The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 84

Chapter.20 A week in Korea

“You, you, you!”

“… … .”

“You, you, you, you, you!”

As I was lost in my thoughts, Rurin called me endlessly. Thanks to this, I came to my senses and saw Rurin.

“Why why?”

Before I know it, Rurin is climbing up my back, frowning, and calling me in my ear.

“No, get off my back before that.”

“you! This place is so strange. What on earth is this world? “Strange things are sparkling.”

“Why is our dragon so scared?… … Argh! it hurts! hey! Lurin!”

Rurin seemed to get angry when she heard that I was scared and started pulling my hair.

She is very fussy and breathing heavily.

“There is no way this body could be scared!”

“okay. Okay. “Come down!”

Only then does he come down from behind my back and open my palm. I feel like my hair is being torn out in my hands.

After shaking off my precious hair, Lurin looked around and continued to frown.

“You seem somewhat calm. But this is my first time with this body! “What kind of world are we doing here?”

“no. It’s not calm. It’s been 15 years, so I’m dumbfounded. “Well, I’m better than you.”

“It’s been 15 years?”

“This is the world I originally lived in.”

“Huh?”

Lulin tilts his head. He pretends to be thinking about something and after a while nods.

“ah! Is that what you said once? So then we have moved dimensions after all! Oh oh!”

Grumpy eyes. He had a truly surprised face.

Well, even the dragons would be surprised. I once asked her if dimension shift was among the 10 class mental magic that dragons could use, but she answered that it was impossible even for dragons.

Also, Lurin already knows that I originally came from another dimension. Because dragons know best when it comes to magic.

Of course, when I first confessed my origins, her reaction ended up just saying “Oh.”

If you think about it, it is very similar to the current reaction.

Of course, I never explained what my hometown was like. So, you must be on guard like this.

“It’s a world where technology has developed a little. “Should we say that buildings are being built taller and that the things passing by on the roads earlier are not monsters, but a means of transportation that has developed?”

“I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. “All I need is you.”

“Thank you for that.”

That’s actually the same for me too. Rurin and I looked at each other and nodded strongly. And then we held hands and started walking down the street again.

Actually, since I came to this country, there is only one thing I want to do. The only reason I wanted to return to Earth from the other side was because of my parents.

If it weren’t for the desire to meet my separated parents, I would have been satisfied with my life.

A black hole created by summoning magic. Due to the influence of that black hole, I unintentionally entered this world.

If so, the first thing you need to do is find your parents. And then go back. Because my home is already over there.

To do that, you first need money. In this world, it is especially difficult to survive even a day without money. Well, it’s similar to Grace City.

Of course, the way to raise money is simple.

I placed my hand on the belt made of pure gold. I didn’t know this would help in this way. This gold belt can be found in rare places. Of course, since there is a summoning magic, it is possible to summon gold, but for now, it would be better to sell this belt to make a living.

Using summoning magic was a bit ambiguous. I didn’t want to use the summoning spell again, at least until I found my parents.

Now that we are here, we must achieve our goal.

If it is clear that the reason you came here was the summoning magic, you will be able to return to Grace City the moment you use the summoning magic again. Considering the theory of the black hole that appeared, it is quite possible.

Of course I want to return to Grace City, but only after I’m done with my work here.

That’s why I pulled out my belt. Pure gold is an eternal currency that is accepted both here and there.

I went straight to the nearby gold and silver room and exchanged the belt for money. Of course, in situations where ID was requested, I had no choice but to use dragon spirit magic.

Even though I had always warned Lurin never to use her as a human subject, I guess there is nothing we can do in this situation.

Well, the whole world is like that.

Anyway, I got a good price with my pure gold belt and Lurin’s mental magic collaboration, so I had enough money for the time being.

“Lurin, I have this much. If you happen to be separated from me, you can buy anything with it, so just buy it and eat it. okay?”

“Oh, is this the money of this town? “The animals on the ranch will like it because it’s paper and not coins.”

“There are coins here too, but paper is more valuable in this world.”

“Are you sure?”

Lurin held the bill in her hand with a puzzled look on her face. There doesn’t seem to be much interest. I just saw him stuffing it in his pocket.

Lurin knew about the concept of money in the other world, but had no interest in it at all. Of course, I like jewelry.

However, it’s not like it’s currency or property, it’s just the dragon’s instinct to like shiny things.

Now that you have money, you can start looking for your parents in earnest. To do this, the best way is to start by visiting the neighborhood where you used to live.

As I looked around to see how to get around, a subway station caught my eye. As soon as I discovered the station, I moved with Lurin. When I came down and looked, the subway map was much more complicated than it was 15 years ago.

Well, it is said that rivers and mountains change in 10 years.

“This basement looks bigger than my rare in your basement. What! “I don’t like it.”

He started to get upset and furrowed his eyebrows, so I pulled his ears.

“This isn’t home, so don’t show any strange competitive spirit.”

“sick!”

