Then he looked at Mitsushi Nomura.
"Nomura-san, how do you feel now?"
"It's okay." Nomura said in a tired tone, "Where is this place? Mr. Yuan Ye... Ms. Hashimoto... What happened?"
"We don't know either." Seiji looked at him, "Anyway, it's good that you're fine. Take a rest first, and I'll explain the situation to you later."
"No... please tell me now." Nomura sat up straighter, "I want to know right away."
Seeing him like this, Seiji sat down opposite and began to explain.
…
After accepting Seiji's statement, Nomura told Seiji and others about his experience.
"Knowing that it's not reality, I feel relieved, but... I still feel like I did something wrong." He leaned back in his chair and sighed.
"You did nothing wrong. In such a situation, most people would choose to escape." Yaji comforted her.
Nomura was silent for a moment.
"I know what's going to happen next and what the protagonist will do, but I failed to be the protagonist." He said softly.
"I'm just the author, not the protagonist... Although I know this, it doesn't seem to be a reason to abandon people who should be able to help."
"That's not reality, I think it's fine, no one really dies, but... the nature of what I do, it doesn't change."
"I... am just a coward."
The gray-haired boy lowered his head.
Seiji and the others didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Let this kid be quiet." Matsutani said, "A defeated dog should lick its own wounds."
"...Senior, I think there is something wrong with your statement."
"What's the problem? That's the fact. He abandoned his heroine. What else can this be if it's not a defeated dog?"
Regarding this, Seiji wanted to complain but didn't know how to complain.
Forget it, it's better not to dwell on this topic.
"I'm concerned about the store manager's performance just now." Seiji said instead, "He used such strength, it seems that Ms. Hashimoto's unwritten setting has been presented."
"And he used his strength to help Mr. Nomura. This move made me think."
"Perhaps, we can ask for help from the store manager who used to be a hero from another world."
"Miss Hashimoto, please try to tell him that we are people from different worlds who accidentally wandered into 'this world', and want to return to the 'original world', I hope he can help..."
After hearing Seiji's words, Yuko nodded.
"I see... Let's try it now."
She goes to the kitchen.
Seiji and Masaki watched her off.
"Can it work?" the girl with cat ears said softly.
"I hope it works."
"If something goes wrong...you can only fight?"
"Probably." Seiji replied, "If that's the case, Senior Matsutani and I will fight each other, and you guys should avoid it as much as possible, senpai."
Yaki was silent for a while.
"To be honest, aren't you afraid? Junior Yuan Ye."
"Well?"
"Although you acted calmly, this incident is an unknown situation for you, right? Are you not afraid at all?" The cat-eared girl looked at the boy.
Seiji blinked.
"Although it is an unknown situation, I have experienced similar things, so I have no sense of fear."
"Is the life of a psychic full of danger?"
"No... It's just that sometimes, it's more dangerous."
"It's terrible."
"That's not what an author of a ghostly thriller should say." Seiji smiled.
"Fiction is fiction, and reality is reality." The cat ears on Masaki's head moved, "Although the works I write are supernatural, I don't want real life to become like this."
"I think you are cute, senpai with cat ears and a cat tail." Seiji teased.
"...Don't say that!" Yaji gave him a blank look, then turned her head away, her cheeks flushed slightly.
It's so cute. Seiji said in his heart.
After a while, Ms. Hashimoto and the store manager returned to the hall together.
"I can send you back to the 'original world'." The middle-aged handsome uncle said, "but I can only 'open the door' once, so if you have other companions living here, find them first."
... ... that's all right
Seiji looked at him.
"No strings attached?" he asked cautiously.
"What?"
"You've done us such a great favor, so why don't you put forward corresponding conditions, or ask for some reward?"
"It's my duty to let the customers go back to where they should go. As long as it is within my ability, I will help without any conditions or rewards." The store manager replied indifferently.
Damn, this uncle is so handsome!
Seiji was flashed.
Masaki and Yuko and even Nomura and Matsutani were flashed.
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Shop Manager." Seiji expressed his gratitude.
"Don't call me 'Sir'. Do you have any other companions? Or is that all?"
"Other companions... not very sure." Seiji explained, "We don't know how we ended up in this world, and we don't know how many people are like us, let alone how to get them if there are. Find them."
"In that case, let me help you find it." The store manager still said in a calm tone, "As long as you cooperate with the spellcasting, I can locate your companions and ask you to find them back."
Damn, this uncle is so handsome!
Seiji and the others were flashed again.
"This is really troublesome for you, thank you very, very much, Your Excellency the store manager!"
"Don't call me 'Your Excellency' either. Can you start casting spells now?" The handsome middle-aged man looked downcast, as if what he was about to do was a very trivial matter.
Seiji looked at the others.
Masaki, Yuko and Nomura all nodded in agreement.
"I think it's a bit suspicious." Matsutani said in a low voice.
"It's because the store manager is so handsome. It's a stark contrast to you, who is also an uncle. You can't accept it, senior." Seiji explained.
"Don't be so blunt, kid!"
The fat uncle suffered 10,000 points of real damage.
Seiji didn't think the store manager was lying, because he didn't see any signs of lying at all, and the other party had no reason to lie.
Another reason is that the soft white light used by the store manager to heal Nomura made him feel familiar...
Seeing that Matsutani did not insist on objecting, Seiji looked at the store manager again and said that he could cast spells.
"Then come with me."
The store manager turned and walked towards the kitchen.
Everyone followed the store manager into the storage room and then into the basement, and saw many extraordinary-looking utensils placed in this spacious space.
Seiji looked at Hashimoto-san.
"Not only did I not write this setting, I didn't even conceive it." Yuko said in a low voice.
Not only did it go beyond the setting of the novel, it even went beyond the author's idea... Seiji felt more and more that his idea was correct.
"Please stand in a circle around this." The store manager took out a utensil and put it on the floor, and said.
The lower part of the utensil resembles a three-legged round tripod, with densely packed mysterious characters engraved on the surface, and the upper part is a sphere, engraved with patterns that look like extremely complicated circuit diagrams.
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