Excalibur, Black Sword Clarifier, White Sword Shadow Chaser, Void Blade, Ryujin Jakka, Bloodthirster, Tenseiga, Senbonzakura, Demon Blade Murasame, Nichirin Sword...
Hayashi transformed all the famous weapons he could remember.
The dazzling array was captivating and irresistible.
But the problem was...
"The attack power is all the same."
Hayashi swung the weapons and cut some things, discovering the sharpness was identical.
No matter how the appearance changed, they were actually the same.
Of course.
Longer weapons definitely had greater range - that was certain.
But it really depended on the weapon most suitable for you.
So Hayashi thought about it.
Finally, he created a Demon Blade Thousand Cuts.
Yes.
Demon Blade Thousand Cuts.
This blade was somewhat like Riven's broken sword from LoL - it could be assembled.
In anime, it was a demon blade.
The fragments could be freely controlled, soaring through heaven and earth while remaining incredibly sharp.
But what he created now.
Was just fragments on the ground, completely useless.
"But I have a method."
Hayashi looked at these fragments and moved his fingers.
Invisible threads began weaving and combining.
They drilled in from the bottom of the Demon Blade Thousand Cuts, then starting from the handle, connected piece by piece of sword fragments until the blade tip.
After all fragments were connected.
The invisible threads began contracting.
In a state invisible to the naked eye, the blade fragments began automatically combining, precisely fitting together.
Finally, the pseudo Demon Blade Thousand Cuts was born!
No, it could even be called: Hayashi's Demon Blade Thousand Cuts!
Because this was a demon blade that belonged uniquely to Hayashi!
Not only could it fragment and fly through heaven and earth to stab enemies like the original Demon Blade Thousand Cuts!
Now it had something more.
Between fragments, there were invisible String-String Fruit threads.
Wherever it passed, it cut through countless things!
Larger damage area, more unpredictable behavioral trajectories!
Hayashi held his Demon Blade Thousand Cuts.
In its complete state, he swung it in the kitchen.
Cutting sounds came from the air.
"Hayashi-san? You're back?"
Tohru heard the sound and poked her head out at the kitchen doorway.
Seeing Hayashi holding a purple blade.
Tohru exclaimed.
"Such a beautiful blade! What kind of blade is it?"
"It's called Demon Blade Thousand Cuts." Hayashi reached out to stroke the blade.
"Demon blade, thousand cuts?" Tohru was puzzled: "Why is it called thousand cuts? Does it slash 1000 times at once?"
"..." You think this is Phantom Sword Dance?
Though that didn't seem impossible either.
Hayashi shook his head: "Not like that. Let me demonstrate."
After speaking, he took out an apple.
Apples, as fruit.
If there was nothing else to eat, they generally wouldn't eat them.
He took the apple to the back yard.
Then under Tohru's gaze, directly threw it into the air.
During the apple's airborne process.
Hayashi gripped the handle.
Suddenly drew!
Drawing slash!
But with this draw, the blade shattered completely in the air!
Various fragments scattered in all directions, flying toward the sky!
"!?"
Tohru was dumbfounded.
She thought Hayashi had broken the blade by drawing it!
Like it directly shattered from being drawn!
But obviously not.
These fragments flying toward the airborne apple didn't hit it directly, but flew past from the sides!
Dozens of fragments flashed in the air!
Under the sword light and blade shadows!
The fragments suddenly returned, gathering above Hayashi's handle!
Finally returning to the original complete state!
"Done."
Hayashi said softly.
The apple in the air also cracked with a snap.
Then became countless tiny pieces, scattering to the ground.
Tohru: !?
Looking at the apple's condition of being cut into thousands of pieces.
Tohru shuddered twice.
She now understood - this was Hayashi's fusion of threads + techniques!
"Self-created sword technique!" Tohru shouted excitedly.
"Self-created sword technique?" Hayashi thought: "That's true."
Tohru began explaining: "Hayashi-san, in our other world, there are also many knights with pinnacle swordsmanship who create their own techniques and become legends!"
"These sword and blade techniques become the core inheritance of their entire families, very important things. Hayashi-san has also achieved this!"
Hearing this, Hayashi knew others couldn't learn his sword technique.
Because this was developed by fusing String-String Fruit abilities.
Without the String-String Fruit, it simply couldn't be done.
Even using other threads to fuse.
They couldn't achieve this level of sharpness and toughness.
So this counted as a supreme technique.
A supreme technique with severed inheritance.
"Hayashi-san."
At this moment, Tohru, who had just finished speaking, pulled out a pile of books.
She pointed to them one by one and explained.
"This is Stoneheart Sword Technique."
"This is Windslash Sword Technique."
"This is Forge Sword Technique."
"This is..."
What Tohru pulled out were actually all various sword techniques.
Finally she said: "Hayashi-san can reference the experience. Maybe even better sword techniques will emerge. After reading, just keep them in the shop."
Of course.
Compared to sword techniques.
