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However, the youkai in Gensokyo are quite peculiar. So far, all the female youkai I've encountered, aside from those that aren't humanoid and whose gender is unknown, seem to be beautiful girls who could easily score 90 points or higher. But the males...
I feel that not criticizing them is already the greatest kindness we can show them.
"Guest, these are your things."
A slender, fairly well-proportioned "waiter" monster with six arms brought up the food that Bai Ye had ordered.
After using the Dimensional Shop version of the appraisal technique to confirm that he hadn't bought any rip-off food, Bai Ye nodded in satisfaction, smelling the aroma lingering at the tip of his nose.
"Guest, guest..."
"Well, is there anything else?"
Seeing that the waiter didn't leave immediately after taking the money, but instead turned his back to the pink-haired girl and frantically gestured to him, Bai Ye asked curiously.
"If possible, please eat quickly, at least until you finish half of it before I leave here by five meters... Consider this my advice to you."
After saying that, the waiter left as quickly as if he had been struck by a plague.
In the blink of an eye, let alone five meters, Bai Ye felt that the distance between the two was now at least ten meters.
white night:"……"
So what's going on here? Is this some kind of Easter egg plot deliberately arranged by the store?
Muttering a curse to himself, Bai Ye picked up a bamboo skewer with meatballs on it and put it in his mouth...
Where are my meatballs?
Looking down, Bai Ye noticed that her bowl was completely empty, and even the rim of the bowl had a small notch with fine teeth marks. Her lips twitched.
Across from him, the girl dressed in something resembling a funeral shroud finished her meal, gracefully took out a tissue to wipe her mouth, and got up to leave.
"Um……"
Recalling the waiter's words as he left, Manager Bai frowned, sensing that something was amiss!
Chapter 059 Naturally Naive or Naturally Cunning?
This is just the beginning.
Now that we've come all this way to the food street, Bai Ye would feel guilty if he didn't eat his way through the entire street from beginning to end, considering these good-for-nothing monsters.
But if he doesn't immediately put the food in his mouth, and even pauses for a moment... his hand will suddenly be empty?!
Even if he pretended not to notice, keeping a close eye on his hands out of the corner of his eye, the food still disappeared instantly.
However, Shopkeeper Bai wasn't entirely without a clue. He noticed that every time the food in his hand disappeared, he could always see a familiar figure around him, and the monsters whose food had also disappeared all looked angry but dared not speak out...
Bai Ye also saw a food vendor pushing his now-empty food cart away while wiping away tears.
After buying two servings of grilled eel from the stall recommended by Mokou, Byakuya neither ate nor left, but stared at the two fragrant dishes in his hands.
"Um, sir, is there a problem?"
Bai Ye's "I'll just watch quietly without saying a word" attitude clearly frightened the stall owner behind the stall.
She stopped humming the little tune and looked at Bai Ye with a puzzled expression.
"I wonder when they will suddenly disappear."
"Haha, you're really funny, sir. How could food suddenly disappear?" A large bead of cold sweat dripped down the proprietress's forehead.
"I think so too, so... I got it!"
After a moment's thought, Bai Ye, in a madness, gave one of the eight-eyed eels an invincible shield, and then openly put the other one into his mouth, pretending to eat it with great relish without paying attention to the other one... Although it didn't look very appetizing, it tasted alright.
Half a minute later, Bai Ye had a "fish" in his hand.
"It's really you!"
Looking at the pink-haired girl who was still biting the yakiniku and trying to take it from Bai Ye's hand, Bai Ye's eyes revealed a look of "I knew it."
He had his suspicions when the first batch of spicy hot pot dishes went missing, and the sight of their backs on subsequent occasions only fueled his guess. Now, it's confirmed.
Bai Ye glanced at the Origin Coins that were disappearing at a speed almost matching the speed at which Kazami Yuuka punched his chest, and his brow twitched. He decisively removed the shield he had placed on the yakumi.
A second later, the pink-haired girl elegantly wiped the corner of her mouth, put her hands together and looked at Bai Ye: "Thank you for the treat."
white night:"……"
Emmmmm......
