Everyone is in class and the bell rings.
Pandora's Actor:"Class is done for today! But don't slack off on your homework! That's right, don't slack off! Now begone!"
Kazuma gets up and stretches and Demiurge looks to him.
Demiurge:"You stayed awake today."
Visha gets up and walks away to the door.
Kazuma:"If somebody could sleep through that guy's yelling, I'd worry about him."
Demiurge:"Good Point."
Visha opens the door to the class.
Visha:"Have a wonderful day, everyone!"
Violet:"She's leaving early."
Dave walks over to Smaug's desk.
Dave:"Smaug! Smaug! I've learned something!"
Smaug raises an eyebrow.
Smaug:"What did you learn."
Dave holds up his hands and they glow white then the world turns grey and everyone freezes.
Dave:"I've learned to freeze time!"
Smaug being the only one not frozen.
Smaug:"It's not that impressive."
Smaug sits back and closes his eyes and snaps his fingers.
Dave jaw drops and he looks to his hand then to Smaug.
Dave:"Cool."
Subaru leaves the class with Ram, Rem, Emilia and Beatrice.
Mathues:"Subaru's really popular."
Kazuma:"Don't get the wrong idea."
Megumin goes over to Kazuma.
Megumin:"Kazuma, let's go." *She holds up her staff.* "I found a good explosion spot! Will you go with me?"
Kazuma:"Sure."
Darkness goes over to them.
Darkness:"That's no fair, Megumin! Kazuma was supposed to get me a stuffed animal at the arcade."
Aqua then comes over.
Aqua:"Kazuma, I told you that they're having a sale on veggies at the department store today! You said you'd go with me!"
Kauma puts his bag on his shoulder.
Kazuma:"Okay, fine."
Kazuma's group starts to leaves.
Kazuma:"Let's just hit them all up in order."
Megumin:*Singing.* "Explosion, explosion, lah-lah-lah!"
Kazuma:"See you tomorrow!"
They leaves the class.
Darkness:"Bye!"
Megumin:"Farewell!"
Aqua:"Wait, Kazuma! I'm not ready to go."
Mathues:"Kazuma's really popular...."
Ilulu goes over to Smaug and hugs him.
Ilulu:"Smaug, I want to go home."
Kanna comes over.
Kanna:"Lord Smaug, I want to go home, too."
Tohru and Kobayashi come over.
Tohru:"I need to stop by the butcher."
Smaug:"I'm not allowed to go to the butcher shop."
Kobayashi raises and eyebrow.
Kobayashi:"Why?"
Tohru looks to Kobayashi.
Tohru:"Do you really need to ask that."
Kobayashi looks to Tohru then back to Smaug then to Tohru.
Kobayashi:"You're right."
Smaug:"Hey! Let's just go home!"
Smaug gets up and leaves the class and Kobayashi, Kanna, Tohru and Ilulu follow.
Mathues:"Smaug's really popular..."
Dave runs after them.
Dave:"Wait for me!"
Tanya:"Captain Weiss, you've been kind of down since Valentine's Day, haven't you?"
As they are walking home.
Dave:"How did you do that early, Smaug?! With the finger snapping."
Smaug smirks.
Smaug:"I'm not telling you."
Dave pouts.
Dave:"Come on, Smaug. It's so cool!"
Tohru:"Now, I'm interested, too."
Smaug:"Hard work just pays off."
Kobayashi:"Since when do you work hard?"
Smaug:"Hey, I work hard all the time. Just no one sees it!"
Ilulu:"Smaugy I know I am your wife, but even I don't believe you work hard."
Smaug's tail droops.
Smaug:"Even my own wife."
Kanna:"Lord Smaug, is lazy."
Smaug cries.
Later tomorrow.
The Dragon Maid group arrives and sees Tanya writing on the clack board.
Tanya:"I've gathered you all here to discuss our lieutenant."
The dragon maid groups sits down. Kanna sits in Smaug's lap and he braids her hair.
