Tohru was still waiting for Hayashi upstairs.
So he didn't waste time and directly began looking at the detailed descriptions.
[Zaszak's Breach: Increases Health: 200, Base Health Regeneration: 75%, Base Mana Regeneration: 75%, Daily: 1 Gold Coin.]
[Active: Place an invisible scouting ward to provide vision, maximum 3, recovers 1 charge daily.]
"???"
Hayashi's first reaction after reading: "Isn't this a game equipment? Counts as food?"
You could say plants count as food - eating tree bark was certainly possible.
But could this also count as food?
"Let me see where you're like food."
Hayashi took it out to look.
"Uh..."
In Hayashi's palm was a purple cyst-like thing resembling a fish bladder.
Around the fish bladder were some small sharp claws.
It looked about palm-sized.
But overall, it looked truly bizarre and unnatural.
"This should be a void creature from Runeterra."
"Zaszak's Breach - who is Zaszak? Is this a mouth part or an evolved organism?"
Hayashi looked at the detailed description again.
Found that the most important thing wasn't the item itself.
But the effects it brought.
"1 gold coin daily? Real gold? How many grams?"
Hayashi held Zaszak's Breach and shook it in the air.
"Does today count? Hurry up and drop gold coins."
Holding this thing and shaking it for a while, nothing dropped.
The result indicated it needed to be used first before it could start dropping gold coins and placing scouting wards.
"How to use it? Eat it?"
Hayashi held this thing.
Thought about it, crushed it, fried it in a pan with hamburger meat, then sandwiched it with two pieces of vegetables and bread to eat as a burger.
One bite down, immediate devouring!
Hayashi instantly felt his life essence increase a bit!
Well, indeed just a bit...
But the recovery speed of stamina and mana became much faster!
75% health and mana regeneration bonus.
On Hayashi's body, this improvement was quite significant!
If it were on Tohru, it would be unimaginable!
"What about the gold coin?"
"I'm not going to start dropping gold coins myself, am I?"
Of course not.
The next moment, Hayashi found an extra gold coin in his system space.
He took out the gold coin to examine it.
Round, no patterns, very plain, not very thick either.
Weighed it in his hand.
"25 grams." Hayashi was certain.
His hand was like a scale!
Cooking every day, estimating these weights was simple.
Speaking of which, how much was 25 grams worth? Calculating at 600 yuan per gram of gold, 25x600 = 15,000 yuan.
Converting to Japanese yen, that was over 300,000 yen.
Approximately 12,000 yen per gram of gold.
So from now on, doing nothing.
Just relying on daily gold, earning 300,000 yen daily, 110 million annually.
In Tokyo's core area, that equaled one apartment per year.
Hayashi's first thought was: "Can slack off more peacefully now!"
Financial freedom to completely slack off!
Finally could truly run the shop not for money!
Could be uninterested in money from now on!
Hayashi clenched his fist.
Continued looking at the invisible scouting ward.
[Scouting Ward: Place an invisible scouting ward that can help you gain additional vision. Maximum of three can be placed, recovers one daily.]
"So it's like having three extra cameras anywhere."
Hayashi nodded, understanding.
He could see if it could be combined with magic later.
Hayashi directly placed one at home.
Sure enough.
He directly gained vision of the entire house, could even see through walls and wooden boards to view surrounding areas, seeing through walls too.
"That's not bad."
Having it was better than not having it. Used well, this scouting ward could be quite helpful.
"Let's look at the next one."
"Come on, detailed description."
[Crimson Mark Tree Monster: The Fourth Scourge respectfully calls it: Red Buff, but in Runeterra, it's an ancient tree that has fused with living beings. When it lies dormant, it provides positive buffs like vitality and health regeneration to allies in range. When it's angrily defending home or receives your commands, it will attack targets recklessly.]
"Red Buff!"
Hayashi looked in the system space and breathed a sigh of relief - fortunately it wasn't too big.
But it wasn't small either.
The trunk's diameter was nearly over a meter thick.
And the canopy could cover half the midnight diner's roof.
"Then I'll use this to guard the house."
Hayashi looked at the tree's appearance.
Very beautiful!
It was a maple tree style.
This style presented a full bright red or pink-red color, extremely eye-catching. The leaves were diamond-shaped, very distinctive, giving a unique visual feeling - truly one of a kind!
"Plant it in the backyard, and it can even hang swings!"
Earlier he was thinking about how to make swings.
Now the swing support had arrived.
Using Red Buff's branches for swings, and it looked so good - couldn't be better!
"It's too late today, I'll plant this tree tomorrow."
"Next one, detailed description."
