Menu Unification

 

After about a year, the hero party gathered as a complete team.

They were currently at a Chinese restaurant with private rooms, choosing their menu items.

The group pondered over what to eat while touching the kiosk.

“I’ll have jjamppong.”

“Hmm… I’ll have jjamppong too.”

“Get me the same thing. Oh! Let’s order tangsuyuk too!”

The time to choose the menu was short, and they were close to a unanimous decision…

“I want to eat jajangmyeon—”

“Indeed. I am in the mood to eat jajangmyeon right now—”

— Glare x3

“… Haha, never mind. Is it because of the cold weather? I feel like eating jjamppong!”

“Huh? What’s going on. Nerd, you said you’d eat jajangmyeon with me… Um. I’ll have jjamppong.”

As expected of the hero party who had honed their teamwork through years of traveling together, they even managed to unify their menu choices, deserving spontaneous applause.

While waiting for the food ordered through the kiosk, the group was chatting.

“…This is tyranny.”

“I agree with that opinion, Nerd.”

If Roilli and Pollon were grumbling in a corner after having their menu choices confiscated, creating a gloomy atmosphere around them—

“Hahah. Tina is cute, isn’t she? Hee!”

“Ahh— Stop teasing me!”

“Hehe. I’m so glad my name is just two syllables~ But Krisha, I agree with Ara’s opinion too? The nickname Tina is pretty cute~”

“…If Jane says so…heh.”

Around Ara, Christina, and Jane, there was such a lively atmosphere that one might mistakenly sense the fragrance of flowers.

In such contrasting atmospheres…

“Your order is ready~”

Thanks to their unified menu choice (albeit forced), the food came out faster than expected.

Jjamppong was delivered in front of each person, and two large plates of tangsuyuk were placed in the center.

“Hey. Aren’t you going to prepare chopsticks? If you have nothing to do, you should at least prepare the utensils. Huh? Are you saying we should eat with our bare hands?”

Ara scolded Pollon and Roilli for not preparing utensils to eat the food with.

“…Ugh. I feel like we shouldn’t have come.”

“I agree…”

— Clatter… Clatter….

“Fuck, hurry up and put them down!?”

— ClatterClatterClatter

…. They were comrades.

“Whew~ That was delicious.”

“Agreed.”

“It feels good to eat together after such a long time. Hehe.”

Ara, Jane, and Christina finished their meal quickly.

“Slurp. Slurp—”

“Nom nom nom~”

And Roilli and Pollon who had not yet finished their meals.

“Shall we go to a café?”

“Not a bad idea.”

“Hehe. Alright.”

Acting as if they didn’t see those two, they decided on their next destination and left the room.

“…This is really fucking shitty. Don’t you think, idiot?”

“Yeah, truly fucked up, Nerd.”

…They really were comrades.

“Aren’t you coming out?! We’re all done eating, what were you two doing?”

“Pollon kept interrupting my eating so I couldn’t finish—”

“Bullshit? Where are you lying—”

They really were comrades. Really… yeah.

After leaving the Chinese restaurant, the two pure females and three TS females entered a nearby café.

— They’re so fucking pretty..

— Wow, those breasts, those breasts… I wish she’d give me just a little bit. Sob.

— Mom! That sister too! Like you, breast surgery mmph—

— Hiya~ My eyes are cleansed…

— Hmm… I like that short one… ugh

— What the fuck? Was this guy a pedo?

As they entered the café, people were whispering about them.

“…This is annoying. I want to grind their faces with Meteor.”

“I agree, Nerd. I want to shoot an arrow between their eyebrows.”

Roilli and Pollon were irritable, either because they weren’t used to this kind of attention or because they were upset about not finishing their jjamppong.

“Shut up.”

“”…….””

What’s with those scowls? Making me want to hit you.

After silencing the two idiots who were growling like beasts, they discussed what to drink at the kiosk.

“Hmm… I’ll have a strawberry smoothie.”

“I’ll take a mango ade!”

“Then, I’ll have a blueberry ade.”

After completing the order through the kiosk, they walked to an empty table.

“…That’s too much.”

“Fuck. You said it.”

Yeah. Anyway, the order is complete.

-Sip sip

Ara sipped her ordered drink while receiving an apology from Jane for not being able to tell her what happened at the department store, and learned all about why they became VTubers.

“Hmm~ I see.”

The non-disclosure agreement stated they couldn’t reveal being VTubers, but since they’d already been found out, it wasn’t an issue.

