"Hedin! I'm counting on you."
"Get lost."
The two relatively normal ones poured all their energy into dumping the task of entertaining customers onto each other.
"Why do I have to be treated like this!!!?"
Apparently feeling deeply wronged by the situation, Aspi's eyes welled up as she looked at the two of them.
"...."
"Staring at me with those rotten dead-fish eyes makes it hurt twice as much...!!"
"I'll do it... I'll do it..."
Akumo, who had sensed there was no answer from Hedin, who shot Aspi a look of contempt, seemed about to end up handling her customer service after all.
"Wait!"
"?"
It was Syr's sudden intervention.
"Akumo-san is obviously kindness of kindness, right?"
"Uh... yeah, I guess...?"
"Then he can't be used as a teaching example!!!!"
"No, then what am I supposed to do...?"
Then Syr shifted her gaze to Hedin beside her.
"First! Let's have you watch Hedin-san's customer service!"
"Huh..."
They had forcibly recruited him as a clerk, and now they were telling him not to step in and just watch... what kind of nonsense was this?
"....."
"He-din-san?"
"...Damn it."
Hedin's eyes instantly turned into those of a rotten dead fish, but in the end he had no choice but to do what was called customer service under Syr's pressure.
"Princess? What would you like to drink?"
He started by taking a light drink order.
"T-Then... fruit wine..."
"Understood. Fruit wine for the princess here."
After relaying the order to Ottar, Hedin immediately moved into small talk to reduce the distance of the service.
"You like sweet liquor. As someone who is female and still commands the dual-natured Familia of the god Hermes, you must have quite the tolerance for alcohol."
"I don't usually drink much, so..."
"Thank goodness... she's a normal person..."
Gentle, stable service.
Truly standard, and not bad at all.....
"...It's ordinary."
"Right! It's ordinary, isn't it!?"
Watching that ordinary customer service, Akumo immediately understood why Syr had not let him step in.
"A smile and service that are truly nothing more and nothing less than service."
"Too stiff for a tavern waiter..."
"Just because one guy does it decently doesn't mean the others' incompetence gets covered up...."
The fundamentally broken evaluation of the tavern could not be salvaged by ordinary customer service like Hedin's.
"Uh...."
"This shop was prepared by Lady Freya for the women of Labyrinth City Orario! Which is exactly why the customer service has to create even more added value!"
"....."
"Was she always this annoying...?"
"This shop is lacking something beyond mere service!"
So Syr directly asked Aspi for her opinion.
"Even if you ask me..."
"Syr, to be honest, this can't be saved."
"Manager, dumping something you can't solve onto someone else is a cruel thing to do."
After three straight fact checks from Aspi, Akumo, and Hedin, Syr was at a loss and fell into thought.
"Hey, you're an employee, and yet..."
"I'm saying again, do you think I'm doing this because I want to?"
Hedin, who wanted to end this farce as quickly as possible, had no choice but to tell the manager and superior the truth.
"Grr...! Still, I want to try something no one in Labyrinth City Orario has ever tried....!"
"For example...?"
Swish-
"?"
At that moment, Syr approached Aspi to show her directly what she wanted.
Tap-
"Ohhh, beautiful princess...."
"S-Syr Flover!?"
She lifted Aspi's chin and spoke in a seductive voice.
"She grabbed her chin...!!"
"I've never even gotten that once!!?"
"""Us too!!"""
"Die, [Perseus]."
Hogni was thrown into shock and panic, and the Gulliver brothers and Allen made no effort to hide their rage.
"""'''Guilty!! Guilty!!"""""
"Why did you suddenly get so murderous!!?"
"...Just ignore them."
"Those crazy bastards... they're not even trying to hide it...."
Seeing them, Akumo was dumbfounded.
"Treat me like a princess like this—"
"I-It's dangerous...! It's too scary, so I think I'd better go now!!!"
"W-Wait!? Aspi-san...!!?"
Aspi was astonished by the murderous intent radiating from the city's strongest adventurers, and immediately shook off Syr and ran.
Tap-tap-!!
"Don't stop me!! At this rate I'm going to be murdered!!!!?"
And so Aspi fled all the way to the front door of the shop.
"Well... that's the end of that, I guess..."
Slipping away—
Seeing that, Akumo thought it would all end in utter disintegration anyway, and was just about to quietly move to leave himself when.
Thwack-!
"Agh!?"
"S-Sorry! Are you okay!?"
Aspi collided with someone, and a woman's voice rang out.
"Hey!! Watch where you're going—" she seemed about to say, but... "Wait, aren't you [Perseus]?"
"Huh...? Who...?"
But soon Aspi, Akumo, and Hedin all realized who she was.
She who called herself the one and only unforgettable pinnacle of beauty among all heaven and earth, all things and all creation.
"The goddess of goddesses!!! The best goddess!!"
"""Huh?"""
Ba-dum-!!
"I mean this Aphrodite!!!!!"
**
"Ohohohohohoho!!! The incarnation of beauty, Aphrodite, arrives in Labyrinth City Orario right on time!"
".....Why?"
The last they had heard from her was when she left after saying to come to Maelstra.
They had clearly thought there would be no need to meet her again...
"Because nobody came looking for me, that's why!!!"
"...."
"She's pouting.... She's pouting because she's lonely...."
