Bab 54: Chapter 52 Familiar Faces All Around
"To bad, were sitting right here for a while." I said pulling the covers back up while leaning our head back to look at the celling.
Blood Stalk then took the covers off a few seconds later.
"You don't want the covers on?" I asked wanting to get some more rest.
"No..." She said as she tried to get up again.
"Last time I checked our legs were broken so we can't exactly move even if we wanted to." I said since they want to leave the bed for whatever reason. She swung our legs over the side as they landed on the hard wooden floor.
The wooden splints along our legs creaked as we stud up. Our stomach made more growling noise as we moved around the mostly empty room.
"Fine, you want to move and now you have. We could have just ask that girl if there's any food here when she got back." I said since I could hear their stomach rumbling a lot.
"I'll... get food later." Blood Stalk said as they shifted or right leg one step forward. Why is she in such a rush to get up?
"Well what do you want to do when you leav- Oh my god no. You just want to fight Allen again don't you?" I said figuring out why they are trying do once we leave the room.
They paused at the door with their left hand gripping the door handle. As if surprised from what I said. She's completely crazy.
"Unbelievable. We both almost died fighting him twice and you want to go round three like this." I said in utter disbelief as we barley opened the door. "Why do you want to kill him so badly? This is definitely way beyond just hating the guy. Its like your obsessed with killing anything that get's in your way." I said as we took our first steps out of the room. Our feet drag agents the wooden floor as we hobble along the endless hallway.
"Obsessed..?" She said in a confused tone which made me realize they probably didn't know why they wanted to kill. She just does what she wants and doesn't care what happens afterwards.
"Yes obsessed, I can't believe I'm saying this but I kinda miss that devil right now." I said regretting what happened to Sine. At least I didn't need to explain complicated things like obsession. The way it went out was very brutal and it did help us in its own way.
"AH. Thanks. the feeling isn't mutual since i'm too never away from you." I hear off to the side which made me feel a wave a regret. " I shouldn't have even said anything." I said turning my head to the right and seeing a more translucent version of the devil floating off to the side fiddling with our guitar. "Guess your fine Sine." I said feeling a little relief that we all made it out alive. "How are you here right now?" I said looking at the translucent demon fazing in and out of the walls.
"I MADE DO NO THANKS TO YOU TWO. i had to make a lot of deals to keep this lump of flesh and other things from falling apart." It said while strumming more aggressively. It raised it's hands up in the air and I could see some white stich marks wrapped around its hands and neck where that devil was stabbed.
"Well, I guess you want your body right?" I said preparing to say the words.
"DON'T DON'T DON'T. If I Take Physical Form Now I'm Just Drop Dead So Don't Summon Me. i hate needing to wait for repairs. No Soul Better Hurry Up With His End. I HAD TO PAY SO MUCH IN ADVANCE." The demon said it grievances while floating ahead of us.
"Sorry we couldn't do much." I said feeling a little bad for it. This demon is stuck to us as much as were stuck with it so its best to try and make peace where we can.
"its not like your the ones who did the deed. So No Point In Pretend Apologies." The demon said dismissively and not seeming angry about us but about something else.
"Hey, can you convince Blood Stalk to stop going after Allen?" I said trying to stop their future rampage which would end with all our deaths.
"WHY? Last Time He Just Caught Me Off Guard. once my body recovers i'll be much stronger and i don't know about you, but i would love to get some sweet revenge on that Little Cub." The demon said playing A major chord on the guitar. Blood Stalk nodded our head in agreement as it continued to play on the guitar. "WE SHOULD GET SOMETHING TO EAT FIRST. i'm famished." It added as the devil changed to an A flat minor chord, then a D flat minor chord.
"Well, I can agree to that and were alive now so that's all that matters." I said trying to look at the bright side of this.
"what matters is feeling fulfilled before you die. NOT STAYING ALIVE." Sine said with a bit of glee in its eyes as it spoke as the chord changed to a G flat minor chord.
We continue to walk until I hear some voices talking up ahead. We turned and happened upon a flit of stairs going down. The floor boards creaked as our weight was placed unevenly along each step.
As we make it to what I assume to be the first floor I see people in green clothes rush by carrying dirty dishes. I then see another person caring a bunch of food and drinks on both arms rushing out the door. Looking to what appears to be the kitchen was one person making even more food.
"If they have that much food ready than that must mean that this is a restaurant of some kind. Talk about lucky." I said while taking a deep breath.
