Isekai Restaurant
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Chapter 10: An ordinary day in the Restaurant
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- Silas -
I woke up in the morning with an arm on my chest and someone breathing on the side of my neck.
Well, it would be a stretch to call it waking up as I was barely able to sleep all night.
I was still unsure about what was happening.
No.
I had to get out of this before anyone caught us like this.
With this in mind, I slowly slipped out of her grip….or tried to do so but my movements woke her up.
"Hmm….g-good morning, Sil-kun~" Lavinia yawned as she said.
I was unsure on how to respond but still greeted her back.
"Good Morning."
She turned on her back stretching and I was finally free of her grip but the sight in front of me, made me hesitate from moving a bit.
Her stretching had caused the shirt she was wearing, my shirt….my unbuttoned shirt to shift away, revealing two impressive globes with the edge of the shirt being stuck on two pink nubs preventing her breasts from completely being revealed.
Blood ran to my lower body at the sight and my morning wood was now morning iron.
Does this girl have no idea what she was doing?
Not letting myself fall into her pace, I quickly got up and went to the washroom.
But apparently, the day was just not on my side.
There was a knock on the door and Sakura's voice came from the other side but before I could do anything, the door opened by itself.
….
Sakura looked inside the room and saw me in just my shorts with a visible tent and Lavinia sitting on my bed with just my shirt and her panties on.
The Sage could run hundreds of situations in my mind and in none of those did this look good.
Still, I had to try to salvage the situation somehow so I tried to explain first.
"This is not what it looks like, Sakura. Believe me, I …."
She let out a sigh and my heart sank and then she looked at Lavinia and me. "She sleepwalked into your bed, didn't she?"
"….huh?"
"She has the habit of sleepwalking into other people's rooms. She did the same with Brandish-chan and me." Sakura sighed.
"Mmhh, Sakura-chan….good morning."
"You shouldn't walk around into other people's rooms, Lavy. Please get dressed."
"Eh….but I was feeling cold and Sil-kun looked so warm…."
….don't talk, please don't talk.
You are making the situation worse.
"That's not a good enough reason, Lavy. You should only sleep with the guy you like."
"But I like Sil-kun." She said with a tilt of her head as if stating the obvious.
Say what….when did that happen?
Why don't I know about this?
However before I could say anything else she continued. "And I like Sakura-chan and Brandish-chan. That's why I sleep with you all."
….
I just stared at her, observing her with all my Skills.
Was Lavinia Reni….just that simple of a girl?
"That's good….but did you ask Silas-san for permission before getting into his bed? While you might not mind, he could have a problem right?" Sakura explained patiently.
Sakura was the younger of the two and yet it looked like she was the older in this situation.
"Ehh, you don't like me, Sil-kun?" She looked at me surprised, almost hurt.
I was taken aback at suddenly being thrown under the bus.
"Wha….? It's not like that….I mean sure….what again?"
Not sleeping properly last night along with the weirdness of the situation was taking its toll on my mind.
"See, he said he likes me too." She smiled brightly.
Sakura looked at her and let out a sigh. "I see. In that case, get ready. We are having breakfast soon."
"Alright~"
"And please dress up properly before leaving the room." Sakura interrupted before going forward and buttoning her shirt up.
"Thank you, Sakura-chan. You're the best." Lavinia hugged Sakura tightly before looking at me. "Sil-kun, would you like to take a bath together?"
….
"I think I want to bathe alone today." I replied, controlling the twitching of my lips and inner reluctance about the statement.
That said, I needed time to understand what was going on.
"Ah, too bad. Next time then." She waved at me and left the room and I looked at Sakura.
"I…."
"You don't have to explain anything, Silas-san. Lavy….she….didn't mean anything bad. She….just had an unusual upbringing." She continued after a moment of thought.
"Hah…."
She then walked towards me. "And I know you won't ever do anything bad to anyone. I trust you."
"….thank you. It's just that the situation looked too…."
"It didn't look that bad, you know. If anything, I would have thought you two got together rather than you doing something bad."
"That….makes far more sense." I said after a moment of thought.
"You should trust yourself more, Silas-san."
I smiled at her words and looked down….suddenly realising that I was just in my underwear with an erection. "I….thank you but I need to go to the bath. Excuse me." I hurriedly left the room, pulling myself out of the awkward situation.
Although I think I heard a chuckle behind me.
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Breakfast was surprisingly normal.
Lavinia showed no signs of the morning's incident and acted as if everything was normal.
Over the next few days, I would find out what Sakura had meant. Lavinia really was such a simple minded girl. It turns out that the people of that magician's group didn't teach her things which would be considered common sense for normal girls. That woman really just wanted to research her Sacred Gear and nothing more.
