Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“I was afraid you'd drink too much and lose control, developing inappropriate thoughts about me, and then act impulsively, making a big mistake.”

Shinka Nibutani picked up her wine glass, took a sip, and then looked directly at Yexing's face.

“Are you saying your alcohol tolerance is very high?”

“Of course, I'm an esper. Naturally, even before I awakened my powers, my alcohol tolerance was much better than ordinary people, although I don't drink often.”

“If that's the case, if I drink too much and want to do something to you, can't you just push me away?”

“You're overthinking it.”

Yexing waved his hand, replying earnestly.

“I'll just take you to a pre-booked room and launch a fierce attack on you, preferably one where you can't even get out of bed to walk the next day when you wake up.”

“Huh? You booked a room here in advance?”

“Hey, I'm just kidding.”

“Oh, so you're joking, but…”

Shinka Nibutani said, suddenly producing a room card and gently placing it on the table, looking directly into Yexing's eyes and saying calmly.

“I did book a room early.”

“No, what are you trying to do?”

Seeing the room card, Yexing frowned slightly, somewhat speechless.

“You wouldn't be thinking that I can't repay Shinka Nibutani's kindness in helping me, so you want to offer yourself in marriage, right?”

“Next month, there's an opportunity to go to the Italian headquarters.”

Ignoring Yexing's words, Shinka Nibutani simply picked up her wine glass and drained it, then lowered her head and said softly.

“Rikka's issues have been resolved, and she has you and your friends at school. Besides, she's almost a senior in high school. I believe she can take care of herself. The opportunity to study at the Italian headquarters is very rare. If I go there, I should settle down there in the future.”

Speaking to this point, Shinka Nibutani suddenly fell silent. After nearly half a minute, she finally raised her head to look at Yexing, propping her chin with one hand. Perhaps due to the effects of alcohol, a hint of red appeared on her face.

“I originally thought that once I solved Rikka's problem, I could leave without any worries, but…”

“I've realized that this idea is wrong.”

Chapter 583: A Night Spent with Shinka, The Duo of Private Toyosaki Academy

Yexing wasn't the typical dense male lead from a school romance anime. He naturally understood the meaning behind Shinka Nibutani's words.

No wonder Shinka suddenly issued a request, seeking the help of the Paranormal Quantum Mechanics Investigation and Research Society. It turned out that the headquarters in Italy had sent an invitation.

Thinking about it, it was obvious that if you were a Western cuisine chef, you would need to go to the headquarters in the place of origin to learn and get the best development.

“Before responding to your question, I want to clarify something first.”

Yexing also picked up his wine glass and drained it, shaking his head slightly disappointed. After all, he felt that things like wine were not as good as ice-cold Coca-Cola.

“Leaving Sakura Province to work at the Italian headquarters not only improves your skills as a chef, but also increases your salary and benefits, right?”

Shinka Nibutani nodded slightly, picked up the whiskey bottle on the table, filled Yexing's and her own glasses, and said softly.

“Yes, and it's a lot higher.”

“Hmm… You really like this job as a Western cuisine chef, right?”

“Yes.”

Shinka Nibutani pursed her lips, her expression complicated.

“Although at first, I just wanted to find a job as soon as possible to support the family after my father passed away… but… I'm very talented in making Western cuisine, and I really like this job. Otherwise, I wouldn't have become the head chef of a restaurant at such a young age.”

“Hmm…”

Yexing nodded in agreement, revealing a slight smile.

“So, if you stay in Kyoto for the sake of 'someone', giving up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, all your hard work and accumulation over the years would be wasted. For the rest of your life, you can only be the head chef of a Kyoto branch, stopping there. Thinking about it this way… if you really give up such an opportunity just for the sake of 'someone', wouldn't that be very childish, completely without careful consideration, like a child's behavior?”

Hearing Yexing's words, Shinka Nibutani felt that she seemed to have guessed the other party's answer. Her slender white fingers rubbed against the outside of the wine glass, and her chest felt a strange sourness. To hide her expression, she just lowered her head, trying to put on an indifferent look, but the slightly hoarse voice couldn't be controlled.