Hayashi was more curious about: "You didn't get all these things from robbing in another world, did you?"
Tohru's father was the End Emperor of the chaos faction.
Could it be my Tohru was also a bad woman before?
"No!"
Tohru crossed her hands, making an "X" gesture.
"These were all things I picked up, traded for, got from quests, or dropped by enemies I killed while traveling the continent. I never robbed strangers."
Kanna was also someone Tohru met while traveling the continent.
Hayashi nodded.
"Alright, I'll take a look when I have time."
"Mm!"
Hayashi put these books away for now.
Then checked the time.
Found it was almost 6 o'clock.
"Open up, open up. Time to operate, Tohru."
"Okay~"
Tohru went to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, already waiting outside the yard were Nakiri Erina and Reze.
Plus several people from Anteiku.
"Welcome." After Tohru greeted them, she turned and went back.
Reze and the Anteiku people entered.
Only Nakiri Erina still looked confused.
Watching everyone go in.
She even stepped back a few steps and looked at the sign.
"It matches, that's right."
She looked at the alley entrance again, even took out her phone to check the location.
"Everything's correct, but..."
But where did all the people queuing for three days go!?
Why was there no one today!?
Where were they!?
Could it be that the past few days were all temporary actors hired by the shop owner?
Impossible!!!
The moment this actor idea emerged.
Erina herself shot it down at light speed.
A shop owner who could make such cuisine.
Why would he hire actors?
If more people ate this, ordinary people probably wouldn't have a chance to try it in their lifetime.
The shop owner would definitely be patronized by high officials and nobles.
Only cooking for them from then on.
So how could he hire actors?
"Let's eat first."
Erina rubbed her eyes and took out her phone to check her hairstyle, makeup, and clothes.
After confirming everything was fine, she entered the restaurant.
The restaurant now had over a dozen people in total.
Division 4 hadn't left yet.
At least they had to order a meal before leaving.
In the restaurant.
Everyone took their seats.
Nakiri Erina looked around.
Finally saw Hayashi at the bar counter, making refreshing hand-beaten lemon tea.
In Erina's eyes.
Hayashi wore a short-sleeved T-shirt, making drinks.
Each time he used the wooden stick to beat the lemon tea, the slightly raised muscle lines on his arms were so attractive.
The messy hair on his head bounced with each movement.
Occasionally revealing his forehead and elegant eyebrows.
Hayashi, who was making lemon tea, sensed Erina's gaze and smiled slightly at her.
"Mmm~"
Erina immediately blushed, came to her senses, and waved to indicate she wanted to order.
Hayashi glanced at Tohru, who was taking Power's order.
So he had to go himself.
"Coming."
He put down the wooden stick and wiped his fingers with a towel.
His slender, strong fingers with perfectly proportioned joints made his entire palm extremely well-balanced, like a hand model's hands.
Erina watched the palm being wiped.
Her mind automatically conjured images of this palm cooking.
Fingers pressing on tender white vegetables, holding them firmly, no matter how the cabbage struggled it was useless, a big knife inserting into the vegetables, moving back and forth, finally withdrawing, the vegetables motionless...
When Hayashi arrived in front of her.
His gentle voice asked: "What would you like to eat, customer?"
Only then did Erina snap back to reality, blushing slightly as she said.
"I've eaten too much these past few days. Something light this time, can't gain weight."
"So tea-soaked Spanish mackerel rice balls, and one of your hand-beaten lemon tea drinks, thank you."
This didn't need to be written down.
Hayashi nodded: "Alright, coming right up."
He turned and walked away.
Seeing this, Erina panicked - they'd barely talked.
"Ah..." But halfway through calling out, she didn't know what to talk about.
"?" Hayashi looked back puzzledly.
Erina was a bit shy - this was her first time actively approaching a man.
After hesitating for a long time, she said: "I'm just... the person who told you on the app during the day that I'd come again this afternoon."
"Oh~~~"
Hayashi pretended to understand.
"Nakiri Erina, right?"
"Yes!"
"I heard you're Totsuki's pearl. I know. We can exchange ideas later."
"Oh... pearl and such, they all... eh!?"
Erina hadn't finished speaking.
After Hayashi said they could exchange ideas later, he left.
Looking at Hayashi's back.
This was Erina's first time encountering such a man.
Both embarrassed and excited.
At Totsuki.
Whether chefs or anyone else, didn't they all rack their brains to flatter her?
Even if she didn't want it, there was no choice.
Because she had the God Tongue.
One comment from her could decide a restaurant's life or death, even a chef's life trajectory.
So those people had no choice but to flatter her!
But now it was completely different.
A chef from another system.
Completely indifferent to her.
It was a complete dimensional crushing!
This feeling...
So exciting!
In the kitchen.
Hayashi first finished making the remaining lemon tea at the bar counter.
Then began making Erina's tea-soaked Spanish mackerel rice balls.
Spanish mackerel, pronunciation: spring fish.
