New Century Kitchen Warrior

Chapter 35: Dating in the Sunshine
"By the way, yam? I remember that kind of thing is quite rare. Where did you get it?"

"As a chef, it makes sense for me to carry yams with me. In fact, in addition to yams, I also have various magical crops in my storage bag. Do you think I have been traveling around with the hero for nothing all these years?"

"Okay, okay, you are worthy of being a chef. No, you are more than a chef, you are a culinary saint."

Buyadi clapped her hands. "I'll give you a few more plots of land after we return to the scorched earth. How about you plant your crops there?"

"no problem."

"That's settled then, what do we do now?"

Lei Ye did not reply immediately, but fell into deep thought.

After leaving Sekbosi Miaomiao's house, just like Buyadi, Lei Ye suddenly felt that he had nothing to do.

Or there is a sense of nothingness.

If he was in a regular adventure story, what he should do now is to build a good relationship with the two slave partners at home, strengthen the bond, and then experience various developments. After the adventure story, the relationship becomes better, and some slightly thrilling events happen after the romantic incident. He will live such a life with gratitude and joy.

But it will roll back.

Every time you go back to the game, the bonds that you have worked so hard to build with those people will collapse, and only the memories shared with Buyadi can be coexisted with each other.

So whether subconsciously or subjectively, Lei Ye now only wants to act with Buyadi.

Originally, I should have returned to the Scorched Earth today, but because I triggered the Apprentice Knight's side quest, I have to stay in Hillius until at least tomorrow. I wonder what I should do to kill time in between.

"Go register as an explorer." He looked at Buyadi in an inquiring tone.

"Okay, but forget about the underground maze or taking commissions. I've already tried them, and they're average and boring."

That's quite a pity.

Lei Ye really wanted to see how many levels of the underground maze Buyadi could reach if she gave it her all.

However, fighting does not seem to be interesting to Buyadi.

After a trip to the Explorer's Guild, Lei Ye helped Buyadi get a guild card and bought the big house at the same time.

I bought this house to keep it as a base in the future. Although my future plan is to live in the Scorched Earth, there will definitely be a time when I return to Hillius, and this house will come in handy at that time.

Besides, he really likes this house.

"It's so boring."

After waiting for Lei Ye to finish the formalities and leave the Explorer's Guild, Buyadi couldn't help but sigh while standing at the door.

She turned her head to look at Lei Ye who was in deep thought, and suddenly an idea came to her mind and she smiled and hugged his arms.

"Why not just do this? Didn't Kun-Lai ask Loya to visit your favorite places before? Now I ask you to take me for a walk as well. How about that? I'm also a little curious about what you do when you have free time."

"The places I went to?" Lei Ye was stunned. "They are not fun places at all. Besides, didn't you go there before when you followed them to play?"

"No, that's different. I want you to take me out to play, okay?"

Overwhelmed.

Lei Ye has been racking his brains to make Buyadi feel "fun". He is cautious in his heart, fearing that Buyadi will be unhappy and transform into a Hillius homelander and kill people.

But if you think about it carefully, the only time she went crazy was when she blew up a treasure chest in the underground maze, which caused no casualties. She later used the save file to erase this incident.

Maybe she wasn't that dangerous.

Looking at her shaking her arms, Lei Ye found that Buyadi was really cute when she was not crazy.

But when he thought about his plans for this week, Lei Ye felt a little depressed.

Is it really true that the only way to control this girl who is called the devil but is just a girl is to use all kinds of sweet words and cheesy love words like a scumbag? Is this method really correct?
Is this okay, Lei Ye?

Lei Ye took a deep breath, and suddenly he made up his mind, and all his depressed mood burst out in one breath.

It’s very simple, just don’t be a scumbag, right?

At worst, I can just accept it in the end. If I think about it carefully, at the beginning I just wanted to survive even if I was raped. Isn't the situation the same now?

"What I normally do might be really boring, are you sure you want to come with me?"

"Yeah!" Bu Yadi nodded happily when she found out that Lei Ye had given in.

