Isekai Restaurant
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Chapter 5: Devil
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- Silas -
I looked at the man while my eyes twitched.
Didn't he just say that we had done him a favour? Why the fuck was he cussing me then?
Was he being sarcastic?
I mean he did get punched but that was Touma dammit.
The man looked confused at my question. "You are a demon, right?"
Treating customers politely is something my Father had hammered into me when taught me about the restaurant and it was because of this that I didn't snap at the guy who was obviously cussing me.
"Dear customer, I apologise for the inconvenience that you have faced in my Restaurant but I would like to request you not to use such language." I asked politely, restraining my annoyance.
He looked taken aback at my response….like genuinely taken aback.
If I didn't know the situation, I would have thought that I was in the wrong here.
He then looked closer, raising a hand and closing an eye. I saw several lights flash in his hand but I knew that the Restaurant would protect me so I didn't do anything.
The guy then opened his eyes. "I see. There is a seal on you. No wonder."
Right at this time Tohru came into the Restaurant and greeted me. "Good evening, Boss. I am here." She suddenly paused, realising the oddity of the scene. "Did something happen?"
I shook her head and looked at Zeref. "I don't know what you mean by that Sir but I am not a demon."
"Eh! You're not a demon? Are you of some other Demonic Race, Boss?" Tohru exclaimed, making everyone look at her.
"Why would you even think that? Did I do anything bad to you?" I asked, annoyance slightly ringing my voice.
She realised it and quickly waved her hands. "No no. It's not like that Boss. You are one of the best people I know. I mean I didn't even know demons could be kind, let alone as kind as you."
"Alright hold it." I raised a hand stopping her. "Why exactly do you think I am a Demon?"
She tilted her head. "Huh? I mean you are a demon because you are a demon, just like I am a Dragon because I am a Dragon. What else could I mean? Although you keep everything sealed, I can still smell a Demon from miles away." She puffed her chest pridefully while I froze. Everyone in the Restaurant had gone quiet.
I mechanically turned towards Zeref. "What….what is this seal that you were talking about?" I asked, quite stiffly.
Zeref understood that there was something wrong with the situation and hesitated but spoke nonetheless.
"There is a seal on you which is sealing your true nature. It is quite an elaborate seal, not like anything I have ever seen before, although not difficult to remove."
My breathing got faster and I could feel my heart thundering in my chest.
Zeref….I didn't know but Tohru, was someone I knew quite well. I knew her personality and she would never….ever insult me like this.
With a shivering voice I asked him. "This seal….can you remove it?"
No one spoke a word and the man in question nodded and stepped towards me, placing a finger on my forehead.
I felt some kind of shackle release on my body and suddenly felt something on my back as gasps sounded in the place.
Turning back mechanically, I saw two bat-like wings jutting out from my back….that was the last thing I saw before the world around me went back.
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I opened my eyes and saw the ceiling of my Restaurant.
Saitama was sitting beside me.
"Silas, dude, are you alright?" He asked in his usual monotone.
"Me? Ah yes. I remember I had this weird dream where I was suddenly a demon and even had wings behind my back." I spoke as I got up. "Seriously, I must be working too hard to get dreams like that."
Between my Restaurant, learning Jujutsu and Martial Arts, I was actually overstretching my limits. Did I faint while working?
Then again, Jujutsu was also not the fun and happy kind of magic I was imagining it to be and it was normal to have such dreams sometimes.
Me being a devil. I chuckled at the thought.
A voice awakened me from my thoughts.
"But that was real though." I looked at Kensei Maa who was staring at me from the side of the couch.
Looking around, everyone was looking at me with worry but among them, my eyes caught one person.
Zeref.
….and my eyes widened.
"What happened to me right now?" I asked, almost growled.
"I removed the seal on you and those wings were released but you apparently didn't have enough demonic power if any at all and thus fainted when it started running in your body. I checked and found that your demonic power reserves were negligible. In fact, you are a demonic being who doesn't have any Demonic Power at all….well, almost. I did a quick fix on you by implanting a Demon Seed in your body. It's producing Demonic Power and nourishing your body as we speak."