Not to say that she was a fool. She just had a very….different sense of privacy.
Although apart from this, Lavinia was a very sweet and honest girl who we all loved.
In those days, she had wandered into my room twice in the middle of the night, wearing my shirt and sleeping by my side quietly.
After the first few times, especially seeing that even Sakura was not bothered by this, I gave up caring and just got used to it. I mean it's not like I hated having a cute girl cuddle with me at night.
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"Ice Devil Slayer Magic?" I asked, looking at the book in front of me.
"Yes. This is the perfect magic for you. The Demon Seed inside you is something produced in the bodies of the users of Devil Slayer Magic over time as they use this magic. It then changes their magic slowly to have a more demonic flavour and when it finally blooms, the user becomes a Devil. But your case is different. You are already a devil so it will most likely just empower you." August explained.
"Hmm." I nodded as I looked at the book. "Should I keep something in mind when learning this magic?"
In humans, this magic changes the flavour of their magic and due to this, sometimes the personality of the user changes. They become more predisposed to….indulging themselves." He said after some thought. "Though, that is quite unlikely to happen in your case as your magic is already demonic."
The guy assured me and I nodded.
"His Majesty told me that your body was not producing demonic power on its own and that's why you were dying. Now, your body has far more demonic power but we can always work on improving your reserves. This magic will be the best choice for you to take advantage of your innate qualities. You shouldn't let this chance go."
"Alright, I'll learn it."
Over the next few hours, August explained the magic to me in detail and I got to use some of the spells and surprisingly, the spells came almost naturally to me.
In fact, it was even faster than with Ice Magic. Even without using Sage, I could feel a strange familiarity with the magic.
Was this what August meant when he said this magic was perfect for me?
According to him, this magic is best learned in combat and so we sparred for a while and in all that time, I couldn't even put some dust on his cloak.
The guy was seriously a master of magic.
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"So how are your magic studies coming along, Silas-kun?" Hayato-san asked me as I finished preparing their orders and sat in front of them.
Rimuru, Saitama and Ainz were playing games as usual in their own corner. We had renovated one side of the Restaurant so that people could gather there and people coming to the Restaurant don't start off by seeing Ainz's face the first thing when they enter the Restaurant.
Kisuke-san was also present and enjoying his usual dangos.
Cid-kun was sitting with the rest and watched as Touma trained his stances under the guidance of Kensei-san with a few comments from Bang-san, Atomic Samurai and Issac-san on the nearby table.
"Amazing. Learning magic is wonderful. It's like exploring a completely different world."
"Hey Nii-san, show us some cool magic you have learned. Tohru-chan can use some really cool magic too. Which ones can you do?" Naruto asked, jumping excitedly.
"Hmm, I don't think I can do anything close to Tohru's magic but I will try." I thought of something and walked to the corner of the Restaurant.
Sakura had put some plants here and often took care of them.
It made the place look much brighter.
I picked up a flower from the plant and brought it to them.
"See." With a slight push on my magic, the entire flower turned to ice.
"Woah. That's so cool. It looks like an ice-cream. Can we eat it?"
"No, you don't eat frozen flowers, Naruto." Miu scolded.
I laughed at their antics and gave the flower to Naruto to play with.
As soon as I did this, I felt another gaze from my side. Looking in the direction, I saw Kanna giving me those cute dragon eyed looks again.
"You want one too?" I asked.
She nodded.
With a chuckle, I picked another flower and did the same, making another flower of ice for Kanna.
"Here." I gave the flower to Kanna and patted her head.
"See, I got my own." She showed the flower to Naruto.
Kanna stared at her flower and suddenly without any warning, she bit off the flower, eating it completely.
"Ah! She ate it." Naruto shouted pointing a finger at her.
Kanna looked smugly at him. "Silly Naruto. If you don't ask Silas for permission, he won't be able to deny you."
….
That's not how it works….dammit.
The boy looked as if he was enlightened at the words while Miu was still understanding the situation before she could begin her lecture.
The two kids were already done with the situation.
"That's smart, Kanna-chan. Wanna play."
"Hmm."
"Let's go."
And with that both of them ran out to play on their own.
"Naruto, Kanna!" Miu shouted as she bowed towards me and ran after the two kids quickly.
"They are getting along quite well. I was worried how she would adapt to living with you all." I said looking at Hayato.
"Hahahaha Kanna-chan is adorable. I feel like I have another granddaughter now. And yes, they squabble among themselves and when they get tired, they play together. They even play pranks together. I think both of them are getting along quite well. I think Kanna-chan was just missing a friend to play with and Naruto is happy with someone his age to play with too. Normally the kids at his school are good but he cannot tell them about this magic stuff so Kanna came in as a welcome change."
"I am glad that they are getting along."