The Player is a Part-Timer

Chapter 1: Just an Everyday Café in an Everyday Town

"Oho!~ Welcome Lord Azazel! How are you today?" chirped the servant, happily, just like he welcomed a friend, and the man smiled back.

"Ah! Manage, was better..."

"Anything you wish? Cake? Tea?"

"A cake please..."

The girl can only sigh, slumping on the counter depressed, grabbing her head. "Where did it go wrong?" meanwhile, the servant served the guest.

"Bon appetite!"

"Thank you!" and with great enthusiasm, the man started to fork the cake.

"Agh! Just go and check around the area once more! Make sure no one is eavesdropping on us! We are speaking about business stuff..." she mumbled, pointing towards the door, and the servant nodded.

"As you wish, my lady!~" he sang, another annoying trait to add the ever-growing list.

"Hmm, you have a good servant!"

"Swallow before you speak..."

"Sworrry!~ But it is delicious!~" she can only sulk miserably, as Azazel's perception was just too good for his own good. The man literally sang these two sentences, with a full mouth to add on that. Indeed, the man right away recognized the source of her annoyance and used it with its fullest potential against her.

"By the way, it will be two billion yen..." the man still gnawed on a mouthful, smiling uncaring. "...per bite..."

"Pfft!" spitting out the cake, he pushed it away with disgust. "The Hell! You are the worst! And you are surprised why no one is coming here..."

"So... once again? Why should I go in that academy stuff? Huh?" she changed the topic in an instant, glancing at the man bored.

"Well..." the fallen smiled sly. "I can separate more funds to hasten the search after that rogue group... you want to speak with them too, no? Questioning them why they summoned you?~ Hmm?"

The man once more played with his brow, looking quite sultry and playful.

"I think this is your own interest as well to find them as soon as possible, but never mind me..." she rolled her eyes, making the fallen general sweat, forcing him to pull out the big guns.

"I will also hasten the research on those ruins where you got summoned. Who knows, if you are lucky, we can send you home earlier..."

"Really?" she raised her brow suspicious. "Really!" the man nodded vigorously! Thinking he finally get her on the leash!

"Sorry... Pass, send one of your bully... I am fine here. My home is kinda a shitty place... exciting, but filled with monsters you can hardly imagine." she answered with a flat face, continuing to clean one of the mugs, feeling, the victory is in her grasp — and this man will soon give up and leave her alone.

"Try me; I am pretty good imagining things..."

"Lovecraftian horrors on every corner, beings who suck demons and angels dry at ease... get it? Tentacle monsters! Mostly tentacle sheeps with many mouths... almost like hentai." she chuckled with a slight perverse grin.

"Not speaking about angry gods and titans who want to purify the world and dragons who want to eat the creation. Oh, and we not talked about a planet-sized creature which wanted to devour multiple realms when I was summoned away. How do you like that?"

Of course, most of these things were part of YGGDRASIL. Things she faced before — as a player — under her adventurers and quests. Even the planet-sized being was one of the bosses the players had to defeat at the end of the main story — true; only planet-sized according to the lore, the game engine in truth can't handle a creature that big.