Kuro no Maou

A little behind the main street, the tavern (bar) Fairy Tail had a shop.

There is no doubt in Lily's footsteps to take Fiona to the store, because there is a memorable store where she and Chrono drank overnight on the night of the full moon.

"You seem more prosperous than I thought."

Lily, who said that in front of a store with an open sign, is a toddler, but her consciousness is firmly awake.

If you're just here for lunch, there's no need for Lily to regain consciousness.

Then there's more to this store than eating.

"Is there something in this store?

"We'll find out soon enough."

That's all I said, Lily knocked over the store door.

"Welcome"

The store is somewhat narrower than standard as a coffee shop and tavern.

The simple interior store was filled with about two-thirds of the seats, and given that more than half of them were of non-human race, that was all the customer base of this store was known.

The clerk who has thus floated a brilliant sales smile to Lily and Fiona is also a fairy (fairy), not a human.

Did Fiona surprise you that the kind of fairies she doesn't see in many people usually work, or her slightly rare gaze at the little figure wearing an apron dress?

Lily didn't seem particularly concerned about her fellow countryman before, but rather told her what to do before the fairy waitress opened her mouth.

"The deepest seat, is it empty?

"Are you booked?

A fairy with an unchanging smile on her face, Lily acutely perceived that she had learned a slightly surprising emotion.

"No, it's the first time I've been allowed to use the back."

Lily took out 10,000 clans of sparda gold, and gave it to the clerk as it was.

"Can you do me a favor?

For a small body about thirty centimeters tall, the fairy said with a grin as she held the gold coin aside.

"Yes, I will now show you to your seat"

The deepest seat designated by Lily is not surrounded or private by a special stipulation, just because it is correctly behind the floor.

Although the view is somewhat blocked from the entrance to the store, it is structurally only visible as one of the regular seats.

"You have a very good soundproofing connection."

But Fiona felt the anomaly instantly the moment she sat down with Lily in this seat.

More than you can hear the hustle and bustle of the store, I guess this seat is the only one that develops a junction that doesn't specifically leak sound outside.

"It's a seat to tell stories you don't want to be heard, of course."

But Lily had a normal attitude about this, and maybe Fiona had an immediate guess about what this store was looking for.

"Are you an informant?"

Lily nodded small and affirmed.

"You've found a good place like this"

An informant is a store that reads and deals with information as if it were a letter.

Fiona thought it was not uncommon for restaurants, liquors and the like, where adventurers gather, to remain the informants who provide them with the information they need, apparently the same on both the Ark and Pandora continents.

"When I came here before, it was a full moon, if I had stayed a child, I wouldn't have known"

Finding it is not easy, however.

Because I'm not billboarding with a grand 'informer'.

Essentially, informants are often used by skilled adventurers who want more information than they can get in the Alliance, so they refuse to be new to Rank 1, etc.

The informant is made up of personal managers' connections and networks cultivated by living in the city for a long time. Because of this, the benevolent adventurers are only naturally and locally active, and those who flow from the outside will not be able to use it successfully unless they are of such sharp strength.

When Fiona was in the Republic too, she was an informer who had used it many times, but she didn't like to communicate with people and rush things, which was not a place she wanted to go very far.

"I'll shut up and have dinner, so I'll take care of the negotiations."

"Yes, you can do that."

It would be troublesome if Fiona said something poorly unreadable about the air and damaged their mood.

Especially since informants tend to value customers, it is common for people to refuse requests if they are distrustful.

"What will Mr. Lily do?

Fiona is already nailed to the menu table, not to mention the informant.

"Right..."

Lily immediately raised her gaze as she moved to the menu table.

"Thank you for waiting"

Because the fairy Whitless showed up to guide me at the entrance just now.

Blinking a sparkling rainbow light, the little fairy descended to the table.

Sinyon's hair and crisp circular eyes are both the same shade as Lily's blonde emerald eyes.

He is adorable as if the doll had moved as it were, but it is a natural appearance as a fairy clan, and I'm sure some of the fairies in the Fountain of Light looked just like her.

You're the manager here.

"Yes, but you don't seem very surprised"

"Heh heh, you'll see soon enough."

Whether you are usually mixed with other waitresses to smile and serve customers, a lovable fairy whose appearance is harmless to humans and animals, it is pointless to Lily, who has a powerful psycholeptic (telepathic) ability to look into your mind.

