I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 81
Chapter 81
Reunion and… Where is This?
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I was the only one in the restaurant who could see her, so no one responded to her words.
Julianna flew over to the fighting men and began glaring at them with narrowed eyes.
“You want to fight?!”
“If you have a problem, then bring it on!”
As the two men raised their voices and got so close their foreheads were almost touching, pretending to be tough, Julianna lightly pushed one of them from behind.
The two men, whose faces were nearly touching…
“Ugh…”
Suppressing the nausea rising in my throat, I quickly covered Iris and Jess’s eyes.
“Ha… Hahaha!”
“Whistle! They suit each other well!”
The onlookers, who had been watching the two men with great interest, burst out laughing and started clapping.
“Ew, ugh…!!”
“You bastard!”
The two men, driven mad by the horrible accident, began retching and drew their swords.
[If you want to fight, take it outside!]
As they showed signs of continuing the fight, Julianna grabbed them by the scruff of their necks and tossed them outside.
“Huh?!”
“What, what the heck!?”
Their screams echoed like a chorus, and laughter erupted inside the restaurant.
“Pahaha! Idiots! Drawing swords in the Nest restaurant!”
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“Tsk tsk, they have no idea how scary a magician can be.”
Newcomers to the restaurant asked the laughing people what was going on. I also listened in.
“The Nest organization hasn’t been around for long, but it’s quite famous, right? It’s all because of the archmage. The ruckus-makers being thrown out was also due to the security magic cast by the archmage.”
I silently looked towards Julianna. She was clapping the dust off her hands and frowning at the dirty floor.
[Next time, I’ll throw them out right away. Tsk.]
She clicked her tongue and then flew back to the kitchen in the form of a book. One of the young servers quickly ran over and started cleaning the dirty floor. They seemed quite used to it.
“Would you like to place your order?”
I was about to get up and follow Julianna, but the server’s approach made me sit back down.
“Yes, uh… We’ll have three of the most popular dishes here, please.”
“Alright. Any drinks?”
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“No.”
In the Demon King’s land, where people of all races lived and could die at any moment, there was no concept of minors. There was only a distinction between the young and adults.
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So, questions like whether I wanted a drink, regardless of age, were common. I whispered to Jess and Iris that they shouldn’t drink until they were twenty. When they tilted their heads, wondering why, I told them that drinking before twenty could make their stomachs churn and break down.
I thought they wouldn’t believe me, but both of them nodded seriously with very serious faces.
“I won’t drink even when I grow up.”
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“Me neither!”
Their innocent and cute attitudes made me rub their cheeks with the back of my hand. Jess tilted her chin up, asking for a chin rub. The purring sound was pleasant to hear.
“Our most popular dish, stewed meat! Enjoy!”
“Wow…”
Jess, drooling, looked at the food with sparkling eyes. Iris, too, turned slightly red from the delicious smell.
‘This… looks like soy sauce braised chicken.’
It was one of the dishes I had made for the kids while at the black magician’s lab.
‘So, they have this here too.’
Thinking it was interesting, I started eating. Jess ate ten more servings. Iris and I also ordered another serving each. It was really delicious.
‘We’ve finished eating…’
After paying, I moved towards the back of the restaurant. Since there were so many people, no one seemed to notice.
‘Julianna definitely went this way.’
Carefully, I opened the door marked [Employees Only]. Behind the door were stairs leading down.
‘Since the restaurant is really busy, I’ll explain my situation to anyone I meet while going down.’
With that conclusion, Jess, Iris, and I went down the stairs. At the bottom, we found a place that looked like a storage room, with unused chairs, tables, and stored food ingredients scattered around.
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‘Where did she go?’
While I was thinking that, something shiny caught my eye in a corner.
“Hmm?”
I approached and picked up the shiny object.
‘A jewel?’
In the dim light, it looked like a broken jewel. Just as I was about to examine it more closely…
Clank.
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A barrel stacked against a wall rolled aside. From the gap, a familiar face emerged. It was Koan, one of the kids from Mia’s lab.
The cute child with a bowl haircut and round eyes, thinking no one was around, froze when she saw me and screamed.
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“Huh, who… who are you?!”
“Koan!”
