The restaurant owner, Kaori, handily cooked meals at Mizuno, a set meal shop in the friendly city of Hikari. It is still early until the opening time, and it is the time when I would have planned for the next visit, but today I have planned for the next visit, so I will finish the visit first.

Then, the back door was knocked on instead of the entrance to the store at a time when the dish that was going to be done for the person who would be visiting soon was about to pass.

"... hello, Heavy! Hannah too!"

I'm sorry, Kaori-chan.

Hello, Kaori-san.

The visitors were Shigenobu Ozo, an elderly man who was the same heroic character as Kaori, and Hannah, his wife.

Shigenobu and Hannah were remote friends of Kaori's years, and they still came to Kaori's shop about once a month.

”Never mind, I can't talk slowly until before the store opens... please come inside”

"I'll bother you. Oh, Kaori-chan, the vegetables I picked here." Eat it some other time. "

"Thank you all the time! I have something for you to eat today." It's amazing, so you can expect it. "

"Huh, that's exciting." I've got some interesting stories, so let's talk about the sole later. "

Guide Shigenobu and Hannah to the store, check that they were seated at the counter, and pour the water into the cup. And Kaori, with a proud expression, put out a rice pestle in front of the two of them.

"I really should let it out with my pocket, but I want to brag about this first!"

"White rice? Nice gloss." Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

How about that? Isn't that amazing?

"Oh, it's really the first time I've eaten delicious rice in decades." Well, you've found this level of rice. "

It's really, really delicious.

Kaori's taste of white rice surprised both Shigenobu and Hannah. Shigenobu himself is also a Japanese party, and both of them personally procure rice.

At present, I am hiding and cultivating fields for my hobbies, so I do not grow rice myself, but I purchased a lot of things related to rice.

Originally, white rice was cultivated in a small number of places on the periphery of the Hydra Kingdom. Although this is comparable to other countries, there are farmers who produce rice in Hydra.

Shigenobu also tried the rice of various farmers and purchased the rice that he thought was the most expensive but the most delicious, but... the rice he had eaten was clearly at a different level than that.

"Lady Lazuria introduced me recently with a small hand... I'm a white rice made by a fairy called Laz-sama." It's really high level, isn't it? "

"Oh, my God. I'd like to buy it, too... but it's worth a lot of money, isn't it?"

"No, that's... thanks to the person who introduced me, but it's quite cheap because of the person who introduced me... that's why I'm buying it for about two-thirds the price of the rice I bought before"

"I see... hey, Kaori-chan. I'm not saying it's impossible, but...."

"It's okay! I thought Heavy would definitely want it too, so I've purchased it for multiple purposes." I'm taking good care of Heavy-san, so I can buy it for you. "

"There is, but I'm looking forward to eating this rice in the future."

Kaori, who expected Shigenobu to want rice, made a lot of purchases after confirming in advance with Lazuria whether it was okay to sell it to his acquaintances.

Kaori continues to say the words with a smile on his face, seeing the trust that will please him.

"Well, in the first place, it's not good to have Lady Raz go to the demon world to buy things every month, so... I've bought them together for half a year, so adjusting the amount will work at all."

Six months? Kaori-san, is it okay to purchase and store it so much?

"No, that's it, Hannah-san... look at this."

Listening to Hannah's question, Kaori smiled bitterly, and a [black magic box] appeared on her palm.

"Hey, Kaori-chan... you bought a lot of stuff." Black is a Japanese yen that can be surpassed by 100 million yen, right? "

”That's right, Heavy-san... I didn't buy this... I got it”

What did you get?

"Yes. Master Raz said, 'It's convenient for storing rice, so I'll give it to you!"... no, of course I refused. "I couldn't get anything so expensive... and then I felt the difference in the dimensions of living in the black magic box... because it was not a big deal, so I bought a lot of rice...

"Well, who is this Laszlia-sama...?"

Hannah turned to hear Hannah's stunned expression when she heard that she had given me a black magic box that was supposed to be extremely expensive.

Of course, it was outside the scope of common sense for Kaori to give me this level of magic equipment for free, and I understood their amazement well.

"After all, she still thinks she's lucky to receive it in a way that she can really be pushed away..."

But there is a difference in perception. Generally speaking, magic tools using black magic crystals are extremely expensive, but for Chrome Aina's family... that's not the end of the spectrum for [Torre and those close to her].

Yes, it's an extreme story, but if you buy a cheap magic crystal in the store and ask Torre to change the purity of the magic crystal, and then make the magic box magic tool yourself, and ask Zekus to make it, you can make it cheaply.

Well, even if you buy it normally, because Lazulia herself has a level of field that can be called a large farm and she wholesales vegetables and such to the chamber of commerce that Chrome Aina has, it is not a very large amount because of her considerable financial resources...

"...... I was also curious to ask... the first fairy king, and now he's in a position like a cadre at Chrome Aina......"

"... what's going on? The owner of the restaurant can introduce you to such a terrible person?"

"... really?"

In his words, Kaori had a look of distant eyes that he had recently become familiar with.