After the celebrity and two authors left.
Only two chefs and one "Wicked Lord Shingan" remained in the shop.
The Wicked Lord Shingan finished her cold mixed noodles and went to watch TV with Kanna.
The two chatted while watching TV.
Kanna asked her: "Are you still going to school now?"
"Not now." Rikka shook her head while watching TV.
"Why?" Kanna thought you had to go to school every day.
"Because it's summer vacation." Rikka answered.
"What's summer vacation?"
"Summer vacation is a holiday when you don't have to go to school. When you do go to school, you get 2 days off each weekend, plus holidays and such - that's the happiest time."
"Oh, do you like going to school?"
"Hmm..." Rikka thought carefully: "I guess I like it."
"Why?" Kanna asked again.
"Because there are classmates and friends. At home, there aren't really any friends."
"Oh~~~" Kanna indicated she understood.
The two continued chatting while watching TV.
Hayashi looked over, very satisfied.
Being idle and bored.
Hayashi looked at the empty lemon tea cup in his hand.
"Getting a bit tired of this. How about making some milk tea?"
Said and done.
What he wanted to make wasn't powdered milk tea.
But milk tea with brewed tea soup!
The original, authentic flavor!
At the bar counter.
The two chefs were also discussing culinary arts and cuisine.
From various dishes to various culinary styles.
From seasonings to ingredients.
They chatted about everything.
Later they talked about when they first started cooking.
Speaking of this.
Touka said nostalgically: "My original dream wasn't to be a chef."
"What was it?" Erina was very curious: "Since I was little, my father desperately cultivated me, making me try endless ingredients every day. It was truly a hellish life."
"My original dream was gymnastics." Touka answered seriously: "When I was little, I dreamed of being a gymnast."
"!?" Erina was very surprised: "Actually gymnastics! Do you still want to now?"
"Not anymore." Touka shook her head: "Now culinary arts are more important. Gymnastics is more of a hobby, for maintaining my figure and such."
"Thinking about it now, if I had persisted with gymnastics back then, it might not have been as good as now - I wouldn't be able to let Rikka come to Tokyo to study safely."
Even if you became famous in gymnastics, it was hard to make money.
But as a chef of her level, and a head chef at that, the income was very high.
Higher than high-income families.
Not to mention in Japan's class-rigid society where wages were discussed by seniority.
That was quite high.
"Dreams also need to be cultivated. If not cultivated, they'll gradually be forgotten."
Erina nodded in agreement after hearing this.
But she suddenly thought of something and immediately said: "Then when you're free, how about teaching me gymnastics? I've been eating too much cuisine lately and feel like I'm getting fat."
Erina touched her stomach, very troubled.
"Getting fat..." This statement also silenced Touka.
She reached out to pinch her belly. Though there wasn't much fat, she felt quite a sense of crisis.
The two looked at each other.
Simultaneously realizing whose fault it was that their stomachs had grown.
So they both looked toward Hayashi who was making milk tea at the bar counter.
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Hayashi noticed the two gazes and immediately understood.
He looked at them puzzledly: "What's wrong? I'm making milk tea."
Hearing about milk tea.
The two who were originally "glaring" immediately widened their eyes.
"What kind of milk tea?"
"What flavor milk tea?"
Though their words were different, they meant the same thing.
What flavor?
As for whether it would taste good - with Hayashi making it, of course it would be delicious!
Hayashi had been brewing tea bags in the kitchen earlier.
Now the milk, ingredients, and ice were ready.
He turned and said: "I'll go get it from the kitchen. It's ready."
Hayashi went to the kitchen.
Then brought out a large pot of tea soup.
The tea soup had a very rich aroma with a faint green tea scent and elegant flavor.
Erina had a keen nose.
She sniffed lightly and immediately said: "Tea soup brewed with jasmine and green tea!"
"Yes." Hayashi nodded.
Toka thought for a moment: "If it's tea leaves, then it's English black tea?"
With tea leaves and added milk.
Generally this drinking method was English-style milk tea.
A drinking style popular since WWI that many people still drank today.
But this wasn't English milk tea.
Hayashi shook his head: "My milk tea could be called fresh milk tea. You'll know once you drink it~"
"By the way, where's Tohru? Come over to drink milk tea, call Kanna and the others too."
Hearing Hayashi's call.
Tohru poked her head out from the second floor: "Okay."
At the bar counter.
Under everyone's gaze.
Hayashi began mixing the milk tea.
He brought over those large beer glass mugs.
Hayashi began adding his homemade ingredients.
"25ml condensed milk, 25ml syrup, 100ml milk, 250ml jasmine green tea, 500ml water."
After adding everything, Hayashi took a spoon and added vibration ability.
