Flap...
Flap...
Clara enjoyed the ride ho and flapping her Valkyrie wings happily. The still-quiet atmosphere on the bus was a good sign for , as I didn’t want to draw attention to Clara’s Homunculus body.
Clara’s gaze was fixed on the city, who still bustling with activity. For several tis, she saw sothing she wanted to ask about, but she had to suppress her curiosity after seeing with my sleepy face.
Just a few hours of sleep had almost made lose my body’s fall asleep, that’s why I have to stay awake.
I had to quickly fix my slightly ssed-up sleep schedule without the help of the caffeine pills, whom I often used to stave off the nausea from exposure to the waves of magical energy.
In tis like these, I miss those handy caffeine pills. I was too confident to leave them at ho after becoming a Master, and rembering my old life in Narzik’s world.
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Flap...
"Um, Master Weiss... are you want to sleeping?" Clara asked, slightly disturbing and making open my eyelids to stay awake.
"No, I was just... almost closing my eyes for a mont after not getting enough sleep," I replied, glancing at Clara, who seed to be curious about sothing.
"U-Umm... I’m a little embarrassed to say this, Master Weiss. M-My stomach feels weird, and it’s been making noises non-stop. Is there sothing wrong with this new vessel I’ve been possessing?" Clara asked, showing her stomach sounds.
Gruuyyuu...
I listened to the sound of her hungry stomach, and it made realize the most important thing that must be taught for her, to be able survive on Earth.
"That’s a normal reaction for all living creatures that are starving, Clara."
"S-Starving? Is that so disease that needs to be cured as soon as possible?" Clara asked, tilting her head.
"It’s not an illness. It’s just a normal response for living creatures that need to eat. It would be too difficult to explain, so I’ll show you sothing that will satisfy your starve." While saying that, I imdiately stood up and headed to the snack section that had been provided on this bus.
Tap...
Tap...
My footsteps towards the snack section were greeted by the bus conductor, who was ready to serve the passengers.
"Welco to the Small Canteen on Bus Number Seventy-Eight. Would you like to buy so snacks to stave off your hunger or a heavy al for breakfast?" the bus conductor greeted while showing off the various nus provided in the small canteen on the bus.
"I’d like to buy so snacks to stave off hunger before breakfast at ho. Do you have any recomndations besides instant cup noodles?" I replied, examining the rows of various flavors of instant cup noodles.
Since this would be Clara’s first ti eating anything, I tried to avoid giving her anything with a strong flavor that would be addictive. I didn’t want to give her anything that would damage her self-esteem as a goddess, who beco addicted to instant noodles, which can be quite dangerous over ti.
"There are several recomndations I can give, one of them... is rice ball, which has various flavors from another worlds that have collaborated with our governnt."
"It’s just changing the rice ball flavors, right?"
The bus conductor shook his head to deny what I said.
"No... It’s not just the flavors that’s different... the seaweed is... also have a different taste than normal seaweed."
"Even though the recipe has changed, it’s still the sa rice ball," I replied in a flat tone about this.
"I don’t deny that, because it’s just a rice ball made from ingredients from another world. There are even so passengers who like the sweet taste of seaweed in their mouths."
"Ugh, sweet-tasting seaweed? What other culinary craze is that?"
I was suddenly struck by this strange fact.
After Earth connected to other worlds and faced the challenge of the Tower of Fate, I was surprised by this unusual culinary developnt.
"I’m a little curious about rice ball from another world, please prepare so different rice ball and label the flavors," I said while deciding my food order at the small canteen on the bus.
"Okay! One set of rice ball is ready to co!"
By pressing a special button located at the back of the bus, I could see the bus conductor open a storage cupboard containing various kinds of food.
Srrtttiinngg...
With his hands reaching out and grabbing various flavors of rice ball that were still wrapped in seaweed-plastic, the bus conductor quickly prepared my food order.
"Do you have any other drinks... like black coffee or fresh water to keep you awake on this sunny morning?" the bus conductor asked, offering other items.
"I don’t mind black coffee and fresh water."
"Okay, everything will be ready in no ti!" replied the bus conductor, reaching for a drink cup.
Pyyyuurrr...
"..." I also noticed his movents, which seed strange.
I don’t know if it’s just or not, but I really feel sothing strange about him.
It felt like I was getting the maximum service, and it made feel uncomfortable about it.
Tuukk...
Tuukkk...
