Prologue (1/1)

During Preparations

It’s been about ten years since I inherited this restaurant frorandpa

I wouldn’t go as far as to say that it’s a flower of the city, but at the very least, it’s within the neighborhood of the nu city’s business district

From there, it wouldn’t even take you threedistrict

One thing to note about the shopping district is that there are a variety of restaurants lined up there Every day during lunchti lunch rush towards the building closest to the entrance of this shopping district A building with three floors above ground and one floor below One floor below a building with an eye-catching sign with a winged dog That’s where my restaurant is

My restaurant’s name is the ‘Western Style Cathouse’ It had an unusual black oak door with a brass, vintage handle That door with a beckoning cat with one front leg raised drawn on it was like a sign

My grandpa, who between dogs and cats would absolutely choose cats, started this restaurant about fifty years ago, and I, who if you gave the choice would choose dogs, inherited the shop fro district, this place would be considered an old one

Even though I say that, our western style menu has a very splendid selection In the randpa’s time to now there are a lot of dishes that are obviously not western style

In the past, around the tie and I started to help out around the restaurant, I asked randpa why it turned out that way Grandpa wasn’t born in japan but instead the mainland Around the time the as recently over, Grandpa, who had no relatives whatsoever, ca but the clothes on his back I don’t know if it was the truth or not but he was sorandpa who somehow or other started to become more and more japanese stressed this to me

“Western style food means that it’s food that caht? In other words, if it was never in japan to begin with, you could call it all western style food And well, there’s you know that It doesn’t matter what a restaurant decides to call what kind of restaurant they are As long as their food is good then it’s fine”

By the way, the daily special on that day’s lunch randfather set aside some of the braised pork belly we made for today, and then heartily piled the fatty, sweet cuts of meat on a bowl of rice while he said that Because of that I reht ‘so that’s how it is’ and was deeply convinced without thinking

…Well because of that, we normally put dishes that aren’t western style in our menu for fun Of course, Grandpa’s specialty and mine are western style dishes

Also, even then we have quite the good reputation you know The flavor of the food that grandpa prepares is, of course, catered towards the appetites of hungry, young people with our all-you-can-eat rice, bread and soup By the way, the priciest thing on the randpa and I do things Thankfully, it’s a battlefield with all of the nearby salary home from work, and the poor students who see the all-you-can-eat bread and rice, I h profit for myself to eat without worries even with all the expenses

This is- once randpa’s restaurant- now my restaurant, The Western Style Cathouse Business hours are 11:00 to 15:00 for lunchtime and 17:00 to 21:00 for dinner time We’re closed on the two days of the weekend due to the lack of office workers in the business district The number of tables is ten, and especially when it’s crowded, people ask others to share a table with them Well, I think that about covers it If I had to say so e restaurant that you could find anywhere

…Aah, but there’s one thing There’s one thing that other restaurants don’t have

One time a week, every Saturday The Western Style Cathouse has a special sale Huh? Isn’t the restaurant supposed to be closed on Saturdays? That’s right That’s why it’s a special sale We can’t have custo this special sale so superficially the restaurant is closed If not, then I could see a lot of troubling things happening Even though I say that, I don’t really know the specifics It was about thirty years ago, around the tirandpa started this special sale He probably knew a lot, randpa Before he could tell me the details, he suddenly went and passed on

Well, a while back he said, “When I die, I’ the restaurant to you That’s hen I’m dead, I want you to be the one next to continue this special sale,” and forcedthis special sale, and I’m not really curious as to what kind of customer comes on Saturday or what kind of place is it on the other side This isn’t one of grandpa’s sayings, but a restaurant’s job is to put out delicious food A custoive that customer his food That customer thinks the food is delicious and happily pays Just that is enough Whether the customer comes from ‘this side’ or ‘that side’ doesn’t matter

Because of that, The Western Style Cathouse had one more name attached to it

‘The Other World Dining Hall’

That’s the one other name that ‘those on the other side’ call this place