The Dimensional Tavern of the Mefilas Alien

"Big brother, what is a crater?" Scorpion Lai Lai and Spider Detective, who had failed to complete their sleep learning, looked at the cockroach bully with clear eyes.

"It's a huge crater created by a meteorite." Although the cockroach bully hadn't completed his sleep-learning exercise, his personality and abilities were superior to his two underlings, and he had spent more time mingling in human society. Therefore, common sense questions like this were no challenge for him.

“No.” Murphy walked over.

"That's not a crater. It's just a mark I left when I was testing weapons."

"arms?"

The three cockroach bullies were startled. Was this store manager really that dangerous?

But they soon became restless again.

Dangerous people are even better. They're bad guys, villains! Teaming up with bad guys is their forte.

"Shopkeeper, can you sell us your weapons?" The cockroach bully started fantasizing about how to pull out his new weapon in the competition in a cool way and blow Kabuto away, thus winning the Peace Star.

"Hahahaha!" Overjoyed, the cockroach bully couldn't help but laugh wildly: "Just wait, Kabuto, I'm about to seize the Peace Star and become the President of the Cockroach Bully!"

"Great!" Scorpion Lai Lai and Spider Detective also raised their hands in celebration.

"If my brother becomes the president, I'll have an endless supply of good wine!" Just thinking about being able to drink as much as she wanted made Scorpion Lai Lai's mouth water.

"Then I'm going to become the biggest loan shark!" Spider Detective declared, revealing his ambition. "I'll take a million, no, ten million yen!"

Taiichi, standing nearby, asked curiously, "Why ten million yen? Why not more?"

"More?" Spider Detective turned around, tilting his head. "How much would you want?"

"For example, one hundred million?"

"One hundred million?" Spider Detective imagined the scene of one hundred million yen placed in front of him...

"Hiss, that's too much!" Spider Detective shuddered. "It's so much it's making me uncomfortable!"

"Huh?" Taiichi was completely taken aback by his reaction. Although Taiichi didn't understand this industry, no matter how you looked at it, if he wanted to become the biggest loan shark, 100 million yen shouldn't be a big deal, right?

"I've never had that much money in my life... Ten million yen is the limit I can imagine. Any more than that, I can't even imagine it, and I can't calm down."

Spider Detective was heartbroken.

“I understand you!” Scorpion Lai Lai gently patted Spider Detective’s shoulder with her red fist.

"Actually, I'm the same!"

Although he enjoys alcohol, he hasn't really had a proper drink since waking up from the sleep pod, let alone a good one.

"Uh..." Taiyi scratched his face, feeling a little sorry for the three guys.

Greymon and Taichi were of one mind and nodded repeatedly.

"Idiots!" The cockroach bully angrily pulled out a white paper fan and smacked the two of them on the head. "Don't embarrass yourselves like this in front of outsiders! If I become president, how can I trust you two to be my advisors?"

"I'm sorry, big brother!" Scorpion Lai Lai and Spider Detective lowered their heads in shame.

Murphy was also amused by these three clowns.

Before anything even has been decided, they've already started fantasizing.

However, his motto at drinking parties has always been that he will try his best to satisfy anyone who can afford it.

So Murphy nodded.

"It's not impossible. However, you'll have to accept the transformation first."

Upon hearing the first part of the sentence, the trio jumped up excitedly. But upon hearing the second part, they immediately became quiet.

"Do I still need to undergo modification?" The cockroach bully asked, cradling its large head.

"Of course. Those are weapons specially designed for magical girls. Robots like you can't use them without modification."

"Magic...magical girl?"

The image of Tien Dorina immediately popped into the cockroach bully's mind.

That was the last of the B-series robots, Unit 10, which was equipped with a ladybug biochip.

She is the only female robot in the B series. Although she lacks combat abilities, unlike the previous nine robots, she can maintain her Super Transformation form indefinitely. Visually, she resembles a beautiful young woman.

"Boss, do we want to become like Tien Dorina?"

