Overwhelmed

Cake. Honestly, there are too many types. Bite size. Chocolate —fruit-ones, in the hall.

For a while, I stared in front of the sweet cakes lined up in the cake shop in the town. I stammered, “Which one is better.”

I turn to Enuma, “Hey, Enuma. Do you know what ogre’s prefer?”

Enuma replied, "I am not privy to that much. However, if it is a cake, the standard might be strawberry shortcake. But he also said he wanted to make it himself. Then, I would not want to dismiss pound cakes and cupcakes."

I don’t really know about the types of cake. Sadie made everything I ate, but the types. I don’t know. “Hey, Enuma, sweets, cooking. you’re familiar with food.”

Enuma said, "Well, I may look like this, but in the past. I managed the Demon Kingdom’s Gourmet Sorority and pursued the ultimate cuisine. This is said to be the authority of the gastronomic world, especially the tongue of demons."

I thought it was something like that. Really, this guy has everything. “We have 100,000, so it should buy a lot in the Imperial City. In the first place, Aka is so big that he’ll eat a lot.”

Enuma said, "Yes, it is so. And why not go to a bookstore and buy a book on how to make cakes?"

I called out to the store attendant, “That’s right. All right, excuse me! The line-up on this shelf, give me all of it please!”

Enuma interrupted, "Oi, I thought about it when it came to the books, but I think you should also learn a little about the financial sense, right? Well, this time it is fine as you are using it for another.

Financial sense? That’s rude. I’ve got that kind of thing, too. 

The attendant greeted me, “Oh, all that?”

I confirmed, “That’s right. I have the money.”

Attendant said, “All right, I’ll pack it up and prepare it, so wait a minute.”

Then I asked, “Oh, can I get a small cake and some milk while I’m waiting?”

Attendant smiled, “Yes, of course. There’s a chair and a table outside, I will meet you out there.”

The money I spent this time is for Aka’s sake, and I’m not going to use it all at once and go bankrupt. That’s why I made the cake I eat reasonable in quantity and price.

But even so, this fund of 100,000 is still my entire asset, and if I use it as I want, it will be gone in an instant. I mentioned to Enuma, “Really, I’m not aiming to live in luxury, I’ll have to think about money a lot. I never thought I’d be unable to even work as a hunter.”

Enuma replied, "Certainly. Well, in a bigger city, or if you go to another country, there are plenty of other work, playing games for stakes, gambling, fistfights, bodyguard, nightlife and so on that you can do without the need for such identification."

I admitted, “Underworld occupations. I feel like I’m getting more and more tainted.”

Nevertheless, life from now on for me. If I can’t go back to the old days anymore, you have to think about things to live and to eat.

It might be necessary to do some unscrupulous work that doesn’t matter what you are. It made me feel a little bit more sensitive.

Enuma said taking advantage of my depression. "Hmm, if you do not like anything other than a privileged environment, it is much better to seek a compromise with your parents and apologize, by returning to the Empire."

Enuma then said. "I believe this is a good experience. Those who see only the world’s surface and the beautiful things are, after all, thin existences of peace. The front and the back. By knowing the dirt of the world and people and growing on it, the answers you give one day will also weigh on you."

He’s saying that this situation now is another way to raise yourself

Enuma said, "You once said. ‘I want to be a man who can go anywhere’. Then you should go and now is the time to learn of what you cannot see and cannot experience just by living normally. Even if the world is generally a corrupt world a man of strength can shine in such a world."

Know both front and back. That’s what it means to cross the world. To know the world. I said, “Ah. Somehow, I feel like I understand. At least, if I were the way I used to be, someone like Aka. if we hadn’t talked, I would have never known that there was a guy like him.”

I think that falling into this situation is an opportunity to experience various things. It’s not just positive thinking, it’s all about a brighter future. Enuma’s words convinced me.

While we were talking, a cake shop attendant brought me cake and milk.  “Shortcake and milk. Here you are.”

I appreciated it, “Ah, thanks”

I’m a little hungry, and I pick up a fork and try to poke the cake. At that time, I was worried about something. Enuma says to don’t worry. In fact, when I was eating a meal in the mansion, I was with Sadie, and I was so obsessed with training that I wasn’t worried. 

But now I’m out in the outside world, and even if last night was an exception. It had no significance. Yet I felt like I was in whole new world, and I had plenty of worries of my uncertainty. Even though most people living in city, myself especially, did have very little worries. 

 Enuma laughed at my childish predicaments, making me turn away with embarrassment. Taking me into consideration, for a moment I felt really embarrassed, and I tried to gloss over it by shoving the cake in my mouth in one bite. Then suddenly there was something in our view on the terrace.

Smoke rose from the mountainside outside the city. I asked, “What? A fire?”

Enuma thought on it, "No That is a beacon?"

I don’t know what the smoke really is. But in any case, I had a bad feeling. Because in that direction is...

At that time, people who seemed to be residents of the town who passed by us on the terrace of the shop chatted with each other. ~

“Hey, what’s that smoke. Do you know?” 

“Maybe they’re the ones? You know, from Insei, who came to this city yesterday….”

“Ah! No, I was in the guild this morning!”

“So I heard a little bit about it, that’s a good quest, so to temper their team coordination, they went to train in those mountains.”

“Then, are those guys doing that? Surely, it’s the hunter team from Insei?”

When I heard the story, me and Enuma looked at each other and there was a terrible foreboding feeling came across us.