The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 83

Chapter.20 A week in Korea

Rurin, a high school girl, walked for a while and entered the apartment. Then he goes up to the second floor and opens the door lock. And I just went in.

I thought he went in, but then he held the door and looked at me. I thought it meant to come in, so I went in and Rurin said, “Quaang!” I closed the door making a noise and went into the bathroom.

I can hear the sound of water.

I came into the room. It smells like Lurin. ah. I really felt like something perverted, so I shook my head and headed to the kitchen.

The refrigerator contains cooking ingredients. It looks like they are making a living. It’s natural because it’s a trace, but it’s natural.

Well, cooking is very easy. I made a few dishes with ingredients I had in the refrigerator. Since we have kimchi, we boil kimchi stew, and since we have eggs, we make egg rolls.

For me, cooking at home is an easy challenge that I can complete in no time.

“What are you doing now, uncle?”

Then, high school girl Rurin comes out after washing herself.

“uh?”

This part was very heterogeneous. I can’t believe Lurin washed up, dried herself properly, and even put on clothes and came out.

How much more comfortable would I have been if the original Lulin had been like this?

“Why are you looking at me like that? “It’s insidious.”

“You said I was being sneaky and let you into the house?”

“I don’t know. “Something feels strange to me today.”

Lulin, a high school girl, turned her head and went to sit on the sofa. And then you see me.

Ah, as expected, Rurin is Rurin. Water is dripping from my head. Then yes.

“No, I told you to always wash your hair properly. “It’s damaging my hair.”

I took a towel to the high school girl Lulin’s head and began to wipe it very carefully.

“ah… .”

No, then I came to my senses and took a step back. It seems like my usual habits came naturally without me even realizing it. Even Lulin, a high school girl, opened her mouth as if she was so surprised.

“mister… .”

“Yes?”

“What’s so natural? It felt so natural that I almost gave in to it. “Are you some kind of player or something?”

“No, that can’t be possible…” .”

I stepped aside and placed the dishes I had prepared in front of her. Lurin, a high school girl, looks at this and tilts her head.

“Did you do this? “It doesn’t look like what you ordered?”

“huh. “I did it.”

“With ingredients you have at home?”

“Yes”

“That’s ridiculous!”

Lulin tilts his head.

I ate my food proudly. To let down your guard a little. Um, I made it, but it’s delicious.

As expected, cooking talent doesn’t disappear no matter where you go.

“eat. Are not you hungry? “What do you usually eat for a living?”

“I’m actually hungry.”

Lulin, a high school girl, looked like she couldn’t stand it anymore and eventually picked up the food. I tasted it and immediately started devouring it.

“Man, what is this? Why is it so delicious? “There’s no comparison to what I do!”

Raising one’s voice at the end of a sentence is Lurin’s unique way of speaking.

I shook my head.

You need to come to your senses.

I needed to understand the situation I was in with Rurin, the high school girl who appeared before me. We cannot remain complacent in this abnormal situation forever.

“By the way, do you live alone? “What about your parents?”

“… doesn’t exist. “I’m alone.”

“what?”

“He died when he was young, leaving behind only his belongings.”

“Oh yeah… ?”

This guy seemed to be alone here too.

There isn’t a single common photo in the room.

Why is Lulin alone here and there without me?

“Are you sympathizing with me now?”

“no. Can’t you really think of anything else? “Something about me?”

“Why are you treating someone with amnesia? I don’t have any memories. Man, you’re really strange. “I feel crazy.”

Lulin, a high school girl, shook her head. Then he started eating his food.

I was impatient. How can this situation end?

This is such a nightmare.

The reality is that Rurin doesn’t recognize me.

“Lurin, don’t you remember this too?”

“huh?”

I had planned to secretly acquire the earrings that Rurin had forgotten to wear and give them to her later.

That’s why I’m keeping Rurin’s earrings. I immediately took out the earrings and showed them to her.

The earrings sparkle because they are illuminated by fluorescent lights, not magic lights.

Lurin, a high school girl, shook her head and picked up the earrings.

“I didn’t pierce my ears.”

“what?”

I looked at her ears in surprise. There was no hole in the earlobe. It’s a normal ear.

Rurin cut a hole in her earlobe while wearing earrings. She said. It is said that holes intentionally drilled in one’s body will remain for the rest of one’s life. But the Lulin in front of me has no holes.

What the hell is this?

Right at that moment. The world turns around.

Baaaaaaaaaaaa!

My eyes suddenly opened at the sound. Loud car horns sound everywhere.

huh? Snow?

After realizing that my eyes had opened, I looked around again.

But it wasn’t a restaurant. It’s the same world as before.

It was modern.

Hyundai, not a restaurant.

The Earth, and within that Earth, a country called Korea. The very land where I lived.

There was no high school girl who looked exactly like Lurin, who was with her just moments ago. It’s not her house.

I was sitting on the main street just like when I first recognized Korean land.

As expected, I have no idea what happened to this.

I looked around again.

How much is reality and how much is fantasy? Could it have been a dream?

