Chapter 12: Part 4

- Alpha -

"And that's all we could find about the Cult of Diabolus." Epsilon said, finishing her report.

"What about the expansion of our businesses?" She asked.

"Oh the business is going far better than we had expected. Everything Shadow-sama introduced us to has been well received by the people of this country. At this rate, we might be able to surpass the Major Corporate Alliance in a year or two at best."

"Good. What about Shadow? How has he been doing in this new place?" She asked.

"Shadow….he seems to be happier somehow." Gamma said.

"Oh? I take it he is pleased by our work?"

"Well, that may be the case. Although I haven't been able to invite him here yet, knowing him he should already know of our progress. But that's not the case."

"Hmm?"

"Shadow seems to be visiting a small store, a Restaurant of sorts everyday." She said and then her brows furrowed.

"Is something wrong with the Restaurant?"

"I….don't know."

"What?" She was confused. Knowing Gamma, she would always keep all information about Shadow to be able to assist him whenever he needed.

"It's not that I didn't try but I just couldn't find anything about the place. Whenever I send any of the numbers, they just don't seem to find the Restaurant. Even if they walk the street for hours, they just can't seem to realise the location of the Restaurant. It's….a very mysterious place. I wanted to go there myself but…."

Yes, that would be a foolish idea. After all, Gamma is not a fighter.

"Aghh, I have been trying to find out more about the place but no matter what I do I never get any clues. I even bought the building right across the place and stayed there the whole day, watching, observing the place. Every day, in the morning Shadow uses some excuse to go to this place and when he comes out, he has a lunch box with him. Someone is there, cooking for him."

"It's a Restaurant. Obviously people there would be cooking." Delta said.

"No. It isn't a Restaurant." Eta shook her head.

"Hmm? What do you think?"

"I think it's a test."

"A test?" They asked, confused.

"Yes, a test. After all, why would Shadow walk to this Restaurant everyday in front of us and yet none of the numbers are able to find the place? It is obviously a test for us to go inside the Restaurant. Maybe Shadow wants us to see something there or find out the secret of the Mysterious Restaurant?"

All of them became quiet at Eta's assessment.

It did seem to be Shadow's style to throw such a test their way.

"Very well, I will go and check out the situation in the Restaurant myself. Delta can come with me. The rest will investigate the signs of the Cult in this city."

They all agreed.

Let's see what kind of test Shadow had set for them now.

- Silas -

"Are you sure that you want to work here, Shuna?" I asked the girl again who looked determined to follow me. The young princess of the Oni nodded resolutely at my question.

I had returned from Zeref's palace with Sakura and Lavy. It had been a while since I had opened my Restaurant so I decided to go ahead and clean the place.

That's when Ainz returned from his hunting trip or as he says, a levelling spree. They had come in for some food and Shuna followed them.

Seeing us working there, she decided to come and help me out here too and that's how this conversation began.

"Your place is just behind the door. It's not like she is going anywhere too far after all." Rimuru offered.

In the past week, when I was asleep, she was the one who was taking care of me.

She wanted to repay me for saving her village.

In fact, even Ainz was offered the services of the ogres but Nazarick is not a good place for them. At least, not currently. Ainz was looking for undead from this world to take under his wings.

The current leader of the ogres, Benimaru was actually supportive of Shuna's decision because it would keep her in a relatively safe place which was just a few steps away from him.

I could understand his reasoning.

I did need some people for my rRestaurant as I was planning to expand more. With more people coming in, more staff were needed.

Ainz would offer the maids he said but there was a problem with it and that was actually funny if nothing else.

What he was actually worried about was that if any of the Nazarick people worked in my Restaurant, he would have to keep up his chunni act all the time and my Restaurant was the only place where he could be who he actually was.

I agreed. He did say that if I opened any businesses outside my Restaurant, he would lend me anyone I needed.

"Alright then. Unfortunately we don't have any spare rooms so I will have to arrange for some housing nearby." I still don't know how to allow others to use the shop door without me being present all the time.

It might be something I unlock when the restaurant levels up.

"That's not a problem, Sil-kun. Shuna-chan can share a room with me." Lavy said, making us look at her.

"It's not a problem, Silas-san." Sakura agreed too. "Shuna-san can stay with us."

"Are you sure? It won't be a problem for you all, right?" I asked, once more and they nodded again.

I opened the door and let her in while stopping on hearing Rimuru's voice, just loud enough for me to hear.

"Oh and by the way don't get too hard on her." The ero-slime wriggled his eyebrows making mine twitch as well.

This bastard also told Ainz about the incident and I had never thought that I would see a lewd look on a skeleton face. It was disturbing in many different ways. They would just give me smug looks about Shuna and say nothing which was even worse than the teasing with Lavy.

"You guys are not going to stop this, are you?" I asked, resigned.

"Not until it stops being funny. I mean, you lucky bastard had an anime type ecchi encounter. We'll be damned as friends if we drop this without squeezing every drop of fun from this."

….

….

"Well, at least I can get hard." I quipped.

The slime froze.

"Bastard! You wanna fight huh?!…."

