Labyrinth Restaurant

'It's been three mornings since we left our two father-in-law cabins for this. The two of them, again, have been stuck together. But the more I went, the more the woods came, and if they hadn't come here to help me, the two of them would have been like this. I almost fell.

Then, I was just about to hitch. A beautiful bird, white as snow, crammed into a single branch of a tree, with a very good voice. He has a very good voice, so the two of them stood still and overheard. In time, when he stopped singing and the little bird winged, the two of them went and stood and went. They both followed that bird where it went. Then I came out in front of a cute koya. On that roof, the birds clumped together. When you two went right next to Koya, well, this cute Koya was made of bread and the roof was covered with sweets. Besides, the window was shiny sugar.

"Come on, let's go for it.," Hensel said. "It's so sweet. I don't mind, let's make a mess of it. I'll put a roof on it. Gretel, you need to tap the window. Oh, not really.

Hensel put her hands up high enough to scrub the roof and try to see what it tasted like. Then Gretel put a tease on the windowsill and started teasing me.

"Excerpt from the Grimm fairy tale" Hensel and Gretel "([Blue Sky Library] Masao Nanshan)"

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"... Hensel and Gretel thus went home with the treasures of a witch and lived happily ever after with your father. Congratulations, congratulations.... I think it was just this story, how was it?

"Yes, it was interesting."

One day I was reciting a fairy tale of remembrance before the Demon King and Alice. I don't know why I was doing that again, but it's a hippopotamus, as an example. Without the battle, there would be no brave men's work, and the Demon Kings don't have a single guest in the restaurant today, depending on what they were into chatting about because they had no choice.

It became a topic of what stories were in each other's worlds during that chat, and so they told some fairy tales, comics and other stories, to the best of my ability to remember.

Aside from fairy tales abroad like "Hensel and Gretel," Japanese stories like "Peach Taro" and "One Dimensioner". I've also talked about the reveal of some super famous comic strip that tours a ball where dragons come out and wishes come true when I collect seven other things (though it's almost just a healing item in the second half of the story), but thank goodness the Demon King seems to prefer fairy tales to comics.... Well, maybe I just couldn't help explaining the comic book story verbally.

"Um, I'm talking about now, where did the last Ijiwal stepmother go?

Alice, who was quietly listening to you next to the Demon King, said such a question.

"Uh, I was just wondering if you'd died at some point."

I do exit in this case where it has absolutely nothing to do with the main thrust of the story, and I find it hard to say good and bad.

"I was wondering what it would be like to use sweets for building materials in the first place. I mean, it's like having a house in the woods, and what's going on with insect control?

... I don't care if you ask me that. Besides, I'm sure the Grimm brothers didn't even think about that.

"I'm sure the witch was magically doing something about it... maybe"

I know I don't mean to offend you, Alice, but I'm kind of looking for coarse directions to talk to. I didn't really want to pursue that direction, so I spoke to the Demon King to change the course of the conversation.

"What did the Demon King like about the story?

"I wonder if it's a sweet house. Let's rebuild Demon King's Castle with sweets."

"haha, that might be good too"

Yeah, that's good, isn't it, sweet house? It is once a romantic substitute. The Demon King jokes about remodeling the Demon King's Castle with sweets too..., is that a joke?

"Well, then you'll quickly collect sugar, flour and all the other things you might need. About a hundred tons each for now."

Advice I'm the Demon King who was genuinely a willing man to remodel the Demon King's Castle, but I and Alice were able to convince him to stop it before he managed to move the plan into action. Isn't the brave man who struggles to protect the castle of the demon king from the devil's hands so much as mine, albeit transworld-wide?

It's just that the Demon King seems to have completely caught fire with his curiosity, and as a compromise he's going to scale down to create the real thing of a confectionery house.

If you make half the stuff and you remain dissatisfied with the Demon King, it's not necessarily when the Demon King's Castle will not be exposed to the threat of cream or sugar, and I'd like to work with you to create a fine confectionery house.

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So I did.

First we decided to use the treats as building materials, then we continued to make them, and finally we succeeded in creating a single house with just the treats. The actual work process was a very plain picture surface, so I'll skip it though.

I would now like to give you some details of the confectionery house that was completed quickly.

-Walls & Floors

Both are parts of the required strength, and solid-roasted pancakes were employed as building materials. It also stretches harder and thicker baked objects than regular pancakes in multiple layers of water, making them sturdy and unbreakable in some ways.

-Door

I remember a story I read when I was a kid that the door to the confectionery house was like something that made the board chocolate giant as it was, but naturally the chocolate has the weakness of being vulnerable to heat. So we used lamb as a material for the door, not chocolate, not even some heat.

-Windows

I still thought it would be desirable to have a material that was as easy to light through and transparent as glass to use as a window. When it comes to transparent treats, you can think of jelly or cold weather items. I worried a lot about which of those two I would employ, but in the end, like the door, I ended up using cold weather, which is relatively more resistant to heat than gelatine, as a material for windows. Vinegar soy sauce and black honey are applied to the surface so that different flavors can be enjoyed depending on the location.

- Furniture

No matter how much strong material was used on the walls and floors, there is a possible risk of collapse if there is a lot of weight to support it. So we decided to make furniture such as tables and chairs and tans with very light materials, fu confectionery. Weight is kept to a minimum if most of them are air fu treats even if they look big. Fu confectionery, inflated to the limit, was glued with water to produce furniture. It tastes like brown sugar, by the way.

-Roof

The material on the roof bothered me the most. I've never crossed it lightly, but unlike furniture you just need to put on the floor, it also requires some strength. Various materials were considered, but a hybrid structure of potato kempi and ripped squid was eventually adopted. Pancakes, cookies and other plate-shaped treats are easier to assemble, but they really add more weight. In that regard, if you are a fissure squid that can also tear as thin as a thin bar-shaped potato kempi and yarn, you could combine lightness and strength by assembling it like a straw roof.

"... you finally made it..."

"This is the real treat house, isn't it!

"Congratulations, Demon King!

This is how the solid grilled pancake walls and floors, lamb doors, cold weather windows, fu confectionery furniture, and confectionery houses by the roof of potato kempi and ripped squid were completed.

The confectionery house was definitely not such a 'sum' taste-enhanced image, and I think the salt air is a bit too strong overall, but the Demon King and Alice, who don't know the details of 'Hensel and Gretel', don't seem particularly uncomfortable with this finished drawing, and they are both honestly happy with the completion.

It would be tough if I could unwittingly rebuild it, and more importantly, as a brave man, to preserve the peace of Demon King's Castle, I would also hide my heart and talk to the two of them and pretend to rejoice in completing it together.

... I kind of feel like everything is wrong already.