123 Lesson 123

"Whoa, is the back room empty?

When he opened the door to the greeting and entered the dining room, Gandal asked the clerk as he was used to.

"Oh, Mr. Gandal. Long time no see, I mean the back room... no, let's not pry. No one is using it now, so it's okay."

As the word goes, Gandal and the clerk seemed to know each other. The clerk urges him to go back as if he had guessed something.

"Then I'll let you in on your own. Order, come and get it when you hear from us."

"Yes, yes, I understand. This is the menu."

Upon receiving the menu, Gandal progresses luxuriously to the back.

"Welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, you're with Mr. Gandal. Please, go to the back. It's going to be a poking room."

The clerk, sighing in Gandal's footsteps, switched to a smile and when he showed the Ataru to another customer service.

Proceeding as I was told, Gandal was waiting with an arm in front of the room.

"Whoa, you're here. I thought you were home late."

"Ah."

Then Atal thought we wished we could wait for ourselves and go with us, but we nod vaguely without putting it on our faces.

"Come on, you can't hear me out here. Let me hear all about it."

When I walked into the room as I was guided, it was a private room with a qualitative but atmospheric feel, unlike the seats I had had had until I got here, and it was made with no sound leaking outside.

"Well, there's a soundproofing room... it's in a dining room like this, too. It's rare."

Ataru realizes that the air is different only here the moment he enters. It was unique to the soundproofing room.

"Oh, this place is run by an old adventurer. This is how adventurers and merchants are used to tell important stories, like us."

Gandal seemed to know on his own and looked at the menu as he sat somewhat in the back seat. Athals also take their seats across from Gandal, with Balkias and Ifria sitting at Caro's feet.

"Do you mind if I ask for food appropriately? Look at this menu table for drinks. Well, I'll call the clerk for now."

Give it to the Ataru after seeing the parallax and the menu, and Gandal sheds his magic on what looks like a magic object on the wall. Besides the contents of the menu were like in a regular dining room, there was even something a little overpriced.

"That's it. Shit. You should be here in a little while, so make up your mind by then. This is my treat, so you can ask for whatever you want."

From the strength of the Ataru's, the A-rank adventurers had the impression that they weren't very strong, but they were in fact quite accomplished, and the nostalgia was also moisturizing compared to other rank adventurers.

Then, after a while, the clerk comes and takes the order.

"Well, I get in touch with you in advance when the food comes. Shall I talk to you until then?... First of all, let me check again, but are you sure you're the only ones who came back after being asked to investigate the valley in the meantime?

It was a question asked once, but he wanted to make sure, and he asked again with a serious look.

"Oh, definitely. I just don't know if there's anyone else who came back. Some of them may have come back without being able to investigate. But, well, if I limit myself to reporting it, it's probably just us."

Ataru explains it in a somewhat far-flung way.

"I see. What I'm looking for is you guys who've been doing research.... What happened?

Gandal's question was a simple one. But there is an atmosphere of questioning in that eye.

"I can't answer what happened... if what you're looking for is what happened to the other adventurers. There was nobody there when we got to the valley."

Atal mouths the facts, but Gandal thinks he knows something, looking at Atal's face with his eyes narrowed.

"It's no use looking at me like that. I'm only telling the truth."

Even under Gandal's sharp gaze, Atal just shrugged his shoulders. Carol and the others are sitting tight even though Atal is not alert.

"... well, apparently it's true. You're lying. You're invisible. Then just tell me what you know."

Gandal, who looked Atal in the eye and was convinced he wasn't lying, still prompts him to talk about wanting some information.

"Okay, then let's start talking where we left off in the valley..."

Atal tells us that there were no traces of any other adventurers, that there was an angry demon, that he managed to exorcise it.

I stopped talking along the way and Gandal asked a few questions, so I talked to him as he answered them.

By the end of the whole story, I had been contacted that I had been able to support the food. When Gandal accepted, a clerk came to the room and lined up the food and left.

"I see... if there was such a thing, could the other ones have been hit?... Damn!

After the clerk leaves, Gandal, who was once again conceiving, shows frustration as to whether the information was collated within him.

"Uhm, yummy. Nice shop."

"Dear Atal, this one is delicious too!

The Ataru on the other hand had largely finished talking about what they could, so they were tongue-in-cheek at the dishes arranged. Some dishes were also arranged on the floor with cloth laid for the Balkias, and they were eating satisfactorily as well.

"Uh... I don't think it has anything to do with the Valley request, but I was attacked by an adventurer crash during another request. They heard from someone that we had the money, and that's why we were targeted. Someone we talked to is probably in this city."

As I recall, Atal wonders if he has any information at all about the one who set himself in the trap, and decides to circulate the information to Gandal.

"What? I can't even keep them in the wind of adventurers! Well, I guess I'm not an adventurer because it's about to collapse... and I don't know who would do that."

Gandal was as angry as I was that the Ataru had been done not long after I met him.

"It may be a total misunderstanding, but I'm thinking it might be him involved that the adventurers are missing in large numbers. The demon and the adventurers disappear lead to it... I feel that way"

It was unfounded, but Atal's intuition tied them together in one line.