Labyrinth Restaurant

The incident began on a quiet night with no weird philosophy whatsoever.

"Dad, where...?

I dropped off my last customer of the day and when Alice was cleaning up the store, all of a sudden a little girl opened the door with such dialogue and came inside the store.

I feel like I saw him. He's only about three years old or there. He's a very little kid. She had beautiful silver hair stretched to her shoulder and the same silver eyes as her hair, wearing white clothes that were considerably larger relative to her physique, and possibly an adult shirt. The hem area is rubbed to the ground and dirty because of the rash in size and it doesn't fit.

Alice couldn't leave her little kid alone, although she didn't know the situation, and she spoke up.

"Are you and your father out of line?

"Dad, you're not here..."

Is it lost from dialogue? However, due to its special location, this shop, unlike the common buildings throughout the city, does not think that this small number of children can come alone. Perhaps even though I came so close to this with my parents, some circumstance led me away from my parents and I stumbled into this store.

Because by now that parent will be desperately looking for this child. It's no big hassle, and Alice decided to look for someone like that.

Close your eyes and concentrate your spirit to explore the signs of nearby organisms. I'll start by exploring around the store, in the labyrinth, around the entrance to the labyrinth...... but I don't feel the presence of creatures other than demons, animals, etc. There were a few humans on a spectacular high ground about a few kilometers from the labyrinth, but from the quality of the magic this looks like the adventurers who returned from this store earlier. Probably even preparing for the camp.

From the point of view of the extent to which this girl can act alone, it seems like there is no choice in exploring any more extensive. But suppose there are no ”living” humans within conceivable boundaries, maybe in an accident or a sudden illness, etc...

Was Alice's such anxiety on her face unconsciously, and the girl who saw it would be followed and about to cry?

"Oh, don't cry......!

"Wow...!

I've lived five hundred years, but for Alice, who doesn't have the experience of giving up a little kid, it's like she didn't know how to behave at a time like this.

"... Oh yeah! Just a moment, please."

I came up with something. Alice hurried into the back of the store and immediately came back with a basin with a glass vessel.

"It's ice cream. Aren't you hungry? It's sweet and delicious."

"... Asai?

Alice stumbled upon the idea of a certain demon king, sweet things for a small child for now, and decided to distract herself by feeding her ice cream.

The girl, by the way, seems to have shifted her interest in ice cream just as Alice's prospects suggest. I'm eating ice cream with my little spoon clumsily clenched and sticky around my mouth.

"Is it delicious?

"Yeah! Asai, suki!

I'm smiling and eating along as if I forgot I was about to cry until earlier. But as Alice, I don't know what to do after this time.

"After all, should we consult the Demon King..."

As Alice, I don't want to do anything to annoy the hands of my beloved Demon King, but I just can't help it if it's the case. Besides, if you're the Demon King, Alice won't even think about it, you might come up with some good solution.

"Alice, what happened earlier? What about that girl?

Alice came out of the kitchen just in time to figure out if she should talk to the Demon King. When Alice brought up the ice cream to fool the girl earlier, she didn't have a hippo to explain the situation in detail because she was in a hurry.

"Ah, Demon King, excuse me earlier, actually..."

A shocking word popped out of the girl's mouth as Alice tried to explain the status quo to the Demon King.

"Ah, he's an old man!

"... Huh?

A girl saw the demon king and called him "Dad".

Is it to protect the spirit from too much shock, Alice, who heard the dialogue, could not understand the meaning of the word for a few moments. It felt more like the brain was refusing to think itself than to escape reality.

... Father? Father? Who? Whose?

But if you just calm down and think about it, what you're saying is you're a little kid enough to finally speak the language. Maybe it's someone else's aerial resemblance or some kind of mistake. No, I'm sure you do. I thought this was some kind of mistake. Alice tried to question the girl as she pushed and killed the inner mess.

"What is your father like?

"This one!

Momentum was good enough to hear a pseudonym called Bishi, and the girl pointed to the Demon King. This is an instant answer without a single stray. Unexpectedly, the pointed demon king is also upset.

And Alice first looked at the fingertips stretched by the girl, then saw the demon king upset in front of the girl, then took about five seconds to chew carefully on the meaning of the earlier words, … then fainted and fell patsy on the spot whether the mental load exceeded the tolerance.