strictlysupreme Chapter 939 The Last Routine 118
Chapter 939 The Last Routine 118
Chapter 939 The Last Routine 118
Seeing the increasing number of customers, even more than during the day, Aqua couldn't contain her excitement and muttered to herself, "If business can stay this good in the future, not only can we repair the ceiling, but we could even rebuild it into a luxurious church!"
The more he talked, the more excited he became.
Cecily looked at the guests and said excitedly, "Next, we need to figure out how to efficiently convert these guests to the Axis cult. Let's all think of a way!"
"You really never learn your lesson..." Kobayashi sighed and said, "If bad rumors spread, this shop will become deserted again."
Seeing their expressions, Kobayashi sighed helplessly and threatened the two of them.
Upon hearing this, even Aqua said with great anticipation, "It would be wonderful if it could end peacefully!"
"Hello……!"
However, Kobayashi was terrified and shouted in a panic, "Can you please not suddenly raise such an ominous flag? You're going to scare me to death!"
Although Kobayashi said that, he still believed that nothing would happen this time. However, things never go as he wishes—
Despite Kobayashi's meticulous planning and successful reopening of the café on its first day, it changed completely after a few days.
Kobayashi leaned against the counter, pondering with a puzzled look, "Hmm... compared to the first day, the number of customers has decreased far too quickly, hasn't it?"
On the first day, he was working non-stop in the kitchen without a break, but now he can lean against the counter and watch the customers come and go without doing anything. You can imagine how big the difference is.
"Yeah, sorry!"
Upon hearing his words, Youyou immediately apologized nervously, "I've tried my best... but being a waitress is still too difficult for me. I'm sorry!"
"Wait, wait! No matter how you look at it, it's not Youyou's fault, is it?"
Kobayashi quickly waved his hand to reassure the girl who had mistakenly thought it was his fault. At the same time, he couldn't help but think to himself: Damn it, I was too careless. I was too optimistic before...!
"Excuse me, I'd like to order some food."
At this moment, the customers in the room raised their hands to order. Youyou immediately responded loudly—
"Okay, I'll come right away!"
She quickly went to greet them.
At that moment, another customer called out to Kobayashi, "Sir, could I have a cup of coffee, please?"
"Okay—please wait a moment!"
Kobayashi responded with a smile, but he didn't move. Instead, he looked at the little girl who had been sitting behind the counter like a boss and said, "...Megumi, is it about time you can move?"
"There's nothing I can do, because I just cast an explosion spell and I can't move an inch...!"
The little girl had a blissful expression on her face.
She'd been entertaining guests these past few days, and the sheer variety of guests must have pushed her to the brink of collapse. That's why she rushed out early this morning to unleash her explosive magic, but—
"Why did you use it?!" Kobayashi clenched his fists and angrily demanded, "Didn't I tell you that the Explosion Spell should be used after the work is finished?!"
"I couldn't help it. I was busy with work all day yesterday, and I accumulated a lot of stress. And Xiaolin, have you forgotten? I asked you to come with me to cast the Explosion Magic, but you said you didn't have time and told me to hold back. I held back all night and only went to cast it this morning."
"What?!!!"
Kobayashi was speechless. He remembered that last night he was busy preparing ingredients and calculating sales figures, and in his frantic state, he completely ignored Huihui's request. That's why she couldn't wait to run out and unleash her explosion magic early this morning, leaving her unable to move.
Wait, is it my fault?!
"Sir/Madam—is your coffee not ready yet?!"
At this point, the guests started urging them to hurry.
For a restaurant, if the food is served slowly, customers will complain and leave, which is a major taboo for restaurants!
"Kobayashi..." Huihui raised her arm with difficulty and said, "If you're willing to carry me on your back, I can bring the coffee over there."
The little girl had a triumphant smile on her face; this guy did it on purpose!
Could it be that he didn't pay attention to Huihui's feelings last night, which is why he did this? Honestly.
"It's faster for me to go by myself than to carry you."
Kobayashi rolled her eyes in annoyance.
Suddenly, a customer's heart-wrenching scream came from a corner of the café, as if they had suffered some indescribable inhumane treatment—
"Stop—! I absolutely won't—!"
It was so noisy that it inevitably attracted everyone's attention.
Kobayashi was already panicking. He quickly looked over and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Then Cecily, who was serving the guest, put her hands on her hips and said with some helplessness, "This guest, you are causing us a lot of trouble. This is the rule of our restaurant. If you don't follow it, we won't be able to serve you your food, will we?"
Hmm? It seems perfectly normal. Could it be that this customer, like the previous one, was deliberately trying to cause trouble and then got taught a lesson by Cecily?
Just as Xiaolin was thinking this, she saw the customer pleading with tears in his eyes, "Don't say such mean things! I'm starving! I'll pay, just give me that plate of fried noodles!"
The roaring sound, which could be heard even from a great distance, indicated that the guest was indeed extremely hungry.
However, Cecily held up the fried noodles in her hand, puffed out her cheeks, and said somewhat unhappily, "How can you say I have bad intentions! I just hoped that you could repeat our mnemonic before eating..."
Mnemonic?
Kobayashi raised an eyebrow.
Then Cecily said, "Just say this magical incantation, and the fried noodles will be yours! Come on, repeat after me! 'Eris's breasts are padded!'... Come on, say it!"
Wow—this guy is really going too far. He wants fried noodles and is actually forcing the other person to do something like this. And, naturally, this customer can't do it.
He opened his mouth with difficulty, and said tremblingly, "The breasts of the goddess Eris are... No, I can't say it! I absolutely cannot do such a blasphemous thing to the goddess Eris!!!"
Then, the guest ran away without looking back.