Began thoroughly mixing.
After just a few seconds.
A cup of fresh milk tea was ready.
Hayashi first brought out several small cups, poured 150ml for each person and said.
"I call this Boya Jueqian Milk Tea. Try the flavor first, then I can mix the rest all at once."
At the bar counter.
Hayashi was inside.
Outside from left to right.
Were Tohru, Erina, Toka, Rikka, and Kanna respectively.
Each held a cup.
All filled with fresh milk tea.
Under Hayashi's gaze.
Everyone simultaneously drank this cup of iced milk tea.
"Mmm~~~"
"Hah..."
"???"
For a moment, all sorts of strange sounds were everywhere.
Hayashi couldn't even tell who was who at first.
But their expressions were basically the same.
All squinting their eyes, tilting their heads back, slowly savoring.
After a while.
Toka was the first to react, praising: "The taste is very rich, with a tea leaf fragrance and milk tea richness. These two flavors can actually pair so well together."
Erina let out a long breath: "Very different from other milk teas. This one has less greasiness and more elegance. Like Toka said, the taste is more refreshing and mellow, suitable for most people to drink."
The others.
All said: "Delicious!"
Tohru opened her eyes with just one sentence: "Another cup!"
In the end.
The iced fresh milk tea received rave reviews!
"Then this ratio it is." Hayashi nodded definitively: "I'll mix it like this, everyone gets a big cup later, my treat!"
Clap clap clap clap~~~
Though it wasn't much money, or rather nothing at all, Toka, Rikka, Erina and the others still applauded.
Under their gaze.
Hayashi began making iced fresh milk tea in large batches.
Directly mixing bucket by bucket.
He first mixed one bucket, then poured everyone a large cup.
"Here, drink up."
Everyone started drinking.
Kanna even downed half a cup in one go - several hundred milliliters.
Touka and Erina also took big sips.
Then tasting the flavor in their mouths, they realized.
This milk tea...
Wasn't it also a fattening drink?
"We're doomed!"
The two looked at each other, both with bitter smiles.
At first, they only thought about how good it tasted and wanted to drink, forgetting the reason they were "glaring" at Hayashi.
They were both going to get fat!
"Need to start practicing gymnastics quickly." Touka made up her mind.
"Yes yes!" Erina strongly agreed: "Let's exchange contact info. If we're free tomorrow we can meet up, and when free we can come to the shop together."
Touka agreed: "Okay."
The two exchanged contact information.
Just like that.
Everyone drank milk tea, chatted, and watched TV.
Time unknowingly reached 10 PM.
Touka and Erina looked at the time.
Both exclaimed and stood up.
"It's so late, we need to go."
"Me too."
Everyone paid their bills and left the restaurant together.
Hayashi saw them off to the door.
Erina, Toka, and Rikka waved: "Come again when free."
Hayashi nodded: "Be careful on the way."
Rikka waved: "The Wicked Lord Shingan will return!"
Hayashi couldn't help but laugh.
Toka gave her a hand chop.
Kanna also responded from the side: "Waiting for your return."
After seeing the three off.
Hayashi returned to the restaurant.
Tohru began cleaning up the food waste left by customers.
Mainly restoring cleanliness.
After 10 PM.
Generally the busiest time of the day had passed.
There wouldn't be many more customers afterward.
Kanna leaned on the sofa, getting drowsier as she watched, finally falling asleep in a daze.
11 PM.
Tohru carried Kanna to the bedroom.
Then came down to cuddle with Hayashi.
Hayashi read books while she lay across his lap, playing with her phone.
But Tohru suddenly reacted after seeing something.
Midnight.
That is, zero o'clock.
Hayashi continued reading while Tohru began writing her diary.
Diary page one.
[July 7th: Today is the folk Qixi Festival, Tohru just learned this.]
[So today, on the first page of the diary, I'll only write five sentences.]
[Love Hayashi the most!]
[Love Hayashi the most!]
[Love Hayashi the most!]
After writing the diary.
Tohru snapped it shut, blushing as she secretly glanced at Hayashi.
Then flipped the diary to the last page.
Started writing a short story from the back.
[Night Raid Operation!]
[That night, I xxx, Hayashi-san xxx, we xxx, then xxx...]
Tohru wrote happily, completely immersed.
Writing while bobbing her head, her whole tail swishing back and forth.
Hayashi on the sofa looked strangely at Tohru writing her diary at the desk.
"Writing a diary can be this exciting?"
What proper person writes diaries?
What Tohru was writing should also be proper... right?
Hayashi closed his book and stretched.
"Woof woof~~~"
At this time.
Pochita ran in from the back yard, calling out to Hayashi.
