Seaweed

It's been a couple days since Rin's arrival, she was slowly fitting in our group, she never fails to attend each single day she was here from morning to night.

She would only leave after I closed my restaurant and even then there's a great reluctance whenever I did close my establishment.

Not that I blame the girl, as she was someone who really, really needed company and there's nothing more important to her than to be with another person.

It's like she's afraid that all of this would suddenly disappear, that's why she's making memories whenever she can.

Although I always reminded her that it wouldn't be necessary, she listened but despite believing my words there's still that unreasonable fear that kept her from truly accepting my words.

Because to her personally, being alone is the scariest.

Now that she tasted what it's like to be in a group, she never wanted to go back being alone, to her there's nothing more important than being with somebody.

Considering what she's been through, it's not surprising for her to act like that, no matter how unhealthy and obsessive that sounds.

I realized this girl needed a therapist, and maybe adding Denji too because that boy isn't mentally stable.

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[ Total number of customers: 19/20 (In-progress) ]

[ Total revenue: 1,000,000/1,000,000 (Complete) ]

This quest is on the verge of being completed. The funny thing is that I thought I would finish the customer first rather than the total revenue.

Instead I finished the opposite first, it was really unexpected but I can't bring myself to complain honestly.

That's why god bless Serie for her ungodly amount of tips.

Speaking of her, it's been a while since she went to my restaurant, however if I were to guess she had been reading the books I gave her.

With the amount of books I bought for her, it's not surprising that it would take her days or more to completely read it all.

Not to mention, she still has to understand japanese to actually read the majority of the books, there's also english too.

Well, good luck to her learning.

—

Today is another day, and today an unexpected and troublesome guest has arrived in my establishment.

A girl with curly blue hair that isn't too dissimilar to a seaweed, she wore a standard set of Homurahara Academy girl's uniform, along with that oversized black jacket.

"Yo, senpai. I've arrived at your establishment, aren't you glad that this lady is here?" With an arrogant smirk pointed in my direction.

I couldn't help but feel mildly annoyed, but since she's technically a potential customer, I have no choice but to entertain her.

"Sigh*, Welcome to my restaurant, how may I help you?" I said neutrally to the troublesome guest.

Instead of being offended by my professional greeting, she went closer and leaned closer to my ears and whispers. "You certainly can help me my dear~"

Quickly stepping away from her, I said a bit irritated. "Matou, what do you want?"

Matou Shinji, didn't really say anything for a bit before smirking with confidence. "You."

Hearing that I smiled but it didn't reach my eyes as it's fake. "No, thanks."

This time she got a bit annoyed. "Tsk, why not? Aren't I beautiful? Am I not hot enough for you?"

I have to admit, she's quite the looker and it would be a lie to say that she isn't beautiful, however I just don't like her personally.

If I was a man that only thinks of his lower part, then I would have accepted this girl's offer, but no. It wouldn't be worth it.

"No, like I said before. I don't like you that way, Matou. Give up." I said with a bit of a heat in my voice.

Shinji became a bit mad. "Why because you PREFER that goodie good little slut Emiya?!"

I looked her in the eyes with a serious look and replied. "Yes, I do. I would choose her a hundred times over you."

Shinji was truly angry at the moment. "What's so good about her anyway?! I bet she'd let anyone fuck her if they ask nicely-"

"Don't talk to her like that." I moved forward to her and grabbed her collar and said coldly.

Gritting her teeth in frustration. "Why are you even trying to protect her anyway?! It's like you're together!"

"She's a friend, isn't that enough of a reason?"

"Bullshit! You like her, that's why you're mad when I insulted that bitch!"

I paused for a bit and said. "I admit, I like her but that was in the past, besides why do you hate her anyway?"

It's a question that I really wanted an answer to, it's honestly a mystery to me as to why she hated Shiro.

Shinji slapped the hand that was holding her collar and said coldly. "It's none of your business."

I stared at her cold hateful eyes, however I'm pretty sure it wasn't directed to me, as much as I want to say that it's my business.

It truly isn't, so I decided to drop it. At least for now as there isn't anyone who got hurt as a result.

Maybe except for the hand that she slapped.

"Fine, why are you even here anyway?" I asked.

She looked surprised that I decided to drop the matter, thinking that I would force an answer from her.

But honestly, why would I bother? Like she said it wasn't like I'm dating Shiro anyway, forcing an answer out of her would imply that my relationship with Emiya is more than a friend.

Either way, not forcing an answer out of her made her calm down and replied. "It's to see you, why else would I even bother to go inside this empty restaurant?"

"Oi, that's a harsh thing to say."

"But isn't it the truth?"

Thinking about it, she's technically correct about that, however that's only on the surface, because in reality this restaurant is far from empty after all I have multiple regulars.

The majority of them aren't from this realm, but she doesn't need to know that.

I changed the subject. "Anyway, do you want to order something?"

I saw her smirk. "You aren't going to bother defending?"

"No, not at all."

"Tsk, how boring." Shinji clicked her tongue.

"I'm not here for your entertainment, so are you going to order or not? Because if you don't feel free to leave, the door is wide open." I gestured toward the door.

Shinji rolled her eyes and said, "Is that how you treat your customers? No wonder it's empty, you're being rude to a potential regular, if this is how the service is going to be I should leave and never come back."

"Yes, I prefer it that way." I said without missing a beat.

Shinji quickly said. "I changed my mind, do you mind giving me the menu?"

I let out a sigh and decided to comply, regardless of my dislike toward her, she's still a customer. "Here, please take your time."

And she did.

—

Shinji ordered a rather simple meal, which was honestly quite a surprise to me, knowing exactly what type of food she likes and It's certainly not this kind of thing.

A miso soup.

A very common dish, as I brought her the meal, she silently looked at it and said. "It looks better than I expected."

I rolled my eyes at that backhanded insult. "I do take my job seriously."

Shinji didn't reply and tried my miso soup, her eyes widened, probably not expecting the taste of it.

It didn't take a while for her to finish the soup and then look at me with a serious look. "I want to eat your miso soup everyday."

I had a feeling that she'd say that, either way I'm completely unfazed. I'm aware of the meaning of what she's trying to imply, but unfortunately. "If you want to, then you can eat here daily."

Shinji let out a disappointed sigh. "What a boring reaction."

"How do you expect me to react anyway? By blushing like a maiden?" I won't let her feel the satisfaction.

"Whatever, but honestly I didn't expect this to be this good, maybe I'll come back later.." She muttered.

Although I dislike her, it doesn't change the fact that I managed to capture her with my cooking.

It filled me with pride knowing she got hooked with my cooking.

—

After Shinji left, suddenly the system notification rang.

[ You have completed the task! ]

[ Total number of customers: 20/20 (Complete) ]

[ Total revenue: 1,000,000/1,000,000 (Complete) ]

[ Your Restaurant is now Grade 2! ]

[ Exotic Ingredients are now available in the shop! ]

[ Skills are now available in the shop! ]

[ Hiring is now available! ]

[ Renovating the Restaurant please came back after an hour. ]

"Wait what-?!" After that I was literally teleported outside my establishment.

I stared at my restaurant and above it was the number.

[ 60:00 ]

[ 59:59 ]

[ 59:58 ]

"Oh, what the hell…" I looked around to see if there's anyone who noticed the countdown, but soon enough I realized that only I could see it.

Since I can't go in for an hour, I decided to stroll around looking for something to pass time.

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A/N: Another gender-bent?! Yeah, absolutely but trust me, this is going to be the last one.

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