civilwarnovels Chapter 1003 The Last Routine 182
Chapter 1003 The Last Routine 182
Chapter 1003 The Last Routine 182
"Sorry to keep you waiting, meow!" Chris approached the customer shyly, her cheeks slightly flushed, and said, "Please tell me, what would you like to order, meow? I recommend the dumpling set meal, meow!"
Although she found it difficult to say "three meows" aloud, the guests loved it. As the guests kept ordering, Chris felt both melancholy and helpless.
the other side.
"This is your matcha cat... Ah!?" Youyou was carrying the customer's matcha, but she accidentally bumped into the corner of the table, spilling the tea. She quickly bowed and said, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry! The table is all wet..."
In a normal coffee shop, such a careless employee would definitely be criticized by customers, but this is the Cat Shrine Maiden Coffee Shop, and this role-playing makes customers very satisfied.
"It's great to feel a little slow on the uptake!" A guest said with an expression of enjoyment as he watched Youyou frantically wiping the table. "I want to protect you, I want to support you...!"
Unexpectedly, Darkness mistook the guest for being angry and rushed over, shouting, "I'm so sorry, guest!! Blame me if you must, come on!!"
Completely unsure whether she was concerned for Youyou or intentionally seeking reprimand, Kobayashi, seeing her rush out, immediately felt a headache coming on. He grabbed her shoulder and shouted, "You rascal, you've caused trouble the moment you stepped out!!"
This is a cat-eared witch cafe; if a normal person were to appear, it would ruin the customers' experience! So even though Darkness kept meowing, Kobayashi still forcibly dragged her away.
Immediately afterwards, Aqua said to the guest in front of her, "I'm tired, meow, Master. Why don't you go get the food yourself, meow?"
The service was so rude, it deserved a scolding. However, the guest didn't seem bothered at all; in fact, he groaned happily, "Ugh... this ever-unsatisfactory, fickle feeling... it's just like a cat!"
"Hmph... Just as I expected."
Kobayashi smiled smugly. These guys in the squad were all problem children, especially Aqua, who complained about being tired and lacked motivation after working for only a short while. But once she put on the cat-eared shrine maiden persona, she was easily accepted and received unexpected preferential treatment. She was no different from those who used anime characters to run their businesses and charge exorbitant prices.
Seeing this, Chris couldn't help but sigh: Honestly, why did I do such a thing...?
But there's nothing she can do; she can't escape now.
"We must dominate the entire menu!" Another customer, seeing the catgirl witch pacing around the shop, called out with great pride, "Hello, I'd like to order!"
"Okay, Master! I'm coming right away, meow!!"
Chris walked quickly toward him.
This kind of shop continued for quite a while, and the business was unexpectedly booming. When they felt they couldn't handle the workload, Darkness and others started to help out.
"The cooking is finished, here you go."
"Darkness, you... you're quite skilled at managing the kitchen too." Chris wiped the sweat from her forehead, watching Darkness busily working in the kitchen. While admiring his proficient skills, she couldn't help but marvel at how he could handle such a high volume of orders. If it were her, she might be exhausted.
“Hehe, because the recipes are fixed, you get used to it after a while.” Darkness smiled slightly and looked at his friend in front of him. “Chris is the one who looks very happy, doesn’t she?”
"We've come this far, so we have no choice but to do it, right?" Chris shrugged helplessly and said, "In that case, it's better to enjoy it."
Although she was reluctant at first, she gradually came to enjoy it as she received more and more guests. In particular, she felt very satisfied with the guests, who came and went happily, just like she did when she was a goddess.
In the cafeteria.
"Sister, can we really eat all of these?!" Xiaomi asked her sister excitedly. "Won't they say 'you can't eat them'?"
"It's okay." Huihui smiled and patted her head, saying, "These are all Darkness's prototypes. They taste good. Eat your fill."
In order to be able to help Kobayashi smoothly, Darkness also tested many times in the kitchen, from being a little clumsy to becoming proficient. During this time, he created many unsellable products, which are the ones that Mimi is quickly swallowing and digesting.
