Labyrinth Restaurant

"Alice, I'm home."

Welcome back, Demon King.

The Demon King has returned from a late night of changing dates, a meeting with the human world, and a subsequent party. Rarely does it contain alcohol or it smells lightly of alcohol.

"I was still awake. You could have rested first."

"No, don't worry, it's what you like"

A week early after the meeting started. The meeting itself is going well and well, but it is rarely prolonged, and the return of the Demon King has been slow, especially in the last three days or so.

"But I'm off three days from tomorrow."

"Yeah, you must be tired and get some rest"

The Demon King, who boasts a bottomless strength, also has spiritual fatigue, not to mention other human participants. Too much fatigue increases the likelihood of misjudgment, and the meeting, which lasted a week, was to be interrupted once and for all by today, and the three-day holiday from tomorrow.

"Is the barbecue starting tomorrow at lunch?

"Yes, I have finished making the ingredients"

It doesn't taste like you're just going to end up sleeping and spending a corner holiday, and we're going to have a barbecue party tomorrow. We are already ready to make such implements as cutting meat and vegetables into easy-to-eat sizes or keeping them soaked in sauce, and all we have to do is cook and eat them.

"Demon King, by the way. Have you eaten yet?

"Yeah, I've just pinched a bunch of party dishes,"

"How about dinner or something if you like? Or do you want to take a bath first because the bath is boiling? Or............... no, whatever"

"Hmm? Well, I'm going to sweat it first, so I guess I'll have some evening meals later. Easy stuff."

"Yes, then I'll have it ready while you're in the bath"

Alice, who misses the Demon King entering a private space behind the restaurant for a bath, heads to the kitchen to cook a night meal.

"So do you want to make it? The ingredients…"

When Alice took out four pre-made rice balls, she applied soy sauce to that surface and started baking them in a frying pan with butter pulled. The contents of the rice balls are two tenderloins of kelp and the other finely chopped and sesame seeds.

There is no particularly difficult process for cooking, so it is the completion of a baked rice balls flavoured with butter soy sauce if cooked to the point of light scorching on both sides.

After preparing the evening meal, Alice carried a plate with grilled rice balls and a hot tea to the table on the two floors, along with an empty rice tea bowl.

Then shortly after, the Demon King, who had finished bathing and changed into an easy outfit, came back and the two of us started eating dinner at night.

"Hey, grilled rice balls, they look delicious. Then I'll have it."

"Yes, eat it. The contents of the rice balls are kombu on the right and Sawaan on the left. Then, the brave man taught me how to eat it, but it would be delicious to have a roasted rice balls and tea in an empty tea bowl over here and make it a teapot."

"That sounds delicious. Well, I guess I'll eat one of them in a teapot."

Alice and the Demon King still ate hot grilled rice balls, one intact and the other pickled in tea. The shapes that are baked are firmer than pickled regular rice, so taste slowly as you poke them apart slightly with chopsticks.

It's never a flashy dish, and not surprisingly delicious, but that's why it went into my stomach with ease of eating.

It's not a big amount, so we both finished our evening meals in a few minutes or so and relaxed and talked to each other about what happened today while drinking tea after meals, etc.

"Well, those vampire kids are here."

"Yes, I thought I'd invite you to the barbecue tomorrow anyway"

"Yeah, I think it's good. I had a rough day."

"Is something wrong?

"When I said I was single, royalty and nobility from all countries sold your daughters and grandchildren into marriage."

"Nah......!? So what happened to the Demon King!

"It's bad for those people, but I said no to them all. It's pathetic for those kids to ignore their feelings and decide who to marry on their own...... Alice, what's wrong?

"Look......, yes, no it's nothing! I think it's important for me to have feelings for each other, so yes, it's important for me to have feelings for myself."

"Well, then we're out of tea, and it's too late, so it's time to go to bed"

"Well, I'll take care of the dishes, Lord Demon, so rest first."

"Then I guess I'll sweeten it to your word. Good night, Alice."

"Yes, good night, Demon King."

Thus the quiet evening for just the two of us went further in peace.

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"hehe, uhh"

Alice, who was washing dishes in the kitchen after the Demon King slept first, was in a very good mood and had an unexpected laugh.

"I think the interaction earlier looked exactly like a friendly couple"

Alice was very pleased to be able to experience the simulated situation of "warmly welcoming her husband (Mayu), who is her wife, who has returned tired". I usually work in the same workplace (restaurant) so this kind of situation is extraordinarily valuable. It's actually a superior-subordinate relationship, not a wife or husband, but the settings around it were conveniently converted in the brain.

"But I thought of it as a cosmos." Do you want it for dinner? Do you want to take a bath? Or I ”Operation" seemed too early for me. We need to take a few more steps before we... "

You're right, I've been thinking about nothing but wandering the Demon King.

"Now let's aim for what kind of situation. It's nice to be a princess. How do we bring it into that situation?

Thus, the tense Alice continued her delusions until dawn.