Vol 3 Chapter 4 (1/2)
LEVEL 3: Even the Best Laid Plans go Awry, but Such is This World
Chapter 4: To Not Get Swept Along
After a day of work in the Siren Mines, selling their loot at the athered at Sherry’s Tavern
“I’onna have beer, the manly drink for men!” declared Ranta
“T-then, uh, zo followed suit
“Mead for me,” said Haruhiro
“Same,” said Mary
“Yuled
“I’ll have that as well,” shi+horu said
Their order arrived in no tih no one had asked hiht! Cheers!!!”
Everyone responded with variations of “cheers,” clanked their beverage vessels together, and drank Ranta and Mogzo gulped their beers; Mogzo simply because he was thirsty, Ranta because he didn’t want to be outdone by Mogzo Haruhiro, sipping his sweet and slightly sour mead, didn’t understand why Ranta had to be so contrary Why did that kid always have tointo a competition?
“Ha! I win!” Ranta shouted, sla the empty ceramic cup onto the table He’d better have been prepared to pay for that if it broke “Take that Mogzo! I win, you lose! Wahahahahaha!”
“Oh… okay,” Mogzo agreed Unable to finish the entire contents of his own cup, he placed it back down on the table “That’s pretty ao”
“dazo! That’s why you’re my future business, venture, entrepreneur partner!”
Yu “Entree pre-noir partner, hm?”
“It’s en-tre-pre-neur, Yume,” Haruhiro piped in “What would an entree pre-noir partner be anyways?”
shi+horusound and when Haruhiro looked, her face was bright red, and she had both hands over her round
“So the matter, shi+horu?” Haruhiro asked
“No… nothing… nothing in particular…” shi+horu replied
“shi+horu,” Ranta sweird just noeren’t you?”
“W-weird?” shi+horu repeated “What do you mean?”
“You’re asking me?” Ranta scoffed “You’re the fully-loaded, wild delusions wagon”
“W-wagon…? That’s not…”
“Yeah, an entire wagon So don’t ask me ‘cause I’m not nearly as flooded ild delusions as you are…”
“I’m not flooded!” shi+horu protested
“Quit spoutin’ lies, Ranta!” Yued shi+horu protectively “shi+horu ain’t a agon and she ain’t fully delusional!”
“Um… I don’t think that’s quite what he said…” Mary pointed out in a whisper
“Huh? You ain!?” Yume asked
Ranta sneered at her “You’re getting everything wrong! Listening to you is starting to , okay? Just shut up!”
“Nuh-uh! Yume doesn’t wanna!” Yume cried
“You don’t have the right to say no!” Ranta shot back
“Yuht to state Yume’s opinions!”
“Who said anything about opinions!?”
“You did, stupid Ranta!”
“I was talking about the right to say no! Right To Say No Got it!? THE right to say no!”
“Yume knows that!”
“No you didn’t! You didn’t hear what I said at all! You deaf as a doorbell or so!?”
“Ranta…” Haruhiro interjected “It’s not doorbell Are you du?”
“Oh…” Though it appeared that Ranta noticed hised his shoulders petulantly and said instead, “Annnnnnd here we go again There HE goes again, Lord Party Leader ju down people’s throats because of so it in soot a shi+t personality, Haruhiro!”
“Like you’re one to talk,” Haruhiro said mildly
“If you don’t want to hear it fro me say it So watch your mouth, idiot!”
“Hey, Mogzo,” Haruhiro turned to Mogzo instead “Just a bit of advice You’re definitely better off notthat little lump of fecal matter your future business partner Your sorruz shop will never make it”
“Haha…” Mogzo laughed it off dryly, expression uneasy
“Sorruz shop?” Mary asked, tilting her head slightly
Haruhiro started giving everyone a brief explanation about the conversation between Ranta and Mogzo at the sorruz stand “And Ranta suggested to Mogzo that when they save up enough money, they could quit Crimson Moon and open up a sorruz shop,” he finished
“Hm…” Yume pondered softly “Sorruz is that raht?”
“Ramen…” Haruhiro echoed and for the briefest ofto mind
Ranta crossed his arms over his chest “Ramen…”
“Raer to her lips
Mogzo leaned further over the table “Ramen…”
“What is…” Mary started, expression troubled “What is it? This ‘ramen’?”
“Oh, it’s…” Yume’s eyes darted this way then that way “Ra Huh? What was Yuain?”