Chapter 48: Demons Really Are Strange…
After that, we continued researching Japanese laws and such, and before we knew it, it was past 6 PM. The setting sun had painted the sea outside in beautiful colors.
“It’s beautiful~”
“Yeah…”
Ayaka and I stood side by side looking outside.
“That place over there’s called Mojiko Port. Apparently, it’s a tourist spot.”
“Huh… Should we’ve gone?”
“Probably not…”
Well, obviously, Riku takes priority.
As Ayaka and I enjoyed the view, we heard a knock, and Kitaura-san went to the door.
Kitaura-san came back with Elvis and Linda-neesan.
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“We’re back… Oh? Are those two having a good time?”
Linda-neesan looked over at us.
“Yeah, well. The sunset is beautiful.”
“Is that so? Now then, I’d like to talk, but we’re running a bit late, so let’s do it over dinner. I have a reservation at 6:30.”
“By the way, neesan, where are we going?”
“We’re high schoolers at heart, so no lewd places~”
You’re girls, so that would be off-limits even if you weren’t high schoolers.
“It’s a proper restaurant. Since we’re in Shimonoseki, it’ll be a pufferfish restaurant.”
Pufferfish, huh.
“Yuu, I’m counting on you.”
“Takanashi-kun, please.”
“Yuu-kun, I’m relying on you.”
Leave it to me~
“What is it?”
Linda-neesan tilted her head cutely, looking puzzled.
“Poison. Pufferfish are poisonous, after all.”
“Ah, yes. If you ask, they’ll serve it with the poison, but they also have properly detoxified dishes.”
It’s not like choosing whether to add wasabi…
“Yuu, can you do something about the poison?”
Elvis asked me.
“I’m an alchemist, so I can analyze and break down poison. Remember when I cured Ayaka’s paralysis from Yamane?”
“Oh, right. So you can do that kind of thing. Then I’m counting on you. I’ll order the one with poison.”
Huh…
“Seriously?”
“Yeah, apparently it’s incredibly delicious. It’s just that goblins don’t have poison resistance.”
They probably don’t.
“Then don’t order it.”
“I want to eat it before I die.”
Are you going to be okay?
“Ah, right. I should give Elvis and Linda-neesan some potions too.”
With that, I placed two sets of potions on the table.
“I keep hearing that word, but what exactly are potions?”
Linda-neesan asked.
“Recovery medicines I can make with my Skill. Ones that heal wounds, restore stamina, cure poison, restore magical power, improve magical-power flow, and boost the effects of enhancement magic. If you want, I can make painkillers too. I can make all kinds of potions.”
Amazing, right?
“Hmm… I see. It makes sense that you’re the leader. It seems you went to another world, but this would be essential there.”
Well, I couldn’t use it from the start, though. I was a mage at first.
“That’s right. Thanks to Yuu-kun, life became much easier.”
“It was tough~”
“Really, really.”
Ayaka and the others were especially pleased.
These three had only Takamiya-san’s relatively low-level recovery magic as a healing method, after all.
Well, apparently that had been Mikami-san’s role before they died.
“Yuu, you can even make potions that restore magical power?”
Elvis asked while looking at the potions.
“I don’t know whether it can increase mana, though. For us, when we use magic, our magical power decreases and then recovers over time.”
“No, demons are the same. But you seem like you could make a potion that increases mana.”
I wonder? I don’t think I could make an experience point potion.
“Hey, it’s better not to tell anyone about this potion-making ability, right?”
“Of course. Absolutely don’t tell anyone.”
“Not to demons or humans. Actually, in this situation, humans might be scarier.”
That might be true…
“Even if you have to drink them, do it in secret.”
“We’ll do that.”
“To be honest, I’m not sure you should even be telling us or giving these to us.”
“We’re comrades, right?”
Aren’t I cool?
“That’s right~”
“Linda-neesaaaan~”
Takamiya-san and Kitaura-san clung to Linda-neesan.
“There, there.”
Linda-neesan patted their heads with an exasperated expression.
“…Elvis, wasn’t I cool?”
“…Well, yeah. But it’s probably better not to ask for confirmation.”
“That’s true too.”
“Well then, shall we be off? It’s not too far, so we’ll walk.”
When Linda-neesan said this, she left with the two still clinging to her, and Elvis followed.
As Ayaka and I were about to leave the room too, Ayaka turned around at the door.
“I thought you were cool too.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Ayaka nodded and left the room.
“Hmm… yeah…”
I had a lot on my mind, but decided it was too late to worry about that and left the room to join everyone.
We took the elevator down to the first floor, left the hotel, and walked through the town.
“Elvis, I saw goblins fishing by the seaside—did you meet with your own kind?”
“Yeah. I contacted them through social media and met up with them.”
Social media again, huh.
Elvis had said he’d never left Kyushu, so I figured as much.
“Can’t you get information about Tokyo and such from your own kind’s social media?”
“That’s impossible. This time, I managed to arrange a meeting by saying I wanted to talk in person. But if they’re too far away, it’s essentially impossible because they’re wary of anyone gathering intelligence for the human side. In fact, it seems the human side collected quite a bit of information through social media even in Beppu.”
I see…
“What about you, Linda-neesan?”
“We’re especially cautious. There are many human stalkers, you know? There’s the Succubus Church, but there’s also something called the ‘Succubus Capture Society,’ you know? Scary, scary.”
That’s scary…
But she’s licking her lips while saying that…
Is she going to be okay?