The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 785

Chapter 785: The First Customer

There were plants.

Green leafy things. Hanging from wooden beams. Crawling across archways. Framing displays. Filling pots. Climbing supports. Draping from the top like they were holding up everything.

Reeve took in the scene piece by piece.

A booth filled with rows and rows of items he couldn’t really identify. There were things shaped like spheres, others like elongated tubes, some leafy, some shiny, and all of them arranged in shockingly neat piles.

The colors alone nearly blinded him. Vibrant reds, deep greens, bright yellows, soft purples, and shades he was fairly certain did not naturally occur in anything he had ever eaten.

He leaned forward slightly.

Well, it definitely looked like a tomato, the same one that’s all over StarNet, but realistically speaking, how likely would it be for him to find one that’s not simply decorative?

The young intern hadn’t entered yet and was simply looking from a distance because entering booths was a commitment.

When the people manning the stalls notice people coming in, they’d usually bite down and never let go. But that was understandable. After all, a booth’s popularity was crucial to a guild’s success.

But Reeve couldn’t help it. The temptation was getting to him because the things on display looked fresh. Very fresh. Unsettlingly fresh. The kind of freshness and liveliness that made him wish they weren’t an elaborate scam.

Then his eyes roamed.

Bottles of liquid in every color of the spectrum lined the shelves beside them, glowing faintly under the lights. He had no idea what any of those were supposed to be. He only knew they looked... cheerful. And organized.

But the whole thing stood in stark contrast to what was beside it.

His eyes drifted to the center.

There was an archway.

A wooden one wrapped in vines and flowers, leading into what seemed to be a tunnel of glass.

"???"

That was really odd. Because he wasn’t certain if he was hallucinating or maybe it was simply a holoprojection, but how come the archway stretched much farther than he expected?

He tried peeking closer, taking two steps forward, only to take one back when he thought he saw more plants inside. More than that, how come he could see warm golden light when the whole expo hall had that cool lighting going on?

Was it... outside?

Inside?

He couldn’t tell.

It protruded from the main booth like a portal to a completely different world.

He stared harder.

What kind of achievements were being highlighted by this booth?

But his thoughts were all scrapped because it was that smell again!

Sniff. Sniff.

He blinked rapidly. Whatever it was, it had to be so close.

Then his attention was drawn to the right side.

To the right was another stall. At least, Reeve assumed it was a stall. He honestly had no idea what it was supposed to be. There were trays of round things, soft-looking things, shiny things, and warm things that released a scent so divine his eyes almost watered.

Sweet.

Warm.

Comforting in a way he couldn’t explain.

The items glowed under the lights, arranged so neatly that they almost looked ceremonial. The jars beside them shimmered in strange colors, each one unfamiliar yet weirdly appealing.

Reeve couldn’t really identify a single thing on display.

He would just take a little whiff—err, look, he would take a—

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