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Chapter 71. The Evil King's True Eye is the Strongest! Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Sunflower Seeds!
🕑 Added 2025-05-30 10:05:28 +0000 UTCFacing the delicious food before her.
Takanashi Rikka took the first bite, her eyes immediately widening.
As the food entered her mouth, her taste buds exploded, causing saliva to rapidly secrete in her mouth.
Natural instinct kicked in, and before Rikka could even react, her teeth began chewing on their own, savoring the taste carefully before swallowing.
"!?"
Takanashi Rikka was stunned by the taste.
She licked her lips, savored the aftertaste, then looked down at the food again and exclaimed.
"It's so delicious!"
Tooka had just eaten a small piece of fish.
She was enjoying the delicious taste in her mouth when Rikka's exclamation interrupted her.
She glanced at Rikka: "Eat quickly."
"Okay!"
Now Rikka had no time for idle chatter.
She picked up her spoon and began eating voraciously.
The two ate like this.
Halfway through her meal, Rikka looked at her sister's grilled fish and asked greedily.
"Sister..., give me a piece. I'll share some of my omelet rice with you in exchange."
"Here you go."
Hearing her sister's request.
Tooka wasn't protective of her food at all, directly splitting the remaining fish in half and giving it to Rikka.
"Wow~!" Rikka looked delighted.
Then she also scooped out part of her omelet rice for her sister to eat.
The two exchanged portions of their food.
Soon they finished all the delicious food.
"Phew~~~"
After finishing, Rikka let out a long breath and patted her belly.
"It was so delicious! We'll come back to eat here again, right!?"
Seeing how Rikka was immediately captivated.
Tooka was certain that her sister would definitely fall in love with this restaurant's food and never get tired of it.
Then she'd choose this place as her sister's main food source from now on.
"Yes." Tooka nodded in agreement: "After we move nearby in two weeks, you can come eat here every day."
"!?" Rikka was overjoyed.
Even though the midnight diner's food was expensive.
With Tooka's income level, achieving food freedom was still possible.
It wasn't too heartbreaking.
After the two finished eating.
Tohru collected the plates.
Tooka and Rikka chatted for a while about school and housing matters.
Then they went to find Hayashi to pay the bill.
Rikka sat in her seat.
Having nothing else to do, she turned her head to look around and discovered a little girl sitting next to her.
The little girl was so cute, wearing a white and pink dress, absolutely adorable.
Looking at Kanna, who seemed a few years younger than herself.
Rikka felt her own cuteness was being threatened.
But she still kindly asked: "What's wrong?"
"I'm called Kanna." Kanna introduced herself first, then asked: "What you mentioned about going to school - what is that? Is it fun? I've heard many people about my age talking about school and such."
Rikka was stunned: "You don't go to school?"
Kanna shook her head.
Rikka was extremely envious: "You're so lucky!"
Kanna didn't understand: "But everyone goes to school."
"That's because their parents make them go to school!"
Rikka was still a student.
What student wants to go to school?
Most want to grow up when they're in school, and want to go back to school when they're grown up.
Kanna thought for a moment: "So do you like going to school?"
Rikka fell into deep thought: "Half like it... half don't like it, I guess."
"So what is school for?"
"A group of students go to school together, attend classes together, take exams and advance grades, until they grow up. That's it."
"So you have lots of friends then?"
"How could they all be friends! Only some of them."
"Do you have friends?"
"Of course! Who are you looking down on!" Rikka glared at Kanna: "I'm the Evil King's True Eye, the cutest girl in the whole class!"
"Oh."
"What do you mean 'oh'!"
During Rikka and Kanna's conversation.
Hayashi was at the bar counter.
Tooka came to pay the bill.
"Still so delicious, Manager Hayashi." Tooka took out money to pay: "This is the most delicious restaurant in all of Tokyo, no, in all of Japan I think. I acknowledge your cooking skills."
Hayashi smiled and took the money: "Such high praise. How does it compare to Totsuki then?"
"Totsuki is just a bunch of scientists from exam-oriented education." Takanashi Tooka showed no interest: "Though they're called chefs, some of them have forgotten the true meaning of being a chef - bringing delicious food to customers."
"Well said." Hayashi agreed.
Totsuki spared no cost in pursuing the ultimate in deliciousness.
So they could be called scientists among chefs.
Of course.
This was just what he said to Tooka.
The reality was, regardless of what kind of chef, as long as customers liked it and you could live the life you wanted, that made you a good chef.
After the two chatted for a bit.
Tooka was straightforward - after paying the bill, she left with Rikka.
Before leaving, Takanashi Rikka.
Seemed to have become friends with Kanna, and they waved goodbye to each other.
"I'll come back again, Kanna." Rikka waved goodbye.
Kanna also waved: "Remember to bring money."
"......"
After the two left.
