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After my earnest request, Kali and Royu managed to enter the restaurant called Banquet Palace.

We bent over 90 degrees to 100 degrees and started following the staff member who began to guide us.

“You are not surprised at all. How many times have you been here?”

“Hmm… I think I came here at least ten times. Although they were all forced to come because of work.”

“Wow….Wow! What is this all about! Is this a real restaurant?!”

“Well…I guess…”

“….I came here for a few episodes. I can’t even remember.”

We were roughly divided into three groups.

The group that Seris and Ariel belong to has a disgruntled look on their faces because they have been to this restaurant several times.

A group that Carly and I belong to, walking with our mouths wide open at the sight and size of a restaurant that is so amazing that it is even called a restaurant.

And… the group that Royu belongs to. Honestly, I don’t even know what Royu is thinking.

anyway. I look around the huge restaurant crowded with people and smell the food so fragrant that it makes me dizzy.

In all my life (including life on Earth), I have never seen or heard of such a huge restaurant.

I guess I can just explain that the building, which is the size of a department store, up to the fourth floor is all restaurants, and it’s all filled with fancy gold and decorations.

And as if it were not enough to fill the huge space, there was an endless line of people in front of the restaurant.

All of this lets us know that this restaurant called Banquet Palace is the most famous and popular restaurant in the empire.

“Get in here.”

And after walking for a while, the employee called us inside a narrow space with the door open.

“Venice? Come here quickly.”

“Please come here, Captain. If you’re scared, I’ll hold your hand.”

“What is this?”

I see Cerys and Ariel giving me their hands with worried expressions, probably because they thought this was their first time seeing something like this, and Kali following them in confusion.

okay. Anyone born in this world may not know. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have even been able to go to this restaurant.

“Venice? You know what this is, right?”

“…Yes.”

However, Royu speaks as if he knows everything. And what Royu said was accurate.

This thing, no, this thing was so familiar to Royu and I that it had become a part of our daily lives.

“You know this? Magical Engineering Elevator?”

“As expected, you are the leader…!”

“No, so what is this.”

I was not afraid and calmly got into the ‘Magic Engineering Elevator’.

I never thought I would see this in this world too.

Once Roy and I boarded the elevator, the elevator doors closed and the numbers on the windows inside the elevator began to change.

As Ariel explained, this was something that was made with great care, and even though the floors were rising, there was no vibration, as if it wasn’t moving at all.

Tiring-!

“Please follow me again.”

“Oh….Wow! What the hell is this! Does it have teleportation magic?!”

“Ugh… What a clumsy bet.”

“Please stay calm. It doesn’t look good.”

Carly jumped around as if she was amazed at the sudden change in scenery, but Seris and Ariel sighed and criticized Carly.

“No, is this just me? Are you all okay?”

Carly looked at me and Royu as if that couldn’t be possible, but she looked as if the world had collapsed because of us secretly avoiding eye contact.

anyway. We arrived on the 5th floor, not the 4th floor. From the outside, it was clearly a four-story building, and it seemed like some kind of trick had been used.

“This is a VIP-only floor. It’s a place you wouldn’t know about unless you were someone like me.”

“Oh….”

In fact, it was my first time in my life to come to a place like a VIP-only lounge, so I felt both amazed and shocked.

-…Aren’t you Ariel Frost?

-Wow…is it true? He didn’t show his face for a while…

-hey! Next to me is… Se… Seris, vice-captain!

-oh my god! Can I get an autograph?!

-Who is the kid next to him?

As we walked along with the staff through the elegant restaurant with fancy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and soft red carpets on the floor, people who were looking at us started to whisper.

-…Ex. Isn’t that a beastman? Why is Suin here?

-hey. You too, come to your senses. Times have changed now, man!

Quick.

I couldn’t hear anything, but suddenly Carly’s ears perked up and veins began to appear between her eyebrows.

“…Hey! What did you say there?!”

-Hee…hee!

“Come here, you bastard! Say it again!”

Carly glared at the table that seemed ready to jump out at any moment, and the two men at the table turned pale and were scared.

“Ka…Kali! Don’t do it…!”

“What?! But…!”

“Sa…they will hate you if you threaten them!”

When Carly didn’t calm down even with my words, I got a little angry and yelled at her.

As soon as my words rang out, the atmosphere suddenly became cold. It seemed like they had taken a deep breath and stopped.

