Although they hadn't known each other long, Kasumigaoka Utaha understood Kawashima Toya to some extent.
Whatever Toya did, there was a reason for it; he certainly wasn't a homicidal maniac.
"Check the surveillance footage yourself later." Toya felt mentally exhausted and didn't want to explain too much.
Handling that garbage collector just now had cost him a full 100 Source Points.
If he had known it would be this troublesome, he would have just thrown Jashin-chan into the sea.
If he had thrown her into the sea, no one would have known, and he wouldn't have had to spend 100 Source Points.
Ten minutes later, Utaha and the sensible Kasugano Sora, who volunteered to help, finished cleaning the agency lobby.
Utaha couldn't wait to check the surveillance footage, and soon she understood the whole story.
"So that's what happened."
"A devil came knocking."
Through the surveillance equipment, she realized how powerful Jashin-chan was.
Although she looked goofy, her strength was definitely formidable.
Confirming that Toya hadn't done anything illegal, Utaha breathed a sigh of relief, but then started worrying again.
"Kawashima, will so much blood cause a misunderstanding?"
"It doesn't matter. All the trouble has been resolved." Toya said helplessly, "I'm hungry."
Hearing that it was time to cook, Utaha revealed a confident smile. "Kawashima, just you wait!"
"My cooking will definitely surprise you!"
Five minutes later, Toya stared silently at the thick black smoke billowing from the kitchen.
"If you can't cook, just say so. Do you think watching a few gourmet shows counts as knowing how to cook?"
Expressionless, Toya walked into the kitchen and dragged out Utaha, who was coughing non-stop from inhaling too much smoke. "Great job. Not only did you waste ingredients, but you almost choked yourself to death in there."
"If I hadn't come to save you, wouldn't you have known to run out?"
He was thoroughly impressed. If Utaha couldn't cook, why did she have to force it?
"..." Utaha's exquisite features flushed red with embarrassment. She lowered her voice. "Sorry."
Only after cooking for the first time did she realize that even following a recipe could lead to such a terrifying mistake.
"I'll do it myself." Toya waved his hand weakly, deciding to make lunch himself.
Before long, a hearty lunch was served dish by dish.
Seeing the dazzling array of food, Utaha's exquisite face turned even redder.
She had really humiliated herself this time, even nearly knocking herself out in the kitchen.
"Sister Utaha is so clumsy!" Sora looked at the delicious food on the table and teased.
"Eat." Toya said gently. "No talking while eating."
Utaha held her rice bowl, feeling increasingly ashamed.
No, I must learn to cook properly so that Kawashima and Sora will see me in a whole new light!
At this moment, she silently made up her mind to become a master chef.
Big Brother is simply omnipotent! Sora thought admiringly.
However, in her future learning career, Utaha would always find various ways to turn the kitchen into a disaster zone.
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After lunch, Toya took a lounge chair to the courtyard of the Trash Fox Agency and lazily sunbathed.
This scene made Utaha frown endlessly.
"Kawashima, you're so young. How can you act like a retired old man every day?"
"How do you adapt to this kind of life?"
God knows, whenever Toya had nothing to do, he would find a place to lie down like a retiree.
This image was extremely inconsistent with Toya, who looked like a teenager.
Toya turned his head lazily. "It's not that I want to do this, but there's nothing else to do."
"As for resting, it's great."
Train to become stronger? Currently, this world was strictly speaking still an ordinary slice-of-life world.
Even though evil spirits had appeared in the human world and Evil God Minions existed, they hadn't affected the surface daily life.
Lacking certain necessary substances, such as spiritual energy, training here for a year would at best make him slightly stronger than an average adult.
Rather than wasting time training here, it was better to cultivate his spirit and reserve enough energy to go to the Land of Shadows.
Accepting Shishou Scáthach's training in the Land of Shadows was much faster than training in this world.
"Stop lazing around. Let's go shopping!" Utaha suddenly realized what she had said, and an unnatural look appeared on her beautiful face. "I mean, we should go buy clothes for Sora."
"When you abducted Sora, you didn't prepare any clothes for her at all."
Smart and quick-witted as she was, she quickly found a way to change the topic.
"That's true! Sora doesn't have clothes." Toya thought for a moment and said, "Let's go. We'll take Sora to buy clothes!"
As a boy who didn't like shopping, he could get by with just a few sets of clothes, but Sora couldn't.
If Sora changed into new clothes and dressed up like a little princess...
His eyes would light up, and his mood would improve significantly.
No sooner said than done. Toya waved to Sora, who was playing with a stuffed black rabbit doll. "Sora, let's go shopping!"
"Shopping?"
"Okay!!"
A look of reluctance appeared on Sora's exquisite little face, but thinking about shopping with Toya, she immediately became happy.
Utaha watched Sora skipping over to hold Toya's hand and pouted. "Hmph, do you like Kawashima that much?"
"I invited you too, but you didn't want to go."
"But when Kawashima invites you, you don't hesitate at all?"
" Blatant favoritism!"
Hearing Utaha's muttering, a brilliant smile appeared on Toya's handsome face. "Who asked you not to have my charm, Utaha?"
"Sora rejected your shopping trip but agreed to mine immediately!"
"That's why I said it's blatant favoritism." Utaha was filled with jealousy.
She treated Sora very well, but unfortunately, she still couldn't compare to Toya's status in Sora's heart.
Holding Toya's hand, Sora felt a little guilty.
But thinking about how boring shopping was, and that it would only be interesting with Big Brother Kawashima, she instantly felt relieved.
Sorry, Sister Utaha. It's only fun to go shopping with Big Brother!
The middle schooler Sora silently apologized to Utaha in her heart, hoping she could understand.