"Woof~" (The sunflowers are calling you.)
"Hmm?" Hayashi stood up: "I'll go see."
What did the sunflowers want him for?
Hayashi came to the back yard, opened the door, and received the meaning and emotions conveyed by the sunflowers through magic.
Two sunflowers meant: tomorrow, rain, heavy rain.
Simply put, there would be heavy rain tomorrow.
Another sunflower indicated: tomorrow, earthquake, magnitude 5.
"You can sense earthquakes too?" Hayashi exclaimed.
The sunflower nodded its flower head.
Indicating it sensed through its root system.
They had roots that extended very deep to detect underground and surrounding potential environmental changes.
"Heavy rain + magnitude 5 earthquake."
Hayashi shook his head helplessly: "That's fine, magnitude 5 isn't serious, just shake a bit and it passes."
For Japan, magnitude 5 really wasn't big.
Here magnitude 3 was constant, and magnitude 5 would just cause doors, windows, and roofs to tremble and shake, with decorations in homes possibly falling.
Moreover, Japan frequently had small earthquakes, so it was abnormal that Hayashi hadn't felt any these days.
"But tomorrow there definitely won't be much business. Actually no, I don't have many regular customers anyway."
After learning the news, Hayashi encouraged the three sunflowers and watered them with magical water.
But if he remembered correctly.
Tomorrow seemed to be when Takatsuki Sen's Aogiri Tree would act.
Heavy rain + earthquake.
Attacking at this timing was too perfect.
Simply the right time, place, and people.
"What's wrong, Hayashi-san?"
At this time, Tohru finished writing her short story and came out puzzledly.
"Heavy rain tomorrow, plus a small earthquake." Hayashi explained briefly.
"Is that so?"
Tohru extended her hand, then stuck out her tongue to lick the air and sniffed.
And then nodded: "Indeed, there will be heavy rain."
"Huh?" Hayashi was stunned: "You can taste humidity too?"
"Of course!" Tohru gave herself a thumbs up: "Actually, Erina-san's God Tongue is just a basic ability for us dragon folk."
"And I can also taste emotions, magic, and environmental flavors, but it has to be quite severe, otherwise I need to use perception magic."
After hearing Tohru finish.
So this was the dragon race's racial talent? Hayashi couldn't help but sigh.
Erina's God Tongue.
Dragons were born with it.
"Amazing." Hayashi admired.
"Then Hayashi-san needs to practice transformation magic more too." Tohru urged Hayashi: "Once ordinary transformation magic reaches master level, you can start learning dragon transformation magic."
"Master level? Such high requirements?"
"Of course, transforming into dragons! Just knowing how isn't enough, you need many dragon companion items to learn it."
"Exaggerated, but I'm a genius."
"Mm mm, Tohru believes so, otherwise ordinary people could never learn it in their lifetime."
"True."
Master-level ordinary transformation magic was the qualification to learn dragon transformation magic.
Above master was god-level.
Even druids, most would be stuck at master level unable to advance.
Low-level druids could only transform into ordinary creatures like rabbits, mice, bats, owls.
High-level druids could transform into bears, tree spirits and such.
Master druids could transform into some mixed-blood sub-dragons.
Thinking of this, Hayashi was a bit curious.
"Tohru, how many people have learned dragon transformation magic and successfully transformed into dragons?"
"Hmm..." Tohru counted on her fingers and named a few people: "That I know of, 2!"
"Oh wait, it's 1. The other is a remnant dragon who learned without companion items, so has no dragon majesty or dragon soul."
Without companion items for learning and absorption, you could only be a remnant dragon?
No wonder it was hard to learn - who could steal things from dragons?
"Alright, I understand." Hayashi nodded.
He could try learning transformation magic later.
Just like that.
Until 2 AM.
When the time came: "Closing time, check in!"
The midnight diner's doors closed.
[Ding~, check-in successful, obtained: Myriad Realms Food Lottery x1]
Hayashi first let Tohru go up and prepare the bed.
Tohru immediately had hearts in her eyes and bounced off to make the bed.
Hayashi thought to himself.
"Let's draw all the saved ones, consecutive draws."
[Drawing lottery...]
[Obtained: Zaszak's Breach]
[Obtained: Crimson Seal Tree Monster]
[Obtained: Primitive Gourmet Cells]
[Obtained: Brutal Jaw Dragon Meat x100 pounds]
[Obtained: Ant-Cow Canned Food x100 cans]
[...]
After a series of draws, the others were all ingredients, processed products, ingredient-like items, etc.
But three were very useful rewards.
As for the bottom two.
Dragon meat could definitely be eaten.
But ant-cow canned food... that was hard to say...
"Forget it, let's look at the useful things first."
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