Chapter 19: Serious Title
"Mr. Wood, this is a reward for defeating a superior demon. Excluding the amount distributed to Team Rex and Miss Yoyo, there is a total of 50 million. However, because of your outstanding performance, we, the Adventurers' Association, have decided to give you an additional reward of 150 million, a total of 200 million Eris. ”
Listening to Luna's words, Wood silently took the money bag.
"Why did you take this money...... Couldn't I be happier at all? ”
Especially when he saw the counter lady and the disdain hidden under the smile, Wood felt even more like finding a crack in the ground to get into.
After the battle in the morning, the battle to destroy the demons naturally caused a sensation throughout the town...... Although Wood did little to contribute, in the eyes of others, the reason why Houst returned to Hell was entirely due to Wood alone.
These are secondary, though.
A team leader with a sense of justice took advantage of this sensation to remind the residents of the town who have daughters at home, telling them to take good care of their daughters, so as not to be targeted by a dangerous lolita.
Destroying the superior demon is undoubtedly a big deal, and it has caused a great sensation in the novice town.
So in just half a day, rumors such as 'the adventurer who destroyed the demon is a perverted lolicon' have spread all over the streets.
It can be said that ...... Wood's first steps toward otherworldly fame have already been taken, though the term 'notoriety' is more appropriate......
Wood listened to the whispers among the adventurers nearby, and for the first time thought that hearing too well was not a good thing!
But!
It doesn't matter, as the saying goes, the body is not afraid of the shadow, as a god with millions of Lori believers, how normal it is to protect believers!
By the way, I'm ...... What god came?
Wood was confused about his godhood......
"Hmm... Sure enough, it's better to kill the one named Rex......"
Finding an empty table and sitting down, waving to the waiter, Wood directly ordered all the dishes made of various biological meats on the menu.
"All of this?"
The waitress looked at Wood in surprise, although Axel is a newcomer town, there are many kinds of creatures.
From a small chinchilla to a big bear, there are not a hundred or eighty varieties of species, and even if each creature orders only one serving, there are more than eighty dishes.
The waitress looked at Wood, her immature face and thin physique, how could she not look like a person who could eat more than eighty dishes in one person......
But after repeated confirmations, the waiter still reported the menu, and then several people came out and put together the tables that were not nearby people, so as not to be able to put down the food that Wood ordered for a while.
"Mr. Wood."
While Wood waited for the food to be served, Yoyo and Megumi walked in from outside.
After the battle in the morning, Yoyo was dragged away by Megumi and heard Megumi say that as the price of Yin, Yoyo would be punished with the strange punishment of 'slapping a big steamed bun'......
"What's the matter?"
Wood asked without looking back.
Megumi glanced at Wood with disdain, and said to herself in a voice that she thought was very small: "It's obviously a pervert, but it's still so arrogant." ”
“……”
This girl is finding fault, right?
At this time, the back kitchen of the tavern also began to serve out food one after another, and waiters came over with various dishes.
Wood's eyes lit up, and a strange purple glow rose from his body.
The sudden change made the people in the adventurer's guild gather their eyes.
Some of them have witnessed Wood's transformation when he first arrives in this world, such as Miss Luna at the counter.
If it were another world, Wood would not choose to switch bodies in front of everyone, but in this world, it doesn't matter, because this is a world with various races, and although his public changes will make people curious, they will not cause any panic.
In the purple light, although Wood's height did not change, his skin and hair turned purple, and an inexplicable pressure permeated the entire tavern.
"Woo... Mr. Wood? ”
Yoyo watched Wood, who had changed his appearance, swallow his saliva and asked tentatively.
"Tell me something!"
Wood replied without raising his head, and before he could finish his words, he couldn't wait to pick up a plate of food similar to chicken thighs on the table and put it directly into his mouth.
The sound of gravy and bones shattering echoed through the tavern, causing everyone to swallow.
It was really Wood's way of eating that was too scary, his mouth was almost two fists open, and the huge chicken leg was almost one bite at a time, and even the bones were crushed together, and a large plate of chicken legs went into Wood's stomach in less than a minute.
The purple glow lit up, but it didn't last long before disappearing.
Wood frowned slightly, then pulled the plate of fried frog meat again, raised the plate to his mouth, and poured it in.
“……”
Yoyo and Megumi were dumbfounded, it was the first time they had seen someone eat like this since they were children.
Wood wiped out five foods in one fell swoop before he felt the fullness of his body again.
Unlike the last time he ate, this time his strength did not change significantly, barely reaching the level of a 'tiger' level weirdo.
It seems that the amount of one-time devouring is not fixed, but depends on the genetic strength of the ingredient itself.
Wood didn't think much of it, although it no longer played the role of devouring genes, these foods were still very attractive to him.
Yoyo stood aside with an embarrassed face, trying to speak several times but not being embarrassed to disturb Wood to eat, and Megumi didn't know where she had gone just now, probably wanting to use the stroke record of this crusade against the demon to see if any team was willing to accept her.
This made Yoyo, who was standing alone next to Wood, even more embarrassed, and didn't know whether to disturb Mr. Wood for dinner.
"The ......"
Cracking sound!
"Woo... Wood ...... Sir, I have something to tell you......"
Cracking sound!
“……”
The corners of Yoyo's mouth twitched, and she, who had always been good-tempered, now had the urge to rub Wood's head on the table.
Wood didn't pay any attention to Yoyo's meaning, even if the soul was the same, but different bodies had different ways of thinking.
At least for Wood, who is now a gluttonous eater, the attraction of the beautiful little Lori next to him is not even comparable to the pig's trotters on the table.
“…… Mr. Wood, I'm going to leave for a while. ”
Yoyo saw that Wood's attention was not on him at all, so he simply said what he meant: "After this incident, I found that I was still too weak, so in order to defeat Megumi as a strong enemy, I was going to go to other cities for a while, and it would probably be a while before I came back." ”
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