CH 88.4

「So, what are you planning to eat? You came here because you’re hungry, right?」

「Ah, that’s right……what should we buy?」

Fortunately, the shelves of ready to eat foods had plenty of products left.

There is a baguette with smoked meat and cheese, a ham and tomato sandwich, and even a crepe-like thing with red sauce and sausage rolled in a naan-like dough.

Oh boy, there are so many choices it’s hard to choose.

Looking at the register, you’ll see pot au feu with Mince guarding it like a goalkeeper, udon noodles that are cooked to order……and pasta with premade sauce……

What!? They even have soup and porridge by weight?

How can they possibly make a menu like this? This isn’t profitable at all……I’ll have to check with Chicken next time.

「Mince, what’s delicious here?」

「Delicious……is it?」

After much deliberation, I decided to ask Mince, who seems to be a regular here, for her recommendation.

I was a little nervous because I suspected she had no sense of taste but asking is free after all.

「I would recommend…fried chicken-kun. It’s a boneless deep fried chicken dish. Its taste is far superior to other deep fried dishes and its only drawback is the small quantity.」

「Then I’ll have one……no, three……fried chicken-kun」

「Understood, please wait a moment」

The girl at the store smiled brightly and then pulled out three fried chicken-kun wrapped in sorghum leaves from the three layer warming container above the register.

The warming container is equipped with a heat producing magic construct I made which allows us to serve hot items at any time of the day.

I think it’s a little too elaborate but, who cares? We’re not bothering anyone so it should be okay.

Without those bookshelves like insulated containers, it wouldn’t feel like a convenience store.

However, what Mince said about the quantity being “small” was a complete lie…..a single order of fried chicken-kun is around the size of two palms.

「Thank you for your patience～」

I received the fried chicken-kun with chopsticks, paid Laura-san’s shopping basket as well, said goodby to Mince who was still guarding her pot au feu pot and left the store.

Leaving the store, which had been warmed by various heat sources, it felt a little cooler.

The inside of the store is going to be hell with sunlight shining through the glass if I don’t seriously consider air conditioning for summer.

「Here’s yours, Laura-san」

「Ah, thanks」

「Here’s your share」

「Eh? Can I? Thank you very much!」

I handed one fried chicken-kun to Laura-san and handed the escort slave, who followed us all the way, the other.

She, a goatkin girl who’s holding a spear under her arm, accepted it with an innocent smile and bowed her head.

What’s this girl’s name again…..Ashiba or Shibata or something……anyway, even if she looks like that, the fact that she was chosen as my escort means she can fight properly.

Thinking how appearances are deceiving, I bit the fried chicken kun, which is twice as big as the one I had in my previous life.

Yeah, it’s pretty tasty.

The juicy meat juices that had been sealed inside flowed out into my mouth when the batter broke with a crunching sound.

You’re doing great, late night store.

And Mince’s recommendation was good too.

「Fuun, it’s surprisingly tasty.」

「I know right. It tastes even better because it’s in the middle of the night.」

「Is that how it is?」

「That’s how it is.」

While Laura-san and I were laughing at each other, a middle aged couple went into the store.

Are they hungry? Or are they going to drink?

Across the street, a woman with a cigarette also walks by.

It’s a nice spring evening that made me want to sing a song.

We felt it was a waste to go home so quickly so we walked back home very slowly in the darkness with a warm breeze.