Labyrinth Restaurant

A large number of people are filling their sights, whether they look at people, one, humans, front, rear, left, or right.

If you clear your ears, all the waves of sound will push in, including the sound of a carpenter waving a hammer, a good call of attraction and a cry of a lost child.

Countless stalls line the boulevards that lead to the heart of the city, and people walking down the road walk around with one hand the food and drinks they buy from the stalls. From the stalls selling skewers there is the smell of appetite, a large crowd gathering as if they were bugs drawn to moth lights, and the stalls selling fruit juices are killing children squeezing their pennies.

A number of street performers and bards in the square showcase each piece of art and are delighted by tourists. Whatever the most popular is, Tan, the hero of the brave brunette whose bard chants, the hero Tan, with his mountainous beauty phrases and excessive footprints, is a silo thing that is sure to make his face bright red and escape if the brave man himself hears it.

The city currently sees the same sight wherever it goes. It's as lively as a big festival, but that's not it. This is a very normal everyday sight in this city today.

This is the newest city in the world, connecting the labyrinth city, the human and demonic worlds, and the two worlds.

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Labyrinth city is not the official city name.

The name comes from the fact that a certain labyrinth is the foundation of the city, from the strange facilities that make it a 'dungeon shop', and from the fact that the city itself is intruding like a labyrinth, but the truth is unknown. It's unclear who started calling it, but at some point its name had settled and people were starting to call it that.

In the heart of the labyrinth city, there is also a section of the city lined with large international buildings. It is commonly known as the 'Embassy District', lined with embassies created in this city by the nations of the human world. In every country, it is also the most economical place in the city, because people such as those chosen as ambassadors often have a commensurately high status, or nobility, their servants, merchants in and out, etc. go hiatus.

It's about an afternoon on a beautiful day. The Demon King visited the embassy district with a handful of souvenirs in one hand. The other day, I came to say hello to a friend who had travelled to this city as an ambassador.

The Demon King is now a key figure not only in the demonic realm, but also in the supreme power of this labyrinth city, but thanks to his prior contact for a visit, he was smoothly transferred to the reception room. In that room awaited a well-known figure of the Demon King, a girl with white hair like snow and a mysterious atmosphere.

"Demon King, we're out of time."

"It's been a long time since you've been here, Kamiko. This is a souvenir Baumkuchen."

"Well, is it a treat! Thank you."

When the Demon King gave him the Baumkuchen he brought as a souvenir, the Divine Son rejoiced with a full grin. The whole bottle, the baumkuchen I brought without cutting it while it was baked, was nearly a meter long and if I didn't know it was a treat, I might mistake it for a whole tooth. Cut into rings, the layer of baked eye looks like a yearling, and although that's not wrong in some ways because Baumkuchen is the name that means' wooden cake 'in the first place.

When tea was brewed, a strange form of tea party began, where each of the baumkuchens on the table were dismantled with a knife and had tea while eating.

"Hehe, it's delicious, sweet, fuzzy... I haven't tasted this good in a long time."

"Long time no see?"

"The temple meal is just nutritious, but overall it's a rustic tasting thing that took advantage of the flavor of the ingredients (...) I didn't get much food going, I didn't really care about it before.

Damn it, this is because the demon kings have fattened their tongues in their dishes!

"Haha, that's done a bad thing. Apologize, but eat a lot."

"Yes, then let me forgive you, Ugh"

When the Divine Son joked and got angry, the Demon King deliberately begged for forgiveness. Whether such a soothing conversation has become a spice, Baumkuchen's size will decrease as far as it looks.

"But you've often been granted permission to leave Wang Du?

A demon king took a sip of tea and asked the Divine Son that question.

Although the country to which the Divine Son belongs knows beforehand the occurrence of natural disasters and plagues and suppresses damage, or vice versa, profits from trade by anticipating the market for traded goods, her presence was kept secret as the most important state secret. Because of the threat of kidnapping or assassination by another country. But that's also now a story of the past.

"According to the goddess, the accuracy and range of predictions and thousand-eyed eyes have been greatly enhanced because of the increase in faith? It is fine to inform the people of Wang Du by letter of their predictions, because it is safer to be in this city than to be in the temple of Wang Du in the first place. And..."

Shinko carried the chopped baumkuchen to his mouth with elegant work, he said, grinning like a flower blooming.

"Because when you're in this city, you're going to get good food. I asked His Majesty the King to do his best."

Then the two enjoyed a cup of tea, talking about each other's recent developments, their lives in labyrinth cities, talking about their favorite stalls and so much more.

"Oh, is this already the time?"

"Whoa, you were totally talking."

Fun times pass fast. When I looked out the window, how long had the sun tilted and dimmed? Baumkuchen, which was on the table, has vanished a long time ago.

"Then it's time to go home. Now come to the store."

"Yes, I would definitely come. Good afternoon, Demon King. Alice, thank you very much."

When we exchanged goodbye greetings, the Demon King went home.

"It was still good eating. Hey, what shall we take next time we come?

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"Hey Alice...... could you be mad?

"... I'm not angry"

That night, the Demon King was bewildered by Alice, who looked unusual and grumpy. Although Alice says she's not angry with her mouth, she's swelling her cheeks puckerely and shifting her gaze sideways. It's obvious that whoever sees it is angry.

The Demon King had no idea why Alice was angry. Until earlier, we talked soothingly, as usual, but this suddenly happened when the Demon King told the story of him going to see the Divine Son by himself.

By the way, on this day, Alice was stuck in her room to clean up the paperwork she had accumulated all morning. The Demon King, who knew that, intended to be careful not to disturb him, and did not invite Alice on the go.

From Alice's point of view, I was told a story about a thinker going to see another woman (and beauty) in silence to herself and having fun, naturally it's not funny. But in the first place, Demon King and Alice are merely superiors and subordinates at present, and are not in a position to blame them for that.

Alice herself realizes that the emotion is unreasonable without justification, so she didn't directly accuse the Demon King, but her feelings of jealousy appeared on her expression without suppression.

"Okay! Alice wanted some baumkuchen, too."

"No!

Will there ever be a day when the Demon King can understand its complex and strange maiden heart? At least, that day is still going to be ahead for the time being.