….Did I do too much? I just said this because I didn’t want Kali to scare people…

“…………!”

“What-!”

“That…that can’t be possible!”

“This is a bit…”

When I looked back with a shy expression, Kali froze in place as if she had been turned into a stone statue.

The other three women also looked at me seriously with a cold expression on their faces.

“Ugh… Ugh… Don’t hate me…. Ugh…”

And at that moment, tears began to well up in Carly’s eyes, which seemed to have stopped.

Carly began to cry as if she was truly sad, and the once warm VIP floor suddenly became damp, as if cold water had been poured on her.

“Uh…huh?! I… I’m sorry! I won’t hate you, so stop crying…. Pop!”

“Ugh…. Sniff. I…really?”

“Yes…yes! So don’t cry…!”

“I’m sorry… I’ll obey you… Please don’t hate me…”

As I hugged and patted Carly, she seemed to be trying to compose herself even though she had tears in her eyes.

“…Venice. Please don’t say things like that. Please, please.”

“If I hear those words… I really feel like I want to give up everything…”

“Yes. Why don’t you say something like that? It really hurts.”

Callie, who heard the women speaking with a slightly tearful and trembling voice, also nodded slightly.

To me, it may have been just a passing word, but to them, it was like driving a nail into their hearts…

“Yes…I understand. I will never say I hate you again. It’s a promise!”

I promised them. I will never say that again.

“….Do I have to make a promise? Stop me…”

“Yes, here.”

“Hehe… Thank you.”

Carly gave me the finger, and I gave her the finger promise, which I did a lot when I was young, and Carly started laughing.

It seemed a little cute to see Carly, who has always been strong, do something like this.

“I…I will do it too!”

“Please do this for me too!!”

“Me too.”

And as the three women who were looking at me ran towards me, I couldn’t help but sweat as I gave each of them a finger promise.

***

“This is the place. I hope you like it.”

After reaching the VIP lounge, we walked for a while and finally arrived at a large room.

In a room so large and large that it could have been believed to have been built in a house, there was a huge round table and chairs surrounding it.

“Wow….”

Red floor covering the entire room, tablecloth and chairs. And the sophisticated chandelier hanging from the ceiling, as well as the decorations that don’t look empty.

When I arrived at the place where the presidents, whom I had only seen in movies, were eating, I began to feel joy filled with an inexplicable sense of elation.

“But if the table is set up like this, do we have to compete again?”

“”……..!””

However, at Royu’s sudden words, they all started looking at me nervously.

A huge round table, chairs positioned a little distance away. It seemed like they wanted to take the seat right next to me.

Ugh… I think this is going to be another strange match. Is there any way…?

“No, you don’t need to do that.”

“When I think about it… I see no reason for that.”

Seeing that Seris and Ariel seemed to be thinking for a moment and were talking energetically, it seemed like there was some way.

Taaaak-!

“Yes. Did you call me?”

“Yes. Instead of this table, please change it to a ‘feeding table’.”

“Please wait a moment.”

When Ariel snapped her fingers, the employee who approached her went outside and headed somewhere.

“Feeding table….?”

What kind of weird name is that? But judging from Ariel and Cerise’s expressions and the staff’s actions, it doesn’t seem like a joke…

It felt like an unknown tension was building up without my knowledge. What on earth will happen…!

And the answer was found through the table brought by the employee who quickly returned and several employees who seemed to have accompanied him.

They quickly dismantled the desk in the room and began setting up what they had brought.

And its shape gradually began to change into that of a dining table.

….was that a dining table?!

“Venice? Go inside there. Because it’s ‘a place exclusively for feeding.’”

“Please come in!”

The shape of an ordinary dining table was the same, but there was a gaping hole in the middle and a small desk. Then, Ariel and Seris pointed to the chair placed there and pushed my back.

It was an exquisite size that allowed the person in the middle seat to reach with their arms, but still had enough space to place food.

….Is this why it was called a ‘table exclusively for feeding’?

“Ah….”

I felt like I was about to find out my future, so I tried to ignore the pounding in my head and headed to my ‘seat’.

And the sight of me trudging along would be like the sight of prey walking into a lion’s cage…

“Huh…Hehe… I’m finally trying this!”

“One of the 139 wishes I dreamed of is finally coming true!!”

“You mean…feed me? It’s a really cool idea…!”

“Hehe… It must be a long time?”

And the girls who are drooling while looking at me like that. I think it might be a lion.