Scorpion Lai Lai lowered her eyes and asked with a wronged expression.

"I don't want to become a female robot," Spider Detective muttered.

The cockroach bully didn't want to change sex either: "Isn't there any other weapon?"

"Currently, I only have equipment suitable for women."

Murphy shrugged.

Back when he was still on Mefilas, he had developed quite a few legitimate weapons and equipment. But long before he decided to open the bar, he had already converted that equipment into capital.

The cockroach bully never expected that its ambitions would end so soon after they had just begun, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Indeed, the road to achieving hegemony is always so bumpy!"

He didn't dwell on the matter. He was simply very curious about Murphy.

"Manager, who exactly are you? And what's the deal with this tavern?"

I was blinded by money before, so I didn't think things through carefully.

But now that they've found jobs and don't have to worry about making a living for the time being, the cockroach bully's intelligence has once again taken over.

A gate that appeared out of nowhere on Earth, a tavern operating in space, and a mysterious alien manager... Something just doesn't seem right here.

Taichi and Greymon also perked up their ears. They were also very curious about this question.

Murphy spread his hands: "As you can see, this is the Monster Tavern. A tavern that connects different dimensions and universes. Anyone with a strong desire can see the tavern's doors, no matter where they are."

"Oh, I see!"

The three cockroach bullies readily accepted this explanation.

"Aren't you surprised at all?" Taiichi asked in astonishment.

"What's so surprising about that?" Scorpion Lai Lai looked at him like he was a country bumpkin. So what if it's just going to another world? If they got the real Peace Star, they could do that too!

"Wait..." Spider Detective suddenly exclaimed.

"What's wrong? Why are you so startled?" The cockroach bully was pondering the impact of the drinking party on the future Peace Star Championship when the spider detective's shout interrupted his train of thought.

"Big Brother!" Spider Detective waved his arms excitedly.

"This place is from a different century than ours, so their currencies aren't interchangeable? What about our wages?"

"What?" The cockroach bully was surprised that he had overlooked such an important issue.

“Yeah!” he immediately asked Murphy, “What about our wages? You’re not trying to freeload off our labor, are you?”

Although the monster meat dishes at the bar are quite nutritious and might help them become stronger, the cockroach bully still understands the saying, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

The future Peace Star is ultimately just the future, merely a possibility.

But if they can't make money, and they're already three months behind on rent, they have no choice but to run away overnight and sleep under the overpass!

"How about we use this to pay your wages?"

Murphy took out a small gold bar. It was left over from when Denise paid the bill, and he had refined it a second time.

"As long as you can maintain your current level of culinary skills, I can pay each of you one of these small gold bars every day."

"Deal!" Without another word, the cockroach bully stretched out his hand to Murphy.

This small gold bar must weigh several tens of grams. The year they're in is 97, which, converted to Japanese yen, is roughly three to four times the salary of an average chef. Even a second's hesitation is a sign of this cockroach bully's disrespect for money.

More importantly, they don't know if the peace star on the pot is real or fake. If it's fake, it might expire in a few days. From this perspective, daily settlement is the most advantageous for them.

Chapter 126 Taiyi's Soaring Data Volume

"Connect all worlds?" Taiyi, who was standing nearby, suddenly became excited upon hearing this.

"Does that mean I can go back to Japan from here?" Although the adventure was fun and Greymon was a good partner, Tai was worried about Kari, his parents, and his family.

"Taiichi, are you leaving?" Tyrannomon looked at Taiichi pitifully.

Seeing it like this, Tai's heart softened immediately. But then he thought about how he had been missing for so many days, and how his family must be worried sick. The desire to go home quickly took over.

However, although Taichi doesn't know as much as Koushiro, he's still very quick-witted.

He immediately burst into laughter and patted Tyrannomon's arm: "It's okay. After I get home, I can always go back to your place through the bar!"

"Unfortunately, that's not possible."

Murphy shook his head and pointed to the desolate land outside the window.

