Isekai Restaurant
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Chapter 8: Unusual Meal
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- Silas -
I looked at the man, completely surprised by his question.
"Excuse me?"
He grinned widely. "What kind of woman is your type?" He grinned as he threw his jacket aside. "If I don't like your answer, I will beat your ass. By the way, I like tall women with a big ass."
….
So I didn't hear it wrong?
Who asks this kind of question at the beginning of the battle?
Is this some kind of trigger for his Curse Technique?
"I….guess I like cute girls." I answered unsurely.
"Huh? What kind of answer is that? Everyone likes cute girls. I mean what kind of body type do you like?"
….
Ah, so he's one of those.
"I don't really have any specific preferences as long as they have good personalities."
"How boring! A person's fetish describes everything about them. You Silas….are also disappointing." He shouted and I looked at Gojo-san with a questioning look.
Was there something wrong with his head?
The guy just smiled and shrugged and the next second, I caught sight of a fist from the corner of my eyes.
I raised my hand and was barely able to block the attack which sent me flying into some boxes on the side of the room.
- Megumi -
He winced as he remembered the same thing happening back then. The musclehead didn't stop there. He rushed to the boxes and picked Silas by the leg and smashed him against the wall and threw him towards the other end of the battlefield before almost teleporting there and punching him in the face, making him crash in the training dummies.
"Sensei. You said they were new students. That's a bit too much for newbies." He told sensei who was still looking at the fight with a smile on his face.
"Hah? Megumi-kun, are you worried about your Kouhai? That's so adorable."
He felt a vein bulge in his head and looked away.
This whole trip, in fact this whole place was suspicious from the very start.
Then again, things had hardly been normal since the whole Shibuya incident.
First they find that Nobara and Nanami-sensei were dead while Gojo-sensei was sealed off and Principal Masamichi was declared a rogue.
Then the whole incident with the barriers over the country breaking and then Gojo-sensei reappearing and the higher ups….disappearing.
And after all that, not only Nobara appears, even Nanami-sensei turns out to be alive.
Nobara had told them about the new students but she was prohibited from telling them about the exact details.
She however seemed a bit hesitant about all this.
For this reason, they were all looking forward to this visit a lot to see what kind of students were taken in as the new first years.
But who would have thought that there would be such a story behind all this?
Other worlds.
Students from a different world.
A literal fucking dragon was serving them noodles.
Could this day get any weirder….and turns out that it could.
That kid….Naruto….his Cursed Energy….was unreal….Like it had to be some kind of illusion. There was no way that was real….
But then again, when he remembered the incident of the barrier breaking over Japan, he reigned his thoughts in.
Was it related to this place?
Well, obviously it had to be.
Was this place some kind of cursed site which released all that cursed energy on being awakened? But that's not how things worked!
Megumi was having a hard time processing everything and now this.
Finally, Todo stopped after a while and looked at the debris of the training dummy.
He looked at the other two new students.
Naruto looked a bit worried but it was the girl who gave him dangerous vibes. She was looking at Todo with almost dead eyes.
"Sensei….I think that's too much. He hasn't even fought back the entire time." Yuji said, suddenly attracting their attention to them.
"Hmm. I guess that's true. It won't do if he doesn't fight back. Let's fix that." He nodded and shouted towards the debris. "Silas-kun. In a spar you have to fight back. We are not doing turn by turn fighting like before!"
….
The debris moved and the guy got up….almost uninjured.
He rubbed the side of his face, looking astonished as if not believing it himself.
"I am sorry. I just got an overall upgrade yesterday and I am not used to my current strength yet. I think I more or less have an idea now." He apologised.
Why are you apologising, dude? You were the one getting beaten up.
"Hahahaha that's more like it. Come on!" Todo shouted, excited for the fight.
The boy drew a knife from the sheath.
It looked like a….kitchen knife.
"Is that a cursed tool?" Maki asked.
"Hmm, that is….we don't exactly know. It was originally a sword and when we tried to craft it, its shape changed on its own and took the shape of a knife."
"That is a holy sword made by a God to kill dragons." The dragon girl, Tohru said.
"A God?!"
"Hmm. That sword was the one God Loki used to attack me. Boss kept it. It probably responded to the wish of the user and changed into the shape they wanted to change it to."
They looked back at Silas and he moved the knife. "Chop."
Aoi Todo dodged instinctively but….nothing happened.
Everyone looked confused at Silas but he didn't stop and kept making moves. Todo kept on moving but….absolutely nothing happened no matter how much he attacked…. Until Todo got tired of dodging and tried attacking him.
In that very instant, his entire body was riddled with cuts and he was thrown into the side of the room.
"That was!" He looked at Gojo-sensei. "Is he also?"
"No. He is different. His technique is….far more dangerous than Sukuna's." Gojo-sensei smiled looking at Yuji. "He can attack anything he wants to attack and completely bypass anything that he wishes to….absolutely anything. In simple words his attacks only hurt what he wants to hurt and ignore the existence of any kind of defense….even my Limitless Technique. You just cannot defend against it."
"....you have got to be kidding me."
They thought the fight was completed and Todo lost but the guy got up, rubbing the blood on his wounds. "That was it! Come….let's fight, Silas!"
