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Restaurant Of In Between Chapter 2: Kouhai
🕑 Added 2024-04-30 18:11:24 +0000 UTC*Tring*
Hearing the alarm ring from my phone I open my eyes, slowly rising from the comfortable bed that might as well be a cloud at this moment.
But I can't let myself be tempted by this as it's not a good habit, especially for someone like me who owns an establishment.
I need to clean the restaurant, arrange the tables and seats and prepare the ingredients necessary for all of the dishes available on the menu.
I slowly stood up from my bed and began to wipe my eyes so that I could see more clearly, after that I stretched my arms above and it felt amazing, of course, I let out a yawn after.
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While waiting for my bathtub to warm up, I proceeded to finish my daily exercise which consisted of doing a hundred push-ups and a hundred squat-ups.
I wasn't doing this because I like it, but to stay in shape and be healthy, becoming fat is a no for me.
After half an hour of doing the sets, I finally finished. My arms and legs are a bit sore and I'm sweating a lot but it isn't as bad as before considering I got used to it.
Now, a nice hot bath is a must.
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As I went to the perfectly hot temperature bath, I let out a content sigh and closed my eyes as my muscles started to relax. Then I started to recall what happened yesterday.
‘There’s no way that was real, yeah it must be a lucid dream.’
Imagining my restaurant bringing customers from other dimensions, I let out a laugh.
“That sounds ridiculous…”
Then all of a sudden a familiar screen pops in front of me.
[ Road To A Successful Business! ]
[ Goal: Reach 20 customers and earn 1 million yen! ]
[ Reward: Restaurant levelling to grade 2! ]
[ Current Progress: 3/20 Customers, 4,125/1,000,000 ]
My jaw dropped.
“Oh fuck it's real.”
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After realizing that what happened yesterday was real, I honestly have no idea what to do.
On one hand, I was excited because of the opportunities I would get from this.
On the other hand, I am worried because I have no delusions that everything will go smoothly. Who knows, maybe there would be an evil entity that would enter my very establishment and seek harm.
But honestly, it was the least of my worries right now as the most important thing is how would the people in my world react if they found out I have a restaurant that could connect to other universes.
It was honestly a very scary prospect, thinking about the implications of the government knowing about this, because I'm pretty sure if the government found out my life would be over.
That's why, I have to be very careful about revealing things to the people of my world, because there's no way I'd let them ruin my establishment, and most importantly my peaceful life.
Anyway, it's going to be a pain in the ass to maintain, however, it's a must because I value my personal space and don't feel like having the government know what's going on within my humble restaurant.
While I was thinking of the implications of what would be bound to happen in the future, suddenly someone knocked on my door, which confused me a bit. I looked at the clock on my wall and saw that it was still too early for anyone to visit me.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a delivery of some sort because I didn't order anything as I'm quite frugal with my money considering a single mistake could end my career before it even started.
Either way, I need to see who knocked at my building this early in the morning. As I opened the door I saw the person.
Rather than a stranger, it was someone I was familiar with, it was my kouhai from the former high school I graduated from.
Homurahara Academy.
A girl with messy brownish-red hair that is shoulder length, golden eyes, unique to her and a height of 5 '4, an above-average height for a Japanese woman. Not to mention those massive breasts she has…
It's like they have their gravitational pull that my eyes can't help but be drawn to by their sheer size. In a country like Japan, her size is probably an endangered species
Fuck, I have to stop looking because it's rude and I would rather not make her uncomfortable because she's a nice girl.
“Emiya.”
“Senpai, you can call me by my first name. We have known each other for a year now. I don't mind you calling me by my given name.” She smiled gently at me.
Such a bright smile, I can't help but be mesmerized by it. It's hard not to after all she's a very beautiful young lady, and who knows how many boys' hearts she had captured by her looks alone.
Not to mention that super helpful attitude of hers, I'm probably guessing that half of the school has a crush on her.
A girl like her is a treasure, but despite her popularity, she's rather dense about people's feelings in general. She can't comprehend romantic feelings from another person.
Even if you say it directly to her, she would interpret it as another thing.
At one point, even I had romantic feelings for her, I mean it's hard not to after all she's everyone’s dream housewife.
She's beautiful, has a sexy body, a great personality, can clean and is a great cook.
Unless that person is completely homosexual, they would fall for her given enough time.
And speaking of cooking, she's one of the people who I could confidently say is better than me in the art of culinary. The reason why I get to interact with her in the first place is because of my interest in cooking.
“Then, you can call me by my given name too. Shiro-chan.” I gave her a wink, making her giggle, not affected at all.
Yep, this girl is hard. Though It's not like I'm serious about pursuing a relationship with her either way, since I have to prioritize my survival first, dating can wait.
“If you say so Akihiko-san.” Shiro replied.
“Alright, so do you mind me asking why are you here?”
“Well, I just wanted to check on you if you're doing alright and to see the restaurant you keep mentioning to me. I was thinking of coming here yesterday afternoon but I had a shift at Neko-san's place and was only able to finish at night.”
“That's nice of you, but do you have to come this early in the morning..? I mean you could come in the afternoon after school or something.” I reasoned.
“Ah, well…about that…I just wanted to see you as soon as possible.” Shiro replied with a rather shy smile.
Damn…that actually made my heart skip a beat, but knowing her for an entire year I know I shouldn't take her words literally because she would often blurt things like that and most people would misunderstand her intention.
Who knows how many young guys fell for her naivety and misunderstood phrasing?
If she was a male, there's no doubt she'd be a prime candidate for becoming a harem king, a dense one but my point still stands.
I let out a cough. “People will misunderstand your words for something you know…?”
Shiro tilted her head in confusion.
Seeing this I couldn't help but sigh, if it was some other person I wouldn't believe them to be socially incapable of understanding what I'm implying.
But this is Shiro, she's dense as a black hole.
It's a pointless endeavour to continue this conversation because she wouldn't understand anyway.
“Get inside…I'm about to cook breakfast, wanna help me?”
Shiro's eyes brighten as she smiles. “Sure, let's go to your kitchen.”
One of the few things that could make her happy is cooking.
After that, I showed her to the kitchen and started cooking breakfast with her.
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After making a simple Japanese breakfast together, we ate it, although Shiro was reluctant as she claimed that she had already eaten breakfast her stomach betrayed her making her feel embarrassed.
This girl went to my house directly after a bath without eating breakfast. If it was any other girl I would think that they have feelings for me.
But Shiro doesn't, it was pretty clear that in her mind, romance is a foreign thing.
As we finished eating breakfast, she told me that it was time for her to leave because it was almost time for school.
But before she could, I decided to ask for her phone or telephone number if she didn't have a mobile phone.
It wasn't really necessary before since I would always see her daily in school, but now that I've graduated a means of contact is needed.
In the end, she gave me both her mobile and landline number.
“Well her visit was unexpected, but not unwelcome, either way, it's time for me to open my restaurant today hopefully I'll get new customers.”
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A/N: I will start stockpiling this fanfic until it reaches chapter 10, after that I will resume writing my main fanfic The Shop.
Don't worry it will only take me 2-3 days to reach 10 chapters.
