256. Ryota doesn't do that




 Tavern, Villadièche.
 It's my favorite place to go, they serve a different kind of beer every day, it's a good place to enjoy a different taste every time you come.

 After a long day's work, Alice and Rebecca came to the bar.
 They recommended black beer today, so we started off with black beer for the three of us.

'I heard that,'
Yeah? What?

 When I asked her back, Rebecca stared at me with horrified eyes.
 No, the way you ask it, you'll have to ask it back like this.

"Are you saying this is not worth remembering?
No, I really don't know what you're talking about.
...... It's about Bodley.
Yeah.

 Pong, clap your hands.

'You're the guy who disclosed how to go around.
Yes, I do. You're a terrible man. I can't believe he did that to me twice.
I was munching on it.
Don't play around with those killer platitudes.

 Rebecca's lips twitched.
 Don! He slams the battered jock onto the table.
 He looks really pissed off.

'Though: ......

 I scratched my fingers on my cheek.
 Even if this doesn't happen, the strategy is something I'm going to make public - or rather, share - with you.

 I'll get used to it so that anyone can do it to some extent before I post it on a wiki or something.
 That's how I've always treated strategy, so it's not like I'm going to make it public, it's just .......

 For some reason, that doesn't seem to sit well with Rebecca.

'Yes, yes, I know. He wanted to give her a whirl.
It's okay if you know what you're doing.
And I don't like the margin for error!
Yeah?

 Rebecca's face is uptight and she looks completely made up.
 Is it possible that she has a drinking problem?

I don't think he has the luxury of time or anything.

 Alice, who had been frolicking with her fellow monsters all along, opened her mouth.

'What?'
It's just the way Lyota is. It's not that I'm in trouble--it's that I can't leave people in trouble when I see them in trouble.
I know that!
Of course.

 Alice said happily, smiling and laughing.
 Rebecca's lips twitched more and more in response.

'I hate that you can afford it, too!
Me?
'Yes, you do! I just walked around with a genie in my hand and it's already ...... eeee!

 Rebecca is eating a pinch of peanuts from Alice's hand (!) He took away the spirit, Phosforus' melasma.

'Eei, thus! Thus! I'll do this!

 Rebecca kneaded the melamella with her hands, nudging it around and wrapping it with her hands to roll it up like it was clay or mud dumplings.
 The flames of the melamella grew brighter and duller, and when she was freed from Rebecca's hands, her eyes were completely "@@@" and spinning around.

 What a ...... drunk.
 Well, I'm still a cute guy for this level of tangled drinking, so it doesn't matter.

 The Melamela kitten incident led to more interaction between Rebecca and Alice.
 The two of them leave me and start chatting.
 I take a step back to watch these two people who are very similar to each other.

 We are both born in a dungeon, and both have a spirit.
 Their personalities and tone of voice are opposite, but by looking at it this way, I feel that they are subtly similar.

 Suddenly, the skeleton Honehone lost his balance.
 He lifted the human mug with his whole body and tried to drink its contents, and sneaky! He slipped and fell backwards.

 Rebecca reached out quickly to help her out of it and put it underneath her.

'It's not safe, if you're going to drink it, you need a smaller cup.

 Hone Hone responded with a crunch and a shake of Gaikotsu's head, as if he were saying, "Thank you.

'That's very kind of you,'
Monsters are special.
Maybe it's because I was born in a dungeon.
Yes. You're right.

 Rebecca admitted honestly.
 Once Hone Hone was rescued, the other monsters began to approach Rebecca as well as being around Alice.

 Between the monsters, Alice and Rebecca became close friends.

'...... outside, it's so noisy,'

 Suddenly, Rebecca, who had been feeding Gow Gow with fries, said something like that.
 The entrance of the store - the eyes turned to the outside were back to being sharp, like a top-notch adventurer, genie attached.

''It's a bit noisy if you ask me. Ah, what's going on?

 I catch a shopkeeper passing by and ask him about it.

'I heard there was some kind of haggle.
Is that so?
Yes, but it's not a problem because everyone else is getting rid of them right away. It's just that they keep showing up one after the other, so there's a lot of commotion going on.
...... Right.

 I was caught up in the fact that they are showing up one after another.
 You don't get to see haggling in the city early, and it's showing up one after another?

 Could there be something else going on?

 I sat up and looked out towards the entrance of the restaurant.
 The city of Cyclo at night was several percent more noisy than usual. From all over the place, the sounds of battle could be heard, as if you were in a dungeon.

''Hey, did you hear, it seems that Ryota is the one causing all this commotion.
Ryota, Ryota Sato from The Grandmaster?
Yeah, he's been throwing out monsters everywhere.

 Across the road, I could hear the men talking as they passed by where I couldn't even see their faces well.
 Am I scattering them? That's why--

No way. - No way.

 The voices came from two directions at the same time.

 One of the duo moving away from me in conversation, and the other right next to me. They both sounded like they were snickering.
 Before I knew it, it was Rebecca who came up next to me.

Rebecca.
It's ridiculous, you wouldn't do that.
'Yeah, yeah, Lyota wouldn't do that. Everyone in town knows that, right?

 Alice came over and agreed with Rebecca's words.

 Well, I guess so.
 Rather, "Don't do anything unreasonable in front of Lyota" is Ciclo's watchword.
 There shouldn't be many people who believe in that kind of thing, spreading haggling around the city.

 However, we can't just leave it at that.
 It is a fact that hagre-mono is actually out there, so it is possible to cause damage.

Sorry, you two, I'm going to go out for a bit.
'Yes! Have a good day.
You're on your own.

 The two of them saw me off and I ran out of the store.

     ☆

 After Ryota leaves, Alice and Rebecca remain in the shop.
 Alice with a smiling face and Rebecca with a bored look on her face, looking bored and flustered.

 They stand shoulder-to-shoulder and look off at Ryota's back.

'What a man, at all.'
Well, you know better than that.

 Alice suppresses her mouth and smiles meaningfully, mufufu.

''I can't believe you did that (...) twice,'' You've been watching it a lot, haven't you? Or maybe you're looking into it.
I don't know!

 Rebecca has a point, Tan! He stepped vigorously on the floor and walked back into the store.

'Haha, no embarrassment, no embarrassment,'

 With a sense of familiarity and ease, Alice followed Rebecca back into the shop as well.