Amy exhaled as she put down her tray. The restaurant was busy as usual. It couldnt not be since it was the only one in the small frontier town. When Amy was about to check on a custor, the door to the place swung wide open, revealing a shirtless man with tattoos covering a large portion of his body. Standing next to him, there was a woman with a pair of wings growing out of her back. Amy put on her fake smile and nodded at the strange couple. Table for two?
Table for three, a feminine voice said, but rather than coming from the woman with the wings, it ca from atop the mans head. There was a fairy sitting up there.
Sorry, for three. If youll follow , Amy said and led the way. It mightve been her first ti serving a woman with wings and a man with a fairy, but they certainly werent the weirdest people to have entered the restaurant. Thanks to reports of an evil beast in the woods nearby, more adventurers than usual were coming to eat here. Amy seated the strange people in a corner of the restaurant and asked, Can I get you anything to drink?
This is my first ti at a restaurant, the bird woman said.
Oh. Amy figured the bird woman misspoke. It was hard to hear with all the chatter going on in the background. Perhaps it was the bird womans first ti at this restaurant. Would you like a list of the drinks we have?
No. The bird woman shook her head. Id like one of everything.
The man spoke up before Amy could say anything. I want one of everything too.
The fairy blinked and looked down to make eye contact with the man. Are you sharing with ?
No.
The fairy blinked again before raising her head towards Amy. One of everything for too.
Amy nodded. With orders as simple as those, she didnt have to write anything down. As for whether or not her manager would take those orders seriously, it wasnt her problem. Three of everything, coming right up.
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Tafels stomach growled. It had been growling nonstop for the past hour. Walking through this desolate place used up a lot more energy than hiking anywhere else. She had to use her mana to keep the black mist at bay, constantly burning it away with her phoenix flas. If she didnt, then itd attack her. She had breathed it in earlier and almost fainted from nausea. She figured phoenix flas would keep the mist away because from the traces the two phoenixes had left behind, it seed like they were doing fine.
There was another growling sound, and Tafel sighed. What was there to even eat? Another growl rang out, and Tafels brow furrowed. That sound hadnt co from her stomach. She whirled around just in ti to see a four-legged creature pounce towards her. Tafel leaned back, and a blue light shone from her horns. An icicle shot out of the ground, impaling the creature in midair from below. It let out a shriek, and its legs squird to no avail. Tafel examined the creature while frowning. It looked like a panther, but it had no distinct features: no eyes, no nose, no mouth. Its fur seed to be absorbing the light coming off of Tafels phoenix flas. Thanks to that, the creature seed to be more like a silhouette than an actual object.
After a bit, the creature stopped moving, and Tafels horns stopped glowing. The black icicle disappeared, and the creature dropped to the ground. The demon squatted next to it while frowning. While she was adventuring in Fuselage, the rcenaries from Swirling Wind had taught her how to determine if sothing was edible or not. The surefire way of knowing was to package it as a gift and give it to a rival rcenary group mber. If they were still around co next week, then the food was safe to eat. Unfortunately, she didnt have anyone to feed this shadow creature to.
Tafel sighed and created a knife made out of ice with her magic. She cut apart the creature and frowned. Its blood was thick and viscous, and its at was the sa color as its fur. If she placed a slab of it on the ground, itd be hard to tell it apart from a rock. Since there werent any defining features, how was she supposed to tell if it was edible or not? She cut off a piece of at and held it over a floating ball of phoenix flas. The at sizzled, and like a piece of warm ice cream, a black droplet fell off its surface. In fact, the whole slab was lting. Right when she was about to give up, a red color appeared underneath the coating of black, but it quickly turned brown from the heat.
Its edible? Tafels eyes lit up. It seed like whatever the black substance was, it was similar to the black mist in the air. Her phoenix flas could remove it. She continued roasting the slab of at until all hints of darkness were gone. Then, she took a small bite. It didnt taste like much, but since she didnt have access to her seasonings, there wasnt anything she could do about that. After taking the first bite, she didnt eat any more. Shed wait a few hours first to see if there were any side effects.
Tafel cut off a sizable piece of at from the creatures corpse and raised Minervas feather. Rather than sitting and waiting, she would use her ti to find Susan and Emile. If everything went well, she wouldnt go hungry. Unfortunately, she still hadnt found a source of drinking water, but she wasnt worried. Even though Susan and Emile were phoenixes, that didnt an they didnt have to drink water. As long as she followed their traces, she was bound to find so eventuallyunless the two had collapsed from dehydration.
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