Makima looked at Hayashi's happy expression and suddenly found him quite mysterious.
"You're really a strange person, aren't you? Or are you a devil?"
Hayashi washed a glass: "What do you mean?"
"You're clearly an ordinary person, yet you're still genuinely happy from the heart."
"What's wrong with that? Am I not supposed to live my life?" Hayashi began making hand-crafted lemon tea: "Aren't most people in this world ordinary people?"
"I still find it strange."
"Then just think of me as someone who's easily satisfied."
His standards were just that low.
He liked slacking off, liked lying flat.
He made the lemon tea and gave Makima a cup.
He was about to give Power a cup, but found that Power had fallen asleep.
Makima looked over, took a sip of lemon tea, and smiled.
"She's too tired. She's been moving stuff for half the day, and has two more days of moving ahead."
Hayashi was silent for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
"Physical and strength training, right? I understand."
"Right."
After Makima finished her lemon tea.
She paid the bill, walked over to Power, grabbed her by the collar, and headed home.
"I'm leaving, Hayashi-kun. I'll come again another day. Stay safe."
Hayashi waved: "You also stay sa... safe."
"Mm."
Makima left.
Hayashi thought about it - what he said wasn't actually wrong.
Although Makima wouldn't die, each time she died, all of Japan's fortune would decrease a little.
So when Hayashi advised her, all Japanese people should thank him.
He was a good person!
Time slowly passed.
Hayashi checked the time.
It was already midnight.
Basically no one would come now.
Just then, his phone received a message.
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Don't forget about tomorrow's book launch event. I'll come get you."
Hayashi: "What time are we going? I'll set a time. I don't get up until noon."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "We're going at 2 PM."
Hayashi: "OK, then come at 1:30. Have an early meal, then go together."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Noon breakfast..."
The two chatted for a bit, agreed on the time, then she went to sleep.
In the restaurant.
Hayashi yawned, then began pondering his String-String Fruit again.
Playing with thin strings was just the basics.
Further development of the String-String Fruit could control the bodies of people weaker than you.
That is, developing toward more minute and distant applications.
At this level.
He could even use thin strings to perform surgery on himself.
Of course, with his recovery ability, whether he needed to do that was questionable, but he could do it for others too.
So Hayashi extended thin strings from his ten fingers.
He began pondering micro-operations.
"......."
Tohru, watching from the side, remembered last night's love-hate play and immediately stepped back a bit.
"?" Hayashi laughed: "Scared?"
"No!" Tohru wouldn't admit it.
"Don't worry, work-rest balance. Today I'm practicing new techniques."
"What new techniques?"
"Go get some chopsticks."
"Here."
As soon as Hayashi finished speaking, Tohru handed over the chopsticks.
He reached out to take them, first measured with his fingers, then made marks with his nails.
Finally "crack!" - he snapped them!
Immediately breaking them into several wooden sticks of different lengths.
"?!" Tohru exclaimed: "Those were our newly bought chopsticks!"
"......No problem, it's fine."
Hayashi broke these chopsticks to make a simple puppet.
He extended both hands, strings descended, slowly threading together these dozen or so wooden sticks of different lengths.
Then Hayashi lifted both hands.
The wooden sticks moved by themselves, assembled completely, then stood up.
"!?" Tohru was so scared she hid behind Hayashi, pointing at the wooden stick puppet and exclaiming: "Ha... Hayashi-san, it came alive!"
"It didn't come alive." Hayashi corrected: "I'm controlling it."
Under his control.
The puppet supported itself to stand up, then saluted Tohru, appearing very human-like.
Tohru's eyes widened: "It's a bit scary, Hayashi-san."
"It's just wooden sticks..."
Under his control.
The wooden stick puppet performed various actions: walking, greeting, running, crouching, jumping, etc.
The movements were almost identical to humans.
"Wow~" Tohru exclaimed.
After Hayashi finished having the puppet perform all possible actions.
He relaxed both hands.
The puppet immediately collapsed to the ground, then the wooden sticks scattered everywhere, finally being tightened by the strings and bound together again!
Hayashi picked it up and handed it to Tohru.
"Can you tell?"
Tohru held it at a distance before examining it carefully.
"There... there seem to be some tiny cracks."
"That's because you have good eyesight, and this material is ordinary." Hayashi nodded with satisfaction.
Being able to achieve this level with ordinary materials was already very good.
After more practice later, he could control real people, or assemble steel and such.
Make Transformers!
After playing with the puppet, Hayashi nodded with satisfaction.
It was almost 2 AM now.
Hayashi turned to look for Kanna.
When he turned around, he found Kanna sitting on the sofa, her head drooping and nodding, clearly extremely tired.
Hayashi looked at Tohru: "Tonight you should sleep well with Kanna."
"Mm-hmm." Tohru also nodded.