Seeing her so relaxed, she said somewhat unhappily, "Hey, Huihui! Come and help out!"
"I really wanted to help, but it seems I didn't have time to prepare the costumes." Huihui said, looking at Youyou's cat shrine maiden outfit with a regretful expression, but actually quite happy, as if she had luckily dodged a bullet. As if on purpose, she looked at Youyou and said, "But in return, I will supervise everyone's work carefully. According to Kobayashi, this role is the manager."
"Sister, so cool!" Xiaomi, with cream all over her mouth, raised her knife and fork and cheered loudly.
Seeing Huihui's unwillingness to help, Youyou sighed and rubbed her forehead, saying, "Really...!" Although she knew that Huihui had little energy left to spare while taking care of Xiao Mi, she still wondered, "Is this store really okay...?"
But this was far from the peak. Kobayashi waved the cardboard sign in his hand and shouted to the customers in the cafeteria, "Alright~ For an extra fee, you can have a photo session with the cat maidens! Take a picture with your favorite child using the magic camera, how about it?"
"Please!!" xN
A multitude of customers shouted in unison, waving their banknotes and rushing towards Xiaolin, completely surrounding him. Seeing their enthusiasm, Xiaolin was overjoyed. This sales tactic from another world was incredibly effective here, its power immense and its money-making ability terrifying.
As you can imagine, the additional services made the store extremely popular.
"Welcome, meow...!" Yoyo looked at the packed house, which was even blocking the doorway, and said with a troubled expression, "We're full now. Please write your name down over there and wait a moment, meow...!"
I don't know if it was the cat-eared shrine maiden that made the guests so fond of her, but generally they should have turned around and left, but they still lined up obediently, and some even put their hands together and worshipped the cat-eared school swimsuit shrine in the room.
"O servants of destiny, who possess the same ears as the divine body! Grant me power...!!"
This is from the Crimson Demon Clan. His chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) is as bad as ever, but you can tell that he really likes cat-eared shrine maidens.
Another tourist in line shouted, "Mmm—cat ears are the best!! We'll sit until we run out of money!!"
"Oh oh oh!!!"
They seemed to have come as a group.
Seeing the packed crowd, Xiaolin couldn't help but smile and said smugly, "Fully booked! The reviews from both the Crimson Demons and other customers are excellent. Isn't this more profitable than doing quests?!"
Just as he was feeling smug, a figure darted out from beside him, as nimble as a kitten. It was Chris, who said, "Um, I won't keep helping you forever, will I?"
Suddenly, it dawned on me that Chris had other jobs. If she were just an ordinary adventurer, this job would obviously pay much more than she did, but considering that she was a goddess who also had the job of recycling artifacts, I knew she definitely wouldn't agree to help indefinitely.
At the same time, Darkness strode over and said, "Kobayashi! The materials are being consumed faster than expected. I wonder if we have enough now..."
"Then let's go buy it now!"
"K-Kolin, something terrible has happened!!"
Suddenly, Huihui ran over anxiously, looking flustered as if something bad had happened.
"What happened this time?"
There's a big rock outside!
"A giant rock...?!" Upon hearing Xiaomi's words, Xiaolin was momentarily stunned. He suddenly thought of the rock golem from a few days ago, and said with a forced smile, "Could it be... at this time...?!"
Without time to think, they had to stop the rock golem that had appeared, and Kobayashi, Megumin, and Darkness ran towards the outskirts of the Scarlet Devil Village.
"Hohohoho————"
The rock golem roared loudly, emitting a deafening scream that gave everyone a headache.
However, the Crimson Demon Clan looked on with longing and said, "Damn it, no matter how many times I see it, it's still so cool! Just become a tourist attraction for our village!"
"Don't... get in my way!!" the rock golem muttered, then looked in the direction of the shop where Youyou was and said, "I'm here to welcome you...!"
"Still the same old thing, saying things that are incomprehensible to everyone."
Huihui said that.
Kobayashi's expression changed drastically, and he couldn't help but shout, "I said, didn't that guy head towards the shop? If we don't think of something quickly, we'll be in trouble!"