‘Well… Personally, I think it became a problem from the moment they were found out… but anyway—’

“Christina. You’re too soft. You should have just thrown those idiots out.”

To think that the reason they became VTubers was because of Roilli and Pollon. Tsk.

It’s not right to say “You’re making the kids suffer because they can’t handle a simple part-time job,” because…

‘I’ve never had a part-time job either…’

But isn’t it too much for the cost of breaking dishes to exceed twice the daily wage?

“Hey. You two deliberately did that because you didn’t want to work, right?”

Given Roilli and Pollon’s personalities, they might have genuinely done it with such intentions, so Ara asked with suspicion.

“Wh-what! We wouldn’t do such a thing!”

“Th-That’s right! We were trying hard but just…”

‘…Fuck, so it was true?’

The idiots rolling their eyes while answering my question.

“Those fucking bastards—”

“Krisha, calm down!”

I barely managed to stop Christina from going berserk after belatedly realizing Roilli and Pollon’s trickery.

“Wait, hasn’t Christina’s personality changed too much?”

“…Try living with those people.”

“….Fair point.”

I pointed out that the saint’s personality had become twisted compared to her time in the otherworld, but immediately agreed with her response.

‘If Buddha had lived with Roilli and Pollon, Buddhism might never have been born?’

I had such a plausible thought while looking at Roilli and Pollon who were hanging their heads and drinking.

After talking about the VTuber stuff, we spent time chatting about trivial matters.

[18:28]

“It’s already this late.”

“Yeah, it is.”

“Well, we can meet again sometime. Next time, let’s invite Reina and hang out together, all four of us.”

We met at 1 PM and spent about 5 hours catching up.

We cleaned up the empty dessert plates and drink glasses and prepared to leave the café.

‘Ah. Right.’

“Let’s do a collab stream sometime.”

I whispered quietly to the saint and Jane so that Roilli and Pollon couldn’t hear.

“”…?””

They looked confused by my sudden whisper, and I realized my mistake.

— Whisper…whisper

“”…..!!””

After providing additional information, Christina and Jane had dumbfounded expressions.

“Well then. See you next time~ Hey, you two idiots, don’t give Christina and Jane a hard time.”

And so, I turned my back on them, promising to meet again.

♦♦♦

“… Is this for real?”

“I know, right? Hah!”

Christina and Jane were confused by the information Ara had shared.

“What’s real?”

“What are you talking about! I’m curious!”

When Pollon and Roilli urged them to tell what was going on,

“Get lost.”

“Shut up and stay quiet.”

“”…….””

They received only fierce glares and were made to close their mouths with no results.

Christina and Jane understood why Ara had whispered only to the two of them.

If the loose-lipped Pollon and Roilli found out…….

“They’d die?”

“…More than death. They might return to Lady Nibiru’s embrace.”

Christina and Jane held hands and made a vow.

‘Absolutely not!’

‘Let’s never tell those idiots that Ara is Lucy’

— Nod

Roli and Poli were watching the saint and knight exuding the scent of yuri.

“Sigh. This is bullying. So sad.”

“…Why do I have to be treated like this?”

They were sighing and lamenting their lives.

The bonds of the hero party were truly deep.

♦♦♦

“Yeah. I’m on my way home now.”

—”Hmm~ Was it fun?”

Ara was talking with Reina on her Bluetooth earphones while returning home.

“Well… I don’t know about fun, but it was nice to see them after so long. They said they’d like you to come along next time.”

—”Hmm. Really?”

‘Sigh…’

Ara inwardly sighed, feeling frustrated by Reina’s increasingly cynical responses.

“Shall we do a collab stream tomorrow?”

—”…Hmm~”

Ah geez. Fuck, I feel like giving her a soccer kick…!!

Ara already knew the answer to why Reina was responding like this and how to restore her usual behavior.

“…Alright. Let’s go look at the apartment too.”

—”Yes!”

Originally, they had planned to visit a real estate agent that day to find a place to live together.

However, the day before the closing ceremony, while talking with the saint, when she suggested ‘Shall we all meet up?’—

‘We can look at apartments anytime, but I can’t meet them if our schedules don’t align. Yeah.’

The entire Sekai-dol—Realz team had taken a streaming break just to see me, so it would be incredibly trashy to refuse to meet them.

“When should we go look at—”

—”Tomorrow! Right away!”

Feeling like something was going down the wrong path,

“…Alright.”

—”I love you~♥ Hehee!”

‘If she’s cute, that’s all that matters, right?’ Ara thought positively.

It’s a secret that they were only a few months away from losing their virginity together.