Volume 1 Chapter 2 Dark Fried Eggs, With An Annoying Sausage I Want To Crush
'Lobelia Diner House' is the name of my restaurant.
It's a small place in a slightly dark alley of the vast holy city of Ascalith, with 3 tables for 4 people and 4 chairs at the counter.
By 8 in the morning, customers come in for breakfast, so I wake up at 5 to get ready and head to the market by 6 to buy ingredients.
The counter is already filled with tough-looking guys, enjoying their breakfast set of bread, fried eggs, sausage, and milk tea made with fresh milk. The breakfast set costs 800 rupia.
I set the price a bit high for a commoner's breakfast because I honestly don't want to work too hard in the morning.
Still, people keep coming in for meals, which I'm grateful for.
But to be honest, I really don't want to work too much.
"Lydia, when are you going to work here? Besides, the ones coming in for breakfast are mostly my people. That's no different from working at the knight's dormitory, right?"
I quickly arrange the breakfast set, filled with swirling resentment, on the table.
A big man sitting nicely at the table is smiling at me.
You can tell at a glance that he belongs to the knight's order, wearing a uniform with a black cross emblem, and he has a sword at his waist. His black cape has red lining on one side. Even over his formal clothes, you can see he has a strong, muscular build.
With golden hair styled like a lion's mane and cool blue eyes, he's a handsome guy with a sharp face.
By the way, besides this smiling guy, all the other guys are also well-built and wearing similar uniforms.
In other words, my cute yet stylish morning diner, Lobelia, is ruled by the Holy Knight Order, Leonsroar.
I can't help but wonder how it ended up like this.
"I'll pass, I'll pass, I absolutely refuse. Mr. Lucian, please eat your breakfast and go home..."
I placed the breakfast set in front of Mr. Lucian, the leader of the Holy Knight Order, and tried to hurry back to the kitchen.
But Lucian grabbed my wrist firmly, stopping me from leaving.
"I've told you many times, Lydia. Your fried eggs and sausages, along with the salad, bread, and milk tea, have a mysterious power."
"I don't know about that... They're just dark fried eggs, with an annoying sausages I want to crush, plain salad and milk tea, and cursed demon bread."
"Your cooking is delicious, so why do you give it such ominous names? Why do you hate sausages, Lydia?"
"That's why men cheat...!"
I clenched my hands tightly and insisted with all my might.
The knights eating breakfast started to stab their sausages with forks and burst into laughter.
Why are they laughing? I'm serious!
"Lydia... if you're going to express your resentment, you should use thicker and longer sausages."
"From the morning! How can you say such dirty things in the morning! Go home, go home!"
"You were the one who started saying it first. Anyway, when I eat your cooking, I feel full of energy. Ever since I started eating your food, the efficiency of the knight squad's monster hunts has gone up by about 30 percent. We've also had fewer injuries. I think the breakfast set has effects that boost strength and increase self-healing."
"I really don't know what you're talking about. I'm just making regular meals. It's because you say weird things that I get all these strange customers... like the knights, the mercenaries, and the adventurers..."
"Isn't it a good thing that more customers are coming?"
"I thought I was opening a cute little diner for stylish women and small children. But now, it's just full of muscle-bound people... it's so sad..."
I sniffled and cried.
For the past 6 months, my emotions have been all over the place.
"I wonder how it feels to serve dark fried eggs and annoying sausages to cute women and children."
"W-well, I can't help it... I want to make delicious food, and I want it to be a stylish and cute place, but I can't suppress my resentment... that conflict is what gets mixed into my cooking..."
"Maybe that conflict is what gives your food its mysterious power."
"I told you, I don't know anything about that. I don't have any magic power, and I can't use magic. That's just a misunderstanding on your part."
"It's not a misunderstanding. When I eat your food, I feel really good."
"That's great to hear. But I think it's a misunderstanding... or maybe you just really like fried eggs and sausages, one of those 2..."
Mr. Lucian is still holding onto my arm.
Since he's so big, his hand is so large that his fingers are still a bit long even when he grabs my arm.
I guess it's because he's holding a sword. His palms are thick and tough.
Even though a man is holding my hand, I don't feel happy at all. That's because men are animals that cheat.
My father was like that, and so was Sir Stefan.
"Lydia. I don't mind if it's a misunderstanding. Can you make breakfast for me every day?"
His serious blue eyes are staring straight at me.
In his blue eyes, I see myself wearing a black dress, a black apron, and my black hair tied up with a black lace headscarf. It's all black. I look like I gathered all the curses of this world. Only my eyes are purple.
My father from the priest family has golden hair and blue eyes, so I must have taken after my mother.
I don't know much about my mother's background.
She passed away when I was young, and hardly anyone in the priest family talked about her.
"I don't want to...!"
When he asks for breakfast every day, I can't help but think it might be a love confession.
But it's just an invitation.
Mr. Lucian is telling me to become the housekeeper for the knight order. Or rather, the kitchen lady.
I absolutely refuse.
The knight order is under the royal family's control, so if I work there, I never know when I might run into Sir Stefan or my father.
I decided to live quietly here.
In this Lobelia Diner.
"I understand that the Diner of Villainous Lady has important feelings, but..."
"It's the Lobelia Diner House! Please don't call it a weird name..."
I cried a little.
It's such a cute name, but most people call my shop by a strange name.
It's not really Mr. Lucian's fault──
This is probably my sister Francois's fault. I'll hold a grudge against her for life.
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