But what is in front of me now is also modern times. This is not the world where I lived as a wizard for 15 years, but the Earth where I was born.

A modern cultural object right before your eyes.

Noisy cars. And traffic lights. A tall building.

Slightly cloudy sky.

No matter how you look at it, it is Korea. It’s similar to the dream earlier. I can’t figure out how far it is reality.

no.

I clearly remembered what happened at the restaurant. So obviously… .

***

That morning was ordinary. After visiting Serena, I opened the restaurant as usual. Then, realizing that I was out of soju for lunch, I used summoning magic as usual. Yes, the summoning magic was the problem.

When I used summoning magic next to Lulin, who was forgetting about his beer. Unlike usual, a black hole the size of a human body appeared.

A box of soju was summoned through the black hole, but the black hole did not close after that. This is the first time such a black hole has appeared.

“What is this?”

“I guess it’s something other than a girl. “Why do you go out and do things sometimes?”

“I do not know. If you’re just surprised, your words get twisted like that. joy… But what is this really?”

“So I don’t know.”

Is it the influence of mana?

This is the first summoning magic since absorbing the dragon orb that day. Since Soju was summoned, there is nothing special about it. So when will this disappear?

Has the summoning magic itself become stronger?

I had many questions. If the number of times summoning magic can be used or its size are strengthened, there is nothing wrong with it.

As I was observing the black hole that did not disappear, Lulin suddenly clapped his hands and made a fuss.

“oh! Now that I think about it, I think this is similar to the darkness when teleporting. Hi-Hi.”

Lurin reaches out to the black hole that appeared with such a sound. And at that very moment.

“you! Get sucked in! “What is this?”

“Lurin!”

Lurin was instantly absorbed into the black hole. Surprised, I quickly reached out to Lurin’s feet. It’s good to catch it. But I also got sucked into that darkness.

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Yes, I apparently lost my mind after falling into a black hole created after using a summoning spell. While I was losing my mind, I had a ridiculous dream.

Baaaaaaaa!

The horn continued to sound loudly. I turn my attention to the end of the road where the horn sounds.

And then, at the end of my gaze, a very familiar woman came in. Not the Lurin in school uniform, but the Lurin I know very well. It was Lurin, wearing familiar clothes.

The place where Rurin is standing is in the middle of the road. The cause of the loud horn was Lulin.

Baaaaaaaaaaaa!

And right then.

Kwaaaaaaaaaa!

A speeding car collided with Lulin, who was standing there with an expression of uncertainty.

A traffic accident occurs with a loud noise. Smoke rose from the car’s hood and the bumper was smashed.

It collided with a person, but what was destroyed was the car, and Lulin was standing perfectly fine.

Because of this, the cars that were honking their horns nearby stopped all at once, and other cars honked their horns again at the back, creating chaos.

I was startled and ran to Rurin. Then Lurin looks at me with a nonchalant expression.

“Lurin!”

“you! What on earth is this place? What is this monster again? “It looks strange.”

A quick glance shows that the bonnet is dented, but the driver appears to be unharmed. There may have been some minor injuries, but they didn’t seem to be life-threatening.

After confirming that, I led Rurin.

What’s important is that Lurin in front of me called me you. It’s the real Lurin. This is not the Lurin of dreams living in modern times, but the Lurin we know all too well who is also a dragon.

Still, there’s something you don’t know. To relieve my uneasiness, I examined Rurin’s ears. The hole in her earlobe where she pierced it to wear the earrings I gave her remains clearly visible. That was a nightmare as expected.

A hollow laugh emerges.

“you? “Why are you touching my ears?”

“Oh no. “Let’s talk after we get out of here.”

First of all, I was happy. I’m so happy to see Lurin asking back with an odd look on her face.

But the place is not good. People who look at Rurin, who is still standing after being hit by a car, as if she is a monster.

In the midst of the commotion, I pointed to the rooftop of the building roughly in front of me. Because it’s best to disappear from here.

“Lurin, let’s leave here for now. Try teleporting over there. Understand?”

“You mean over there?”

Lulin frowned, looking uncomfortable, but followed my instructions and used teleportation anyway. Soon darkness overtakes my vision. We disappeared from the noisy accident scene and quickly moved to the rooftop of a building visible in the distance.

The dream I had earlier was half true. In other words, it is true that it spread to Korea. It is not a dream within a dream. Returned to Korea. That much seemed to be indisputably true.

Unlike Gray City, it is a noisy scene. There are lots of cars and lots of people walking on the streets.

In a way, it was a situation where the wish came true. The reason I studied summoning magic was because I wanted to return to modern times.

Of course, it is true that because I was satisfied with my life there, my desire to return someday began to fade.

But I came back anyway.

I checked and the current time on this earth is 2017. That means 15 years have passed since 2002 when I was summoned.

15 years have passed in this world too. And the time I spent there was 15 years. Time passed the same way.

Usually, when you go to another universe, you may find that only a little time has passed in this world, or that 100 or 200 years have passed.

But it was the same.

Since I disappeared from here, 15 years have passed in this world, just as 15 years have passed in this world.