The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 105

Chapter.26 Visiting a neighboring town

Making round rice balls with rice.

Mix rice, salt, and sesame oil in a round bowl called a bowl.

When making rice balls, salt seasoning is very important. Because it needs to be a little salty.

What goes into the rice balls is freshly minced tuna and mayonnaise. After kneading the rice and kneading it into a pretty shape, add tuna and mayonnaise into it.

Then, if you shape it with seaweed, delicious-looking rice balls are completed.

Rice balls in prison.

Feels like I’m on a picnic?

I handed out the round rice ball to Lurin. Saliva was dripping from my mouth as I was quietly watching what I was doing.

“Are you hungry?”

When I asked a question, Rurin shook her head! Stirred. It is whipped around so strongly that long hair flies in all directions. Thanks to this, the hair that was leaning toward my face and touching my lips began to huff and puff out.

There is only one thing I want to say.

“What are you doing?”

Then it boomed again! My head turns. Then, he clenched his fists with both hands, raised his arms, and began to shout loudly.

“no! I’m not just hungry! “I’m sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hungry!”

Yes, I recognized it from the moment I was drooling.

Why did you shake your head so hard to insist on that?

“Okay, okay. we are here.”

When I handed him the rice ball, he started eating it right away. Rurin took a bite of the rice ball because she saw that it had tuna and mayonnaise in it, which aroused her curiosity.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

He says something that cannot be interpreted. The rice balls are quite large, so it’s natural to put them in your mouth.

Ugh.

Munch yum yum.

However, even though it seemed like a burden, Lurin soon started chewing the rice ball she put in her mouth.

Very delicious.

Even his facial expression is ecstatic. Were you that hungry? It’s not like I starved.

I also took a bite of the rice ball, using that face as a side dish.

also.

The appropriate amount of salt in the rice and the tuna and mayonnaise inside are in perfect harmony. It is not for nothing that tuna mayonnaise is the most consistently popular among triangular kimbap. This combination is quite delicious. Even more so if you make it yourself.

As if to prove it, rice glue stuck to Rurin’s lips. This means that you are eating mindlessly.

“Give me more!”

Before I know it, I finish eating and hold out my hand. So, when I gave him rice balls, he sat close to my chest and leaned the back of his head against my chest.

“Hehehe.”

He smiled sweetly and put the rice ball in his mouth again.

“Hey, share some food. “Isn’t there a law that says you have to eat it in one bite?”

“Aaaahhh!”

what.

I gave up. Since he was quite tough, I let him eat whatever he wanted and I continued eating. Of course, Lulin’s head resting under my chin was a little annoying.

So, I patted its head and it looked up at me, still covered in rice.

My cheeks are swollen from eating the rice balls I put in my mouth.

While eating like that, the bandits’ eyes are very hot.

“What are you looking at?”

Looks like a bandit. There may be some who are not bandits, but anyway, they are just called bandits.

“Uh, we too… !”

We’re probably asking for food too.

But I used lightning magic right away. He made it clear earlier that he won’t let you go if he opens his mouth, and he has the guts to do so.

These guys don’t need mercy.

Banditry robbery rape arson murder.

What you see before your eyes are such criminals.

Moreover, he said something to Lulin that I couldn’t bear to listen to.

That alone wouldn’t hurt even if I killed him a hundred times. The only reason I’m still keeping them alive is because I have something to hear from their mouths.

“Sooooooo!”

I don’t like it.

I would like to say that it is a good thing to be self-employed.

Before I knew it, Lurin had finished eating the rice balls and was dozing off. I have no interest in bandits at all. They seem more interested in the dust accumulating here and there. If there is any dust, at least shake it off.

The bandits were treated as non-existent.

It’s amazing that they can sleep even while they’re screaming. Well, in a way, it’s natural.

Even the average person is prone to feeling hungry after eating lunch. Moreover, Lurin suffers from hunger more severely than other beings.

He taps my chest with the back of his head.

The head falls forward. Then it comes back.

“blast furnace… Loro… Long.”

The sound of breathing hit my ears. While contemplating whether to wake her up or not, I took the rice glue off the corner of Lurin’s mouth and put it in her mouth.

While chewing the salty rice, I looked at the bandits again.

As if the lightning magic had had an effect once more, when our eyes met, he lowered his head. It seems that the effects of true education are finally starting to come out.

I put Lulin down carefully.

And then I got up to go to the bandits. Since they are starting to be afraid of me, it is time to dig up information.

“Ugh.”

But as soon as I leave my side, Lurin wakes up, rubbing her eyes. Then he fell on my back and wrapped his arms around my neck. When I move forward, it drags. I don’t know what kind of instinct this is.

“Where are you going… !”

At this point, I was wondering if I was really asleep.

I arrived in front of the bandits, dragging Lulin in that state. Seeing this, the bandits twitched their facial muscles. It appears to be an action to suppress laughter.

It seemed like I still hadn’t come to my senses, so I lightly used lightning magic again. Sparks fly from my hands. After seeing that, I came to my senses and pursed my lips.

