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The royal road was a place leading to a huge road leading out of the kingdom and the city.

Since it was a place where royalty and nobles often visited, there was a huge street for huge carriages to pass by, but when they were not in attendance, it often became a huge market street.

The market street leading to the huge street where most people flock is where many things are bought and sold, but what stands out by far is the restaurant.

If you go a little deeper, you will see shops selling daily necessities, and if you go deeper, they often sell things that are not commonly sold.

By default, the market opened early in the morning and closed early in the evening for adventurers.

Some restaurants and weapon shops continued to operate from morning until night.

The game said we could only go to one or two places, but at this moment, from the moment Kylon and I entered the game, it seemed like we could explore various places without such restrictions.

So the place I entered was a store in an alley connected to the royal road.

Kylon took off his armor and walked around in comfortable clothes, but since I was wearing a nun’s uniform, I decided that it would be better to walk around in a place that was not too conspicuous, so I chose a rare place.

The main menu items sold here are bread and soup, but other menu items are also sold.

Slices of bread shaped like cut baguettes and a soup with a rich aroma that seemed to be made from a soft roux were brought to the table.

And the menu I chose, which was not the main menu, appeared.

It was a set menu with cube steak and salad.

I liked meat and vegetables, but this appealed to me even more, so I carefully picked up my fork.

Then, I could see the expression on Kailon’s face, who was sitting across from me, becoming subtle.

He lifted the fork, but the question seemed to remain, and soon his mouth moved little by little.

“… But why isn’t steak the main menu item here?”

I agree with that, but sometimes things are like that.

They mainly sell vegetables and noodles, but since they lag behind the stores next door in selling just those, they also sell foods that people generally like, such as meat, as a bonus.

“Sure.”

Since there were a lot of people watching, I cautiously opened my mouth to answer, then took a piece of cube steak with a fork and brought it to my mouth.

The meat felt soft and tough.

But the taste was so good that I just gushed it into my mouth.

I wasn’t expecting a taste like this.

The only thing I had eaten since I came to this world was the rice at the nuns’ institute and the meals here, but the taste was equally bland, so I narrowed my eyes.

Are you selling something like this in a store? The taste was so weak that I thought,

I wanted intense salty and sweet flavors, but I couldn’t hide my disappointment at the food that didn’t satisfy my taste buds.

I could feel the texture, but the taste was weak, so it ended up being a meal purely for the texture.

Clatter, rattle.

I could hear the sound of clinking dishes, but I couldn’t move that quickly.

It’s not an old-fashioned story about how you shouldn’t lose your modesty as a saint or a nun, it’s just that it doesn’t taste very good and my hands are slowing down.

However, strangely enough, I noticed that Kailon in front of me was busy moving his hands.

He picks up the bread with his hand, tears it into bite-size pieces, and then dips it in the soup and puts it in his mouth.

Then, after mumbling and swallowing, Kailon picked up his spoon, scooped up the soup, put it in his mouth, swallowed it, and nodded.

“Oh, it’s delicious. I think I understand why soup is the main menu item.”

As he let out an exclamation, he put down his spoon, picked up a fork, dipped a piece of steak, put it in his mouth, mumbled, and swallowed it.

Then, unlike me, who was only feeling the texture of the meat, he put the grilled vegetables in his mouth and started chewing them with an expression of deliciousness.

As my stomach became full little by little, I felt his eyes turn to me.

“… Why don’t you eat it, saint?”

“I don’t think it’s good for my taste.”

I smiled bitterly at that and answered carefully.

Then he narrowed his eyebrows as if it was strange and put the soup in his mouth again and licked it thoughtfully.

But even though he did that, he couldn’t find the reason and stared at the soup and steak as if muttering.

“It’s strange, it’s really delicious… Are our taste buds that different?”

I couldn’t quite figure out why either.

I wondered if the trauma had dulled my sense of taste, but I thought that wasn’t the case because I was in the same state at the nuns’ training center.

After groaning, “Hmm,” I put down the fork I was holding and picked up the bread.

Tasteless doesn’t mean it’s not really delicious, it just means that the scent and taste are so slight that you can’t really feel anything other than the texture. So I thought I could just eat the bread, so I carefully cut it open and put it in my mouth.

I could fill my stomach with other things, but I thought it would be better to eat bread without anything, so I put a piece in my stomach and finished the meal.

And I was able to leave the restaurant only after Kailon, who was busy moving his hands in front of me, finished eating.

*

“But I think I still have to go to the king.”

After finishing the meal, Kailon, who was walking down the alley of the royal capital, suddenly said this.

Among those words, I reacted to the word king and looked at him with wide eyes in surprise.

“… Why?”

“Still, I brought you here, but I can’t keep having you call security, so I have to just declare that I will take you with me.”

“Oh, I see.”

Hearing those words, the anxiety that almost rose again subsided, and I immediately let out a sigh of relief when I felt like I had endured ten years.

As my shoulders slumped, I noticed that again, and Kylon’s lips moved.

“… are you okay. Because I won’t leave you behind.”

“Yes, thank you.”

I wondered if he had said that to reassure me, but I wasn’t sure.

Still, it felt good to say that, so I was able to raise my eyebrows.

I was also thankful that it made me feel safe.

After walking for a long time, the place we arrived at was the Holy Kingdom’s Magic Research Institute.

