The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 86: Lunch Break
From their pedigree, the one chosen to be the girl's successor was Eve from the same Veilmist Family.
"In the past, big brother was a great knight that I admired." Eve bit her lips firmly.
"He was a very cold person, but he was not a person who would destroy everything with such force. He is no longer the knight I am aiming for."
Kaizo remembered the spirit crystal he saw in Eve's room yesterday. Lucia in Eve's memory had a completely different atmosphere to hers from this morning.
He felt it when he faced it, an intimidating air that was not even pleasant.
(What changed it like that?)
Then at that moment, there was the sound of stomach rumbling.
"Eve?"
"This is not me!" Eve became a dead red and denied.
Kaizo made a wry smile and said, "That's because we've been working since morning. I'm actually starving too. Since it's almost time to change shifts, are we going to have lunch or what?"
"Guh! I-though I said it wasn't that."
Ignoring Eve, who was puffing her cheeks, Kaizo looked around.
Since there is a Holy Valentine Festival, there are many confectionery shops, but there are also many street stalls selling other foods.
There are sugar-coated fried breads, certain dishes that are wrapped in cookie dough with vegetables, grilled minced meat, and grilled meat with skewers. Even if Eve did not do so, her stomach would probably rumble.
"Are you going to buy something at the stall? Or, are you going to a restaurant somewhere?"
"Mm, no, err,"
After that, Eve suddenly started to fidget for some reason.
"Actually, I've made something."
"Eh?"
Then, out of nowhere, a demon wind spirit in the form of an eagle came flying. It was Eve's demon wind spirit, Aimorphy. It held a large basket in its claws.
"As expected." Kaizo.
(Even to make his own provisions, he was truly a capable princess.)
"Then, I'll buy something at the stall."
"Tu-wait!" Eve held Kaizo by the neck as she was about to leave.
"W-What?"
"A-There's also your part."
"Eh?"
"Ja-so, I said that I also made your part!"
"My part?"
"Y-Yes, since I accidentally made one or two, the time it took didn't change much. I-don't misunderstand, I only made it because it would be useless if there were any ingredients left!"
"I'm grateful for that. Eve's provisions are something I'm looking forward to."
"You, if you look forward to it, I will feel troubled. Ahem." Eve's cheeks flushed red as she coughed.
"Then, can we find a place we can live somewhere."
Eve looked around, and she was surprised someone called her.
"Ah, Captain, this is it, will we have lunch together?"
"Aah!?"
Waving their hands across the street, a group of three girls came running with the sound of their light footsteps. They were all members of the Hybrid Knights, who wore light armor on top of their uniforms.
"You guys, what about the city patrol?!"
"Right now is the time for Rakusha's unit to be in charge of patrols. After that, I thought about having lunch with everyone. Captain, how about we eat together?"
"Err, I had a previous commitment with Kaizo."
"Ah, that's very sneaky. Captain, you plan to hold Kaizo alone!"
"Misuse of authority."
The three girls criticize Eve simultaneously.
"I won't hold Kaizo alone or anything!" Eve became flaming red and flaming.
"Isn't that okay? Besides, I couldn't properly introduce myself this morning."
"I-That's so, but, anyway,"
Eve sighed, and Kaizo overruled the sentence Eve was about to say, "I understand. Then let's have lunch with everyone."
"Muh!" He glared at Kaizo with a reproachful look and nodded.
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Just like that, they ended up having lunch in a nearby park. It was a lush green natural park near the square. Inside the busy city it was just quiet here, due to the preparations of the Holy Valentine Festival.
The Knight girls sat on top of the courtyard, and opened their lunch boxes. The three of them were sandwiches, but only Eve's bread was different.
"Oh? That's incredibly wasteful."
"Be-so? B-but nothing special, the same as always." Kaizo raised her voice in admiration, and Eve looked down because she was a little embarrassed.
There are salad potato sandwiches, sausages, fried eggs, fruits that are cut into perfect sizes and more placed inside a rather large lunch box.
"Lies, you usually only have peanut butter sandwiches, but...."
"The apple is also nicely cut into the shape of Lord Rabbit!"
"His sausage was also made into the Octopus Lord!"
Stared motionlessly with scornful eyes by the three girls, Eve ends up overwhelmed, "You girls too,"
Dodging the question, he faced the three of them and pointed his index finger firmly, "Me - despite being afraid of Kaizo this morning, what's with this turn of events?"
In fact, it also annoys Kaizo. The reputation that Kaizo had as a male elementalist in the princess academy was quite bad. There were such things as pervert, ferocious beasts, and night demon lords.
A cruel misunderstanding is being made. Furthermore, despite the various circumstances, he even saw the girls changing clothes this morning. His first impression should have been the worst.
The three of them looked at each other's faces, and made a confused face.
"U-Um, honestly I'm still a little scared."
"When I saw the Captain speaking normally to him, I thought he wasn't a bad guy or anything like that."
"In addition, she was against Miss Lucia directly, it was amazing."
The three of them put both hands on their cheeks, and their faces flushed slightly for some reason.
Eve slightly curled her lips and with a frown pulled her lips back and pouted at the appearance like that of the three of them.
"It's nothing, I just don't like it."
Kaizo deftly takes the sandwich made by Eve. It was a meat and egg sandwich. The pitch works, and the spice is simple yet very pleasant.
"Lezat. Being able to make such a simple thing delicious is a testament to your incredible skills."
"Really? That's great." Eve breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't hold back, eat!"
"Ah, then, I won't hold back,"
Kaizo was about to throw a sandwich into his mouth, and at that moment the sandwich in his hand suddenly disappeared.
"Nyx, what are you doing?"
Nyx had returned to her human form from the sword and was beside her.
"Kaizo, I'm hungry too. Please feed me."
"You know what else, come on." Kaizo made a wry smile as she reached out to the sandwich.
Kaizo tore it into small pieces for easy eating, and threw it into Nyx's mouth. Chewing the expressionless bread, Nyx was almost like a small animal.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.