Dream Lounge

Within the castle of white, Gold stood before the throne where his partner resided. He had found that his boss had basically plucked a Rhongomyniad that had fused with Artoria from a random singularity and attached her to his soul.

Gold had noticed that his partner Rhongomyniad hadn't shown up since the incident with Serafall. He wasn't able to bring out his lance while he was in Kyoto, so he decided to check up on her.

"Rong, you alright there?" Gold asked a bit concerned from inside his inner world.

Goddess Rhongomyniad sat there frozen. While her expression was blank, her body was going through a noticeable external struggle. The internal conflict was easy to notice as half of her body emitted the regular holy light, while the other half radiated chaotic darkness. If Gold had to describe how it looked, then it'd be like seeing one half of regular Lancer Artoria while the other half of her was Lancer Alter.

"What could have caused this?" Gold muttered with a frown. He stared closely at her eyes, one emerald green while the other was a light gold.

He had a few theories. The main one was that she was being influenced by him on a spiritual level. Either from him being a human that is naturally a mix of good and evil, or she was affected by his earlier emotional state of depression. Perhaps his influence became greater after he had allowed her to possess his body during the fight with Serafall. Ultimately this was caused by him in some way.

"There isn't much I can do right now. Hope you get better Rong." Gold spoke with some encouragement. There really wasn't much he could do, he could only wish her well and check up on her later.

∞

For the past 3 hours that I've been laying on this bed, my mind has been scouring through the gate in search of decent clothes. This is the Gate of Babylon were talking about, I'm sure Gilgamesh has some fashionable clothes in here somewhere. Since I don't personally own any clothing besides the shorts, t-shirts and hoodies that I usually wear, I don't have much choice but to do this.

On a side note, I found Enki. The golden twinblades that turned into a bow. I remember the prototype version of Gilgamesh used them, I believe it was called the Sword of the End. Another pair of over-powered weapons I have no use for.

'Found some!' I exclaimed from my thoughts. Standing up from the bed, I let a golden portal shimmer open from above.

Articles of clothing began to drop onto the mattress. A frown appeared on my face as I stared at the piles of clothing. Most of it looked like it was for Mesopotamian royalty. There were some other clothing that looked like they were historically from other nations and rulers.

I even found the set of clothing Gilgamesh used in the Fate Stay Night routes. While they were admittedly fashionable, I didn't want to dress up like him. Damn it, what the hell am I supposed to wear!? I haven't even decided where I was gonna take her for the date!

My head dropped down into the pile of expensive looking clothing in defeat. A muffled scream of annoyance sounded out for a brief moment. I was forced out of my muffled whines when I felt something fall on the back of my head.

"What the hell?" I got up with a jolt, rubbing the back of my head. I looked around but no one was there, so I turned back down to the pile.

There was a blue box wrapped with a bow on top. Before picking it up, I carefully examined it a bit incase it was a trap. It's not like I'd just open a random gift box, just because it looked harmless. After multiple scans, I found nothing wrong with it.

Placing the box on a table, I carefully unwrapped it. There was a note ontop of the box, beneath the wrapping along with two tickets.

To: Gold

I figured you didn't have any decent clothes, so I got you something along with two tickets to the Dream Lounge.

From: Your Boss

Oh, that explains how I was caught off guard there. Looking at the tickets, I blinked as I tried to remember what the Dream Lounge was. I think it was some high-end multiversal hotspot or something. I never really cared much for that kind of stuff, but either way this is great.

Opening up the box, there was a neat set of black and gold clothes that were my size. They looked like they would be better in a casual setting than a formal one.

"Thanks Boss." I spoke out loud, I was pretty sure he could hear me.

∞

"I'm here~!" A melodic voice full of cheer sounded out in the room nearly causing Gold to jolt up in surprise. He turned around and unblinkingly stopped for a moment.

"So... what do you think?" Serafall smiled so angelically that he nearly forgot she was a devil.

"I didn't think it was possible for you to look anymore beautiful than you already were." He honestly said as her smile grew even wider with a hint of red on her cheeks.

She was wearing a black and red dress with frills, she sort of looked like a gothic lolita. It looked casual yet he felt that she could pull it off in a formal setting as well. He was impressed, considering he had to get clothes from his boss.

"I hope you don't mind us using a truck to get around." He said a bit uneasily. Now that he thought about it, using a truck to drive a date around is sort of strange. Especially when it's the truck he used in his attempt to flatten her into the ground. He also just realized that he's the only Aversis that doesn't prefer Humvees.

"Don't worry about it, I'm not picky. Although if you want, we could paint it something more bright." She started to look at the white truck more closely.

"*cough* Please don't. I don't think I can pull off bright colors that aren't yellow or gold." He'd rather not drive around in pink or something related to magical girls.

"Really? I think you'd look good in anything~" She hugged his arm as she said that causing him to jolt up a bit in surprise.

"Well let's get going." He said while escorting her into the Isekai Truck.

"Where to?"

"Some place you've definitely never heard of." He replied while revving up the engine.

∞

The Dream Lounge.

It was a place hidden inside it's own world outside reality. Those who frequented the place were those that could travel the multiverse ranging from Planeswalkers, System users, Dimensional travelers, etc.

It was a place to relax as combat was explicitly forbidden there, and also experience a bit of what it was like to be a R.O.B. As in be a voyeur to other people's adventures.

