Chapter 13 : City of Art (2)

Holy mother of Pizzas! BalaLuri's Pizza is something else!

*Burp*

A cute burp sounds beside me as I see Eli patting her tummy with a happy expression. Are you secretly a panda? Should I just send you to a zoo? Because the amount you ate is .... terrifying! LOOK AT THOSE TEARS FROM SMITH!!! I'm not the one paying and even I had shivers.

"Eli is stuffed! Can Eli get an icecream?"

"Ye---"

I Grabbed Meds' mouth shut in a flash.

[Look girl I know you're trying to make a certain baldy have a bad day But do you want your research budget to get cut again?]

[Huh? What are you talking about? It's only a pizzaria right? It won't cause much of the budget to go down right?]

[Did you see the price of those damn Pizzas?]

[Huh? What are you talking about, it should be $15 each right?]

Oh she also got tricked!

[Look closely at our table!]

[1, 2, 3, 4, .. 30!? since when!? and what are those smaller plates?]

[Yeah that's what I also want to know before I pay attention to the black hole beside me.]

[... Nate]

[Yes Meds?]

[How are we communicating through our eyes?]

... good point...

I released my hands covering Meds as I turned back towards Eli.

"No Eli, Ice cream will make you fat! you wouldn't want to be a rolling ball now would you?"

"EH!? But Eli's not Fat!"

"YET! Keep eating like that and you'll be an EliBall in no time!"

"EEEEEHHHH!? Can't Nate like... use magic to make Eli slim again!?"

"!?"

Can magic do that? Yes. I can polymorph someone. But that doesn't change the 'true' structure of the body.

"No Eli... Magic doesn't work like that."

"EHHHH? Then Thenn...."

It's cute seeing Eli find a reason for us to give her an ice cream... I think we can find Gelatos in the street right?

As I was thinking about that, Smith came back with a defeated face. his face said it all. I guess we really went over budget this time huh... well at least it's still <$1000 right... right?

[Nate come over here...]

Smith communicates through his eyes to ask me to meet him at the counter.

[When did we order this much...]

I saw the order... AND I SCREAMED INTERNALLY! HOW DID WE ORDER A TOTAL OF 4KG OF WAGYU BEEFS!?

[... And Nate... I'm wearing sunglasses, you know...]

!?!?!?!?

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It's a shame dine and dash is not a valid strategy as I, no we need to keep our images up in the populace...

"Back in my days as Hero, Whichever restaurant I went to I receive the highest treatment... nowadays I need to pay... what a shocking turn of events."

said Smith. huh... he's a hero? I would rather think that he's a government official or something...

"What? I didn't look like a hero huh? Well to be honest I hate the heroing work. Slicing off monsters is fine and all, but those paperworks after.... "

Ah I feel thee... I also had my share of ... RIVALS.

"Imagine you had to manage everything from logistics to HR in order to submit a form to the adventurer's guild before going on the hunt... and during the hunt you gotta pay attention to the logistics, as the game is big and not every caravan can pick it up... and not every monster is safe to be transported! some of them have acidic blood which melts caravans!"

What kind of world did you go to you bald headed sunglasses wearing Man in Blue knockoff?

"That's not the worst part! after a successful hunt, the goods aren't going to distribute themselves, so you had to do some marketing, or have the connection to sell of that hunt to pay off your initial investment..."

HOLY MOLY WHACK A MOLEY! ARE YOU THE HERO OF MANAGEMENT!?

"OH another thing is that you need to keep your image up, Imagine having your limbs maimed, but you need to look all victorious and S*** so people will join your next hunt..."

Tell me this is a joke...

"But that doesn't even cover up the fact that your party may have a few useless nobles in them! imagine having to fight dragons and babysit some snotty brats on site..."

... You could be an idol producer at that point.

"*SIGH*... Oh yeah Nate..."

"yeah?"

"Thanks for listening."

"Sure..."

"And nate..."

"Yeah?"

"Until when are you going to let that old man cling on to you?"

Oh yeah Speaking of which, remember that old man I that attacked me yesterday, He spouted nonsense like 'PLEASE TEACH ME HOW NOT TO BE A COWARD!' and 'I WON'T MOVE UNTIL YOU ACCEPT ME' while doing a bow in front of the restaurant we've just dined in...

so we just left him there... Didn't think of that now did ya?

And now this happened where he refused to let me go and hugged my back like a koala.

