“Teacher, I’ll take this task.”
“It’s fine.
Teacher thought it over carefully, and handing this matter to a student is really too much to ask after all…
Eh?
Wait a moment!
You just said you’d take it?
You agreed?”
Xianyun had just had a pang of conscience, and had also prepared herself for rejection.
After all, she had made the severity of the matter crystal clear.
But she never in a million years expected Su Yu to actually accept.
The lazy, slipshod problem student Su Yu actually accepted?
Could it be because her Xianyun’s prestige was just that great?
She absolutely had to show off to those few old acquaintances!
Xianyun naturally didn’t know Su Yu’s situation, nor did she know his daily task was related to this.
But even though he was itching to hurry up and finish the task, the required bargaining phase was still indispensable.
Otherwise it’d be terrible if Xianyun started working him like an ox or horse.
Better to get some money.
That’s more practical.
“But Teacher, you also have to agree to one condition for me.”
“What condition?
If it’s not excessive, then no problem.”
Xianyun was calm and composed like an old deity, the smugness on her face impossible to suppress.
Sunk into her own fantasy world, this Xianyun had clearly already raised her tail straight up to the sky.
“While making sure my studies don’t fall behind, I get to slack off in class, take a little nap…
And also, if I go now, then the classes afterward…”
Xianyun waved her hand, almost making Su Yu think the matter was non-negotiable.
But unexpectedly, Xianyun’s next sentence made him swallow his heart right back into his stomach.
“You don’t need to attend class this morning.
Focus on teaching cooking.
From now on, you have me covering for you in class, of course, on the premise that you get this matter done.”
“That’s for sure.
Teacher, just wait for my good news.”
Su Yu guaranteed with conviction, then quickly vanished from the office.
“Xianyun, what tasty thing are you sneaking a bite of?
You don’t even know to share, do you still count me as your good friend?”
A playful voice came from outside the door, and right after, a little head full of smiles, revealing a tender little face bursting with collagen, poked out from the doorway.
“Me?
I wasn’t sneaking a bite of anything tasty.
Guizhong, you must have seen wrong.”
Xianyun naturally wouldn’t admit that Su Yu had fed her a little cake.
The teacher’s pride made her, rarely, lie to her good friend.
“Do you know that you’re really terrible at lying…
Guizhong darted in quickly, extending her index finger and pointing at the corner of Xianyun’s mouth, while Xianyun hurriedly wiped her mouth.
Of course, accompanying the mouth-wiping was that bright red face.
“There really is!
Oh no!”
Looking at the cream on the back of her hand, Xianyun’s world collapsed.
She had just attributed Su Yu’s brisk agreement to her own prestige, but now it seemed maybe it was because of this embarrassing sight that made it hard for him to bargain?
Then where was the teacher’s dignity?
Wait, Su Yu didn’t secretly take a picture, did he…
Looking at her good friend’s rare appearance, one moment red, one moment blue, one moment pale, Guizhong also revealed a curious gaze.
Although she had just been asking Xianyun a question, she also knew the answer to it perfectly well.
After all, she and Su Yu had practically been back-to-back.
So, just what kind of magic did that guy have?
Hehe!
Forget it.
First go find A-Ping to discuss it.
It just so happens I can tell her about Xianyun’s embarrassing state today.
If there’s really no other way, I can also go find Zhongli…
Tsk, that guy threw down his burden and ran off; for a while you really can’t find him.
Hmph, if I find him, I’ll definitely have Lishui and Xuanyue watch him around the clock to make him handle his work!
…
Cooking Club.
Have to say, the academy is really lavish.
Even a single club can have a small building all to itself.
Looking at the imposing little building before him, Su Yu couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder, not knowing when he’d be able to afford one himself.
“Aiya, little one, why show such a longing expression at the door?
If you want to join the club, just come in.”
Not the same time, not the same place, but still that familiar teasing tone, that familiar signature address.
The one emitting that charming voice behind Su Yu was precisely Yae Miko.
The warm breath could be clearly felt behind his ear, seemingly very improper.
But if Su Yu turned around intending to do something, he’d probably be torn apart by her harsh, aggressive words to the point of doubting life itself.
“You’re clearly only one year above me, yet you act like you’re my elder.
Are you being polite?
And also, I’m not here to join the club.
I’m here on Teacher Xianyun’s commission to teach Classmate Raiden cooking.”
As for Yae Miko’s “welfare,” Su Yu chose to accept it all; aside from his ears slightly reddening for physiological reasons, he was calm as an old dog.
He was no longer the greenhorn who’d just transmigrated.
Although he hadn’t scored any “meat,” the beautiful girls around him could be said to be countless, and the one he came into contact with the most was his cohabiting Furina.
Though the child was a bit dopey and her figure a bit flat, she was just too cute!
Those sparkling starry eyes and puffed-up cheeks when being fed left Su Yu with no resistance at all.
And after Su Yu revealed his culinary talent, the number of times he saw Furina in that appearance grew more and more, and his threshold rose quite a bit too.
And unlike Su Yu’s calm, Yae Miko’s eyes were already wide open, not just because Su Yu ignored her charm, but because more information was contained in that short sentence.
Cooking?
Teach who?
Classmate Raiden?
Then that’s Raiden Ei?
No way…
just how big a grudge does this guy have with Xianyun!
After a long while, having digested this information, Yae Miko once again revealed her usual appearance, as if she held everything in the palm of her hand, and slowly opened her mouth to say:
“Have to say, this elder sister quite admires your courage.
But as for little brother your actual ability, I still maintain a skeptical attitude.”
“Oh?
So Classmate Yae is questioning Teacher Xianyun’s commission, then?
Then I’ll go back and tell her.”
Su Yu couldn’t be bothered to pay mind to Yae Miko calling herself his elder sister, nor to her bad-taste address of calling him little brother.
Dwelling on such questions would only make himself seem like too naive a little boy.
If one really wanted to prove something, then come at it with real swords and real spears—that would be convincing.
“Ahem, I didn’t mean that.
Alright, you come in with me, since you have confidence in yourself.”
Yae Miko shook her head helplessly, leading Su Yu toward the building.
This was the first time she had suffered such a defeat.
No way around it.
Su Yu had brought out the teacher to scare her, and she really had no way.
She could only pin her hopes on her good friend’s culinary talent to teach this stubborn boy a lesson!
“Teacher?
You’re the culinary master that Xianyun just mentioned is even more amazing than Chef Mao?
I want to learn!
I really want to study cooking!”
Just as he stepped through the main door, a purple-haired girl with a hot figure and a serious expression rushed out from the stairwell.
The girl had a phone in one hand and a blackish spatula in the other.
Even though he wasn’t very close, Su Yu could already smell that strange odor from the spatula.
It was a bit like horseradish-flavored dish soap.
Just one whiff and Su Yu was already frowning.
Although Su Yu very much wanted to explain that the dish-soap smell should just be a real dish-soap smell, the still-steaming hot air on that spatula completely shattered his guess.
This…
was a spatula that was still cooking food!
Then what the hell was that horseradish-flavored dish-soap smell!
!
!
This person was Ei, no doubt about it.
Truly the only one in the entire game who can’t cook…
She really lives up to her reputation!
me too…