R.O.B.s would sponsor their favorite travelers or system user's adventure for everyone to watch. There were a wide variety of options and different types of people to watch depending on your preference. You could also gamble with others on what the person would do, or even give credits to provide a quest for the system user.

If you weren't there to watch other people, then you could just come there to try the Delicacies made by the Food God. He provided all meals for System users that were able to get a hand on his food tickets. True to his name, his food was legendary.

However to be allowed into the place, you would need to get your hands on a ticket to visit. The ticket itself wasn't that hard to get since there were a variety of methods to obtain it. You could buy one from a system, get it from the multiversal catalogue, ask a few multiversal god that were in the know, etc.

"Welcome to the Dream Lounge, please enjoy your stay." The bouncer at the entrance said as he handed back our tickets.

I walked in with Serafall on my arm. She marveled at the high ceiling that was like a starry night sky. Except the stars in the sky were actually giant screens that you could focus on with your mind to listen into someone's ongoing adventures.

"Hey Gold, what is this place?"

"It's a place where people of the omniverse come to relax."

"The omniverse?"

As we continued moving, I ended up giving an explanation about the vast reality of the multiverse and omniverse. It wasn't hard to do as I've had to do it a few times to people during my job as an Isekai Truck Driver. The explanation was actually a page in the Truck Driver's manual for in case you had to actually drive the target there instead of running him over.

Was it a bad idea to tell someone I knew about it? Not really, in the grand scheme of things it's all meaningless. Plus I believed she could handle it.

"That's... a lot to take in." She seemed to be in thought for a bit as she looked up at the Star Screens in the sky.

"Sorry for the long exposition, but if we're gonna be a thing then you should know before hand." It'd be a lot of work to explain the multiverse later, so better to do it now.

"Don't worry, I can adapt fast. I was head of foreign affairs after all, so this isn't that much different for me." She puffed out her chest with a smile.

"Ah, my bad." A green looking tentacle monster said when he noticed one of his limbs bump into me.

"All good." I waved as we went on our way. I flicked off some green residue on my sleeve.

"That was rude." She frowned at the giant tentacle monster that was shuffling away.

"Relax, his race is a bit clumsy. So it was my bad for not paying attention." I've encountered them before. Some dimensional travelers get a lesser negative and become forced into those kinds of bodies. It's not that uncommon.

We made our way to an empty booth. Sitting down next to eachother, the sounds of the bustling crowd outside were muted as an invisible forcefield encompassed our booth. People from the outside wouldn't be able to see us, they would be blocked by an 'Occupied' sign.

[Welcome to the Dream Lounge. Please remain still while we register your existence] A female voice sounded out before a flash of light scanned our bodies.

[Thank you for your cooperation.]

"That felt weird, what was that for?"

"To reduce the amount of possible conflicts." I said before getting up. "The place is an open buffet, so when you get your food you can just use a thought and you'll automatically teleport back to your booth. Anyway I'll meet you back here." I tell her before going off to get food.

"Okay!" I heard before exiting the booth

∞

"What are you two doing here?" Gold blinked while taking in the two people standing around the refreshment area in tuxedos.

"Well apparently we have to pay back the damages we caused at the prison." Kaien sighed as he explained the situation.

"Apparently they only accepted multiversal credits, which neither of us actually have." Shiro grumbled as he cleaned off a glass with a rag.

"So we both have to work off our debt, anyway you want something to drink?" Kaien asked with a raised brow.

"Just sweet tea." Gold said as he didn't want to drive his truck while drunk.

Don't drink and drive readers, it's dangerous.

"One sweet tea coming up!" Kaien raised two bottles as Shiro slid the cleaned glass in front of him.

Gold stared as Kaien filled the glass up with what he sure was vodka, then he mixed it with a bottle of whiskey to get the ginger brown color.

"Here, one sweet tea!" Kaien pushed it forward with a smile

"That's not sweet tea!" Gold retorted as he smacked the table-top.

"What are you talking about? It's the same color." Shiro explained as if his explanation made sense.

"It's not only the same color, but you can light it on fire!" Kaien smiled as he brought a lighter up to the drink and set the drink on fire.

"If you can light it on fire, that means it's alcohol!"

"Fine then here's some water." Shiro sighed as he held out a glass of clear liquid.

Gold stared at it for a moment with half lidded eyes, until he placed it on the table and used a lighter, setting it aflame. "Why is it that I can light it on fire?"

"It's combustible" Shiro responded as the two folded their arms as if they did nothing wrong.

"Stop worrying so much, it's the same color." Kaien added in.

"Is color the only way you two can tell drinks apart!?"

15 minutes later

Serafall was wandering around looking for Gold, she was concerned as he didn't come back yet.

"Serafall!" She was suddenly hugged from behind. She was about to flare up her demonic power, however she stopped when she realized it was her date.

"Gold what happened?" She smelled his breath that reeked of alcohol. Gold looked like he was completely drunk.

Normally it would take a lot to get Gold inebriated, but alcohol prepared specifically by the Food God was enough to get anyone drunk.

"Serafall... you smell nice." Gold sleepily spoke with a smile

"Come on, let's get you back to the booth." Luckily you could sleep in the booth uninterrupted as it could also turn into a bed.

Gold later cursed as he found himself waking up naked with Serafall but wasn't capable of remembering the night he spent with her.

Pissing off readers somehow, the author doesn't know since he's running out of actual ways to piss them off.

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