140 Vol. 3 pt. 10 Patch 2.0: Babies and Burgers (1/2)

”I can play with you, right, right? I want to play with you!” Aiko whines to Ryouta after they've all placed their orders.

”Well, you already ordered yourself a headset, and it's just a game, so I don't see why not,” Ryouta answers.

”Have you ever even played a VRMMO before?” Cassandra asks Aiko.

”Nope! But I know that Serra never did either, so it's okay! I'm sure it'll work out as long as I have my Ryouta with me,” Aiko says, her voice full of confidence.

Alice chimes in, ”I did not have much experience prior to Fantasy Tales Online either. No matter how inexperienced she is, I am sure my hero will be able to keep all of us safe.”

”Fine. What kind of character are you going to play?” Cassandra asks.

With Alice sitting at the end of the table and Serra sitting next to Ryouta, Cassandra has ensured that Aiko sits next to her so that she may keep distance between her and Ryouta.

Serra, meanwhile, is coloring in the picture on the back of her kids' menu. The waiters and waitress of this restaurant know that she always wants one to color in even if she doesn't look that young.

Ryouta notices something familiar when he looks at the coloring job that Serra is doing.

He looks at the wall on the opposite side of the room and sees a bunch of colored-in kids' menus taped to the wall. While some of them look random and sloppy, there is a group that has been colored with a similar skill level to what Serra is doing next to him. Part of him feels kind of proud of her for being so popular here and having her colored menus up on the wall, but another part of him feels like he can never let anybody know that he's dating a girl who colors kids' menus. With how short and petite she is, and this newly-discovered hobby of hers, he's worried about what people make think about him.

”Don't know!” Aiko answers Cassandra. ”Ryouta, Ryouta, what character do you want me to play?”

Ryouta's attention is brought away from Serra's coloring. ”Uhh, no idea,” he answers. ”Just play whatever you want.”

”I want to play what you want me to play!”

”I want you to play what you want to play.”

”I want to play what you want me to want to… you… that didn't work. Anyways! I'll play whatever you want.”

”Alright, alright. We don't really have a tank, so we could use one of those to make our group more rounded.”

”A tank? Like one of the war boom-boom ones? Would you drive me? I – I want you inside of me, but I don't know how I feel about being a vehicle and you driving me that way.”

Alice maintains a calm expression, trying not to laugh at what Aiko just said, while Ryouta and Cassandra almost spit their complimentary water out of their mouths.

”No, no – no, a tank, they're like the real big and tough characters in games who stand at the front and grab the enemy's attention while taking most of the damage,” Ryouta explains after swallowing his water.

”See! I knew you liked them big!” Aiko pouts.

”That's – that's not what I meant. I just mean like… big and flashy to draw attention, not big.”

”Hmph! I saw what sort of porn you like, and now this – if my Ryouta wants me to be big, then I'll be big!”

Their conversation starts attracting attention from other tables.

”Don't worry about it. Between me and the dog bastard, we've got enough durability even if we're not proper tanks,” Cassandra explains. ”It'd be better if you make yourself small and quiet so that you don't get in our way.”

Cassandra's and Aiko's eyes meet. Ryouta swears he can see some sparks flying between them as the girls challenge one another.

”I'll be even bigger than you are!” Aiko declares.

”You won't be stronger. Good luck trying to catch up to me. It doesn't matter how big you are if I'm stronger than you and end up tanking everything anyways,” Cassandra explains.

Their staring contest is only cut off when their server arrives with their food.

Ryouta got a fairly basic cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, onion straws, and lettuce. Alice got a lean turkey burger with tomato, lettuce, and one of the restaurant's signature sauces. Cassandra got a regular burger with bacon and mushrooms.

Their three burgers are all relatively normal both in ingredients and size in comparison to what Serra and Aiko got.

Aiko's burger is larger than all of theirs and has grilled pineapple, tomato, lettuce, a patty glazed with teriyaki sauce, and mango mayonnaise to top it all off.

Then there is Serra's burger.

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Despite Serra being the smallest of them all, her burger is by far the largest. It has two patties, each of which are covered in a sauce made from the world's hottest peppers. It has tomatoes and lettuce, but it also has a layer of fried jalapenos and onion straws with pepper-jack cheese melted over the top layer of freshly-cut jalapeno peppers. The sauce alone smells hot enough that everybody at the table smells it.

Yet, Serra dips her finger in some of the sauce leaking out of the messy burger and licks it off.