Silas took a stance this time and swung his knife far faster than before.
Todo suddenly clapped.
And the next second he was replaced by the debris behind Silas and punched Silas from behind.
Silas reacted faster this time and defended with his knife and was pushed back a few steps. Todo pushed on with his attack, not allowing Silas any chance to attack.
That guy's Cursed technique was very troublesome. He was dodging and targeting Silas at the same time. That said, even that was restrained as any and all attacks of Silas were harmless for anyone but Todo.
They soon noticed something, the more they fought, the less Todo was able to injure him.
"He knows martial arts." Maki-senpai said and they looked at the teachers.
"He's been learning Martial Arts at the dojo of Naruto's grandfather for the last two months or so."
The fight continued and after almost an hour or so, Silas was actually keeping up with Todo who was continuously attacking from every direction.
"Hmph, if the boss were to use magic, the entire fight would have been over in a second." The dragon girl complained.
"Oh! Magic, you say?" Gojo-sensei asked.
"Yes. Boss has recently learned Water and Ice Magic from his friends. He hasn't used any of it yet."
"Well….I guess he wants to learn using his innate technique first and that's why he's been avoiding using anything else." Nanami-sensei said.
The two sides clashed one last time before they separated.
"That's more like it, Silas!"
"Alright. I have learned a lot. Let's get serious now, shall we?"
"Oh yeahhhh."
Silas swung his knife and Todo moved his hands to clap….only for his hands to get encased in ice all of a sudden. His technique was interrupted and Silas' attack hit him, making a deep gash on his chest and throwing him against the wall, making him lose consciousness.
"That's match. Silas wins." Gojo-sensei shouted. "Shoko-chan, please take care of Todo-kun."
In that time, Silas had walked back to others and Sakura was checking him for any wounds.
"I am fine, Sakura. I was just adjusting myself so as to not overdo things. I am still not used to my new strength." Silas reassured.
Megumi looked at the man incredulously. He was taking that beating to….learn to hold back?
"Hmph, boss could have cut apart his soul with that first hit if he wanted to. Obviously he was holding back." The dragon girl taunted.
Cut souls?
Could he really target anything?
"That magic thing was really amazing." Yuji said excitedly. "How did you do it?"
"I….froze the water in the air." He answered.
"Wow….that's crazy."
"Now finally, the final match. It's Yuta vs Sakura-chan."
"Best of luck, Sakura-chan. Do your best." Silas wished and she nodded.
"Yes yes. Kick his ass, Sakura-nee-chan." Naruto cheered and she brushed his head with a smile as she walked to the field.
The two sides took their places.
"Alright. Keep this clean. Start."
As soon as the words fell, Yuta-senpai's cursed spirit appeared in front of him almost instinctively as if to protect him. That said….it didn't move.
No matter what Yuta-senpai tried, it just didn't move, completely refusing to listen to his orders.
The girl on the other side was just staring at them. She hadn't attacked, or even released the slightest bit of Cursed Energy from the very start.
"Rika, what's the matter?" Yuta-senpai asked, confused but seeing no response from her, he turned towards Sakura. "Is this your Cursed technique? Controlling or stopping other Cursed Spirits?" He asked.
They all looked at the teachers who didn't answer anything and were looking at the fight in an unblinking manner.
"In that case, I will fight by myself." He drew his sword and dashed towards Sakura to attack but before he could swing his sword, he paused.
No….it looked like he was frozen.
Sweat began to form on his face as he dropped his sword and crumbled to his knees, beginning to take heavy breaths.
"Yuta! What happened?" Maki-senpai shouted but he didn't respond.
Then….under the stunned eyes of everyone, even Rika….kneeled, bowing its head in front of Sakura.
Finally, after what seemed like hours but had only been moments, Yuta-senpai spoke very softly. "I give up."
At the next instant, Rika disappeared and Yuta-senpai looked as if he could breathe normally again.
"That's match. Sakura-chan wins." Gojo-sensei announced and the girl in question bowed politely and walked back behind Silas and checked him for
"What is going on here? Sensei, what did she do?" Maki-senpai asked, agitatedly.
It was Nanami-sensei who answered, wiping his sweat.
"She….overwhelmed him."
"Huh?" Yuji asked, confused.
"What he means is that Yuta was scared out of his mind. Such a thing can happen when you meet someone far stronger than you." Gojo-sensei clarified.
"B-b-but that's impossible. This is Yuta we are talking about." Maki-senpai refuted.
"And that's why he was able to keep his consciousness. Had it been any of you, you would have lost your consciousness or had a stroke."
"But sensei, how did she do it? We couldn't even feel anything. I mean she wasn't realsing any cursed energy either."
"That's true but that's because you all suck at sensing Cursed Energy. Yuta on the other hand is connected with Rika and has an excellent grasp of Cursed Energy sensing. If you don't understand, you can ask Sukuna about his feelings." Gojo-sensei smirked.
"Sukuna?"
Yuji kept quiet for a second, likely communicating with Sukuna, after which he spoke.
"He is not saying anything. In fact, he is not cursing as usual. He is just quiet."
"Ahahahaha so he does recognise it too." Gojo-sensei laughed. "The difference in their levels."