"HEHEHEHE. What Are The Odds We'd Get Knocked Out At The Restaurant." The devil said while playing another A flat minor chord.
"Wait, this was the place you were taking us to?" I said thinking this was a special place.
"as far as you know yes." The demon said while shrugging its shoulders and playin an A chord.
"I can't believe I fell for that again." I said realizing this devil was just talking nonsense.
"Hey, the girl with broken legs woke up and is talking to themselves." I hear someone say quietly off to the side. I look over and two green waitresses with brown hair talking as they looked at us.
"HAHAHA. They Think Your Talking To Yourself. and they aren't wrong." Sine whispered in my ear which made want to strangle it. I hold my composer as I didn't want us to seem any weirder.
"That's surprising. Their very quiet now and their looking this way. You think they can hear us. " One of them said which confused me. They aren't that far so of course I could hear them.
"No way. Do you think they're gona stay here? I'd love to be seen as a senior again. I got to ask." The other said while walking towards us as the other reached out to stop her.
"Mama wouldn't like us slaking off, but she wouldn't mind us getting a customer." The first one said before joining the other one.
"Hello. My names Anya. What's your name." The more outgoing one said to us with a high pitch voice.
"Mark. Thanks for letting us borrow one of your rooms and patching us up." I said which grab their attention while nodding our head trying to be polite.
"Mark? That's not a feminine name. You should change it to something like Marcella or Magi." Anya said as the other person smacked them on the head.
"Don't tell people to change their names after you just met them." They said as Anya rubbed their head.
"Blood Stalk..." Blood Stalk said introducing themselves a bit late. I don't think they even herd her.
"Sorry for her lack of manors. My name is Lunoire, and it is a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to the Hostess of Fertility. Would you like something to eat." The other person said while still hitting Anya.
"Yes..." Blood Stalk said getting up to follow them to the main room. It was big with tones of people coming in and leaving. Some just eating food while other were chugging beer like no tomorrow.
"Would you like to order something. We have plenty of Beer to go with all our food." Anya said joining in.
"Yeah, do you have a menu-" I said before I hear the sound of something slamming behind us.
"Our patient should be resting in bed instead of standing on their broken legs. And it doesn't take two waitresses to serve one person." I hear as I turn around to see a giant blue chest blocking my sight. I then look up and see brown eyes giving us the death stair like we killed their dog or something. They also had brown hair.
"Your very tall." I said to the stranger as they towered over me. I don't know our exact height but jugging by the table below our waist were around six feet so this giant must be seven at least.
"And your very dumb. Who walks around after having their legs stabbed like its nothing?" They said looking us up and down.
"I said the same thing, but hungrier." I joked as they squinted their eyes. I don't actually feel that hungry but luckily Blood Stalks stomach started to growl as if on cue.
"Phhhaha, That's why you came down? Can't say I blame you. We have some of the best food you'll ever have. With a bill to match." They said with fire in their eyes as they put a hand on our shoulder.
"You two get going, and if I see you slaking again you'll get another pay cut." The tall person yelled at the two waitresses behind me.
"Yes Mama." Both of them said as they ran away. Maybe this is their boss or mother, or both? They do have similar hair color. That would make this place more of a family diner.
"You can sit over there with the gloomy sensitive kid. He's getting the full special." The tall person said with pride as they moved us around.
"Gloomy kid?" I said looking over to the bar area. There was someone with white hair hunched over with their head down.
"Looks more like a tired emo guy than gloomy kid." I said as we approached the stool. The guy in question looked lost in thought as they were counting on their hands for some reason. They didn't seem to notice us at all.
They probably don't want to talk which is fine by me. I've had enough with weirdos trying to pick fights with us for one night. As long as were here, I might as well check on the rider system in case there was anything new.
I open up the screen and see that most of the tabs are locked with Sines symbol over them. Only the Build, RiVice, and Faiz tabs were unlocked along with two new tab were still open.
"Hey, why are these pages locked with your symbols Sine?" I asked the devil quietly in case some one was listening.
"i said i had to make deals to keep us alive. Giving Up Access To Some Functions You Unlocked But Didn't Use For A While Makes For A Good Bargaining Chip. NEXT TIME YOU KEEP YOUR BLOOD PUMPING MANUALLY." The devil said with aggression. I have no idea if its speaking the truth or if its just more nonsense.