I left Lurin caressing my ear, which I pulled and then let go, and went to the bathroom. I guess it could be said that the thought of going to the neighborhood where my parents lived made me nervous and made me want to urinate.

“Lurin, stay here. I’m going to the bathroom. “You don’t want to go to the bathroom either, do you?”

“no. This body is controllable. It’s different from you. Hi-Hi.”

“That’s amazing.”

Yes, honestly, it is a great ability. Can you control your urine?

I’m a little envious of something.

***

Rurin took a closer look at the bathroom El entered. Blue cover. Then I looked ahead again.

She has a developed sense of smell and hates the smell of bathrooms. Of course, the cleanliness of the bathrooms in Gray City and the subway stations are different, but Rulin doesn’t know that.

Lulin quietly looked at the humans passing by. People wearing strange clothes. It was strange, so strange that I couldn’t even bother to say it was strange anymore.

“There are a lot of strange people in El’s hometown.”

Lurin then focused on one place. Where everyone passes by making noises.

Of course, that place is the subway ticket gate. However, it was also something that Lulin could not understand at all.

Lurin’s curiosity was inflated by the sight of such a strange sight. It is not acceptable for a great being to know something that he does not know.

So he moved like everyone else.

As you pass through the turnstiles, put your hands where people put their hands.

Beep-!

Then, with a strange sound, a still bar blocks Lulin’s path.

“Oh oh?”

Lulin found that in itself fascinating.

“What is this? It’s funny. Should I destroy it?”

Just as El was making a decision, which must have been a storm of nagging, the little boy behind her poked Lurin on the back and spoke to her. Thanks to this, the life of the wicket was extended.

“I have to use my sister’s card!”

The girl waved her card around and showed it to Rurin, completely unaware that her actions had saved the subway station.

“card?”

Lurin, who obviously didn’t understand, tilts her head.

“this! Traffic Card.”

The kid walked in front of Lulin, placed his card in the center of the turnstile, and passed while beeping.

“You’re an adult, but you don’t even know this?”

He then made a bombshell declaration by inserting the transportation card into a necklace-type card holder. It was something that a normal Rurin would not have tolerated, but the girl was safe because she could not understand what the kid was talking about: a transportation card.

Would you say this is a situation where curiosity calms anger?

“I do not know.”

“Sell it over there. “Mom bought it from there.”

“Over there?”

The place the kid pointed to was a convenience store, not a machine that sold disposable transportation cards. Lurin looked at the convenience store with the same curiosity.

It’s no big deal. Lurin’s daily routine involves smashing everything that gets in her way, but for some reason, she wanted to try something that made that beeping sound. If you want to try it, you should try it. That’s Lulin.

There is no big belief or reason there.

“Heeyeon! what are you doing!”

“mom!”

The mother of the child who entered through the turnstile first called loudly. Thanks to this, the girl ran straight towards her mother.

Lulin was no longer interested in the girl. My attention shifted to the convenience store the child pointed to. Lurin confidently walked towards the convenience store inside the subway station.

There are a lot of strange items. The basic structure was similar to Gray City’s general store. Therefore, Lurin first spoke to a man who appeared to be a clerk. No, I ordered it.

“Give me a transportation card.”

“Transportation card?”

The part-time worker at the convenience store absent-mindedly handed out his transportation card to Rurin, who was very commanding. Whether it’s an imperative or something else, you’re first captivated by the face.

“Here it is. How much would you like to charge?”

“What is that?”

Lurin glared at the clerk who was saying something absurd. As a dragon, she had no common sense about human society, but she had been following El for a long time, so she was familiar with the customs of buying and selling things.

Above all, it is only natural that the restaurant’s main job is to sell food.

However, no matter how much of a dragon she is, she has absolutely no knowledge of needing to recharge her transportation card. This is at the level of an idiot.

Although she can interpret the language of any race, she cannot interpret and understand concepts that do not exist in the world she originally lived in. Lurin narrowed her eyebrows and frowned. It also means that your temper is slowly improving.

“You have to charge it before you can use it.”

But the clerk kept repeating the word recharge.

Lurin, who was on the verge of exploding, glared at the clerk. It’s like the last chance she gave me.

“So what is that charge? how!”

“So, you have to load money onto your transportation card to use it, but that money… .”

The clerk who was speaking becomes speechless. Rurin spoke Korean so naturally that I momentarily forgot about it, but no matter how I looked at it, I felt like she was a foreigner.

The facial features and the color of the eyes. Thinking about the lack of communication, Lurin was thinking about explaining charging in English, but when the word money came out, Lurin searched her pockets, happy that she finally understood the meaning.

“Oh money? It’s money. I’ll tell you sooner. That’s it! “Is this enough?”

My pockets are full of bills that L just gave me. Rurin took out the entire bundle of 50,000 won and held it out in front of the clerk.

“This is enough, right? You are slow to act. If you are that slow about the clerk topic, L will scold you. Tsk tsk.”

Lulin spoke based on his own experience.

“yes yes?”

But the clerk’s panic continued.

I feel like I want to cry.