“We need to get the guests to safety first,” Youyou said immediately. “I’ll keep it away from us in the meantime. Xiaolin, I’m counting on you.”
Then she ran toward the rock golem.
"I said, it's too dangerous for you to go alone!" Chris said nervously, then added, "Darkness, I'm going to go after Youyou. I'm leaving the guests in your care."
"Ah, I'll protect you all with my body! Everyone, come this way!!" Darkness beckoned the guests to move away from the area for the time being.
Seeing them get to work quickly, Xiaomi asked curiously, "Brother, what should we do?"
She held up a cat-eared school swimsuit girl.
"The Divine Body?" Kobayashi was somewhat surprised when he saw it. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I'd better keep it. If I lose it, those Crimson Demons will be very nagging."
Then I took it.
Just then, the rock golem from the village entered, looking around and muttering, "Where...where...that child...!!"
At this moment, Youyou stood in front of it.
"Stop! I won't let you hurt this village again!"
"Hmm...you were at the shrine not long ago..."
The rock golem seemed to recognize Youyou.
"Another young lady!" At this moment, Chris and Kobayashi finally caught up with her and shouted, "Leave this to the other Crimson Demons, let's escape first!"
"What!?" The rock golem was clearly dumbfounded to see Chris also dressed as a cat-eared shrine maiden. "One person is fine, but two people dressed like this..."
"Strange, the rock golem's movements...?"
"I... I already have someone I love...! How could I be so wavering...!"
The rock golem looked at the two of them with a conflicted expression. But Kobayashi keenly sensed the key: this reaction, there's no mistake… this guy likes cat ears!! Then let's use these…!
"Hey, look at this!!"
Kobayashi pulled out the cat-eared school swimsuit he had just acquired from his pocket, and the rock golem, whose attention had been drawn to it, immediately spoke.
"That, that's my favorite...!!!"
His wavering appearance was exactly as I had guessed.
"Chris, Yuyu," Kobayashi said to the two of them, "This guy's goal is the Divine Body! He must really like cat ears!"
“Is this true?!”
"That's why we can't attack you now! Come on, think back to when we first attacked the shrine."
"So, back then...!"
Chris and Yoyo suddenly realized that the reason Yoyo hadn't been attacked by the rock golem was because she was wearing a cat-eared witch outfit.
Kobayashi spoke again, "I'm going to use this Divine Body to lure that guy out of the village! You guys can attack it while you're at it!"
"Hmph, if you don't attack, we will!" At this moment, Aqua and the others moved the guests and arrived at the battlefield, shouting loudly, "Everyone, let's go!!"
Then the rock golem was unable to attack at all and could only let Chris, Yoyo and the others' attacks fall on it.
"Damn it... cat ears... such cute things are impossible to attack...!"
"That's enough! Light of—"
"Wait! I'll savor the delicious part myself!! Explo—"
"Ah, wait! Kobayashi is still in the shadow of that golem!!"
"—sion!"
Completely ignoring Aqua's shouts, Megumin unleashed her Explosion Magic from the sky, but to everyone's surprise, Kobayashi wasn't injured, because—
"What?! The golem protected Kobayashi?!"
Aqua exclaimed in surprise.
The rock golem looked at Kobayashi, or more precisely, at the cat-eared school swimsuit in his arms, and said, "You're alright, that's so good... my beloved..."
Then it collapsed with a crash.
Aqua, upon hearing the rock golem's words, exclaimed in surprise, "It's not just protecting Kobayashi, it's protecting the Divine Body! Is this... the power of love...?"
Kobayashi, carrying the unharmed Divine Body, returned to the village to reunite with Aqua and the others.
"Phew, although a lot has happened, things have finally settled down."
"Is this really okay?!" Darkness exclaimed anxiously, "I feel like it's really not a good thing to think about."
But soon.
As the popularity of cat-eared shrine maidens waned, Kobayashi and the others' shop became less popular, and since the rock golem still needed to be displayed there, the shop eventually had to close down.
(End of this chapter)