Let's Make a Deal ch17: Adel-san and a Smartphone

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>I'm starving... I wonder what's for dinner.

>I'm home~
>Eh? Ryouko!?
>...Oh geez, it's this late already!?
>...?

>Huh?
>A smartphone! You bought one?
>I figured I'd need it for times like the other day(*).
>The other day.
>I missed my stop... and I have no way of contacting Adel-san...

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>...And then I got so caught up in setting it up that I haven't started dinner yet...
>I'm sorry.
>That's perfectly fine.

>I need to start right away...
>Oh, right! I haven't been shopping either!

>Some perfect demon I turned out to be...
>Kh
>She's funny when she's depressed...

>I know.
>How about we go to a famires today?

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>Famires?
>It's short for "family restaurant"...

>I see. It's a family-owned restaurant.
>>At Home
>Close. It's a restaurant marketed towards families.

>It's cheap, yummy, and popular with students. I used to go there all the time.

>But once I grew up, being all alone in the same space as families and groups of students became rough...
>I-I see.
>So I'm looking forward to going again.

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>This is it.
>Oh, I often pass by here while shopping.

>Adel-san seems really interested in family restaurants...

>Relax, Ryouko!
>There doesn't seem to many families or students here.
>Oh, it was for my sake.

>Come to think of it, the people who come around this time
>are mostly worn out adults just like me...
>You're being rude to the other customers.

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>Let's order something right away.
>A glass of wine for 100 yen...!?

>Ryouko. Let's leave.
>Why!?

>I mean, selling that for 100 yen is just fishy...
>They must be corrupting humans for their own amusement.

>This is no doubt a demon's store!
>It's dangerous!!
>Sorry about her. She's just suprised by how affordable everything is.

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>This store's been around for decades, so don't you worry.

>You can look it up on your phone...
>That's true.

>...Oh, you're right...

>Sorry for getting the wrong idea...
>She's like a mom who lets her phone be the judge of everything...

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>It sure is convenient having my own phone.
>By the way, what do you do about your official documents?
>You said you couldn't get a phone since you didn't have any...

>Did you forge them after all...?
>No.
>I just paid a grim reaper I know to get a smartphone for me.

>A grim reaper!?
>Someone who does business for demons in the human world.

>She created the app I met you through too.
>I used the browser version.
>Does she even do any actual reaping?

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>Learning I've been using a grim reaper's app has made me kinda scared.
>Thanks for the food...
>Weren't you the one who made a contract with a demon...?

>Huh...?
>But how did you get a phone without any official documents...?

>I formally commissioned a "trader",
>but I still don't exactly what they did.

>That doesn't sound too different from forgery.
>You just didn't do it directly.
>It's fine so long as it more or less makes sense.
>I'm a demon, after all.

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>More importantly, let's swap contacts.
>I guess we should.

>How do I do it again?
>I'll do it. I'll just move next to you.

>>Adel
>>Friends (3)
>>Grim Reaper, Mahala, Rion

>What's wrong?
>Ah, erm...

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>I'm not... your first friend...

>Eh?
>No, it's fine!

>Grim Reaper-san arranged the phone for you, after all,
>and you're good friend with Mahala-san too...
>I'm just a little sad since I'm your roommate.

>Wait, I sound like a kid.
>Ryouko.

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>Eh?

>It's a pain how delicate humans are.
>I'm sorry...

>Here, look.
>Wah, I'm not used to selfies.

>...Huh!? You're actually in the photo, Adel-san!
>>What she normally uses
>Fufu. I got it specially modded.

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>...Isn't this phone good?

>I paid someone else
>to get this phone
>for your sake.

>So I'd like you to be happy rather than sulk about it.

>Thank you...
>Hmph. That's good.

>Look.
>I got lots of apps too.

>For my sake, you say.
>You just wanted them, didn't you?