Labyrinth Restaurant

The day after everyone on the spot was thrust into a mysterious tense and ended up just either continuing to cook or even eating, the faces on the spot yesterday gathered again at the bottom of the labyrinth for a proper discussion this time.

The time is night, today's business is already closed, and no one else among us. It's not always a secret conversation, but it's convenient to talk about a lot of things.

There are four plus one pillar on this occasion: Brave (Me), Alice, Demon King, Divine Son & Goddess. When I think of yesterday, I feel so nervous, but today we are gathered to have a serious discussion. Organize your thoughts and see again in your mind the current problems and what you need to ask.

Sitting at the biggest table on the floor, Demon King and Alice lined up a cup of coffee and tea treats in front of everyone before sitting down, and the discussion began.

First of all, it was the goddess who cut out the story. I am raising my right hand properly when I speak as I did yesterday.

'Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's a lot you'd like to ask me, and if it's something I know, ask me a question and I'll tell you everything without covering it up.... Yep, I'll be honest with you because I'm afraid of later when I hide things weirdly'

When the goddess said so, she gracefully carried the coffee cup at hand to her mouth. Its sparingly elegant work was done by the same person who showed numerous oddities yesterday (the same god?) I don't think so very much.

"Bitter!? What is it? Here."

... I was in tears because I was surprised at the taste of coffee. Apparently, I never had a drink.

"Oh, I thought the wax smelled good and quite tasty, though?

"I'm not very good at bitter things..."

Kamiko seems to like the taste of coffee, but Goddess doesn't seem to like it. It's a difficult story to say that your body is the same but has different preferences. But all of a sudden, the story was about to go out of line, so I decided to give the goddess a help boat.

"Well, if bitterness doesn't work, it's easier to drink by adding sugar and milk there."

I don't like black coffee either, so I make them both. By the way, it looks like Alice only has sugar and the Demon King only has milk in it.

'Oh, it's sweetened. This would be delicious.'

"The fragrance has weakened a little, but this is delicious."

The goddess is drinking Nico and the sweetened coffee with plenty of sugar and milk. Shinko seems to like sweet things too, so this solves the problem. We need to get back to the main story of the quick derailment. I suddenly aroused a feeling of tension that seemed to be foggy, and I got to the point.

"Goddess, first thing I want to confirm..."

'Oh, this tea treat is delicious. Is it wheat baked confectionery?

"Oh, that's true. The crisp texture pulls back."

"Oh, that's the cookie I just baked. I mix crushed almonds in the dough. There's still plenty of them, so how about a change if you like?

"'Yes, please!

...... the conversation went out of line again before the question ended. The Demon King also goes to the kitchen to pick up a change of cookies, and he kind of feels like I can't read the air better.

"You think you can be angry about that now, don't you?

Alice took care of me, and she spoke to me like that. The Demon King will be the usual natural one, but he wants to make an evil push that he is deliberately out of the way when it comes to Goddess and Divine Son.

A little while later, the Demon King brought a replacement cookie from the kitchen to a large plate and placed it in front of Shinko, and the discussion finally resumed.

'Well then... mogmog... I'll answer any questions you have... mogmog... ask me anything'

Somehow, I get suddenly less nervous when I hear the chewing noise sandwiched by the words. I want you to pay a little more attention to things like not behaving well while eating or compromising your majesty as a god. But when I cautioned, I felt like I was going to stop talking until I ran out of tons of cookies in front of me, so I summoned the galloping motivation to be shredded and I threw a question to the goddess.

"I have a lot to ask...... is it true that if I don't defeat the Demon King, I can't return to my original world, even by another means?

'Yes, it's true... now'

"Now what?

It's kind of a curious way to put it. What does that mean?

'As I said before, the soul of the brave (you) is bound to this world by the art of summoning. When I go to other worlds in that state, my soul breaks and dies...'

"Um, can I have a word?"

Alice expressed her doubts in a way that blocked the Goddess's words.

"Going to a different world means dying, but Mr. Brave has already come and gone with the demonic and human worlds several times. And yet living like this means that the word is not false?

Yes, I was. I had already gone to the demon kingdom (for hippopotamus). Was it because of the faint awareness that I had traveled to different worlds because it was too easy to come and go? I totally forgot about that. Does that mean that if you go to a different world, you're going to die, as Alice would say, a lie?

'No, it's not false. Is it called an exception to crossing realms only when it comes to the demonic realm, which technically is the same world as the demonic realm? I'll skip the details because they'll be long, but a world that used to be all sorts of things a long time ago and was originally one broke into two, and that made it the human and demonic worlds of today. It's now in separate phases, but for once it's the same world, so coming and going wouldn't have affected it.'

Somehow, a shocking truth in history has been revealed from something I never thought possible. The Demon King doesn't seem so interested, but Alice seems pretty surprised because it's something to do with her hometown.

'So here goes, the summoning ritual binds the soul of the brave to this world, but the disarming of the ritual itself cannot be done without taking time... maybe'

"Yes... what is it?

"Oh, didn't I tell His Majesty the King that we couldn't lift it?

'It's... it's easier to get thanksgiving and appreciation and faith after putting it on once you don't wear it... it's like a conversational technique, and the... sorry'

"Ugh, goddess. I'll take a big look at it this time because I'm in the middle of a conversation, but there's no next time."

"Hi-ha!

I'm concerned about the 'probably' I added at the end, but it's good news that you can cancel the surgery. As for the interaction between the goddess and the godson, if you put in a scratch, it seems to derail again, so it goes through. But if it takes time, how long exactly?

