"Hmmm, Demon Lord I se……….” My hands were shivering nonstop.
"Yes, I am…if thou do not believe it, I can show thou my status screen…”
She dropped her fork and stopped eating for a moment...
“STATUS,” She said…
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For a moment, nothing happened...
“What happened?” She was confused. “Why is mine status not displaying?”
I asked her, “Is status categorised as a spell?”
"Yes, it is..”
“AH!!” I realised, “You cannot use spells or any power in the shop.”
“Fie!!! thou mean this shop can negate all the spells or powers? that’s impossible…”
Suddenly, she shouted, “FIREBALL”
Immediately she got pushed down to the ground, the pillow beside her was flying around, and the chair she sat on crunched, making her kneel on the ground...
“Wh..at…th..e..he..ll..is…happ..e..ning..?” She tried to emit her voice after she forcefully got pushed down..she could not stand on her knees.
“Ah!! I forgot to tell you…that if there is a power that has to destroy intent in this place, suddenly the caster will be pushed down to the ground…if the caster kept his/her intent, the force of being pushed down would become stronger…and this force's name is gravitation. ”
“Tha..t.’s..ludi…crous…may..t..hou…can..cel…it?” She kept struggling with the powerful force of gravitation.
“How do you cancel a sort of power or spell?”
“Ju..st…say…can..cela..tion..” The gravitation became stronger...
“CANCELATION!”
Immediately the force was gone, and she slowly tried to stand up..
“*sigh* *sigh* *sigh* here is insane.” She looked at me with uncontrolled breathing.
“It is what it is..don’t blame me for that.”
“Because the effect had been cancelled, it should've caused me to be able to use spells.” she looked at the chair that broke, raised her right hand and shouted "Restituo.”
Every piece of the broken chair suddenly moved at the spot where it got broken with some black aura around it, and they merged into one piece, making the chair be restored to its original...
I clapped at her “Woahhh, that’s amazing..”
She sat on the chair “Hast thou aye seen magic before?”
If I say yes, she will ask me about the magic box... “I have seen some magic..”
"Yet for what hath thou clap and praise me for this bawbling magic..”
“Because it’s great that you restored my chair..”
“Right…..Now myself should be able to show mine status…STATUS!”
STATUS
NAME
LILITH
RACE
DEMON
JOB
LORD
LEVEL
?9?
ATTRIBUTE
STRENGTH
?9???
AGILITY
??9??
INTELIGENCE
???9?
“With this, thou see mine information..”
I looked at her status screen and realised there was an attribute section.
I pointed at it, “Does everyone have these attributes?”
“Of course they hath..”
“What happens if someone doesn’t have it?”
“What doth thou mean by that?”
“STATUS!”
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STATUS
NAME
DARYA
RACE
HUMAN
JOB
BARISTA
“See, I don’t have that attribute section like you have.”
She was baffled and found it unbelievable. “There is no way a person doesn’t hast an attribute section like others.”
"Is that so rare?”
“It’s not rare..” Her face was closer to my status screen. “It’s impossible”
For a few seconds, the status screen automatically disappeared...
“So that’s my information,” I said to her...
“WEIRD ONE..”
“Don’t say it's weird..and your name is Lilith right?”
“Yeah..that’s mine name..”
"Perhaps you want to know about a tale of your name?”
“Tale of mine name?? I hast been living hither for a thousand years, and this is mine first time, someone shall try to tell me about the tale of mine name..”
“Because, when I heard your name was Lilith, I remembered a tale about your name..”
“A tale about mine name?? Methought there was no tale about mine name..”
“You want to hear it or not?”
“Alright...I shall hear it..”
“Great…In a world so far away from this world and older than this world…there were only 2 races: the demon race and the angel race...They lived happily together…Until a new race emerged from the soil, it was a human race…the creator of their race gave them the order to submit to the new race…the angel race immediately submitted to the human race...But the demon race questioned it: ‘They who lived as immortals, why do they need to submit to a mortal and weak race'..and make choices not to submit to the human race..So they got banished to the underworld..where they swore to bring every human to the underworld..”
“So where is mine name?” she asked..
“Just wait…because he was the only human in the upper world. He was so lonely in there. The creator created something or someone that could accompany him there…so the creator created another human like him from the soil. The human was different than him…it was a female to accompany him..the creator gave her the name ‘Lilith’.”
“I am a human. that’s what thou desire to say?”
“No, just hear it more…Lilith and he lived happily…but suddenly they were in a heated argument…their argument was about the position of intercourse…where Lilith wanted to be on top…but he refused what Lilith wanted; he wanted on top too…This heated argument made Lilith go out from the upper land..”
While sipping the coffee, she said, “Thou say to me a tale about a blinking idiot couple..”
“Why do I need to tell you a tale about an idiotic couple? Just hold on ... .After Lilith went away…The creator sent angels towards her and demanded that she come back…The angels found her in the cave, where they confronted her and told her to go back…but she refused…The angels intimidated her; if she did not go back, they would take all of the lives from her generation…She replied that she would kill every life from his generation…The angels went back and reported to the creator that Lilith didn’t want to go back…Meanwhile, he was so lonely and sad...