When Kailon said that Flora was there, I followed without saying anything, but I wasn’t really happy about seeing Flora.

What if it’s a possessor like me or Kylon?

I looked at Kylon cautiously, thinking there was nothing really terrible going on.

“Hey, what if you are possessed? What if you’re a guy like me?”

“It’s okay, you suck enough.”

“What crazy talk… .”

As I was moving my mouth with a straight face as Kailon answered the question, I was startled and looked around.

If this ruins my image, isn’t it because Kylon talked nonsense and made me swear?

I moaned and groaned while making those sounds, and then Kylon continued speaking.

“… Well, it might be a bit lame if you’re a man, but if you’re a woman, you’re welcome, and since Flora is a character that can be taken over as a hypnosis tool regardless of whether you like it or not, I guess it doesn’t matter.”

“There is no such thing as a devil.”

“If you think about what you wanted to do with this game, it’s no different to everyone else.”

After hearing that, I felt like there wasn’t much else I could say.

When I said this with a disdainful muttering in my mouth, Kailon shrugged his shoulders as if we were both common people and returned the words to me in their entirety.

After laughing bitterly at those words, I sighed and looked at the large research institute built over there.

Although it was not built extravagantly, I looked up with a serious expression on my face at the name of the building, which seemed to indicate that there was something important in its roughness.

As I was staring at him like that, Kailon tapped my shoulder and hurried my steps.

“Let’s go. This isn’t a magic tower, so you can go in.”

“Ah, yes.”

After coming to my senses, I nodded and walked after him.

As I entered the building and looked around, I was greeted by a gorgeous interior that was different from the exterior of the building.

As I slowly stepped on the beautifully filled white tiles and moved forward, all the officials inside immediately let me go as if they recognized the hero’s face.

As expected, do most people now know the hero’s face?

Rather, how much time had passed when I was tortured?

As I thought about that, I narrowed my eyes, but soon came to my senses and moved forward again.

When I wondered how long it would have been before the sound of the fluttering shoes, I was guided by an official and reached the door in front of me.

What was visible through the door that opened with a squeak was short pink hair that only reached her shoulders, and pink eyes.

I opened my eyes wide at the very pink appearance, and I could see her outfit underneath.

The purple cloak wrapped around her body and the colorful cape covering it once more were impressive, and at the same time, the large conical hat she wore and the red beads on the staff she held in her hand captured all eyes.

It was a moment to put aside the pounding heart and check whether or not she was a possessor or a typical game heroine.

The moment he faced Flora, Kailon’s mouth moved first.

“Are you, by any chance, the wizard Flora?”

“No? You’re not an ordinary wizard, but the supreme wizard Flora?”

And with that one line, I was able to realize that he was not an ordinary person.

It would have been clear that the possessed person who did that in their right mind would have been crazy, but it would be much easier to leave the decision to Kailon, who had played the game himself.

Because I can’t distinguish between scripts in the game.

“Could you please sing it again?”

“Haha… Yes, you are the Supreme Wizard Flora, are you correct?”

“Hmm, that’s right. That’s the warrior Kylon, right? I heard a lot of stories. Are you looking for me because you’re no good at magic?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Well—if the hero has such little knowledge of magic, there’s nothing I can’t help you with~”

Flora’s voice, which declared her colleagues slyly and with a ridiculous ease, seemed full of composure.

Rather, I didn’t know it from the illustrations, but I thought he was the type of person whose way of speaking was irritating.

My head is pounding already.

I barely managed to control my dizzy spirit and did my best to suppress my emotions so as not to show them.

After holding on for a while, I soon heard Flora’s voice.

“Ah… I have some research to do, so could you please wait for me for a moment?”

“Oh, I understand.”

Distracted by the sudden declaration of colleagues and the sudden order to congratulate guests, I walked out into the hallway again as if I was being chased out by Kailon’s voice.

And at the same time, after seeing that there was no one around, I spoke in a whisper.

“No, was he such a rude kid?”

“Crap, I don’t think he’s a possessor, but it’s the same as the script.”

“That’s not the problem, it’s not cheap… ! A guy like that is a colleague… ”

“Mesgaki I don’t know, Mesgaki? It’s a concept that’s a bit obnoxious, but it’s also lame when you get into it.”

Ah, that sounds like some mesgaki.

I’m really going crazy.

I already thought I would be confused after hearing the dizzying lines from the first meeting, but when Kailon saw it and kept the corners of his mouth dancing, I felt like I was going crazy, thinking I was crazy.

Because when crazy people get together, normal people turn into crazy people.

As I looked at Kailon’s face and snorted excitedly when he saw Flora, a childish girl who seemed to be shorter than me, and said she was the Mesgaki type, all I could do was sigh.

“Ugh, that’s bullshit. I wish you would tell me quickly that I’m a slob. I want to fuck you like a dog.”

“Again, again. This is a research lab, but it’s so vulgar… ”

“It’s okay, but my favorite is you.”

“It’s not that kind of problem. You crazy… ”

I couldn’t understand the mental state of Kailon, who was fucking Choi Annie and Cha Annie like a dog with the person in front of him and behind the wall.

Someone please do something to this crazy bastard.

I prayed earnestly to God.

Of course, it didn’t have any effect, perhaps because the hero was loved more than me.