I click on the build page and it seems to be working fine so at least it isn't corrupted or anything like that. I look at the bottle list and the only new one was a pink one all the way to the left. I put the first one which was a yellow bottle into the microwave and move on to the new tab. I wonder what was so important that this one needed to stay.
I click on one that had two circles with black lines inside a square and a boom box appears with a list of songs on the right side of the screen. I click on a random one and the song Full Force from Kamen Rider Kabuto started to play at full volume. I grabed our head as I tried to turn down the volume. I find a volume nob and pull down on it and the music stops.
"FULL FORCE. The Best Fight Song Right Off The Bat. We got to start planning a bar fight to go along with this beat." Sine said as it started to play along with the guitar. I can't believe it locked us out of possibly helpful pages and left us a useless one instead. I look around and luckily no one else seems to be able to hear this. God that hurt my head.
"Can you play that somewhere else. I'm getting a missive head ache from all the music." I said still reeling from the loud song and the demon playing guitar right next to me isn't helping.
"FINE. The Party Here Is Stinks Anyways. can't even drink beer now so what's even the point. Don't Go Any Further With That One While I'm Gone. I WANT TO WATCH IT TOO!" The demon grumbled as it flew up into the ceiling. Finally some piece and quiet in this noisy bar.
I click on the faiz page and the key pad showed up. I went to press the five key but got interrupted again.
"Here is your food." I hear as I turn our head to the left and see she brought food to the guy sitting next to us and slid a bowl in front of us.
"Oh, its you again. What's your name again Syr." I said trying to recall their name. "We didn't order any food yet." I said as a hint since we didn't even get a menu yet.
"I know, but you should have something that is easy to digest so I'd hade this made." Syr said as she slid a bowl of what looked like soup with meat chunks in front of us still steaming. I'm not sure what's in it though. I guess they do see us as a patient so its probably chicken. Hopefully.
"I also wanted to make sure it was something you could afford it. Don't tell her but Mama likes to get people with expensive food. " She whispered into our left ear as I realize we don't actually know how much the food here costs or how much money we actually have on hand. Well, if we can't we could just wash dishes or something to pay them back. Blood Stalk picked it with our left hand and tilted the soup directly into our mouth. We finished it in almost an instant as we placed the empty bowl down.
I turned our head and the girl seemed a little shocked but tried to keep her composure. Why does Blood Stalk always have to do something dumb like this? There's no way I can explain this so I better just keep my mouth shut
"Mr. Bell. Your food will get cold if you keep sulking." She said while turning to the gloomy kid next to us. The name sound's weird. Have I herd it before?
"Sorry. I just have a something on my mind" I hear a timid and strangely familiar voice coming from the gloomy kid. Where have I herd that voice before? I turned to look at his face and see a pair of red eyes. Where have I seen this guy before?
"Bell..." Blood Stalk said as their eye opened up and now so that means they recognize him. So we've definitely met before but where? The only men we've met were Allen and the three other guys along with that one from the, dungeon.
"Wait, Bell? Your the guy that was covered in blood." I said finally recognizing the voice. He turned to look at me directly before turning away awkwardly.
"Why doe the scariest people always know about me?" He said under his breath which was rather rude but I can't disagree completely. Blood Stalks face is covered in scars and burns so it could scare anybody. I'm still not completely use to it but to me it looks cool more than scary.
Blood Stalk didn't seem to take it as an insult since I could feel a little smile forming on her side of our face as he said that. Like it was something to be proud of.
"My name is Bell nice to meet you. What's your name." He said introducing himself to us again politely. I guess he doesn't recognize our voices or appearance.
"We met yesterday. You probably don't remember us since were not wearing our usual gear." I said and the guy started to shake with worry. I ready to surprise the guy, but before that I hear the sound of a door opening behind me.
"The big party with the reservation just arrived." I hear as the hole room suddenly goes quiet. I look over and I see Anya leading a group over to a big table in the center of the room.
"Looks like the Loki Famila is here." I hear Syr say and I turn my head fast.
"The who with the what now?"
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
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Imshocked Hi,
I'm still a little sick so the word count on this chapter is smaller than usual. Hopefully I can get it back together for the next chapter. I have a lot of ideas for interactions so I'm excited for it.
This chapter I wanted to experiment with actul musical chords being in the bar. I had a hole musical set up for it but I didn't end up doing it. I might save that for a better time or for a more appropriate character to play the main singer.
Thank you parzzibal_37 and especialy VinillaExodeia for all of the power stones.
Thanks for reading
Ciao
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