Labyrinth Restaurant

Simon and Lime, who sat at the Demon King's shop and decided to have lunch together. I ordered Alice's recommended new pasta dish and waited in my seat willingly.

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At a glance at the food that came, the atmosphere that should have been flamboyant blew away.

The belly worm that was rampant until just now seems to have suddenly shriveled, too.

What has been carried is a noodle dish, perhaps a kind of spaghetti.

Served on a white plate, it stands in a hockey and hot air.

But why would it be an ambiguous saying "probably" or something about cooking?

The reason for this was the overly odd appearance of the dish in question.

"... Molluscs"

"... that's black"

The dish was black, as if it had turned back the ink kettle.

If I'm going to give you candid thoughts, I can't say I look very appetizing. No, on the contrary, just looking at it is going to decrease my appetite.

Did they even do something that was disturbing to her?

Usually if a warm (at least against these two) Alice extends to such a shady harassment, that's a good thing. On the surface I imagined it might be quite angry as usual but on the inside......

"... hey, do you have any idea what caused this?

"... some"

And unfortunately I can't say that I don't have any fussies in mind......

The tension of will between the two of us escalates and develops into a light fight to make noise in the store, or even slip their hands and zero drinks and dishes. There are a few thoughts that you can't help but feel angry about.

Nevertheless, I feel how different this is when it comes to felonies that all deserve an inked pasta sentence. If you didn't know what would have driven Alice to such a heinous crime, it could have been to oil the fire to ask her directly.

If you know exactly what caused it, you can apologize and ask forgiveness, but no matter how much you twist your head, it's as if you can't think of a crude phase in which to buy so much anger.

But that's how you can't keep your hands around forever.

Alice approached to see how things were going when she noticed Simmons in front of the dish but never tried to get her hands on it.

"Oh, aren't you going to eat? If we don't hurry up, the noodles will grow, right?

"Oh, oh... um, even eating. Now, yes, I enjoyed the fragrance first."

"Mmm, nice smell"

In fact, the scent is never bad.

None of the irritating odors like poking noses that are common in ink. On the contrary, it has a delicious scent that seems appetizing. If it even looked decent, it would have carried it to your mouth with great joy from the start.

"Yeah, it smells good too, doesn't it? Because I use freshly caught fresh ones."

"Yeah, right...... yeah?

And we both finally realized how uncomfortable it was around here.

First of all, no matter how carefully you observe it, nothing seems hostile to Alice.

If you try to calm down safely about that, you'll see a lot more.

"It smells raw when it's not fresh, but lately it's been a big catch in the demonic sea, and there's a lot of fresh stuff on the market."

"Oh, well, you're using a fresh array."

"I'm a good guy."

And at least you can't get ink at sea.

The substance underlying this black color is apparently a type of seafood.

In this way, explore information about "arr" from the conversation,

"Yeah, it's delicious, isn't it? Squid"

And, at last, it's not as big of a deal as saying…, but we somehow succeeded in getting to know the identity of the ingredients that caused the mistake.

"Hmm, I see. Squid"

If you observe carefully, there are also squid torso and geso cut into easy-to-eat sizes in the noodles.

If you had noticed the presence of squid from the beginning, you might have even come to the idea that the original color is squid smear. The whole thing must have gone out of sight because it was stained with black colors, and the observation would have been gratuitous.

We are both new to squid smears, but the squid itself has eaten many times in this store and elsewhere. If you find that to be the case, you have nothing to be afraid of. I also remembered the hunger I had forgotten, and carried the noodles tangled with forks to my mouth with momentum.

"Oh, the taste of the sea is intense."

"Mmm, yummy."

"Um, not bad. No, this is delicious"

Squid smears are not just for colouring.

The smear itself contains a wealth of amino acids, or ingredients that are the source of the flavour, adding to the flavour of the dish.

Its taste is neither sweet nor spicy nor bitter, if you say so, the taste of the sea. The taste and aroma of seafood are fully felt, and the main body, squid meat, as well as the wheat noodles, go perfectly with it.

Squid is originally a thing for squids to delude their adversaries in the sea.

This not only interferes with vision, but also helps to confuse the sense of smell by releasing a smokescreen containing amino acids. By releasing a smear of a delicious smell, you mislead your enemies with a loud sense of smell.

It is the harsh survival competition and the inevitability of evolution that squid smears taste good.

In a way, it's a watermelon called squid's own tattoo. Just the smear.

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Besides

"But you did something wrong with Alice with weird suspicions."

"Hansei"

After the meal, Simon and Lime's two children reflected again.

Well, Alice herself wasn't aware of it at all.

"Well, what's up"

"Nayamu"

Thankfully, it's also a strange story that I'm going to tell you all honestly now, even though I haven't even noticed who I am. You may be refreshed if you apologize, but if you do poorly, you may make Alice feel uncomfortable because of it.

But it is also true that I have taken the liberty of misunderstanding and not suspecting it.

Even though we were the only ones who knew that, we were both good kids enough to learn how uncomfortable it was to decide who we knew. I wondered if I could apologize for something to the extent that I wouldn't let Alice feel it,

"Funny"

"Mm, what's the idea?

"It's just a tease."

- And early the next morning.

When Alice woke up and made herself available came out to the floor part of the restaurant,

"Morning."

"I've already cleaned it. We'll take care of the opening, so I hope Alice is drinking tea slowly."

"From this hour on, what's wrong?

Simon and Lime were cleaning the store when they said it was still early in the morning, not long after the sun rose.

Originally, cleaning was not indispensable every day, but the two seemed to be in a good mood and clean, polishing up so shiny that their faces appeared on each and every table. I don't even see a piece of dust or a grain of chili in the store.

Alice and the Demon King didn't notice because they deliberately block signs and sounds from their consciousness so they wouldn't be distracted when they went to bed, but at this minute they must have been working hard from a pretty early hour.

Naturally, as Alice, I was wondering if you two had bothered to get up early and come clean.

"No, thank you for everything."

"Mmm, that's all."

"Uh, thank you?

... and no matter how much I heard it was a "daily thank you" and I honestly appreciated it because it wasn't anything else to bother me.