It takes time and effort to grasp everything to the deep psyche, but just a little reading of superficial consciousness is enough to convince them that they are not just waitresses.

Finally, Lily already knows that waitress imitations are done with half a hobby.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail, my name is Karen and I'll keep you company."

"This is Lily from the Rank 2 Adventurer party Element Master, this is Fiona"

"Excuse me, can I order?

Shit, Lily regretted that I should have fed her first, but Karen smiled and responded to Fiona's request.

"Yes, please, I can take your order"

In the end, it wasn't until about the time Fiona had her long-awaited lunch.

Fiona, Lily, who ordered many dishes by herself, didn't ask for anything special outside of a cup of tea because just stumbling on them would be enough lunch.

"I have both what I want to hear and what I want you to find out."

and put forward, Lily cut out an errand to go straight in.

"I want you to tell me what weapons stores you can trust, what tools stores you can have, what tailors you can have with your arms and what stores you can buy horse riding"

"Lily seems to be new to Sparda."

From the content of the question, it is predictable that we are not familiar with Sparda, that is to say, this is the first time we have come, but Lily suspected that this fairy named Karen already knows more than that.

For example, an adventurer who took on an emergency quest from Daedalus and fled, that's one crack?

"I'm sure you'll be able to use Sparda's biggest Mordred Arms Chamber, both in the upper and lower levels."

"Yes, so far I can't expect more than that"

Looks like you've been there already, Lily snorted at the words, and was also convinced that she wasn't still in a big store with Dada.

"Any other stores I can recommend will be compiled on the list and given along with the map"

"Thanks."

Finally, I'll also write down a nice date course that goes around with my lover, and to the words, Lily accidentally niggered away forgetting the invincible poker face.

Apparently, he remembers coming to the store on the 14th of the month of the first fire with a man (Chrono), then a girl Lily, but it is already foreseeable that she is the same person.

That way, for now, thanks to the availability of this store information, you will be able to choose a good item for purchasing a gift for Chrono.

Not only that, but you will be able to use only excellent stores from the outset without going around bad stores as adventurers in the future.

In spardas where there are many people and many shops, it can be quite a hassle to simply find a store that you can trust.

For this reason, it is not uncommon for people like Lily to immediately seek store information from an informant in a new city.

"Next story, do you know a Rank 1 adventurer named Simon?

I haven't told Chrono, but from that moment on the streets of the Galahad Mountains when Simon pointed to the captain of the Spartan army and said he was his sister, Lily didn't have a very good feeling.

Perhaps Simon is not a rank one adventurer as he seems, but a tall householder with a general to his sister who leads an army of spardas.

If you connect poorly with someone in your upper capacity, you don't know what kind of trouble will come down to you.

I think it's a rushing idea, but we have more than Rank 4 strength, including Chrono, and we have plenty of room to take advantage of it.

Still that doesn't leave the realm of bad paranoia, but Lily thought we should at least do enough to wash the relationship behind them as to who Simon was and what he was hiding and doing adventurers and such.

If you're lucky, you can grasp some weakness and stop dating Chrono.

Karen responded to Lily's inquiry, which perhaps contained thoughts, by placing a moment between hearts.

"I don't know, but you can't hide it from Master Lily."

"You don't have to hide things from me, because fairies don't lie."

Apparently the heirloom is really just a heirloom and untrue, Fiona thought as she stuck to the big sandwich.

"Just in case, my name is Simon, rank is 1, my class is an alchemist, a little boy elf with green eyes in gray hair, right?

"Should a boulder be called an informer, or is Simon that famous?

Both, Karen says with a smile as beautiful as Lily's.

"I want to know more about the man named Simon, including, if I can, the great family relationship."

"Fine, I can give you information about him right now."

Lily left the gold coins on the table in the same way she did when she walked into the store.

But this time the number is five, in the amount of 50,000 clans.

"I also want to know about recent trends, so please check around.

Finally, there's a woman named Simon's sister, and I'd like some information about the Spartan army, which is generally known. "

Seeking even confidential information about the Spartan army would require a hundred times the amount offered, whatever Lily doesn't want right now.

"I'm awed, we can look into it within three days, so please come back later"

Karen with a clean smile and Lily with an invincible grin, the little two shook hands at each other.

"Fiona, by the way"

"Yes?"

"Your meal is for a different price, so pay for it yourself."

It will cost you 4700 clans, Karen's words echoed vainly in Fiona's ear.