Vol 7 Chapter 47

"Everyone else will be too absorbed in their own chatter to pay any attention to us anyway, so don't worry. Now, let's order."

When he pressed a button attached to the table, a small piece of paper flew in from somewhere and landed softly on the table. So that was why there were no servers - this seemed to be how they took orders.

"This is the order form. I'm going to get the Bala Monyak Special Brunch Set with Desert Fragrance juice, what would you like to eat?"

When Kapros looked at the order form Lucrecian handed him, he felt slightly dizzy from the numerous menu items written in tiny letters.

"...Anything is fine."

"There's no such thing as 'anything.'"

Though Kapros wanted to severely beat him for questioning as if he didn't understand what "anything" meant, he exercised patience and held back.

"Then order whatever else you want."

"So you don't have any particular preferences? Good."

Lucrecian answered with a grin and tapped certain parts of the densely written text on the paper, causing blue stamps to appear there before the order form flew back where it had come from.

"I ordered one more Eternal Maze Brunch and added the same drink. Shall we talk while we wait for the food?"

Though Lucrecian looked pleased, Kapros was already feeling somewhat tired even though he hadn't ordered anything himself.

"As I said before, it's really been a while. Have you completed many quests?"

"Well... about half."

"I only have one left. Did you see my video that came out recently?"

At those words, Kapros recalled Lucrecian's video he had seen in the hospital. He certainly remembered well that figure freely using various poisons to toy with opponents. And simultaneously, another memory that flashed through his mind was the face of that model called Kan he had seen while web searching. The same face from the photo the nurse had shown him excitedly.

It felt quite strange to think this guy acting smooth in front of him might be a famous model. Though he wasn't entirely unwilling to ask "Are you a model?", he didn't want to pry into something the other party hadn't brought up first, so he just quietly nodded.

"I was a bit disappointed since it captured such a boring part. I don't like looking less cool than the others that came out before, you know?"

"...Is that so."

Indeed, this guy was someone whose thought process couldn't be followed by normal criminal standards. To say he didn't like his video just because it seemed less cool than others.

Kapros thought that if Kion-hyung, who had shown his face after being tempted by the contract money and suffered greatly from the fame, still reluctant to show his face in public, heard this, he might have lunged at him demanding to cut open his stomach.

"Why that reaction? Ah, you don't know that feeling yet since your video hasn't come out. You'll probably understand later."

"No.... I'd rather not."

Though it seemed that would definitely never happen.

But Lucrecian just kept grinning as if deliberately pretending not to know the hidden meaning in Kapros's words.

"Ah, look, the food is coming."

A server carrying food could be seen where Lucrecian pointed.

'So they do have servers after all.'

He had wondered if the food would fly in from thin air like when ordering, but apparently not.

"Hello. Let me confirm your order. One Bala Monyak Special Brunch, one Eternal Maze Brunch, two Desert Fragrance juices, is that correct?"

"Yes."

"Enjoy your meal, and please make a point card before you leave. You can use points like cash at offline stores once you exceed 10,000 points."

After quickly delivering the promotional message with a friendly smile, the server left, and they began eating with the prepared forks.

"How is it, delicious right?"

"Hmm..."

Though Kapros just gave a vague affirmative response since he wasn't particularly sensitive to food taste, fortunately Lucrecian didn't probe further.

"Hyung, didn't you say earlier you weren't alone?"

"Huh?"

When this sudden question came while he was eating, Kapros swallowed his food and asked back.

"You said earlier you've split from those two you used to travel with. So who are you traveling with now?"

Ah, that's what he meant.

"With a hyung I know."

"Who? Another quest user?"

Seeing him ask with great interest, Kapros hesitated slightly before answering.

"A Holy Knight quest user."

"Ah. I know. That person with bright yellow hair, right?"

"You know hyung?"

When Kapros asked back, surprised that he recognized him immediately when he had just mentioned it on the off chance, Lucrecian let out a chuckling sound.

"Of course I know. I've run into him before. The big guy who was with him, the Bloody Knight or whatever, isn't traveling with you?"

"Why?"

When Kapros just answered that way, finding his constant smiling somewhat suspicious, Lucrecian voluntarily explained why he was laughing.

"Ah, sorry. Just remembering when I saw them. They were as incredibly interesting as when I first saw you. They mistook me for the Demon God Knight quest user at first, and were so embarrassed later when they learned the truth. Even though I told them there was no need to be."

For anyone else maybe, but Kion-hyung and Palton-hyung being embarrassed? Though it seemed quite doubtful, since Kion-hyung, the other party involved, wasn't present, Kapros let it pass.

"Something I've thought while doing the quest so far is that this quest seems deliberately designed for all users to encounter each other at least once while progressing."

'Is that so?'

It was quite a reasonable observation. Kapros too had run into other quest users more than once while doing quests.

"Maybe it's Saturn's consideration, wanting us to familiarize ourselves with each other rather than being awkward when we meet later. You must have seen the Demon God Knight user too, of course?"

Though Kapros was momentarily flustered when Jeong Seung-jo was suddenly brought up, he soon nodded without showing it. It was fortunate he was wearing his hood pulled down deep.

At that moment, Lucrecian's lips, which had been smiling constantly until then, twisted crookedly.

"If you've seen him, you'll understand. I had been very curious about who the Demon God Knight was, but that person was much stronger and much more irritating than I expected. It was quite a memorable experience."