If the world beyond the barrier is a solemn auditorium, then inside the barrier is a lifeless graveyard.

Leo pushed open the gray door of the restaurant and shouted inside, "Is the boss there?

"Yes, the hostess is there. ”

A woman in her thirties staggered to her feet from the front desk.

Her expression was blank, her expression was slow, her speech was slurred, her tone dragged on for a long time, and her whole person was completely devoid, as if her soul had been drained.

This is true not only of the proprietress but also of the rest of the restaurant.

Leo yelled like this, and in normal times, he would have attracted the attention and eyes of countless people in the restaurant, but now, the diners in the restaurant are still sitting in their seats, and they don't even seem to have the time to raise their heads.

"What do you want?"

The same gray and black proprietress dragged her feet on the ground, and rubbed in front of everyone in the adventure group step by step, staring directly at Leo with a pair of empty eyes.

Even though Leo was strong and vindictive, he still shuddered in front of such a gaze.

"Meals for six, what's there. ”

"A silver coin is prepaid. The proprietress held her hand and placed it stiffly in front of Leo.

"Of course. Leo pulled out a silver coin and placed it in the gray and black hand.

The moment the palms of the two touched, there was a cold touch on the hands of the proprietress like an iron fence that had been frozen through in winter.

Leo withdrew his arm.

"Do you need to register your identity?"

"Oh, forget it, it doesn't work. ”

When the proprietress mentioned this, she was a little more energetic, but the meaning expressed in her words was stunned.

"Uh, you're saying that the identity registration system doesn't work at all?"

"It's a piece of shit. The proprietress once again spoke ill of the system established by the gods, and did not hide it in the slightest.

At this moment, even Ente was stunned.

"Isn't this an ordinance bad?" asked Esenus blankly.

"I only know that there is no perfect plan in the world, and under a plan, since there are gainers, there must also be losers. Esenas shrugged.

"But. Enter was puzzled. "It's not that bad, is it?"

"It's not certain, because different positions have different priorities for interests. ”

Leo looked at the gray hall of the restaurant, where all the diners had a table and kept a cold distance from the others, which meant that there were no empty seats left for the party.

"Hello, squeeze. Leo picked the largest table and slapped Bugati in front of the diners.

It was a blatant threat and intimidation, but the diner didn't even notice it, his knives and forks still hanging in the air, his teeth slowly opening and closing at a constant speed, firmly against the food in front of him.

Since the diner didn't show any objection, Leo assumed that he acquiesced.

"Sit down, he's agreed that we'll share a table with him. ”

Everyone was speechless, so they had to sit down with Leo cheekily.

"It's a terrible feeling here, it's like there's a corpse crawling around and eating with us. Little Paul whispered.

"If it's a corpse, maybe it'll be more comfortable. Leo was also uncomfortable, these diners were lifeless, and he couldn't help but want to be depressed.

Isenus stared at the diner in front of him, carefully observing his movements.

The diner took a piece of fish and put it in his mouth, and the sharp-eyed Isenas found that there were at least three fish bones hidden in the fish.

What is this way to eat fish?

Isenus continued to observe the diner curiously.

The diner was unaware of the fish bone, but mechanically opened and closed his mouth and chewed the piece of fish meat to pieces.

But Isenas was sure that with the frequency and strength of the eater's chewing, it would not be enough to bite the three bones.

Sure enough, a fish bone seemed to get stuck between the diners' throats, and for the first time, a different look appeared on the faces of the diners, who looked like dead people.

I saw that his eyes were slightly protruding, his mouth was slightly open, and he unhurriedly picked up a piece of white bread and stuffed it into his mouth, and then he swallowed hard, and this piece of white bread made an obvious bulge on his throat.

The rest of the party also noticed the strangeness of the diner, and watched the eater in a daze as he saved himself.

Eventually, the bulge slowly slid into the diner's chest and swallowed into his stomach.

Having solved this big problem, the diner resumed his unhurried pace, mechanically cutting off another piece of fish, completely unaware of walking around on the brink of death.

This time, Leo could also see clearly that there were four fish bones on this piece of fish, and if this person still ate it in the same way as he did just now, it would be the best result to walk again on the edge of the underworld.

Leo quickly snatched the knife and fork from the diner's hand.

