Labyrinth Restaurant

Something about a summer day.

"Hehe, I finally got it, hehe"

Cosmos had a suspicious grin all over the city of Labyrinth City.

No, in a way, she's suspicious is the standard condition, but she's suspicious again today. Its hands are gripped with a tightly packaged paper wrap.

"Hello Mr. Cosmos. What did you get?

"Oh, Lisa. It's a strange place to be."

And it must have been because it was so suspicious.

That's already noticeable, because you're walking on the city's boulevard with an unplugged leg. Lisa, who happened to be on a walk, found it and spoke to me.

"No, even though this package is not suspicious at all. It doesn't contravene any law, so to speak, it's a legal, lawless piece of shit."

"Ha? I don't know..."

"Anyway, it's still precious, so it got a lot more expensive in just this amount. Heh heh, I tasted a little too, but I'm pretty sure this powder is addictive. If you teach the city this flavor, you will soon be able to sell it at a high price."

The suspicion has increased all at once.

Powder. Addictive. High value.

If a guard (an officer) had asked me what I was saying, I wouldn't be able to complain if they just pulled me off. Though former, even as a brave man who keeps world peace......

"Oh? Lisa, you're surprisingly thin on reactions."

"'Cause Mr. Cosmos doesn't really do anything wrong, does he? We've been dating there a long time, and I know you're deliberately saying it in a weird way trying to surprise me."

"... oh, what a good man (oh good) aura. I didn't envisage bokeh killing in this direction."

It doesn't matter what your eyesight as a brave man is, this time it's taken one from the unexpected direction of Cosmos. Cosmos, it seems more damaging than seriously pissed off.

"So, what is that wrap after all?

"Oh, Lisa, I think you probably know. I've already ground this in powder, so why don't you give it a taste"

"Don't hesitate, then. Hmm, this scent... hey, it was in this world too."

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Move the place to the Demon King's Restaurant.

Cosmos spread out the paper wrap at the table in the guest seat.

"I liked what I received when I interrupted Japan alone before, and I was checking here to see if a similar plant existed. It's up to me to finally find a small amount of it grown as medicine in a despicable countryside these days."

Flower pepper.

The reading in Japanese is "Kagi".

"Howajao" in Chinese.

Or condiments, also known as Sichuan peppers or Chinese peppers.

It is also used as a medicine that improves swelling and helps to stop coughing.

"I thought I could bring in seeds and seedlings from Earth to grow them, is that the difference between soil and water? Even the same plants don't work."

"Ha ha, that was tough"

"Well, we've already sent our budget and personnel to the site to start growing flower peppers on a large scale here. I was wondering if we could put it into circulation in the general market before it's too far away."

"Oh, that's again..."

Lisa is impressed with Cosmos' behavior. To put it all this way, it will also be close to the day when new condiments line up on the market.

"Yes, Lisa, you haven't had lunch yet, have you? Would you like to join us? I'll borrow the kitchen and the ingredients and I'll even get something here."

"Then let me sweeten your words. What do you make?

"Heh heh, that's what I've been enjoying since I made it. Oh, Lisa, is it okay for you to be hard?

"Yeah, I'm pretty strong for spicy."

There are also several types of taste: spiciness.

The spicy taste that makes the tongue typical of chili peppers hot is "spicy (Ra)".

Flower peppers, on the other hand, are "hemp (mar)" such that the tongue is visibly paralyzed.

A typical of recipes made with flower pepper, hemp tofu and strawberry noodles are masterful dishes that skillfully combine the characteristics of this "hemp" or "spicy". If you dare pull out "spicy" and want to taste the paralyzing spiciness of "hemp," some hands shake the flower pepper straight into the meat you fry or grill with meat or vegetables very normally.

Well, what's the menu Cosmos chose this time?

"Yes, it's mahjong tofu. And then I got the right white rice and pickles."

"You're here on King's Road. Indeed, this looks spicy..."

The characteristic of the more flower pepper hemp lady tofu is the appearance of black as if even squid smear had been included. Ingredients such as tofu and pork ground meat are very common, but flower peppers and soy sauce, which are the determinants of flavour, seem to have been added in considerable quantities. Even though I haven't had a bite just to put a plate on the table yet, I'm already getting a tingle in my eyes and nose.

"Well, then, I'll have it..."

"Yes, eat it. Okay, so am I. Which I didn't taste when I was making it..."

Lisa and Cosmos never started eating their will, though.

"That, unexpectedly?

"What, isn't it usually delicious"

The irritation was surprisingly mild when she said she ate her mouth ready to burn to death. No, it's spicy indeed, but to the extent that it falls within the realm of common sense spicy dishes.

"It feels good to have this tongue paralyzed."

"I dare say spicy dishes in hot summers are nasty."

If you know you have nothing to fear, you will only normally enjoy a meal later.

Anyway, it's a highly flavourful dish, so the other party's white rice keeps decreasing. Not only did the cosmos not need to lose weight than they were, but Lisa, who feared the scale, stuck with her hands instead of white rice.

"Well, thank you for the treat."

"Yes, you were rude."

And when the two of you finished your meal.

"Ugh, I'm finally settled. So what were you two eating? I saw Cosmos make something in the kitchen."

Finally Alice, who was free after her lunchtime peak, spoke to me. Although I greeted him lightly when he arrived, he rarely seemed to be able to afford to take a closer look at what was going on inside him because of the store's busy schedule.

"Yeah, I'll have some hemp tofu today"

"Oh, that's nice"

Cosmos answered Alice's question. Mild flavoring for 10,000 people that can't even be intensely spicy, but Mahjong Tofu is also on the menu of this store.

"And I added this secret drug today"

"Secret medicine... is a big deal. What, that powder?

What Cosmos showed me was the rest of the flower pepper.

But I dared put it in a strange way here.

Is it a signal to Lisa to keep her mouth shut?

"Hehe, Master Alice. Can you still say it's a big deal to hear this? This is the mysterious psychic drug that says that anyone can get big tits if you kick one shot!

"Become, something like that!?"

"Look, that evidence must be huge for both me and Lisa, right? Actually, the world's boobs are huge because they're secretly taking this secret drug."

"Ya, you do get the muscle......!

Of course I can't get through the muscles.

Simply cosmos is making fun of Alice.

She seemed plain concerned that her earlier Lisa opponent's bokeh ended up underdeveloped.

By the way, Lisa smiles bitterly and thinks, "Alice is going to be cute (crazy) sometimes," etc., while keeping a warm eye on the interaction between the two.

"I don't have much left, Alice, but if there's anything else you want, give it away for free. This way, you use rounded paper or something to suck it out of your nose all at once. That would be more effective than ingesting it from your mouth. Come on, Sue, all at once!

"Yes, I understand -"

On the boulder. That's dangerous in many ways, so Lisa stopped it just before it ran. You won't even have to dare to tell us what happened to Alice and Cosmos after the crap.