They couldn't be so indulgent anymore!
Hayashi also went to help Kanna sit properly.
But Kanna heard the footsteps and woke up.
"Hayashi?"
"Why did you stay up so late without sleeping today." Hayashi asked: "Next time when you're tired, just go to sleep directly."
"Mm." Kanna rubbed her eyes and asked: "Are we going to school tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Will I be able to see many students, classmates?"
"Yes."
"I want to see."
"Okay."
Getting confirmation, Kanna dozed off, tilted her head and fell asleep.
Hayashi handed the sleeping Kanna to Tohru.
Tohru carried her back to sleep first.
When the time came.
Hayashi closed the door.
"Finished~!"
[Check-in successful: Obtained Multiverse Food Lottery x1!]
"The previous lottery chances and time points were merged, I'll draw them all together this time."
[Exchange successful, drawing lottery...]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Multi-flavor Sunflower Seeds x3]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Paramecia Devil Fruit - Tremor-Tremor Fruit x1]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Fruit Wine x100 jin]
All drawn at once.
Giving Hayashi the satisfaction of a ten-pull gacha.
Although it wasn't actually ten pulls, he did get good stuff!
Hayashi looked at them one by one.
[Multi-flavor Sunflower Seeds: Available in original, caramel, and salty flavors. After planting, just water diligently and absorb plenty of sunlight to grow. Seeds mature every 3 days, with a chance to produce golden seeds.]
[Note: The sunflowers have monster attributes, recognize their master, can continue growing, and even move slowly. Praise them daily, and they might grow even faster~]
"Living sunflowers? Monster attributes?"
The image that naturally came to Hayashi's mind was the sunflowers from Plants vs. Zombies.
"Nice, nice. Seeds every 3 days, three different flavors, with sunflower seeds to munch on, and a chance for golden seeds."
After looking at the sunflowers.
Hayashi then looked at the third item - the wine, saving the best devil fruit for last.
[Fruit Wine: Using watermelon as a cup, brewed with apples, peaches and other fruits. Low alcohol content, pleasantly intoxicating and delicious. After drinking, all attribute resistances +30% for 60 minutes.]
[Note: The wine tastes good, but don't be greedy. Sharing it with girls is a nice choice.]
At first glance, it was just fruit wine.
Second glance, something's not right.
Third glance: "Percentage increase in attributes?"
This was too powerful.
For ordinary people drinking this, they'd just be more resistant to fire and cold for an hour.
But if Tohru drank it.
Dragons already had high magic resistance to begin with.
By then, even if forbidden spells were cast on Tohru, they'd probably fail or just dirty the hem of her clothes.
"Nice, nice."
Hayashi immediately took out a cup, had a sip - it tasted good, slightly sweet, quite suitable for girls.
"100 jin total, so I'll use 30 jin for casual tasting, and save the remaining 70 jin properly."
He didn't waste it all or hoard it all.
Instead, he allocated it reasonably - eat what should be eaten, drink what should be drunk.
Finally, he looked at the devil fruit.
[Paramecia Devil Fruit - Tremor-Tremor Fruit: The user can strike the world itself to vibrate space, thus freely causing vibrations in the sky, earth, atmosphere and ocean. Can trigger powerful earthquakes and tsunamis as well as tremendously powerful shock waves. Possesses extremely strong physical destructive power, known as the power to destroy the world!]
[Note: Skyscrapers rise from flat ground, remember to develop it well. The concept of vibration extends far beyond just the world.]
"Really, another devil fruit when the last one came less than two months ago."
Hayashi "complained slightly" verbally, but the upward curve of his mouth couldn't be suppressed no matter how he tried.
This was the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
In his mind, this fruit was definitely among the top three of all devil fruits.
And just as the note said.
How could vibration be limited to just one world's vibrations?
Do you know how supernovas explode? From the sun aging and the internal core collapsing, creating vibrations that implode.
So if we're talking about the concept of vibration.
Punching a planet to pieces wasn't impossible either.
"This has quite some development potential." Hayashi extended his finger and lightly tested the ability.
Buzz buzz buzz~~~
The next moment, his finger directly shook into afterimages.
To the naked eye, it looked like one index finger had become three index fingers!
He'd shaken it into a shadow clone technique!
"Hiss..." He quickly retracted his finger: "Wouldn't this be incredibly useful for beating egg mixture?"
Even Kato Taka would have to bow down and call him master, begging to be taught, right?
A divine tool for women, that's all that could be said.
"Nice, nice."
Hayashi was very satisfied with today's gains.
Below, it could beat egg mixture; above, it could part the earth's hair down the middle. Banner: Develop it well.
"Time to sleep, time to sleep."
Hayashi clapped his hands and turned to go upstairs.
"Looks like tomorrow when I have time, I'll need to buy some physics books to see what the essence of vibration really is."