In a hurry, Hayashi immediately looked at the next one.
[Primitive Gourmet Cells: Gourmet cells are magical cells that appeared after the birth of the gourmet universe. They have extremely strong growth and adaptability. After complete absorption by a living being, life can evolve infinitely, surpassing limits. Regeneration is just the most basic ability.]
Simply put, super cells?
Could break through human limits and evolve infinitely.
Like some kind of sacred body.
Even if normal people obtained this, they would need transplantation to have this ability.
Hayashi took out the gourmet cells.
"Jellyfish?"
Yes, though the gourmet cells were oval-shaped, they looked like jellyfish.
"Let's make teppanyaki squid then."
Hayashi returned to the kitchen and directly pressed it on the grill, frying it.
Applied oil, sauce, sprinkled seasoning and salt.
"Done!"
Teppanyaki squid was ready.
Hayashi ate it in one bite!
No choice, that was all there was.
One bite down, immediate devouring!
Others needed transplantation, but Hayashi directly devoured and absorbed.
The next moment.
He felt his whole body tingle and heat up, then absorption was complete.
From now on.
His body could continuously evolve and break through limits.
Could even reach Superman's level.
With sufficient growth, fighting dragons bare-handed wouldn't be a problem.
But first he needed to eat lots and lots of high-quality, high-tier cuisine.
Meaning eating powerful creatures.
Like demons, dragons, phoenixes, alien creatures - anything powerful that could be made into cuisine.
"That works." Hayashi nodded satisfactorily: "This way, devouring demons and high-energy foods will give double benefits."
Both gaining abilities and upgrading the body.
Wasn't this a win-win?!
Too suitable for him.
As for the remaining two.
[Brutal Jaw Dragon Meat x100 pounds: Strong sub-dragon meat, eating it heavily supplements nutrition and energy!]
[Ant-Cow Canned Food x10: Before use, note to remove bones, check if drill-meat larvae remain in meat chunks, and cook for at least four days. Use bayonet to pierce to ensure no signs of activation, then consume again.]
[Note: Before opening packaging, please be fully armed to ensure no deadly surprises inside the can.]
[Note: Must be fully cooked, strictly forbidden to eat raw or half-cooked.]
[Note: If parasitic larvae grow inside the can and are discovered upon opening, you and it are destined to have one side as food.]
The 100 pounds could be understood.
Sub-dragon meat - delicious and nutritious, he'd eaten it before.
But this ant-cow canned food...
"Who the hell eats this stuff!"
Hayashi took out a can to look at the packaging.
The packaging was metal with a cutesy logo, and the bottom left corner read: More jaw meat, 20% extra!
Hayashi looked through with x-ray vision.
The meat inside was a bloody whole chunk, almost unprocessed.
Just cut meat and stuffed it in directly.
So the flesh even had body parts from when alive, like tentacles and horns.
"Huh..."
Hayashi shook his head: "This might be the worst can, let me look at the rest."
After looking at one can, then looking at the remaining 9 cans.
Hayashi realized: "Turns out the first one was the best!"
The remaining cans.
Had ones with eyes, ones with organs, ones with parasites...
The tentacles were even moving, eyes looked alive.
"Is this food for humans?"
Hayashi couldn't help but think: "Do Astartes count as human?"
Astartes could probably eat this.
But Astra Militarum who still counted as human would suffer greatly.
After a day on the battlefield, finally surviving the first day, but dinner could kill you at night.
Throwing this near the officer's tent.
Could probably get court-martialed for: throwing dangerous objects, assaulting superior officers.
"Incredible."
Hayashi put away all the cans.
Planned to use them as biological grenades later.
Whoever opened them would be unlucky.
After seeing all rewards, Hayashi stretched and prepared to go upstairs to rest.
Tohru waited a while, seeing no movement from Hayashi.
So wearing a hollow swimsuit, she poked her head out from the second floor stairs asking.
"Hayashi-san?"
"Hiss~~~" Hayashi looked with both heads spinning: "Coming, coming."
He hurried upstairs, hugged Tohru and returned to the bedroom.
Looking at Tohru's clothes.
While his hands didn't stop, Hayashi curiously asked.
"How do you know about these clothes?"
Tohru's face flushed red, mumbling.
"On... online..."
Hayashi: ...
He knew it - the internet was really harmful!!!
Not to mention the industry here in Japan was just like this, such content could be seen easily.
Tohru had been corrupted!
Well, at least she was only bad for him!
Hayashi said nothing, just acted as a dragon rider.
Of course occasionally let the dragon ride too.
The next day, noon.