Subaru:"Let's go over what we know, I guess. We saw Visha working a part-time job yesterday. Right, Ains?"
Ains:"Yeah, we did. What about you?"
Kazuma:"We saw it, too."
Aura:"We did, too!"
Koenig:"As did we."
Shalltear:"I did, too."
Tohru:"Me, too."
Smaug puts his head on his desk and falls asleep.
Cocytus:"We did as well."
Subaru:"So where was she working?"
Ains:"The convenience store."
Kazuma:"The department store's grocery section."
Aura:"The doughnut store.
Koenig:"Ramen place."
Shalltear:"The karaoke place."
Tohru:"Butcher shop."
Cocytus:"Handicrafts store."
Kazuma:"Handicrafts?
Dave:"I didn't know there was a handicrafts store."
Ilulu:"I should go there after school."
Smaug snores.
Tanya:"Guys, we're getting off topic."
Violet:"We should get back on topic."
Subaru:"I saw her in the butchers. What's going on here?"
Visha then comes in.
Visha:"Good morning. What's going on, everyone?"
Tanya:"Oh, Lt. Serebryakov. Actually--"
Pandora's Actor comes in.
Pandora's Actor:"It's almost time for class, everybody. Class, or as they call it in English, class! Yeah, that's what they call it."
Later.
Visha:"Oh, you found out I was working part-time jobs? Sorry."
Kazuma puts his hand up.
Kazuma:"No, it's not against the rules or anything. But we were wondering why."
Violet:"I want to know, too."
Visha:"Well, actually..."
She thinks back to the lunch room and how see saw a sign that said "Special Menu" for 30,000 Yen.
Visha:"I just can't stop thinking about it..."
Smaug's tail makes an exclamation point and it taps Smaug on the shoulder waking him up.
Subaru:"The special menu in the cafeteria? Has anybody here ordered it?"
Kazuma:"I haven't."
Ains:"It's 30,000 yen, right? It's a waste to spend that on lunch."
Kazuma:"Wow, I thought you were a bigger spender."
Ains:"You can't waste money on everything."
Visha:"But aren't you curious? It's special! Special!"
Dave:"My Mom says I'm special."
Tanya:"I'm curious, sure. But you're working too much."
Visha:"Well you see, if you work at a place, they feed you. And I kept finding new things I wanted to try, and..."
Everyone starts part-time jobs, but Smaug. He just sleeps on the couch.
Later
Everyone is on the cafeteria.
Visha:"Okay, here we go..."
Visha presses the Special Menu button and a door bell rings.
Kazuma:"This sound..."
Smaug:"I didn't do it!"
Aqua:"Nani? Nani? Nani? Nani?
Ains:"Could it be..."
Tanya:"On guard, everyone!"
Nothing happens.
Subaru:"What's wrong?"
Kobayashi:"Nothing happened."
Butcher:"Your special menu us here!"
Everyone looks over to see a plate with a bunch of food on it.
Everyone:"It's huge!"
Smaug eye's gain stars.
Kazuma:"Huh? The butcher?"
Ains:"He's the guy who works at the convenience store."
Tanya:"You mean the doughnut shop."
Cocytus:"No."
Demiurge:"No. No."
Violet:"No."
Visha runs over to the food.
Visha:"Yay!"
She bring sit to a table and starts to eat it.
Visha:"It's special!"
Visha smiles.
Visha starts to eat it like crazy.
Tanya:"I guess it was only special because of its size, huh?"
Kazuma:"It was surprisingly normal, huh? So, what do you want to do?"
Subaru:"We've go the money we earned, too, but..."
Ains:"We don't need to use it here."
Tanya:"Yup."
Then they hear another doorbell ring and they look to see Smaug buy the special menu.
Tohru:"Smaug?! I never saw you work once! How do you have money?"
Smaug holds up some gold coins.
Smaug:"King Under The Mountain."
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01-29-2022
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