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Restaurant Of In Between Chapter 8: Question and Answer (Beta)
🕑 Added 2024-05-19 22:20:10 +0000 UTCSerie's reaction was unexpected. It looked like she was shivering, almost like a little child trying to hold in their pee. I mean, I don't think she's trying to stop an accident from occurring.
Hopefully.
However, I have seen these types of reactions before. Surely, my food cannot be this great right? Are they just exaggerating? Either way, Serie didn't stop moving until she ate the last of the dish. It was quite fascinating to see a little girl eating a dish that was at least twice as large as her.
And she ate it all without pausing, where did it all go? her pocket dimension?
*SLAM*
I was jolted awake from my thoughts after hearing a huge slam. Looking towards the source of the noise, I see a large empty plate and a smug elf. It looks like she's done. From the time shown on the clock, I estimate it didn't even take her more than a few minutes to finish it all!
I wasn't sure what to say to her at the moment, I was truly baffled at the speed of how she ate the dish. But most of all…
Did this bitch just slam down my glass plates?
Serie then let out an adorable burp, making her pause for a bit, before looking away from my direction. I stared at her ears and saw that they were turning slightly red, a clear sign that she had become flustered from that particular action just a while ago.
‘How cute.’ I couldn't help but think, then I decided to spare her from her prior embarrassment and ass-whooping for slamming down my glass plates.
“How was it? Is the food delicious?” I asked curiously. Though, it was delicious by seeing the speed with which she inhaled the entire wyvern pig, there’s no way anyone would eat that fast if the food they were eating didn't taste good.
Shifting back her attention, Serie replied. “It was delicious, and I mean it. In my long life, it's probably the most delicious meal I've had.”
If she says it like that, I can't help but be interested in trying the dish as well. Maybe later though.
“That's good, I suppose.” Although it wasn't me who personally cooked the dish. It made my pride as a chef and the cook of this establishment take a hit. It wasn't like I disliked this kind of thing or anything, it's just this is a restaurant, and anything that wasn't cooked in this place is like ordering a meal from another establishment.
And more importantly, it makes my place more of a convenience store rather than a proper restaurant. I would rather personally cook something than buy things conveniently from the system store because it's more of a personal pride as a chef rather than anything logical.
If I just buy things from the store, it would make me nothing more than a merchant than a chef.
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-Serie-
Wiping my lips with a handkerchief, I turned around to the owner of this establishment and spoke “It was a good meal, now can we begin the questioning?”
Although she did like the food, it wasn't the reason why she was here, to her the food was nothing but an unexpected bonus. She was here to investigate whether this establishment is a threat to the world, but that's unlikely to be the case considering what she experienced so far.
The man in front of her nodded in agreement. “Should I start first?”
“Go on, I'll answer your question to the best of my knowledge.”
“Alright then, my first question is does your world have magic?” The man- no, Akihiko, for respect she shall call this man by his name.
Anymore less would be nothing but disrespectful.
Aside from that, what's with this ridiculously easy question? It was common sense but despite thinking why he's asking such basic questions, she decided to still answer him as per agreement.
“Yes, my world does have magic, but are you asking such an obvious question? And what do you mean by ‘my world’ the way you mention it is like saying we lived in a different world.”
Akihiko scratched his left cheek and replied. “That's because we are, the world you live in is completely different from mine, in every sense of the word.”
Serie couldn't see any lie from the man in front of her and immediately became interested in this particular knowledge. “Truly..?”
“Yeah, first of all. In my world magic doesn't exist, it's just a myth, instead, we advanced in technology rapidly.”
“Fascinating...” Indeed it was, from all of the things she predicted, the knowledge that this place is an entirely different world altogether wasn't part of it. Although unexpected, it is a welcome one, as scholars and magicians of the past or more like, the mythical era, the generation she was born in debated about the existence of parallel worlds, a place similar to their world but also completely different from theirs.
Despite the countless theories about its existence. It wasn't proven and merely regarded as theory, nothing more. And just like that, the topic was forgotten as there wasn't anything that they could do to prove its existence. As amazing as magic is, no one managed to make a magical spell that involves world travel.
While it wasn't impossible, no one would dedicate their lives to a theory that might not be true.
That's why that subject was long forgotten, even though she has no desire to take it upon herself as she's not going to waste time despite her seemingly endless lifespan. She has better things to do than research a topic that isn't useful for slaughtering demons.
And yet, here she is today. That theory about parallel worlds that caused countless debates in the past was now proven to be real and true. It made her quite excited, to feel like this isn't easy Nowadays, she has seen too much, and done too many things for her to find excitement or happiness in simple things.
Thus, this occasion is very rare for her.
Akihiko let out a chuckle and responded. “Your world is also fascinating from my perspective, after all, there's no magic in mine. So it is given that I'm quite- no, I'm very interested in your world.”
It appears both of us are interested in each other's world.
“While I'm very fascinated by your world, you still haven't asked me questions aside from asking about my world having magic.”
“Right, right okay then. I will start asking questions about your world.”.
Serie nodded, and thus he started talking.
—
His questions weren't what she initially expected, as Akihiko's questions were rather basic, nothing noteworthy at least for her.
He asked her many questions, like the existence of demi-humans in her world. Though initially surprised at his knowledge about the existence of demi-humans, she responded to his question in kind.
Let's just say, their situation is basically like the elves, demons drove the majority of them to extinction. Sure, there are still some that survived, but in the current era, there are hardly any demi-humans at all.
Unlike elves, most demi-humans don't enjoy long-lasting lifespans like the elves.
Aside from that, he asked her if there were monsters in her world, this and that, very basic and simple questions that anyone in her world could answer quite easily.
After he finished his questioning, he said, “Well, I don't have anything to ask anymore. It's your turn.”
Finally, now that he finished filling his curiosity. It's time for her to fill hers.
“Then, what about…”
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Akihiko POV,
Her questions were a bit complicated, but nothing I couldn't answer. To be honest, this Q&A session was...fun, it felt great acting like an all-knowing being in front of a thousand-year-old elf.
The questions were a bit complicated, like the state of our technology, our Government, things like that. From her questions, it's safe to say that her world was still a monarchy.
(Where the government is still controlled by royalty and nobles.)
I answered her questions about the structure of our society and I told her about democracy and how the government works and her reply was.
“That’s a smart way to pick a leader, rather than selecting a leader through bloodline, instead the people could choose a person who has the capability of leading them.” Serie nodded as if she understood the appeal of democracy.
I don't want to break it down to her…but personally, democracy was a mistake, 99% of those who get their position are through money, rather than their capability, not to mention they're corrupted as hell.
Like the House Of Representatives in Japan, or the DIET. Honestly, I have no idea what they do except complain about literally anything.
Give people too much power and this happens, it's certainly better than monarchy, but democracy gives people too much freedom.
—
After talking with her for more than an hour, finally, our conversation was finished both parties were satisfied.
Serie promised to come back and asked me to buy her books from my world and is willing to negotiate for the price of those books she will acquire from me.
It wasn't really a problem for me and so I accepted her request, she also said it doesn't matter which genre the book is, she is willing to pay for it.
Naturally, at first, I told her that there was no need because she tipped a billion.
However, she answered. “From my long life, I've learned one thing. Knowledge is power, do not expect for me to accept it for free.”
So yeah, I have a feeling that insisting it to be free would only irritate her.
Serie left after and meeting her was exciting, and proved that the restaurant isn't just limited to parallel worlds.
But also another world entirely.
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A/N: It's been a while, I've been so busy these past few weeks that I couldn't find time to write.
Anyway, it's pretty fun to write their conversation, although it lacks some things that could be covered in later chapters.
