Chinatsu stealthily followed Obanai and Mitsuri as they walked side by side. Since Obanai had awakened the "Transparent World," she couldn't get too close to them, or his sharp senses would give her away.
Fortunately, Chinatsu's perception reached considerably farther than Obanai Iguro's. With her masterful "Dead-Angle Trick," neither he nor Mitsuri noticed her approaching at all.
However... every passerby other than those two saw Chinatsu sneaking around. If "cell phones" had existed in this era, someone would definitely have called the police on her, and she would have been intercepted halfway there.
The All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant on the street was doing a roaring trade. Its business model, which let customers eat whatever they wanted for a fixed price, had already proven an initial success, and the owner was raking in money.
At that moment, the owner was reclining on the sofa in his restaurant office with his legs crossed, feeling utterly content.
He had never imagined this novel business model could lose money. Even if a big eater showed up and ate enough for two ordinary people, the daily customer traffic was so high that a few more customers would make up for that little loss.
Surely nobody could eat enough for ten people, let alone clear out the entire day's stock, right?
The owner hummed a little tune in contentment, completely unaware that two "demon kings" had already entered his restaurant.
Mitsuri and Obanai sat at the southernmost end of the restaurant, while Chinatsu carefully settled at the northernmost end. At that distance, Obanai Iguro would never spot her unless he looked over very closely, whereas she could easily keep an eye on both of them.
"Ahem, I'm not here to be a third wheel. I'm just having breakfast. I'll sneak a glance or two at most... yes, just