"Until his hands falls off"

"... ok..."

even until now he still spouts nonsense like 'I WON'T LET YOU GO UNTIL YOU ACCEPT ME!'

come on man if you're a babe I'll accept you right away... but a dying man with wiggly skins? no thank you. and so the 1 2 3 4 5 of us went around the city to find some good cheap street ice cream....

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"Ah what a fine young man... Young ones these days really need to look up to you, carrying your gramps on your back while buying your daughter some ice cream! Here this one's on the house for your cute daughter!"

... that's where you're wrong mam, The gramps is a senile old man, while the girl is someone... Yeah, who is she to me? someone entrusted to me? maa, who cares.... I may be the oldest of the bunch! But who's keeping count? I'll not say no to free ice cream! MUAHAHA!

and now everyone but me is eating an icecream, even the old man hanging on my back is...

"*SNIFF SNIFF* Ice creams huh... IT remind me of that fateful day--"

"STOP IT OLD MAN! NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR SAD LIFE STORY, KEEP IT UNDER 100 WORDS!"

"Tch! kids these days...."

"Saggy old balls, you may not realize this but all of us par from Eli and that white haired girl is older than you..." Though they aren't as strong... but I kept that part to myself.

"Disrespecting your elders..."

THIS SENILE BASTARD!

"*cough cough* anyway... It's a sunny day, me and my ma were having this icecream 10 years ago in this very spot..."

ah here we go with the sob isekai story...

"... and then there's war... I was there... the entire battlefield bloodied with corpses... I knew not who is fighting who, but I know I need to kill to survive!"

WAIT HOLD UP! I SAY 100 WORDS BUT DON'T JUST SKIP THINGS LIKE THAT!

"and then it all goes silent... as I watch my beloved, with a blade in her chest... Thinking there's nothing I can do, I can't destroy a country myself... So I ran..."

OI OI OI... ARE WE still talking about during the war... or is it way after...

"Those Demi-god leveled Rulers... Poisoned... I knew I finally achieved peace... after 42 years of planning and patiently waiting for that one perfect moment..."

WAIT HOLD UP!

"So then I opened up a restaurant... to wash away all the blood I've spilled..."

THATS 120 WORDS YOU BASTARD!

"Oh did I mention I joined a secret organization that shelters all those rejects from the world..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

I looked at the bald man...

as the abyss no as the light shines back at me...

"Is this a super secret important information?"

"Yup..."

"Should we care?"

"Yup..."

"Does it have another backstory?"

"Yup..."

"Can we pretend this doesn't happen and just spend time goofing around?"

"Yup! a sound idea, what do you think Eli, Should we have fun or should we get into the bottom of this mysterious organization that may or may not have been evil and uncover a nasty plot that we accidentally stop?"

*BONK BONK BONK*

3 HIT COMBO

The Girls bonk the three of our heads

"LISTEN HERE YOU BALD MISERABLE VIRGIN, COWARDLY VIRGIN, AND SUPER ANCIENT SUPER SAGE LEVEL VIRGIN!"

"Doesn't this girl scream super spy to you already!? WITH HER LATEX SUIT AND UNDERWEAR THAT PROBABLY HAS MORE UTILITY THAN YOUR MANHOOD!?"

"... yup, she got a point... right smith... though she sucks as a spy..."

*STAB*

"Yeah, she does... right shaggy old man... I would immediately disown her the first day.."

*STAB STAB*

"yes she is... I recognize her, she's my underling... sadly... she's the worst of the bunch... can't get rid of her though... company code saying that all those who is touched by the elders need to stay together or something along those lines..."

*STAB STAB STAB*

K.O.

Continue?

*BONK*x3

all 3 of us got bonked again...

"YOU! YOU! UWAAAAAA! MEDS-CHAN THEY'RE BULLIES! ELI HELP ME!!!!"

"There there, although you're a reject and a woman who tried to kill me, I understand... Although It's amusing seeing you fail over and over again..."

"Eli also thinks that Yuki tried her best..."

"Wait... how did you know my name?"

"Eli heard it everytime Yuki introduces herself in her monologue about super spy agent 17----"

Yukira's face turned red Cried loudly in the streets...

"UWAAAA!!! MY LIFE IS OVERRRR!!!! TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!"

Yukira's sobbing figure attracted a lot of attention.

"What a bastard!"

"Yeah... I bet it's that black haired young man..."

"Ughh... looking at him is disgusting... he's carrying an old man on his back! what kind of sicko does that! and he even makes a girl cry!"

"Ssshhh! maybe he's into that old man...."

"Oh that makes sense!"

Oi oi oi...

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