When Hayashi woke up, Tohru had gone back to sleep after finishing last night.
He stretched in bed.
But all he heard was "patter patter patter~~~" of falling rain.
Hayashi crawled to the bedside, pulled open the curtains to look.
Outside it was raining moderately.
Tokyo's sky above was gloomy, filled with dim atmosphere.
Dark clouds formed patches, barely any sun visible.
Rainwater crashed down heavily, not just falling.
They smashed against glass, ground, rooftops, cars, trees, making continuous pattering sounds.
Looked quite chaotic.
But closing eyes to listen was actually very nice.
"White noise, quite comfortable."
Hayashi lay in bed a while longer, dozed for half an hour.
Half an hour later.
"Hayashi-san?" Tohru questioningly opened the door slightly to peek.
Hayashi got up late today, she suspected if last night was too intense and Hayashi was too tired.
But it shouldn't be like that - after all she was a dragon, at most lost consciousness briefly then recovered.
And Hayashi's body was very good with super high endurance, not that tired either. They stopped only when time was up.
Tohru secretly opened the door to look.
Hayashi had just woken up and was looking at the rainy weather outside.
"Tohru?" Hayashi saw Tohru, sat up, and the blanket slid down from his upper body: "Hungry?"
Tohru looked at Hayashi's upper body with slightly obsessed eyes.
Hayashi's strong and well-built upper body muscles weren't those big bulky blocks, but beautiful streamlined ones, with every muscle part just right.
Arms, chest muscles, abs, shark muscles, latissimus dorsi...
Together outlining angular body parts.
But this scene didn't stay in Tohru's eyes for long.
It was covered when Hayashi put on his shirt.
"Ah~~~" Tohru made a regretful sound.
"What are you 'ah-ing' about?" Hayashi helplessly put on his clothes: "Are we eating breakfast or not?"
"Eating!" Tohru gave a sincere answer.
But also said quietly: "Actually we could eat later... or eat me first..."
Hayashi made breakfast in the afternoon.
And today there was no sun, so Tohru had no clothes or bedding to dry.
Could only clean the rooms, then followed Hayashi downstairs.
In the restaurant.
Pochita lay by the door, not in the yard.
The cat curled up in front of Pochita, using itself as a cushion, letting Pochita's chin rest on its body.
Really a nice picture.
Seeing Hayashi get up.
Pochita immediately stood and followed Hayashi for a while.
So the cat also got up and followed.
The restaurant became Hayashi walking in front, with one dog and one cat following back and forth.
Hayashi first went to the back yard.
He looked at the three sunflowers and asked.
"Is the rain okay? Can you handle the coming heavy rain? Should I build a shelter?"
The three sunflowers swayed their flower heads together, indicating no need.
Even if it hailed, they could ignore it.
And they needed to feel natural atmosphere anyway.
This atmosphere would help them grow better.
"Alright then, you can get rained on. Call me if you need anything."
The three sunflowers nodded.
And told Hayashi more detailed rain information.
"It'll stop for an hour in the afternoon, then heavy rain?"
The three sunflowers nodded.
"Okay, I understand."
Stopping for an hour at noon was perfect for planting the tree.
Red buff was also strong - a little heavy rain wouldn't matter, plus there were blood packages below, so no big problem.
Turning back to the kitchen.
Hayashi began making breakfast and decided on golden fried rice.
Changing flavors every few days, occasionally switching back.
Golden fried rice hadn't been eaten for several days - so nostalgic!
Hayashi happily fried the rice.
"Pickled vegetables, beef, and some sausage..."
Today he added some more ingredients.
After finishing cooking.
Hayashi called: "Tohru!"
"Coming~"
Tohru entered the kitchen, smelled it, and suddenly asked.
"For this morning's drink, can we have last night's milk tea?"
"Sure."
"Great~"
Clearly hadn't drunk enough last night.
Tohru carried out the fried rice, while Hayashi took out the iced fresh milk tea he'd made in one go last night, added some ice cubes, and carried it out.
At the dining table.
Everyone ate fried rice and drank milk tea, quite happily.
Then: "Knock knock~"
The door was knocked twice.
Everyone turned to see it was Kamishiro Rize.
She had just moved her rain umbrella away, leaning it against the door entrance.
As Hayashi let her in, he said helplessly: "Every time I see you it's raining, I thought you were injured again."
Kamishiro Rize brushed her hair, her mature body showing bright atmosphere.
She opened her light purple eyes to look at Hayashi.
"I've become much stronger since I first met you, and I'm still improving constantly, but that's nothing worth mentioning."
"Is there any extra rice? I've been hungry for several days."
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