“Huh…?”
I hastily shoved the object into my pocket and called out to the child with a bright voice. Koan, with wide eyes, muttered.
“Lian… Brother?”
***
Koan, confirming my face, smiled brightly and fussed over me. She immediately guided me to the Nest headquarters.
Unlike Leviathan, Nest’s headquarters wasn’t underground. The underground passage was just a way to the headquarters.
The underground passage connected various places, serving as a transport route.
We navigated the maze-like underground passage and reached the headquarters. Nest’s headquarters was a mansion situated in a quiet area on the western outskirts.
The walls were so high that you couldn’t see inside from the outside. Since many thieves and people who disliked interference lived together, such high walls weren’t seen as suspicious, Koan explained.
As soon as we entered the headquarters, we encountered another familiar face.
“Huh?!”
“Nero?”
“Brother, bro?!”
Nero, with a dagger strapped to his waist, spotted me and ran over, hugging me tightly.
“Is it really you, brother?”
“Of course, it’s really me.”
“Wow, wow… Huh? Jess is here too?”
Nero looked at Jess with wide eyes. He let out a sigh of relief and spoke.
“I was so worried when Jess suddenly disappeared in the Forest of Death. I thought she might be dead…! But she’s alive!”
Nero, with a face full of emotion, hugged Jess tightly. Jess, seemingly not minding the affectionate display, wagged her tail and hugged back. Smiling at the cute sight of the two kids, I then asked about Noah’s whereabouts.
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“Oh, right! Let’s go see the boss—no, brother! He’s been wanting to see you so much!”
Nero jumped up and down excitedly.
“Who’s that?”
“Someone you know?”
The strangers looked puzzled at Nero’s excitement.
In Cardishian, where strength was the law, being young wasn’t a flaw. Nero, aside from his youth, was the boss’s younger brother and a powerful executive in Nest.
He was a formidable presence to the members. Nero also deliberately used a stern demeanor to avoid being underestimated by others. Thus, his smiling face was unfamiliar to them.
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“Let’s go, brother!”
Nero led me to the upper floors of the building. He excitedly opened the door to a grand room.
“Brother!”
“Nero, I told you we have an important meeting—”
Noah’s voice trailed off and then completely disappeared. Staring blankly, Noah started pinching her own cheek.
“Brother! Lian’s here!”
“Oh… Oh…”
Noah, staring blankly at me, suddenly burst into tears!
“Hic…”
“Huh? Oh?”
I was flustered for two reasons. The first was Noah’s unexpected tears, and the second was the blaring siren in my head, saying ‘You need to comfort Noah.’
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‘What is this? Why do I feel like I made a beautiful girl cry?’
Although I didn’t understand, my body instinctively rushed over to comfort Noah.
“Hic, hic…”
Noah couldn’t even speak properly and hugged me tightly. During my absence, he seemed to have grown a lot, now appearing about 10 cm taller than me.
I awkwardly patted his back, waiting for the blaring siren to stop.
After a long while, Noah finally let go of me, only after Iris forcibly pried him off.
With the atmosphere somewhat calmed down, I greeted the other children. They either cried or laughed, rejoicing in my return.
Knowing that none of the kids had forgotten me made my heart flutter warmly.
However, there was one person who reacted differently.
“Haaa…?!”
Pia, who had been walking down the hallway with a blank expression, saw me and collapsed to the floor. With a dazed face, she started crying and smiling as if possessed.
“Uh, Pia, are you okay?”
Seeing her unusual state, I cautiously asked, and she nodded vigorously… and then wet herself.
Honestly, I’m not sure why…
Maybe she urgently needed to use the bathroom but I blocked her way? I’ll apologize next time I see her.
Afterward, I spent time with the kids, sharing what had happened. Introducing Iris as my sister, the initially shy kids smiled and approached her first.
Enjoying the peaceful time that seemed like a picture, I smiled.
As night fell, we agreed to continue our conversations the next day and headed to the room Noah assigned me.
“Um…?”
The next morning, I woke up to an unfamiliar ceiling.
End of Chapter
Note: Lian didn’t know that Noah was a girl. Probably there will be pronounce mistake with Noah. Tell me if you find one.
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