Two cups of drinks containing black coffee and fresh water were prepared. I imdiately took out my ID card to process the paynt, but was imdiately rejected by the bus conductor.
"I can’t make paynts using an ID card?" I asked after seeing him reject my ID card.
"Umm, if you don’t mind, could you please pay by taking a photo with and signing autographs?" he said with a big smile.
"Is it okay to pay like that?"
"Don’t worry, this is just to make my daughter happy, and I’ll pay for your food!" he replied enthusiastically.
"S-Sure, but... please take care of paying for this al first, and then we can talk about this photo and autograph."
My strange premonition ca true.
I never thought sothing like this would happen in my ordinary life. Taking photos with people and signing autographs was supposed to be sothing only famous people could do.
I am indeed famous on the internet, but I am famous because of the popularity of the Idol group Yggdrasil Advent, which was dragged into a big case involving their Idol Group Agency, and coincidentally, I am a Master who received the oath of allegiance from all the Idol mbers.
I don’t know what the benefits are of taking a photo with , but I’ll take this kind offer.
The bus conductor then showed my food bill, which had been paid in full, according to our verbal agreent.
Nod...
I nodded to keep the agreent we had made earlier and walked towards the middle of the bus to taka so photo, and gave the food and drinks to Clara.
"C-Can we take four different photos?" the bus conductor asked in an awkward tone.
"Four photos? Isn’t that quite a lot?"
"I-I’ll pay more for this!" he shouted in a high-pitched voice.
"Well... at least tell what those four photos are for?"
"J-Just to surprise my daughter in her birthday, who has been seeing you on the news. Unlike , who is out of touch with the news because of my job, my daughter often praises you as the ideal man she has ever seen on TV."
"O-Oohhh..."
Bzzrrrtt...
Dddrrrttt...
When I heard that, my body suddenly felt goosebumps. Hearing my news from soone else’s mouth felt so cringe-worthy, and it disgusted .
I don’t know how far the news has spread, as far as I rember... the news about was bad news with no positive side at all.
I was even accused of brainwashing or hypnotic magic on all the mbers of Idol Yggdrasil Advent.
That news that had absolutely no positive side had made the ideal man for his daughter?
I can only pray that her daughter will be okay in the future with her ideal man standards being broken like that.
"Master Weiss, you’re back and... Umm, who is this?" Clara, who had been waiting for , still sitting quietly.
"Ugh, a fan who happened to want to take a photo together," I replied as I placed a set of rice ball on my seat.
"F-Fan? Just like Chizuru does?"
"Yes," I didn’t know what Clara ant and imdiately replied to her.
I imdiately glanced at the bus conductor, who was getting ready with a portable cara that could print photos at any ti on a tripod-printing-device.
The bus conductor imdiately sat down next to my empty seat and looked at the cara.
Snap!!
Cling!!
With a flash of white light, a perfectly captured photo slipped out of the cara. The bus conductor looked at the captured image with a delighted smile.
"This is a great shot, my daughter will love this."
"Next... can I take a photo of you... and your maid?" asked the bus conductor, pointing his cara at Clara and .
Nod...
I nodded and let the cara lens take the right mont to photograph the two of us.
Snap!!
Cling!!
The white light coming from the cara managed to take a photo of sitting next to Clara, and it was printed perfectly.
"Hmm... this is the perfect photo, I think three photos are enough to satisfy my daughter," continued the bus conductor.
Snap!!
Cling!!
Unexpectedly, the bus conductor took a photo of sitting relaxed, like a candid pose that showed a natural expression on my face.
I, who was not ready for that, imdiately accepted the fate that had happened, and the bus conductor imdiately handed the three printed photos, along with a pen that I would use to sign autographs.
With three perfectly printed photos, I can’t complain about this.
Luckily for , the candid photo poses of myself weren’t too bad, and my hands had moved to autograph each of the prints.
"Thank you very much, Weiss Guderian."
"Have a nice day..."
When the bus conductor said that, the bus I was riding stopped at my destination bus stop, and I heard an automatic voice ssage informing that the bus had arrived at my destination bus stop.
"Clara, it’s ti for us to get off the bus," I said to Clara while carrying the food and drinks that I gave to her.
Clara and I hurried to the bus exit.
"See you again next ti, Weiss Guderian," said the bus conductor, greeting respectfully.
I also returned the greeting with a nod of my head.
Peessshh...
Brrruumm...
The bus I had just boarded imdiately left without picking up any new passengers.
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