I closed the door after me with a smile, ignoring the engaged shouts of the slime behind me.

Well, two can play at this game.

- Demiurge -

"Ainz-sama, pardon my ignorance but this is the first time I have heard of the names Silas and Rimuru and I believe that this is shared by most of our fellow guardians. Might I ask you to enlighten us?"

"You may." Sounded the voice of the Supreme Being who sat upon his throne, his majesty somehow even more pronounced now.

It was as if a layer of darkness obscured his presence, for those unworthy to not even be granted the honour of gazing at his awe-inspiring form.

He was stronger than a month ago… which should have been impossible.

Ainz-sama was already at the level cap. An overlord and yet he somehow became stronger. This had plagued his thoughts for several nights before Albedo of all people gave him the words of wisdom.

He is a Supreme Being. Obviously something like this should be within his reach.

The Supreme Being spoke, looking at the entire gathering of the Nazarick staff. "I believe that you all have the same thought in your mind?"

Some members looked at the ground but didn't answer. "Our apologies. We just enquired the information so that we may not slight the guests of Ainz-sama. We do not mean it as any insult towards the guest. Please punish me if we were too presumptuous."

"Silas and Rimuru are… both Supreme Beings."

"What?!"

The roars and exclaims of shock echoed throughout the room.

"Silence!" He roared, making them all gather their bearings to listen to the Supreme One's instructions further.

"What do you know of the Supreme Beings?"

"The forty one Supreme Beings created Nazarick and all of us. They are all beings of great power who have fought monsters and gods alike. Ultimately, they left for other worlds and only Ainz-sama stayed with us." His words brought up painful memories of all the guardians.

"Umu. But that's not all. Long before Nazarick was even formed, there were several hundred Supreme Beings."

Gasps of shock went everywhere.

"Thousands of years ago, even before the world of Yggdrasil, there was a great war, a war so big that entire planets were erased. Gods and monsters were killed and so were my fellow Supreme Beings while many of us were left severely weakened… including myself. At the end of the war, only less than fifty of us were left. Some were grieving for the death of friends and left for different worlds to spend their time alone." Ainz-sama paused and stared into space as if being reminded of the past days.

"Among the ones who were left, there was one person who was probably the kindest of us all. He used all his powers, sacrificing everything he had, even the memories others had of him in the world except us forty one, even his own memories….to make a place which everyone of our lost brethren would be able to find. A Restaurant connecting several worlds. A place which can only be opened in worlds with the souls of the Supreme Beings. For you see while our brethren died, he believed that their souls must have reincarnated somewhere… and he was right."

He could hear the sounds of each person's breath in the room and the heartbeats of the ones who were alive.

A history which none of them knew of. A hero among Supreme Beings, their sacrifices…

"What was the name of the Supreme One?"

"Silas."

….

….

"He doesn't remember any of his past memories or has any of his past powers as do several others. But they are regaining their powers slowly. If and when you meet them, do not treat them with disrespect. Anyone in the Restaurant can be people with the souls of former Supreme Beings, even the most common looking humans. They might look simple but one day they will all return to their own form. You are not to interfere with it in any way, nor talk about what you have heard about today lest it affects the Spell cast by Silas."

"Yes, Ainz-sama."

"Rimuru is one of those people. He had reincarnated as a human but later on reincarnated as a Slime. His personality is very similar to Touch Me-san. A very kind and heroic person. He was and is one of my best friends. In future you all will be acting together with his subordinates."

"We will not let the name of the Great Tomb of Nazarick down."

"Now, I believe that you both encountered these names from the memories of some of the Paleadis, correct."

Four of the combat maids bowed before confirming.

"We have memories that we are to serve them but we didn't know their faces or even who they were so we thought that someone might be trying to control us somehow."

"Umu. A very reasonable and wise choice. Caution is the better part of safety. You have those names in your memories because they were unlocked when I came in contact with them. They were the superiors of your creators and saved their lives several times. You were made as a memoir for them in hopes that they will one day reunite with us… and that day has come."

"We will be honoured to fulfil the wishes of the Supreme Beings."

How lucky are they to be allowed such an honour?

"Ainz-sama, you didn't tell us what race Silas-sama is?"

"A Devil."

As expected of a Supreme Being.

– Ainz–

They bought that?

Well obviously they would. It took him a month to come up with that pile of bull crap and practice in front of the mirror. Now, he just needs to inform Rimuru and Silas of this.

They will not complain.

They will be getting two hot maids each after all. How can they complain?

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Author's Note:

I am back with another chapter of 'Isekai Restaurant'.

As some of you might have noticed, this chapter was quite similar to the Snippets. That's because I needed to go through this to have the characters required for the future plots.

Now all that's left is one Loli Nazi and we can have most of the gang here.

Obviously, you might have also noticed the new parts in the story and they will play a great part in the future plot as well.

The subordinates are being informed about the Restaurant. How will this add to the chaos?

I will bring out another chapter of this next and then maybe a chapter of Drawn to Power of Ace maybe.

Enjoy the new chapter.

Good Day, Peace Out.