Wagnaria Restaurant, staff lounge behind the kitchen.
The part-timers stared silently at the Wagnaria Restaurant veterans, whose faces were deadly serious. "..."
After a long while.
Taneshima, who looked like an elementary schooler, asked in confusion, "Huh? Is Takanashi going to Thailand for a trip?"
"Taneshima, Takanashi isn't going on vacation. He's going to do something far more sacred—to remove the evil Tower of Babel..." Yachiyo Todoroki explained.
"Could you stop saying such terrifying things with a smile, Taneshima-senpai? I'm not going to Thailand! I'm just working part-time here! Why can you people decide something like that?!" Takanashi roared.
"Takanashi, give up. Humanity cannot defy fate!" Before he could finish roaring, Manager Kyoko stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder.
"Don't talk as if it's already set in stone! Going to Thailand and all that..."
"Yamada heard that. Takanashi gets to go on a trip to Thailand? Yamada is so jealous..." Aoi Yamada, who had been hiding in the attic above the kitchen, poked her head out from somewhere overhead.
"Yamada, Taneshima has already been told. It's not a vacation. He's going to work on removing the Tower of Babel..." Soma stabbed the knife in again.
Takanashi: "..."
"Say, aren't you people a little too afraid of that young man...?"
The Wagnaria Restaurant staff looked at one another, then nodded in unison. "N-no, it's not fear. We j-just don't... don't want to resist him..."
"Don't deny it while nodding!" Takanashi perfectly transformed into the straight man. "From what I saw of the conversation just now, I don't think he was that scary. You people, on the other hand..."
"That was just preparation before hunting an animal!" Soma said again.
"Soma-senpai, that's all you saying it! He even had three girls with him..."
"N-no, anyone standing beside a demon can