However, this act of kindness seemed to irritate the dead diner, and he suddenly put up a fierce resistance, his eyes were red, his mouth let out a roar, and his hands waved his knife and fork to reclaim Leo's hand.

"Don't hurt him!" Leo shouted, quickly stopping his companions who were trying to subdue the diners.

The diner seems to only care about the food itself, not the dining tools.

Leo plucked the fish from his knife and fork and tried to hand it to the diners.

The diner snatched the food back, then sat back quietly as if nothing had happened.

There was such a loud noise from the side of the adventure party, and the rest of the diners still ignored it, just concentrating on their meal in front of them.

In desperation, Isenas had no choice but to extravagantly use his Sanctuary ability to pick out all the spikes in the fish.

"This guy doesn't thank us either!" said little Paul angrily. "We indirectly saved his life!"

Little Paul's voice was loud and deliberate, as if he was speaking to the diner.

Leo patted little Paul on the shoulder: "Don't shout, he can't hear it." ”

"He's deaf?"

"Nope. Leo shook his head and put it another way: "It's not so much that he can't hear it, but that he doesn't care about it, because it has nothing to do with the necessity of his survival." ”

"Looks like you've found out too. Isenus stood up and snatched the food from the diners at the other table.

Immediately afterward, the diner went berserk, as if Isenus had a grudge against him.

Isenas hurriedly returned the food to him.

"What's going on?" little Paul was dumbfounded.

"Obviously, they are now just a bunch of puppets who have no other desire than to survive. ”

Leo followed Isenas around, occasionally shaking his hand in front of a diner or slapping them the back.

But these people still don't care about such malicious harassment.

Esenas was not as bored as Leo and had already sat back in his place at this point.

"What is the most important thing for a person to survive?"

He asked, propping his chin on one hand.

"Strong enough?" Paul Jr. pondered. His past experiences led him to this answer.

Isenus shook his head and said, "You now have enough power, what are you going to do with it?"

"Down with those who destroy my home. ”

Don't be enlightened.

Isenas looked at little Paul speechlessly, he just tried to give little Paul a hint, but how could this kid push step by step?

"I suppose your home can provide you with plenty of food, right? ”

Isenas didn't give Paul Jr. any more room to play freely and directly brought the topic into the right track.

"Ah, yes!" little Paul reacted to what Esenas was trying to say.

"Faith is a spiritual stance based on preferences. When a person is deprived of all his beliefs, it means that he no longer has any preferences, and only biological instincts remain. ”

"The rules of the human world frame the basic laws of their lives, labor, money, food. In other words, until the end of the work between the Light God and the four dragons, these people will repeat these tasks, like a carriage that does not stop running. “

"Such a numb life, to put it bluntly, is not as good as an animal. ”

Ente's heart fluttered, and he looked at the diners again.

When they fade away from their status as believers, how can their world be so empty and boring?

“... I really didn't expect that the gods would control the believers to such an extent. But such a believer is probably what the gods want most, working tirelessly, never stopping, never surprising, building his diocese. Leo said.

"I didn't expect that under the veil of interdependence between believers and the gods, there would be such a naked and merciless servile relationship, which is probably the reason why the gods do not want outsiders to enter" Isenas glanced at Ente.

This could be a huge blow to Ente.

Paul Jr. wondered, "When did the relationship between the gods and believers become like this? Doesn't it mean that believers are the foundation of the existence of the gods?"

"That's a good question. Isenus snapped his fingers. "The question may be quite complicated, but I am sure that the nobles who left a hundred years ago to establish a free kingdom must have known this fact, and perhaps they still have the truth in their hands. ”

"Let's eat and go. Ente interrupted the analysis meeting, and it was clear that he was not in a good mood.

Everyone hurriedly shut up.

Isenus sighed inwardly.

Is this kind of faith relationship really normal?

"It shouldn't be like this between believers and gods!"

Leo put down the bowl heavily, and inadvertently said what Esenas was thinking.

"If it were possible, I would break this deformed and perverted relationship with my own hands!"

Esenus looked at Leo with some distraction, and the sight of the god king Willell ascending to the throne appeared in front of his eyes again.

At this moment, the figures of Leo and Willell actually overlapped subtly.

Could this really be Leo's destiny?