Should this be classified as "naturally naive" or "naturally naive"?
They're really taking themselves too seriously!
And most importantly, not only did you steal food, but you also forced yourself to finish it even after being caught... and after you finished eating, you just stayed where you were instead of running away?
“Saigyouji Yuyuko”.
"Ok?"
"My name is Saigyouji Yuyuko."
"...So you're planning to leave me an IOU?"
"Zi said that once you know someone's name, you can be considered a very ordinary friend. It's normal for friends to treat each other to meals," the girl said, her face serious and each word deliberate.
"Hmm..." Bai Ye's feelings at this moment were probably like this:
(╯‵□)╯︵┻━┻
Which unreliable guy taught you all this nonsense? Aren't you worried that you'll be tricked into having sex with someone after just one meal?
Wait, who were you just talking about?
"If I'm not mistaken, the purple you mentioned is... Yakumo Yukari?"
"Yes, that's her."
"Well, if it's her, then it's not surprising."
Yukari Yakumo's existence in Gensokyo is beyond question. Both her strength and her status as the creator of the Great Barrier place her among the top tier of Gensokyo.
In other words, the outcasts living in Gensokyo might not have heard of the names of other top-tier big shots, but they would definitely have heard of the name of the youkai sage, Yakumo Yukari. If the pink-haired girl in front of them was only after some food, 99% of the outcasts would just pretend they didn't see her... That's why the youkai whose food mysteriously disappeared before just accepted that they had suffered a loss in silence.
Moreover, given the survival-of-the-fittest law of the yokai world, Byakuya finds it hard to imagine that Yakumo Yukari would befriend an ordinary person—the teeth she displayed when she tore apart the lamprey were still there.
If someone truly intends to do something wicked, it remains to be seen who will act wickedly towards whom.
"Boss lady, how many hagfish do you have left?"
"Uh... there should be quite a few, right?" Mystia glanced at the buckets next to the stall.
Throughout this process, Saigyouji Yuyuko kept a close eye on her. Under the gaze of the apex predator, Mystia, whose strength was not particularly great, suddenly felt a chill.
"Let's start eating. Anyway, you don't seem to have any customers here. After she's finished eating, I'll just send the bill to the Youkai Sage... Don't look at me like that. I'll pay first. I'll go get the money from Yukari Yakumo myself."
Mystia nodded repeatedly and skillfully scooped two hagfish from the bucket and placed them on the grill.
As for the fact that no one comes here because of Saigyouji Yuyuko's presence... Byakuya doesn't seem like the kind of bad person who freeloads, so what difference does it make who he sells to?
Maybe I can close up shop earlier today.
Thinking of something happy, Mystia hummed a little tune she'd heard somewhere, completely unaware that Saigyouji Yuyuko's gaze was following the flapping of the wings behind her...
Chapter 060 Naturally Black, Confirmed
Before transmigrating, Bai Ye had seen some posts on forums saying that in that faraway place, there was a being known as the ultimate glutton who said, "If you dare to put it in your bowl, even a god will eat it." The common feature of this kind of being was a stomach that existed in four dimensions and could hold an infinite amount of food...
Bai Ye once thought this was just the result of authors' divergent thinking, until today, when he met a girl who called herself Saigyouji Yuyuko...
The eels grilled at this stall were all grown up; it was unclear whether they were farmed or wild. In any case, Bai Ye felt that with his average appetite, he would have a hard time finishing even one.
As a result, this girl named Saigyouji Yuyuko, right in front of him, one, two, three, four...
Only when Mistya, the proprietress, reached out and found nothing did she reluctantly stand up from her seat.
"What a pity, I'm still not full."
Bai Ye glanced at her flat stomach and his lips twitched.
"By the way, I still don't know your name?"
"Bai Ye, Bai as in daytime, Ye as in nighttime." While giving his name, Bai Ye paid the proprietress for the girl's food.
"Baiye... I'll remember you, you're a good person!" Yuyuko nodded: "If you ever go down to the Underworld, you can come to Hakugyokurou to find me. I'll treat you to some of Youmu's cooking then, it's really good."