“Since you've already said that, then I understand what you mean…”

Just as Shinka Nibutani was halfway through speaking, Yexing suddenly changed the subject.

“So, let's leave such childish decisions to the immature high school student in your eyes.”

As soon as the words fell, Yexing reached out and held Shinka Nibutani's hand, smiling and saying.

“Shinka, give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and stay in Kyoto.”

Shinka Nibutani couldn't help but be stunned when she heard this, raising her beautiful red eyes to look at Yexing, the corners of her lips involuntarily rising into a smile.

“Even if it's… a very childish act?”

“Of course, I'm a high school student. It's reasonable to make childish demands that mature adults can't understand, right?”

“Why do you want me to stay?”

“Because I'm an immature high school student, so I don't want to think about the future or anything. I just want the person I like to stay with me. That's what a high school student is, as a high school student, I have the power to be selfish and willful.”

“Yo, you even know how to callback?”

Seeing the smile on Shinka Nibutani's face, Yexing also smiled.

“Yeah, as expected.”

Shinka Nibutani tilted her head, curious.

“What's as expected?”

“You still look better when you smile.”

Shinka Nibutani's face showed a blush, and she said softly.

“Since that's the case… then I'll stay in Kyoto.”

… …

Ten minutes later, in a certain room of the hotel.

“It's just an ordinary room, not even a luxury suite. It seems you don't value me very much.”

Listening to Yexing's words, Shinka Nibutani sighed slightly helplessly and couldn't help but complain.

“You're still joking at this time, deliberately saying lines like a gold digger to tease me. You really are you. By the way, although I'm a Western cuisine chef, I'm just the head chef of a branch. My salary income still has to be used to support my family. Booking a room in a five-star hotel like this is already the most extravagant expense I've had in recent years.”

“In the end, I still don't understand why you specifically booked a room.”

“Does this kind of thing really need to be said so clearly?”

Toka Takanashi walked barefoot on the carpet of the room, approaching Yosho step by step. Finally, she stood on tiptoe and gently kissed him on the cheek, caressing his face with one hand and looking directly at Yosho's face.

"I want to do something with you. Of course, originally... I thought that even if I was rejected, as long as I gave you more wine, I might be able to succeed. I just didn't expect that you wouldn't get drunk. A miscalculation. Fortunately, the result is still very much to my liking."

...

The next day, in the afternoon, at the Western-style restaurant where Takanashi Toka worked.

"That guy... how can he be so energetic..."

Toka Takanashi muttered to herself while changing into the clothes she needed to wear to enter the kitchen later. Recalling what happened last night, she couldn't help but blush.

Originally, she thought that Yosho was just a high school student. Although he had most likely already tasted the forbidden fruit with his girlfriends, he was, after all, just a high school student. As a mature older woman, even if she had no experience, wouldn't it be easy to control him and take the initiative?

Hua Xiong, before facing Guan Yu, probably thought the same way.

The result, of course, goes without saying.

Toka Takanashi practiced gymnastics during her school days, and her body is very flexible. Yosho made good use of this, performing many daring poses that Toka Takanashi now feels embarrassed and her heart races just thinking about them.

To the point that she still feels sore and achy. If it weren't for her professional ethics as head chef, she would have wanted to take a day off today.

"Chef Takanashi, are you free now?"

Hearing someone knocking on the door of the changing room, Takanashi Toka, who had already changed her clothes, walked over and opened the locked door, looking at the woman outside who was about thirty years old, and said in a flat tone.

"What's wrong, Manager?"

The restaurant manager had a smile on her face, her tone seeming ingratiating.

"Chef Takanashi, there's something I need to tell you."

Hearing this, Takanashi Toka said firmly.

"If it's about going to the Italian main store, I already gave you my answer this morning. I want to stay in Kyoto."

"Oh dear, it's not about that, Chef Takanashi. Besides, the situation is different now."