"Ah!" Cecily sighed helplessly and shook her head as she watched the fleeing guest. "...He actually got away. He must be a cultist of Eris. Goddess Aqua, I've exposed another cultist!"
"Why are you so smug?!"
"It hurts!"
Without a word, Kobayashi slammed his fist down on Cecily's head and yelled, "Cecily! Didn't I tell you to stop messing with the Eris cultists?!"
This is not over yet.
As the saying goes, when an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.
Following closely behind was Darkness, who flung open the café door and rushed in, her face filled with anxiety. She cried out, "Kobayashi! Come help me!"
"What's wrong this time?!"
Xiaolin shouted angrily.
However, Darkness seemed genuinely frightened this time. She said sadly, "I was handing out flyers on the street, promoting how wonderful the pranks of the Axis cultists were, and then the guards called me in for questioning—"
"Oh, so you're her employer?"
Before she could finish speaking, a man in a police uniform walked in. It wasn't their good friends, Security Guard A and Security Guard B, but someone else entirely. Upon seeing Kobayashi, he nodded decisively and said, "This is quite troublesome—if the games offered by the shop go too far, it might corrupt the town's morals. If it's not stopped and curbed, the shop could be forced to close down."
"This is a misunderstanding!"
Without saying a word, Kobayashi stepped forward and quickly waved his hand to indicate that there was no such thing. At the same time, he gestured to the security guard to look at the coffee shop and introduced it, saying, "Our shop is a coffee shop that can be found anywhere and is suitable for all ages. There is absolutely no such messy or disorderly thing here!"
"Hey! How long are you going to make me wait?! Hurry up and bring up the coffee after the meal!"
"Sorry to have kept you waiting!"
The customer, who had been waiting impatiently, started cursing and swearing. Although Xiaolin felt that the customer was deliberately making trouble, she couldn't show her anger at this time. After all, if she did something outrageous in front of the security guards, she would really be ordered to close down.
Under these circumstances, Kobayashi suppressed his anger and, with a smile, said to the idiot goddess beside him in an almost pleading tone, "Aqua, if you have time, could you please deliver it over there?"
At the same time, he gestured with his eyes for her to help him, while he also had to deal with the security guards who came to investigate.
I don't know if it was because Kobayashi's attitude was very good, or if Aqua also realized that she really couldn't make things worse, so she readily agreed.
"I see!"
After that, she carried the coffee that had been prepared beforehand toward the customers. Just then, Kobayashi suddenly felt uneasy, sensing something was amiss. Wait, had she forgotten something?
However, Aqua, carrying a cup of coffee, approached the customer with a smile and said in a businesslike tone, "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. This is a special coffee brewed with our proud coffee beans. Please enjoy."
"Thanks……"
Although the customer was rude and irritable, he still offered the bare minimum of thanks. However, when he looked at the coffee in the cup—if a crystal-clear liquid in a pristine white teacup could be considered coffee—he was taken aback.
"Ugh—it's water! This isn't coffee, it's water!!"
The customer immediately burst into a tirade of anger, and Kobayashi's unease became a reality: Aqua had purified the item again! Damn it, in the midst of all the chaos, he had completely overlooked this!
The customer was furious and shouted, "I've waited so long, and this is what they serve me... I'm going home! I'm not paying!"
After saying that, he stormed off.
hateful!
This store is doomed!
Xiaolin has completely given up on this shop. Whether it's the waiters who don't put in any effort, the waiters who are always trying to convert others to the religion, the flyer distributors who cause panic on the street, or the waiters who always turn coffee into purified water... she's exhausted.
However, at this moment——
[Emergency Alert! Emergency Alert!]
The sirens blared throughout Axel, and everyone froze, as if a pause button had been pressed. They stared at each other, bewildered.
Youyou said with some surprise, "Huh? This broadcast wouldn't be..."
as predicted.
[An undead race has appeared in the north! They are currently heading south towards Axel! Adventurers, please gather at the main gate with your weapons! Repeat! Repeat! An undead race has appeared in the north! They are currently heading south towards Axel! Adventurers, please gather at the main gate with your weapons! Repeat! Repeat...]
"Ugh, really, why did it have to be at a time like this?!"
Kobayashi was completely speechless.
It's really making things worse. All sorts of strange things always seem to happen at times like these, adding insult to injury!
Despite this, they still had to heed the broadcast's request and head to the town of Axel.
When Kobayashi and the others arrived, they found that many adventurers had gathered there.
"Hahaha...!"
Huihui looked at the large number of undead that had appeared on the plains of Axel town, laughed wildly and dramatically, and shouted, "Now that we're here, these mere undead won't get into town!"
"Huihui! Don't move, you'll fall down...!"
Youyou said this with a worried look on her face.
Kobayashi smirked and said to Huihui, whom he was carrying, with a hint of annoyance, "...You, trying to look cool on someone else's back, it's not convincing at all."
At that moment, the undead spotted Aqua on the outskirts of the town and roared as they ran toward her.
"Huh?!" Aqua panicked instantly, shouting, "Wait, why are they all coming here? Wait a minute, hey!!!"
However, the undead, lacking intelligence, would not heed Aqua's call. They were all creatures driven by instinct, and thus pounced on Aqua without hesitation.
"No!!! Help me—! Mr. Kobayashi!"
Aqua was pounced on and knocked to the ground by a large group of undead.
"Lady Aqua!?" Cecily, seeing her revered goddess attacked, especially by undead, shouted in uncontrollable rage, "Aaaah! They attacked Lady Aqua in a horde! They must be cultists from the Church of Eris!"
No, what does that have to do with it?
Kobayashi rolled her eyes.
(End of this chapter)