Carnivorous fish, fierce in nature, feeds on small fish.
Slender and laterally compressed body, silver-gray with some reflection, small scales, few bones.
All carnivorous fish have one characteristic.
That is, the meat is extremely fresh, tender and chewy, with a firm texture and rich nutrition.
Everyone says it's good after eating it.
Hayashi didn't have this type of fish on hand.
So he bought it from the system at a low cost price, then began making it for Erina.
The fish meat was sliced into pieces.
Added a little to the tea-soaked soup to enrich the flavor.
Also added to the rice balls, still to enrich the flavor.
Fish meat is high in protein and doesn't easily make you gain weight.
That's why Erina ordered this dish.
After a while.
The tea-soaked Spanish mackerel rice balls were ready.
"Tohru."
"Coming~"
After Tohru entered, Hayashi handed her the dish.
"For table one, along with the lemon tea. Tell her to finish eating first before talking. Give me all the other menu orders."
"Okay~"
Tohru gave Hayashi the menu orders from Power's table and Anteiku's table.
Then carried out Erina's order.
When it was placed on Erina's table.
Erina looked up and saw it was the waitress, feeling a bit disappointed it wasn't Hayashi.
But then she understood - he was the shop owner and head chef.
How could he personally serve dishes?
This wasn't a Totsuki restaurant.
Erina, you need to put away your attitude from Totsuki!
Erina smiled slightly: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Tohru conveyed Hayashi's message to her, then left.
Finish eating first before talking.
Erina looked at the food in front of her.
And nodded with relief.
How could a chef disappoint delicious food?
Everything and all emotions should begin after enjoying the cuisine!
Erina took a sip of soup.
Enjoyably pressing her legs slightly together, rubbing.
Then gently bit into the rice ball.
"Mmm~!"
It was clearly just a rice ball.
Why was it so delicious?
So good!
Erina ate the rice ball in small bites, her eyes squinting happily, cheeks puffed like a hamster.
Her legs also bounced up and down.
Obviously enjoying it immensely!
After a while.
Power's table and Anteiku's table also got their food.
Everyone went "Oh~!"
Hurriedly grabbed chopsticks and started eating!
Not a moment's hesitation toward the delicious food.
Just wanting to quickly get it all in their stomachs!
Everyone ate happily.
Hayashi came out of the kitchen, bringing an apple.
This was the apple he'd cut up during the experiment earlier - he'd restored it with magic.
Now bringing it out.
He created a butterfly knife.
Sat in the chair behind the bar counter.
Left hand holding the apple, the butterfly knife in his right hand dancing gracefully between his fingers, absolutely beautiful.
Kanna was originally watching TV.
But hearing Hayashi come out, she glanced over and never looked away again.
She got up and ran over to Hayashi's side with little steps.
"Ooh~!"
Kanna's eyes were full of stars, watching the butterfly knife dance, showing extremely interested eyes.
"Snap~"
Hayashi flicked and closed the knife, blade facing up: "Pretty?"
"Pretty!" Kanna nodded vigorously.
"Just technique, very simple."
"Can Kanna learn it!?"
"Uh..."
Hayashi looked at Kanna's small hands.
Her hand placed in his might not even be a quarter the size of his.
How could these little fingers handle a butterfly knife?
"Do the hand gestures with me, let me see."
Hayashi made several finger opening, closing, staggered, and rotating gestures.
Kanna struggled to learn them, barely managing to do them.
"Seems possible?"
"How about making a small butterfly knife to try?"
Hayashi reached out and made an unsharpened wooden knife, the smallest size, and handed it to Kanna.
"You can start learning with this. I'll teach you a few basic moves. Learn these first."
"Okay!"
Hayashi taught Kanna several three-move combinations.
Kanna really was a genius.
She memorized them at a glance.
But... couldn't execute them.
Her brain remembered, but her fingers were the weak point.
"Can't do it..." Kanna was speechless.
Hayashi laughed and rubbed her head: "Practice first. You only know if it works after trying. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work."
"Mm!" So she practiced on the side.
Hayashi began peeling the apple with the butterfly knife.
The apple spun on the knife tip.
The peel fell in spirals like a spinning top.
Hayashi was peeling blind, his head reading a book.
But as he peeled, something felt wrong.
Why was there no sound of peel hitting the ground?
Hayashi looked down.
Kanna was below with her head tilted and mouth wide open, catching all the peel in her mouth.
"..." Hayashi had finished peeling: "Kanna, what are you doing?"
Kanna finished catching the peel and stood up chewing.
"Sour and sweet, delicious."
"I have the good part here. Don't eat the peel next time."
"Okay." Kanna stared at the apple in Hayashi's hand.
So Hayashi cut a small piece and flicked the flesh out.
"Nom~!" Kanna caught it in the air.
Hayashi ate a piece himself.
Then cut and flicked out another piece for the ready Kanna.
"Nom~!" Kanna caught it again.
So the two took turns, finishing the apple between them.
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