"The underworld..."
So that still means the underworld, right?
I hadn't noticed it before, but now that I've started thinking about it from the perspective of the underworld... no matter how I look at it, it seems like Saigyouji Yuyuko is wearing a shroud that only the dead wear!
"By the way, do you like to eat birds? Like sparrows, for example. Although there's not much meat, Youmu's cooking skills always make anything that's not filling taste delicious..."
Mistya, who was packing up her stall and preparing to leave because all her goods had been sold out, suddenly froze.
Sparrows... Nightingales?!
You're the one with an insatiable stomach, aren't you? While you were eating, you even wanted to eat the proprietress too! QAQ
Pack up the stall now, she won't come out anytime soon!
……
For foodies, food is always the best key to bringing you and the other person closer, provided that the other person doesn't dislike you; otherwise, it will only backfire.
It's obvious that Saigyouji Yuyuko's first impression of Byakuya was... alright.
When the two met Black Jeanne and Marisa at the other end of the food street, Yuyuko no longer minded sharing some of Byakuya's food—although Byakuya felt that she was doing this so that he would continue to help her empty the food stalls.
But in the end, when it comes to settling accounts, isn't it Yakumo Yukari who actually pays the money?
Bai Ye didn't know what Yu Yuko was thinking for the time being, but he truly felt at ease eating it.
"Master, she is..."
"Oh, you guys have wandered over here too?" Byakuya chewed twice, swallowed the food in his mouth, and then introduced Yuyuko to Jeanne Alter and the others.
Of course, this was just a name; Bai Ye himself didn't know much more about it.
After hearing Bai Ye's account of how the two met, Black Jeanne began to question the meaning of life...
Is this place called Gensokyo really that scary?
He can run into so many high-quality girls just by going out casually. Not only Byakuya, but she's the same as Marisa!
Thinking about the fox girl and the cold-faced silver-haired girl that she had just encountered with Marisa not far away, Jeanne Alter's mood became increasingly depressed... If this is the case overall, then it seems that it really can't be blamed on Byakuya.
"Ara~ Now that your friends are here, Baiye, I won't take up any more of your time. Remember to come visit me in the Underworld sometime~" Noticing the hint of hostility hidden in Black Jeanne's eyes, Yuyuko smiled, pretended to be friendly, moved closer to Baiye, winked at him, and then floated directly towards the silver-haired girl and fox girl not far away...
That must be that clumsy fox girl from the Yakumo Yukari family, right?
……
Leaving aside what happened to Byakuya and the others, on the other side, just as Yakumo Ran was about to secretly open a gap with Yuyuko and Youmu to return to the Underworld and pretend that nothing had happened that day, she suddenly realized that the gap's destination location seemed to be a bit off...
"Master Zi Zi Zi Zi?"
"We're not that purple yet." Yukari Yakumo's face darkened. "Blue, you've really grown some guts, haven't you? Bringing Yuyuko all the way from the Underworld here without even telling us first?"
"I……"
"Alright, Yukari, I asked her to bring Youmu and me up here." Yuyuko, who was in a good mood and had finally eaten her fill, came up to help Yakumo Ran out of the predicament: "And I think I met the manager you mentioned this time. He really is just like you said, a very interesting and mysterious person."
"Oh?"
"Let's go, let's go back to Baiyulou first, or you can go to your Lost Home, I'll tell you all about it..."
Pulling a helpless-looking Yukari Yakumo towards the House of the Lost, Yuyuko secretly gave Ran Yakumo a "V" sign from behind.
A vein bulged on Yakumo Ran's forehead.
This is definitely not a celebration. This gesture means that she will have to open back doors for Yuyuko twice more when Yukari Yakumo isn't paying attention, as a reward for helping her get away with it this time.
Chapter 061 The First Emperor Returns
When Bai Ye returned to the Dimensional Shop, it was already midnight.
Even the most energetic person will feel tired after a day of wandering around outside. After taking a hot bath back at the Dimensional Shop, Bai Ye comfortably lay down on his bed and drifted off to sleep.