“Would they demanded something and intimidated thou, of course thou shall intimidate 'em back”
“Yeah….The creator saw it and created another female..but with different ingredients…The creator made her from one part of him...With hope, the new female could be more friendly towards him…He was so happy about the new female…Meanwhile, Lilith, who still stayed in the cave, kept thinking about him…and decided to see him…When she went back, she saw him with another female…The jealousy raised in her blood vein…She remembered the forbidden tree, where the fruit from it was forbidden to be eaten...She was transformed into a snake..and persuaded the female to eat the fruit…the persuade was working…The female told him to eat the fruit…and they ate the fruit… making the creator furious and banished them out from the upper world…Meanwhile, Lilith lived in the underworld and started a generation there. there..she was well known as ‘The Mother of Demon…and humans still blamed demons for doing all that....that’s why, when I heard your name, you were the demon lord…I remembered this tale…”
“Great tale to accompany drinking this and eating this…”
I saw her plate already clean and her glass already empty..and…her face was messy, full of cake, there was a stain of milk on her upper lip, even her hands were messy too…
“Your face! You can wipe your face with tissue..”
“What about mine face?” She tried to touch her face with her messy hands...
Couldn’t handle the view, so I took some tissues grabbed one of her hands, and started to wipe it…after that, I gave her some tissues to wipe her face by herself…and she wiped her face.
She asked, “Is this a paper?” while wiping her face.
“Sort of…it is paper, but thinner than usual paper..”
“The texture of it is more soft than paper I know…..”
I prepared for something coming…
“How doth thou compose it?” Finally, she asked it...
“Same like paper…” with some steps that are different from paper…when the paper was invented almost 2000 years ago, and tissue was only invented 100 years ago...
“May I hast some to bring back home?”
“Sure…but not that tissue box….just wait…”
I went back from the distance…opened my inventory screen and took three pocket tissues from it to my hands...I came back to her…
“Here…” I gave her the pocket tissues. “you can have these…”
“Many gracious…” she said, putting the tissues on her shoes. “Before, thou quoth here is a shop, right? So how much doth I have to pay for all of these?”
“What currency do you use?”
“I used copper, brass, silver, and gold coins…”
“Let’s make it easy…How much do you think you should pay for these?”
“Like 10 gold coins…”
“And how much are those coins for daily life?”
“Let’s see, Methinks it could afford a family 3 to 5 months of everything and cause them to live comfortably.”
“That’s too expensive for these; how do you think these are equal to 10 gold coins?”
“Because it hath sugar where it is so expensive and rare, and it’s ‘likuid’ sugar thou quoth, it is made rarer, and it is sweeter than sugar I hast tasted…and the cake seemed expensive too, yet I wot it shall be more expensive because it is so sweet and the flavour itself—I never knew it—was it called…’chocho–what’. that flavour itself make expensive.”
“It’s chocolate…it’s from a fruit named cocoa…”
“That will make it more expensive, thou named something unknowingly yet tasted great…sometimes an unknown can become more expensive because people don’t understand or wot what it is.”
“But that’s too expensive…”
"Well, how much shall thou sell those? thou are the one who sells it…. but there is something important that I want to say to thou…”
“What is that?”
She suddenly raised her right hand to the air, and immediately a spiralling dark gate appeared beside her hand...I was surprised by it…she put her hand at the gate. After that, she pulled her hand, and the gate disappeared in thin air. I saw in her hand a silver ring with five different emeralds engraved on it. The emeralds were red, blue, green, purple, and orange.
I asked, “Is that an inventory gate?”
“What!! thou wot about it?”
“Because I have it too, but the gate like that did not appear..”
“May you show it to me?”
I opened my inventory screen, and after it showed, it seemed she could not see it. I prepared my left hand in front of the screen for the items to appear, I chose the pocket tissue, and I took it. Immediately, the pocket tissue appeared in my left hand…the process of the item appearing was different under different circumstances. When I took out the cakes, there were three cake stands in front of me, making the cakes appear on the cake stands.
She said, “That teleportation..”
“What’s the difference?”
“Teleportation is where the object is reconstructed back to the destination, so the object from place A got destroyed first, and being reconstructed back in place B as destination…The gate is where the distance is being cut down; the distance between places A and B is being cut down so their position will be close to each other… mine gate is connected to another dimension where I store mine items; the gate itself is a bridge between me and the dimension; if I use teleportation, I don’t need this bridge; the item in mine inventory will be destroyed, and in mine hand, the item will be rebuilt, so there will be no same item in two places..”
She doesn’t know about espresso machines or freezers for ice, and now she explains some magic like sci-fi. “Great…”
She immediately realised something “Ah yes!! I hast something to say to thou..”
“Yeah..you said that before..what is it?”
She threw the ring at me from her right hand “Catch it!”
I caught it: “So what is this?”
“That’s ‘vrach diavo’, that ring is proof that thou hast met me…”
“So what is the thing you want to tell me?”
“Ah about that! LANUAE!”
“Lanu-what?”
Her body became illuminated by a dark mist, and she said “I do forget to say to thou, that… I didn’t bring any coins…so I granted thou the ring..” immediately the dark mist was gone with her…
I was dumbfounded and froze for some moments about the situation…
“SO THAT’S HOW A MAGICIAN OR SORCERER RUNS FROM PAYING! I WILL NEVER DEACTIVATE THE EFFECT AROUND THIS SHOP.”