that only knows about the existence of about a neighbor... well, how did he find this store?

"About last month, was it just the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science? I was brought here by someone in charge of..."

"I see."

As part of her current activities, the Demon King is meeting secretly with key institutions not only in Japan but also in various countries...... Apparently. I can't seem to tell you much about confidentiality.

You're also wearing a suit that doesn't look good, when it comes to some of that activity.

Because I'm not meeting very great people (maybe) in my usual rough shirt or apron.

You won't be denied a visit in any outfit because your position and circumstances are circumstances, but in most countries, the suit is easy.

"By the way, where have you been lately?

"Today in the Vatican, yesterday in the Prime Minister's residence. Was it the White House yesterday?

Even in such a place, oh wonder. No problem as long as you wear a suit.

It's probably floating from around very much, but so far it seems to be okay.

By the way, there was a deep reason why the Demon King was crossing the major nations of the planet, not the world over there...

"Yeah, well, I'll be in your shop soon, too. Your father-in-law once in a while tells you to go swallow."

"Yeah, I'll tell him. I'm sure your father and grandfather will love it."

My God, Dad, I hated you so much about the Demon King at first, and now he says every day, "When's the next time?" I'm sure your mother will be mad at you for drinking it down to the morning again.

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It was when I first introduced you to my family about the Demon King, but somehow, they're the other person.

I must naturally touch upon this in the other world, and upon what I had become a brave man.

A verbal explanation alone shouldn't have convinced me, or actually showed some evidence, magic or the Holy Sword.

Fathers and grandfathers who had been killing themselves for days, knowing I was bringing boys into the house, were too surprised by the unforeseen developments to be completely detoxified.

"Father-in-law, give me your daughter!

"Ki, I don't know what kind of muscle you call your stepfather!?"

... Oh, my God, though I still did the classic exchange.

Then when I heard about the circumstances (...), my angry father beat up about the Demon King, but so I got a crack in the bone of the finger of the other hand, and I also got a feather to take a break from work for a while.

So, it could have been the result Aurai that the Demon King entered our kitchen for a few days to fill the vacant shift of the hole abruptly and your father and grandfather recognized him for something.

And, thank God, they set up a place for men to talk to each other out of my ignorance, but asking your father or demon king won't tell you about that time, will it? I'm just curious.

Well, aside from the process, your father and grandfather didn't turn out to be a major obstacle. If you look only at the results, you could say they were “relatively” easy opponents.

"I guess I disagree."

Yes, I wasn't expecting your mother to be so hard against it either. I was heartily optimistic that you would be on my side, but it was sweet.

If you are told a pale reason to disagree without emotionally absurd your voice, I and the Demon King, and the fathers who turned to me in favor, will have to remain silent. That's all the reason, that's all the weight.

"Demon King, I'm glad you liked Lisa. But..."

But the Demon King, instead of Japan, is not even a resident of this world.

I wish I could have said that with love I could overcome any problem, but psychology is too helpless before realistic problems.

"As for the other circumstances of the Demon Kings... well, let's just say that's the way you think and the culture, if Lisa is convinced"

Other circumstances.

It's pretty rare, but there's never been a similar way of thinking on this planet when it comes to the pattern between him and his surroundings. It's hard to say that it can be accepted by 10,000 people, but it won't be until it's absolutely impossible.

But only the fact that the Demon King is the Demon King of another world doesn't matter how it moves.

"Live the rest of your life, hiding your husband's circumstances from all around you, with hindsight... you can't say as a mother"

Honestly, I didn't come too pinned at first, but over time, I've also found out what your mother feared.

I also have a friendship in Japan, and that will spread in my life to come.

I'm going to feel breathless just imagining lying and hiding against all of them and living with a feeling of hindsight.

It's different from what you've been hiding from your family in other worlds.

If you are a friend and acquaintance, you can't or don't want to hide your family, even if you can manage to hide it.

Besides, if we were to get married, we might be able to have kids in the future.

As it stands, you will have to push backwardness by allowing your father's identity to be hidden against that child as well.

I also tried to think that I would move to another world, but honestly, I'm not going to be able to abandon Japan. I shook my head sideways just thinking about it. Besides, it's the same thing in different worlds (over there) that you have to hide your identity.

As it is, I cannot marry the Demon King.

If imposed, it is visible that we would be unhappy not to do something about this problem.

I held my head in front of that difficult reality.

But the Demon King didn't seem to be.

He checked with his mother.

"I mean, if your daughter (Lisa) can live with dignity without hiding about me around, right?

"Yeah, nothing to complain about if that's what you could do. I'll support your relationship then."

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"Lisa sometimes smiles and says impotent things to her mother-in-law."