The restaurant manager said with a smile.

"Now, this is the main store, and the one in Italy is the branch."

"Huh?"

Toka Takanashi was stunned when she heard this.

"This place has become the main store? Are... are you kidding me?"

The Western-style restaurant where Takanashi Toka worked belonged to an overseas group. Since it was a Western-style restaurant that made Italian cuisine, the main store was naturally in Italy. How could the Kyoto branch suddenly become the main store?

"I don't know the specifics, but the Shinomia Group suddenly invested and acquired this entire industry line of Western-style restaurants belonging to the group, including ours, from the original parent group. This includes the brand name and everything. So, our Kyoto branch is now the main store, and the person in charge from the Shinomia Group also said that they will occasionally have people from the Italian main store come over to exchange experiences with us."

"I see..."

Hearing this, Takanashi Toka understood.

She remembered that Yosho seemed to know a high school girl named Shinomia at the Private Shuchiin Academy. Now that she thought about it, that should be the heir to the Shinomia Group or something, right?

Having the Shinomia Group acquire the entire industry, including the Western-style restaurant where she worked, directly from Italy, and then turning Kyoto into the main store, in this way, wouldn't she be able to exchange culinary expertise with the head chefs of the main store without leaving Kyoto?

As expected...

Yosho and the members of the Supernatural Quantum Mechanics Investigation and Research Society not only possess great power, but also possess the economic conditions to easily solve such real-world problems.

Toka Takanashi naturally wouldn't have such boring thoughts as being angry and dissatisfied because Yosho had made arrangements without her consent. On the contrary, she was very touched.

That guy, although he usually acts like he doesn't care about anything, in the end...

He's still a very thoughtful and considerate person.

...

Half a month later, on the rooftop of Private Toyonosaki Academy.

"Ah, no, no, no, no, I'm going crazy!!!!"

Looking at Eriri Spencer Sawamura pounding her chest and stamping her feet, Kasumigaoka Utaha leaned against the wall next to the rooftop entrance, smoothed her long black hair, and maintained her usual poisonous tongue attitude.

"If someone comes up here at this time and discovers your true nature as a grumpy blonde chihuahua, your image as a fair maiden, the blonde genius bishoujo of the art club, will definitely be shattered in an instant, right? Now that you mention it, I'm actually looking forward to it. Should I go downstairs and call someone up here?"

Eriri glared at Kasumigaoka Utaha, resentfully.

"You... even at a time like this, you're still not worried at all..."

"Worried? Worried about what? I don't even understand what you're worried about."

"Are you serious?"

Eriri looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha's calm and unmoved face, and felt an inexplicable fire rising in her heart, revealing her cute little fangs.

"It's been almost a month since we decided to make a eroge, and as a result, I, as the original artist, and you, as the writer, haven't been able to produce any effective results at all. On the contrary, Umi, as a veteran eroge player, who initially only provided us with advice from a player's perspective, has made a greater contribution than the two of us. Aren't you worried at all!??"

"That's true..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha agreed with Eriri's thoughts for the first time, thoughtfully.

"If this continues... although according to Yosho's personality, he won't have any negative thoughts about us, my pride as a famous light novelist really doesn't allow me to be in a situation where I'm trusted by Yosho but can't be of any use... So, do you have any solutions? Ms. Blonde Chihuahua?"

Eriri glared at Kasumigaoka Utaha, puffing out her cheeks.

"Is that the attitude you should have when asking for help? Huh?"

"You seem to have misunderstood something."

Kasumigaoka Utaha smoothed her long black hair, her tone calm.

"According to your personality, if you could solve it alone, you definitely wouldn't have come to me to discuss it. Although Umi and the others call us the Private Toyonosaki Academy duo, in the end, you have the most animosity towards me, and I have the most animosity towards you. So, since you came to me to discuss it, it proves that the solution you came up with is something you can't complete alone and must rely on the help of me, the person you hate the most."

"Tch..."