'I've probably never done anything like de-structuring a brave summons, and I don't know until a very specific period of time, but still, I think we can almost certainly de-structure it in just a decade'

”Only” ten years?

"I'm glad," he said, "it's just a decade away."

"Ten years? Well, that would be acceptable."

This is the line between the Demon King and Alice. The feeling of time can't be too much of a mess for people over age triple digits.

"Um... ten years is a bit. Wouldn't it be a little shorter?"

"Right. As the same person, I think that time is way beyond tolerance."

The Divine Son has agreed to my word. Looks like he still felt like a decade was too long for the same human feeling.

"So, goddess. Do something in ten days, not ten years."

"Ten days!? I can't, I absolutely can't! So... as two days off a week... how about eight years? '

"It's still a long time, in a year?

'I can't do that either...... in five years!

"One more voice! How about two years?

"Two, two years...... um, if you can work on it without taking a day off, somehow in three years"

"Can't you just do something a little bit more?

'... So how about two and a half years, two and a half years without a day off and less time to turn to the work of the divine! You won't get any faster than this!

"Two and a half years...... well, fine. So, brave man, they can handle it in two and a half years."

Ten and a half years have passed since the exchange between Shinko and Goddess was like a price match. What is it, this cont?

"Two and a half years...... hmm, two and a half years......"

I'm comfortable that you can almost certainly go home if you wait that long, but I still don't think it's short on a year-by-year basis.

"By the way, I want to ask you one thing, okay?

And until then, the demon king, who was quietly drinking coffee and listening, asked questions for the goddess.

"It's a summoning ritual that's in question, but if you defeat the Demon King (me), you can go home, right? It only activates when the Demon King appears in the human world, but who knows if he defeated or appeared?

I'm not sure what the question is meant to be, but isn't the goddess the judge?

'No, surely I can see things from a perspective that transcends men if I am in this world, but it is not perfect. If you know exactly where the Demon King is, I was teaching him as a priest through the Divine Son when the brave men were searching everywhere... Ah!

They say it's not the goddess who's making decisions around there. Then who is making that decision?

"The holy sword granted upon the summons of the brave, that holy sword, has a pseudo-personality. The pseudo-personality of that holy sword senses the magic of the Demon King, more than a certain amount of magic from the demonic realm to determine the emergence and defeat of the Demon King."

Once again, a new fact of surprise has emerged. He said that the Holy Sword, which has been used scattered and conveniently as a weapon and dish for over a year, had a personality. What am I supposed to say, don't you think you're angry at me for all the strange uses I've made?

"Personality, can you talk to the Holy Sword or something?

'I can't talk because I don't have a function for voice...... can I have the holy sword out for a second'

I let the holy sword appear in my hand as I was told. It's the form of a basic long sword. What the hell are we going to do with this?

"Now, please say" Auto State (Auto Mode) Start "in that state."

"YES... AUTOMATIC STATUS (AUTO MODE) START,... WOW!?"

Oh, my God. When I uttered the words as I was told, the Holy Sword took the liberty of leaving my hands and began to change shape with Gnyagna, even though I had done nothing.

The holy sword, which was in the form of a long sword, rolled down on the floor, and then once it was like a sphere, everything burst and snapped, and it looked like a bird that resembled a canary ten seconds or so of something.

The shade is the same silver color as the usual holy sword, but if you look closely you can see up to every single one of the feathers and it is so delicate in its shape that you don't think it is very metal. Its holy sword (bird) floated in the universe with its own wings winged and descended on the table in front of us.

The bird gently spread its left and right feathers before us, and the tip of its feathers began to stretch out as thin as a wire and draw letters in space.

[I see you first in this appearance, my Lord. I can't move freely of my own free will, so I'd like to be forgiven for the delay in greeting you]

and I was deforming such a sentence with my left and right wings to depict both the letters of this world and the Japanese language.

[And long time no see, Goddess, my Creator. Since you gave me to the brave men of my predecessors]

'Yeah, do you know what's going on?

[Um, apparently something strange is happening.]

This holy sword, it's Dundee. He seems to have some very tannic cool personality. But sometimes it bothers me when you do.

"Um, Holy Sword......? Were you a man?

It brings back memories of using the Holy Sword for kushi and hand mirroring on everyday occasions other than combat, specifically during bathing, dressing or sleeping for more than a year now. If a man had seen it all the time, he couldn't go to his daughter-in-law.

[Mm...? Oh, you know what? Don't worry, my lord. My essence is a sword. There is no gender because of the metal mass]

"Uh, well then..."

You'll be fine, I guess. Let's think of it that way.

[And what can I do for you? You didn't just set me free to chat.]

Yes, once again the story was off the mainstream to the surprise new fact, but what does it have to do with the fact that Sacred Sword...... is ready to move?

"The Holy Sword is judging the fall of the Demon King... I mean"

The demon king overlaps his words on the goddess's grunt.

"If you don't actually have to kill him, if you can get the Holy Sword to judge by any means that" the brave have defeated the demon king, "you may soon be able to return."

I mean, what do you mean?

'I can't guarantee that I will work this way either..., but the brave and the demon king will fight and the demon king will deliberately lose. And I will have the Holy Sword determine that the brave have won.'

"I mean, it's eight hundred!

[Hmm, if that's for the Lord's sake, there's no difference. I can't guarantee success, but let me help you]

It was that wacky, no, original, under the yul judgment that there was no risk of failure, lucky if successful, that there would be an eight-hundred match that would probably be the first ever brave and demonic king, and also a referee (the Holy Sword) that would be a guru.

... Well, if this doesn't work, I'll wait two and a half years.