"That's why it was overdone to board the venue of the major summits (summits) with dragons (dragons)?

I laughed bitterly after sipping down the cheesecake aftertaste I ordered with my coffee.

The only thing he recommends is that the cake and coffee are very tasty...... not

"Well, as it turns out, it works."

At stake, Mr. Demon King nearly became a namesake terrorist in history, but in conclusion, the history of the leaders of the major nations of the Earth world led us to recognize the existence of different worlds.

Completely blocks communication and traffic with the outside world without blocking the perimeter of the venue at the junction and noticing any internal anomalies. Then transfer each dragon rider directly inside the floor to render the armed escort intact and powerless.

After that, just like you did to my family (just a little radical?), he persuaded the great people “peacefully” while showing some evidence.

That's how you made them aware of the existence of different worlds, and then the Demon King made a demand to them to "publish the existence of different worlds," and "let's get along with each other from now on".

That way I may not have to hide things either, but it's something I've done a lot of nonetheless. No, of course I'm glad you did that for me.

So, it was close to such a blackmail, but surprisingly, he said, the Demon King's demands passed so well. I only know the situation around here by hearsay, but whether or not the precious metals (including those that do not exist on Earth) that I brought as souvenirs worked.

And another thing. The technology he offered as a consideration for the release of information was not something that could be ignored at all by the heads of State of Hundred Wars and Smelting.

What is that technology? Magic.

More precisely magic technology, including cross-world travel technology.

I could do something similar, but the Demon King was thinking about releasing the technology in a generic way.

If this is a complete success, Earth's humanity will be freed from the bondage of resources and territory.

You don't have to bother with troublesome skirmishes or political plays on a narrow planet, because you just have to be free for each and every one of them to have what they want.

A world with friendly residents, or an uninhabited world without indigenous people.

There should be countless worlds in the infinitely present that are convenient for such mankind (although they say there are just as many dangerous worlds, and we need to be careful about choosing a world to put our hands on).

Nevertheless, it is not easy when it comes to providing technology.

I'm not sure why, but for some reason there is little natural magic on Earth, and the magic used for magic must be covered by the user himself. Simply put, magic is a difficult environment to use on Earth.

The Demon King seems to be working hard half the week going around various countries to give magic lectures and demonstrations to scholars and military personnel gathered in secret, and to see if he can reproduce similar phenomena in science and technology, but this seems quite difficult.

The first year was almost fruitless.

After the second year, some progress seems to have been made, with the birth of a purely earthly wizard capable of using preliminary magic. Apparently, it was big enough to be able to mechanically measure the unknown energy of magic.

In the third year, we developed a device that allows us to accumulate magic. There has been a purpose in exercising massive magic.

There seems to be some difference in the progress of research between countries, but nowadays they say that holes in space about the point of the pen can be drilled, and in a few more years people may be able to move freely between different worlds.

In the future, they are thinking about various plans, also looking at trade and tourism projects at the private level.

Yes, I am also limited to Japan, but I cooperate in research about twice or three times a month (this is the introduction of the Demon King, of course).

Occasionally, the Department of Defense's Secret Institute (SECRET!) I'm interrupting the facility called. However, he should have also received such a long title as "Specific Secret Technology-Related Advisor Technician".

Even though I'm busy with my schooling and work, do you say I can't replace my belly on my back because I get a fair amount of gratuity with a stopping fee...... right?

"So... Lisa?

"Oh, I'm sorry"

Oops, looks like your thoughts were off the sidelines.

We can't waste a second because we've been busy with each other lately and our time enjoying tea together is precious. You seem to miss the first half of high school where I relaxed every day.

"So, what's up?

"Yeah, actually, it's going to be decided if the day for example publication goes down next year, or maybe next year at the latest."

The publication of the example would refer to the alle of "official recognition by world leaders of the existence of different worlds" in the matter. Exchanges of information and research were being carried out in confidence in view of their multifaceted impact, but does that mean that it has taken some form?

... is that what you mean?

"I've kept you waiting for a while, because I think your mother-in-law would be convinced of this"

"Yeah."

Next or next year.

If things were going well (if I hadn't stayed a year due to lack of credit and attendance days), I would have graduated by then, too. Life will be a little calmer than it is now, and it won't be a bad time.

"I'll say it again. Marry me."

"Yes......!

When I replied, it was something I was so happy about, I just got a little tear in my eyes.

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After less than an hour of tea time, we went outside the coffee shop.

He says he's going to go to the Kunikuniku behind the planet.

"Yes."

When we broke up, I remembered, uh, what to say.

It's very important, so I have to remember to say it properly,

"I'm glad you're doing your best for me, but not if you leave your wife (Alice) alone too much, right? I'm still a newlywed."