"I don't know what you're thinking, but shut up!!!"
In any case, the reason she had come was obviously this bizarre tavern.
"So! I came to meet those famous pretty boys!"
Swish-!
With that, her expectant eyes turned toward the executives.
""""'Simple-minded, vulgar, and annoying.'""""
"To call yourself a goddess of beauty like Lady Freya...? Please, stop...."
"I hate loud women by default."
The Gulliver brothers, Hogni, and Allen, seeing her for the first time, spat out brutally cold insults.
"Don't say that so flatly. Even if she looks like that, there's always the possibility of a surprise."
"You lot should work on your social skills first, you crazy bastards...."
Only Hedin and Akumo, who had seen her true nature in Olympus, could barely cover for her.
"You bastards~~!!!! What kind of crap are you spouting in front of a goddess of beauty!? You Ragnarok-grade pretty-boy rabid dogs, all looks and no substance!"
"That's a very Nordic way of putting it...? And you're from Olympus."
"Shut it! I am the pinnacle of radiant, peerless beauty! Aphrodite, the most beautiful in all the worlds!"
"She's not listening, is she?"
Even with that cover, Aphrodite still radiated her usual absurdly enormous confidence.
"It's only natural that you'd fawn over me more than over Freya, isn't it!?"
"Ah."
And then she set off a bomb.
Shaaaa-!
"""""""Hah?"""""""
The murderous intent of every executive converged on her, making Aphrodite's legs go weak.
"H-Hiiik!? Y-you're really showing killing intent toward a goddess...!!! Have you all lost your minds!!?"
Grip-!!
"P-Please stop them...!!"
"Why are you dumping this on me!?"
Aphrodite hid behind Akumo, trembling all over, and Akumo's head hurt from how much more chaotic the situation had become.
Clack-clack-
"Everyone~? In any case, she's a customer, so don't do anything rude!"
"...Huh?"
"Welcome! Lady Aphrodite?"
"What kind of game is this?"
Then Syr approached Aphrodite and, despite the murderous atmosphere, greeted her with a calm smile.
"I'm the hired manager!"
"...?"
Swish-
"Think of it as a game like that."
"Oh~ is that so? Fine, I get it."
When Akumo quietly whispered to Aphrodite, who seemed about to question Syr, asking her to overlook it, she nodded.
"...? How does Syr-san know Lady Aphrodite...?"
"Anyway!"
Once she understood the circumstances, Aphrodite immediately put on a playful smile and shouted at Aspi.
"I'm joining your table!"
"Pardon!?"
"Don't you have some kind of handsome-men list here~? Those guys all have filthy eyes~"
As if she were used to it, Aphrodite casually held out a hand toward Syr, as though asking for a menu so she could enjoy the shop at her leisure.
"...A list?"
"...?"
Aspi and Syr could only tilt their heads, not understanding what that meant.
"...Huh?"
"Lady Aphrodite... uh..."
Whisper, whisper, whisper-
Inside the shop, which had fallen into silence, only Akumo understood Aphrodite's meaning and began explaining the shops of this Labyrinth City Orario to her.
"Originally..."
"Ah~ there used to be..."
"And then..."
"Mm-hm~ I get it."
The conclusion was.
"So you know absolutely nothing about that kind of shop...?"
"Y-yeah... I mean, right?"
"Then what is the point of this place existing!!!?"
Though it was supposed to be a fun, happy paradise...
"It's basically a crazy place made on the idea of having handsome men pour drinks for you..."
"Aaah~! What a waste!!!"
Since it was, in truth, little more than a bar with a bizarre atmosphere, Aphrodite looked visibly deflated.
"...In that case."
"In that case?"
"Lady Aphrodite, would you consult on our shop?"
"...!"
Then Syr's disastrous proposal was delivered to Aphrodite.
"""""!?""""""
Not only Akumo, but everyone in the shop felt a sense of crisis.
"Something like that...."
Grin-!
"Of course I will!!!!"
"""""Damn it!!!!!"""""
**
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!?"
I need to get out of here right now. This is insane.
"...Minus 100 million points!! That's your current level!!"
""""Hah?""""
Cold—!
"Hiiik...!? T-there's the problem right there!!!!"
Why do I have to watch a goddess being horrified by the state of the shop?
Why do I have to be trapped here in the middle of the night?
"From your clothes to your attitude, everything is trash!!!"
"...."
"You say something too, damn it!!!"
"I know, I know...."
With no energy left to spend, Akumo simply let go and told Aphrodite to do whatever she wanted.
"Hmph! How dull!"
Clack-!
"To sum it up, what this shop lacks is...."
[The extraordinary], [The unreal].
"You're coming to a tavern to escape reality, so why would you show them reality?"
"A blood-soaked battlefield? Adventurers? Are you idiots!? Make paradise, not Ragnarok!!!"
Still, when it came to tavern consulting, Aphrodite was making perfectly sensible observations.
"Right...! For a year-end limited run...."
Smirk-!
"With that kind of concept...!"
At the same time, because the shop was such a disaster, ideas began pouring into Aphrodite's head without end.
"""""..."""""
"I know, I know...."
"So even rotten, she's still a goddess!? Her reform proposals never stop!"
"Hahahahaha....."
Already sensing that things had gone badly wrong, Akumo watched Aspi flail about in a daze.
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