“From now on, just answer the questions asked. “If you don’t like it, suffer from lightning magic until you die.”

The bandits, with their eyes filled with sparks flying from their hands, began nodding their heads vigorously.

So I pointed out the one who seemed the most timid among them. Then the bandits’ attention turns to their companion.

“I’ll tell you anything. anything!”

It was clear on his face that he wanted to live, so I smiled.

How kind.

“You only have to answer one thing. “Tell me everything you know about that Rieden or something you guys were talking about earlier.”

“that… that!”

When the name Rieden was mentioned, fear appeared on the man’s face.

Fear just by name.

What kind of guy is this?

Curiosity becomes stronger. But hesitation is a sin.

“Kaaaaaaak!”

When I used magic on the bandits on both sides, excluding him, he finally began to open his mouth, perhaps succumbing to the fear in front of him rather than the fear far away.

“I will tell you. Say! Rieden is… .”

The guy continued speaking.

The conclusion is that Rieden is a bad guy.

In other words, it is darkness. Could it be said that Deadlancy is the culprit behind this trend?

Rieden seemed to be a person who did all sorts of dirty things behind Count Dedran’s back. It looks like he’s thinking about killing Deadran City by hanging out with bad organizations like assassin groups and slave traders that are famous in the southern part of the empire.

The leader of a criminal group.

I don’t know how such a being is trying to obtain Dead Rancy, but it doesn’t really matter if I don’t know.

In a situation where all the nobles have been captured, Rieden has made it so that the newly appointed high officials are not able to carry out their duties properly. It seems that Rieden is planning something else, but whatever the plan is, it is enough to destroy it in advance.

Chojeon shattered.

In times like these, isn’t it a word that really resonates?

His main business is usury. And then there is human trafficking. Slave business. And even the assassination of Yoo In.

“Lurin.”

After getting the information out of them, I strongly pinched Lulin’s cheek, which was hanging on his back.

“Uuuuuung!”

Wave your hands.

“Why don’t you stop getting up? “There is a lot of work to do.”

“Ugh. hate.”

“It’s wake-up time.”

“no. “It’s time to sleep.”

It’s still nonsense, like talking in your sleep with your eyes closed.

“We’re going to get out of here, so get up.”

“Really!”

Until just now, I had no choice but to accept that prison was frustrating, but I was here, but when I got out, my eyes suddenly opened with an expression on my face that said I was so happy.

Well, no one likes stuffy prisons like this. That’s true.

“Yes, I’m leaving. Before that, teleport those guys to the northern land.”

“Northern land?”

“huh.”

Without even asking why, Lulin just used magic to teleport the guys away with a dusting look on his face.

I don’t want someone to find out that I asked them about Rieden. But that doesn’t mean we can free the villain.

Well, it’s a place with scary monsters, but if you’re lucky, you can survive, right?

***

Imperial Capital.

After sending the bandits north, Lulin and I moved straight to the capital of the empire.

Magnificent street.

A refreshing stretch of road.

The imperial palace rises in the center of the main street.

A huge wall surrounding the imperial palace. and a moat that protected the walls from enemies.

When I look at this wonderful building, I honestly feel a sense of admiration.

Of course, I didn’t come here to sightsee.

Everything is for dead time.

Actually, getting rid of Rieden is a piece of cake. But just eliminating Rieden won’t solve anything.

In order to incorporate Deadran City into Great City and bring stability and peace as soon as possible, it was necessary to speak directly with the emperor.

Although it is a bit annoying to announce my retirement and meet the emperor again.

If that little bit of inconvenience can bring peace to Deadran City, it can’t be helped.

It is a clear fact that I purged Count Dedran. The citizens of Deadran City were living a difficult life under the Count’s rule, but after he disappeared, their lives became even more difficult.

Since I also have that responsibility, the fastest way to normalize the city is to get directly involved.

However, it would be a pain in the stomach to move on to someone else after normalizing it, so it is best to transfer it to Grace City.

It is not difficult to persuade the emperor.

The emperor owes me a great deal.

Even if that is not the case, it is welcome in itself to normalize the dead period in which taxes are not properly collected due to financial collapse so that tax revenue can be generated.

It will be a long time since I will meet the emperor.

“It’s a lot noisier here than before.”

Lulin immediately expressed his impressions. The time I was in Rurin and the capital was mainly during the war. So everyone lived in hiding, and the only noise was mainly in the sky.

While dragons fight in the sky.

The capital was so destroyed that it was restored in no time, thanks to the great power of mankind. It can be said that there are no traces of war at all.

In terms of the size of the city, it cannot even be compared to Gray City.

The long road is wide enough to line up two or three dragons. Such roads extend throughout the city. The inside of the road is crowded with buildings.

In particular, the Imperial Palace is the best among them. The round roof made of actual gold is very unique, and in modern times when I lived, it looks similar to the Kremlin Palace in Moscow.

However, unlike the Kremlin Palace, the round roof at the top is entirely gold. Moreover, there are more than one palace with such a rising roof.

Even before the war, the empire was one of the wealthiest and strongest countries on the continent, so even after recovering from the war, it was overflowing with national prestige.