60 56 I cant miss the pleasure of eating while Im on a business trip (1/2)

Tanaka Jiro, 28 years old, with a girlfriend

Her Suela Hendelberg

Memory Tris

Occupation Dungeon Tester (full-time)

Magical aptitude 8 (general class)

Post Warriors

The coffee shop in Sakhalin, which I finally arrived at after many twists and turns to get here? I sat down in a chair for the first time in days.

I had adapted to the natural furniture, the ground, the rocks and the tree trunks, but I realized from the moment I sat down that a chair was better.

What would you like to drink?

”...... I don't know

You take the menu presented by Memoria while soaking in the cultural sensations after a long time.

But as soon as you look through the menu, you let out a sigh of resignation.

You feel like you're in a foreign restaurant.

I can read the menu itself.

But I have no idea which dish it's referring to.

What's kokihi?

Wasn't Marc a currency?

What's a Tom roll, and you want to roll it up because it looks American?

It's a parade of names that you won't know what to expect from a cursory reading.

Naturally, there is no good explanation or sample photos to help you guess the name of the menu.

It's not just a matter of what it is good, but you don't even know what it tastes like.

This may be the norm over here, but I don't have the challenger's spirit to say this is the way to go.

”Do you have anything coffee-y?

”What comes first, the taste or the look?

...... You have two choices, don't you have someone who has it both ways?

None.

”...... taste first

Okay, then let's order something light to eat.

Please.

It's just a matter of returning the menu to the memoria and asking for the standard Japanese coffee shop items, but it's a different world.

There is no coffee in the same kind of environment.

If you ask for something else, you'll likely get something different.

After a moment's thought, you decide to close your eyes for the worst and drink it with your eyes closed.

It's pretty Italian to look at.

Building technology with bricks is something that can be seen over there, so you can't blame them for the same kind of scene.　How does it feel to be in a fantasy world in your world?

The closest thing I can think of is the feeling of being in a movie.

Memoria ordered from a European-looking blond man who was passing by and chatted with him until the goods arrived.

I might have said the same thing when I joined my current company, but that's a modern building and this one is a theory.

You choose your words, whether to call it togetherness or authenticity, and in the end, what comes out is a conventional line like that.

And I'm curious about your genetic structure. Over there, they would have a certain direction in terms of hair color, but here they don't seem to have one. Her hair is too colorful. Over there you could stand out as a blonde, but here there's no end to what you can do.

If you look out of the window pane, which is a bit poorer in quality than over there, you will see blonde hair as a matter of course, and green, blue, peach, silver and orange, a colorful scene that will eventually make you think that someone with seven different colors of hair will appear.

Jiro-san's color is one of the subdued colors in this world.

”I don't know if it's because of ...... that they recommended the weird colors.

Yes, that's about as low profile as you can get.

I agree, we didn't have to stick with brown for this one.

I remember the members of the underground mall who recommended various dyeing materials.

Among them, I gave an iron fist to a certain shop owner who recommended a color that was above the golden blonde hair, but I have no regrets.

Even though I said so with my mouth when I saw the real thing, I didn't have the heart to challenge myself enough to dye it blue or red.

Even if I could, it would be limited to blonde hair.

I chose this brown color for the concept of being inconspicuous, and I'm glad I did.

”There are a lot of beastmen out there.

”We're trying to be neutral, so their absence is a problem. If they're not there, it means there's something wrong with the trade.

”You mean international issues?

Yes, that would change the color of the merchants and the price of salt and wheat.

The next thing you'll notice is the lineup of non-human ears, dog-types, cat-types, bear-types, and rabbit-types that can be seen in Akihabara, seen through the colorful hair.

The only difference is that this one is a fake and this one is a natural product.

You can't discriminate, can you?

If all humans thought like Jiro, the world would be at peace.

”So it's still there?

”Yes, when you have an organization, you have factions, you have hierarchies. It's the same in every world.

Although it is not openly known, such stories can be found everywhere.

In Isreal's case, if people oppressed the beastmen by calling them half-bloods, the beastmen would look down on humans as an inferior race.

The rest is just a game of cat-and-mouse.

It's a cycle of hatred that's been used up in dramas and novels.

I heard there was such a faction in your organization just now, Eshley. I've heard that it's a militant humanitarian organization.

”Conventional. Nothing funny. Were we such noble creatures?　I think people are flawed.

”There are a lot of people who act uninteresting. And I don't think there is a creature without flaws.

It must be.

Humans just got in trouble similar to this one, just a little differently as the Nazis oppressed the Jews, just a different color of skin than blacks or whites.

Disturbing as it is, I'm sure it's happening here too.

'Here you go, your order is ready.

”Thank you.

Alright, let's put all the gloomy talk on the side and enjoy an otherworldly meal.

......

”Then let's have it.

”This is the coffee-y stuff?　It looks like tomato juice to me, but it's hot.

You'll know it when you drink it.

That takes courage.

So you reach for it, but it feels like a jab from another world.

Instead of the familiar black liquid, a red liquid was poured into the cups laid out by the clerk.

Its hue is not hot coffee, but rather warmed tomato juice to be consumed cold.

As I said the taste is the first priority, I brought the cup to my mouth and took a sip, feeling a visual discomfort as I thought the taste would be close to coffee.

The taste of coffee was definitely the taste of coffee.

The bitterness that spread out after a hint of acidity was definitely the coffee I had known.

A fraud.

That's just the way it is, it's a different world.

What about this one?

”It's like dried fruit over there,

”It looks like a complete jerky?

Don't worry. I'm sure it will go with that drink.

I drink what looks like red coffee and make a subtle expression.

Seeing that, Memoria chuckles.

It's certainly something you can drink if you don't mind the color.

The discomfort is still there, but it's not a problem as long as you try not to look at the contents.

As the bitterness spreads in your mouth, you want something else.

Then your eyes naturally go to the plate on the table.

It looks like jerky.

There's no way you can taste it with coffee.

This combination might be for some people, but I can say no.

Still, the bitterness in my mouth is unsettling.

Believing in the saying ”when in Rome, do as the Romans say,” you gently reach out your hand and pluck one of them and bring it to your mouth.

When you bite into it, your mouth is not filled with a salty taste, but a hint of sweetness.

The texture is not hard, but rather soft.

This is

”Surely it's dried fruit, what kind of fruit?

It's the dried fruit that grows in Trent.

What is it?

In terms of taste, it is a combination of coffee and fruit, a kind of three-o'clock snack, but it looks like a different combination of hot tomato juice and jerky.

The customers around you seem to be eating and drinking it as if it is an everyday taste.