"Guests can only return to where they came from. Unless other guests agree, you can only go to their world with them. Otherwise, you can only go outside the bar."

Tai was very disappointed, and Tyrannomon quickly comforted him.

Fortunately, Taiyi is always optimistic, and after only a short while of feeling down, he quickly regained his spirits.

"It's alright," Taiyi said with a smile. "I believe there will always be a way!"

Murphy admired his optimistic and open-minded attitude.

“Cockroach bullies, go to the kitchen and use ordinary ingredients to make a dish that an ordinary person could eat. I still have many ordinary customers here.”

"Received!" Having received the money, the three cockroach bullies quickly got to work. Hearing Murphy's invitation, they gave a crooked salute and then hurriedly ran into the kitchen.

"Taiyi, would you be willing to help me try the dishes again?" Murphy turned to ask Taiyi.

"Of course!" Taiichi nodded repeatedly. He had actually been envious watching Greymon eat so heartily, but due to his constitution, he simply couldn't take a second bite, so he had to give up. But if it was just ordinary food made with ordinary ingredients, he wouldn't have this worry, right?

"Oh, right!" Taichi suddenly thought of something: "Manager, could it be that the reason Greymon suddenly evolved and became so big is because of the monster food it just ate?"

Murphy nodded.

"Digimon are essentially data beings. However, after arriving at the tavern, due to the peculiar nature of the space, it retained its characteristics as a data being. Coincidentally, the monsters' data volume was enormous enough, so after eating monster food, its own data volume increased dramatically, eventually exceeding the limit of its growth stage, thus triggering evolution."

"Is that how it is?" Tyrannomon scratched the back of its head sheepishly.

"So you didn't know that yourself?" Taiyi exclaimed in disbelief.

"Hehehe!" Tyrannomon chuckled sheepishly.

“I think the world you went to before, Taiyi, must have been a world made up of data. Because you also possess the characteristics of data now.”

The tavern incorporated Bruton, giving it some characteristics of a fourth-dimensional space. Therefore, both Greymon and Taichi still retain the traits of data beings.

"After entering that world, you were digitized. After arriving here, the digitization hasn't responded either. Your strong reaction just now was because your data volume has also increased dramatically."

Compared to humans and Rookie Digimon, the data volume of Yokai and Monsters is tens of thousands of times larger.

Murphy was actually a little curious. If Tai's data volume continued to grow, would he become a superhuman? Or would he evolve from a human into a Digimon? He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a storyline in this series about humans evolving into Digimon.

Taiyi panicked a little: "Then am I still considered human?"

"It should be restored once we return to your real world."

Although Murphy hadn't done any further analysis, he reviewed his memories from his past life and felt that it was probably pretty much the same.

"Moreover, datafication is not a bad thing. As long as you don't suffer a fatal injury, your body and the clothes you wear will remain constant."

Taiichi suddenly realized: "No wonder! That explains why Agumon burned my pants before, but they were fine again in no time."

"Taiichi, don't bring up such embarrassing things again!" Greymon said, feeling ashamed.

Because they used a pot that was attached to the Peace Star, the cockroach bullies finished cooking in no time.

Just as Taiyi was enjoying his meal, the doors of the bar opened.

Good afternoon, store manager!

Gintoki strolled in lazily.

Gintoki had originally planned to come in the afternoon or evening. Jamila was on vacation, and the bar was short-staffed at lunchtime, so he always ended up being called in. However, he'd played too many games the night before, and Kagura had secretly eaten his breakfast, leaving him with low blood sugar. So he simply opened the bar door at home.

Originally, he wanted to bring Kagura and Shinpachi along. But Kagura went out to play with Sadaharu, and Shinpachi went to the supermarket to shop, so he had to come by himself.

'You can't blame me for being disloyal!' Gintoki scratched his belly with a sense of smug satisfaction.

With neither of them coming, it's perfect that no one is taking his quota!

"Wow, it smells so good!"