"I am not a Demon. I can't be a demon" I gritted out, perhaps more to myself than to others. I am a human dammit. I have been since I remembered it.
What the fuck Demonic Power and what fucking seal?
"I think you are misunderstanding something. Demonic Beings are not all mindless killers. You shouldn't hold prejudice against them." Zeref tried to explain.
Saitama placed a hand on my shoulder but I was having an existential crisis at the moment.
"I….I need some time alone. I will excuse myself. I'm sorry for the inconvenience."
I got up and walked back to the second floor of the restaurant which also served as my home.
Thankfully, Sakura was not at home. She had gone out to do shopping for her necessities since she stayed here now.
I quickly got out of the room and left the place through the backdoor, not going back to the Restaurant.
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I walked out on the roads on the outskirts of Kyoto. The sky was cloudy and the nearby lights weren't working but I could see everything clearly.
There were only some abandoned buildings around the place.
Unlike Kyoto, this town was quite rundown and one of the reasons why I could even get a place here.
I found an empty park and entered, emotionally exhausted.
Demon.
I am a demon.
How could I be a demon?
Wasn't this some normal world? Why did demons pop out all of a sudden? I suddenly found the familiar world became completely unknown within just a few minutes.
The fact that I was meeting with people with supernatural powers all along had reduced the amount of shock I was under but it was still something I was having a hard time wrapping my head around.
Did mom and dad know of this?
Were my parents also demons?
I reincarnated into this world, lived eighteen years and now all of a sudden, I am a Demon.
Was I already reincarnated as a demon or did I become one later?
There were so many questions in my mind, so many things I wanted to ask but had no idea whom to ask, so many things I didn't know and now….I don't think I would ever know.
I sat down on the bench in a park, closing my eyes, letting the breeze calm down my thoughts. It was cold and I was still in my chef uniform. Hell I ran away so fast that I didn't even have the time to remove the knives from my holster.
I let out a sigh and closed my eyes trying to cool my head.
But today was just not for me.
I heard a crashing sound behind me and looked back to see what looked to be a boy of fifteen or sixteen jumping from the first floor of the building and surprisingly a dog jumped behind him.
He looked at me and shouted. "Run, they are coming. Run."
That voice?
"Tobio?" I was taken aback. "Tobio, it's me Silas. Why are you running? Who is coming?" I asked, going forward to pick him up.
He had sprained his leg in that jump.
"Silas-san. Hurry, we need to run."
"What happened?" I asked him as I picked him on my back. The dog didn't do anything to me.
Tobio pointed towards the building. "There, run quickly!"
I looked at the place he was pointing and saw a car sized spider kind of creature carrying a boy and climbing down the building.
The boy however seemed weird. He pointed towards us and the spider jumped.
What the fuck?!
There are Cursed Users here?
I turned heel and ran quickly with Tobio on my back.
I noticed that my speed was faster than before. Even without reinforcing myself with Cursed Energy, I was covering several metres with a single step.
Was it because of my Demon heritage? If so then, for the first time in the last hour, I was feeling thankful for being demon.
Perhaps an equally surprising thing was that the dog was able to keep up with my speed.
The boy chasing us was joined by two more such monsters.
"Fuck! Just what in the blazes are those?" I shouted.
"That boy….he was my classmate who had gone missing. I don't know but he is being controlled somehow."
I needed to outrun them. Suddenly I remembered the wings I had.
Yes.
I had wings.
Come out.
Come out.
"Come Out!" I shouted loudly.
I felt the same feeling from my back and with the next jump, I was in the sky. The puppy
"What….what are you?!" Tobio squeaked.
"Trust me….I am having a very confusing day as well." I explained as I tried to fly away, unfortunately it was easier said than done.
I felt something latch onto my foot.
I lost my balance and tumbled down.
Thankfully, our drop was cushioned by a fountain below.
I looked down to see….a spider web from that spider.
"Tobio, run!" I shouted. I noticed his dog had jumped protectively in front of him, a black coloured blade coming out from its forehead as it growled at the approaching monsters.
Was it a Shikigami?
I had heard about them but this one didn't look like one.
What is it?
A pokemon?
I shook my head and turned towards the other side.
Those three monsters were running towards us.