So Lei Ye grabbed her hand and strode towards the direction where the sunlight was coming from.

——Wildflower Orphanage——

Located in the remote northeast corner of Hillius, there is a row of slightly dilapidated old houses surrounded by wooden fences.

There were several children running and playing in the open space.

Buyadi saw the children from afar and seemed a little nervous. She quietly took off the hairpin of the headdress with a white skull on it and put it in the storage bag.

At this moment, she suddenly found that Lei Ye beside her was as stiff as a piece of wood. She leaned forward and looked forward, and saw Lei Ye had a sullen face.

"What's with that expression?" She smiled.

"Shh, hold on tight."

Lei Ye said in a low voice, and then opened the door of the orphanage with a gloomy face.

Soon Buyadi vaguely guessed the reason why Lei Ye did this, because as soon as the other children saw him, they immediately put down the cheap toys in their hands and ran over, surrounding them and making a lot of noise, while Lei Ye just walked straight towards a room without even looking at them.

Not quite understanding why Lei Ye acted so cold, Buyadi, who was surrounded by children, was actually very happy. She carefully and gently touched the head of the little girl beside her who was looking at her skirt curiously.

As if very comfortable, a pair of cat ears popped out from the child's hair.

"Sister, are you Aye's girlfriend?" the child asked.

Buyadi was amused. "Is that so? It seems like we have that kind of relationship."

Her steps became faster and faster as she followed Lei Ye into the house and saw the old lady preparing food.

It turned out that this was the kitchen, and it was lunch time.

Came just in time.

"Don't you like children?" Buyadi watched Lei Ye close the door and keep the group of children out.

"I don't like them," Lei Ye shook his head. "Ever since my relative's kid downloaded four versions of bird wallpapers on my computer in high school, I've never liked kids again. The kids here don't have a sense of propriety. Just now, if I smiled at them outside, they would have rubbed my pants with snot."

"You don't like it? That's a shame. I actually like kids, but if you don't like them, why are you here?"

"Nonsense, I don't like children, but I hate seeing them starve to death even more, one thing for another."

Lei Ye took the old lady's apron skillfully as if he had returned home, then took out a large gold coin from his pocket and handed it to her.

From the moment she entered the door, the old lady hadn't spoken a word. She just smiled softly and looked at Lei Ye with warm eyes as if she was looking at her own child. The warmth in her eyes made Buyadi feel a lazy sense of comfort.

Soon the gaze turned to Buyadi.

The old lady's smile suddenly became softer. She walked over slowly, groping for something in her pocket. When she came to Buyadi, she handed what she had found to Buyadi.

A small silver bracelet.

"I'm worried that he will be bullied because of his personality. I hope you can take good care of him."

She gave him instructions in a soft voice, different from Galatini's slow one, but full of kindness.

Buyadi felt inexplicably flustered and a little embarrassed, and she couldn't tell what made her feel this way.

But in the end, she just took the small gift with both hands and nodded.

"Okay."

She turned her head to look at Lei Ye.

Lei Ye's tense body relaxed after he started cooking. He seemed to be in a good mood and hummed a song that only he and Buyadi had heard.

A flash of red light passed by.

Buyadi's body stiffened slightly.

The morality value has reached 37.

There is no way around it. Lowering the score too much in a short period of time is like using a small trick to make a good kid fail the exam suddenly. But his level is there after all, and his grades will gradually improve.

What to do? I can’t force him to throw pink petals into the dishes.

Forget it, I’ll deal with the moral value issue later. We still have plenty of time anyway.

Soon Bu Yadi found an excuse for herself. She felt relieved and jumped behind Lei Ye and patted him on the butt.

"Honey, let me help!"

After making lunch, Lei Ye left directly without even sitting for a while, so Buyadi was very curious.

"Is it always like this for you? Go make something, get some coins, and then just leave? You don't even listen to the flattery of the little kids?"

"I told you I hate kids."

"Hehe, so let me tell you, Mr. Succubus Rayno, I found a little cat girl who has feelings for you. Anyway, I saw a sign over there saying she's open for adoption, so how about taking her with you?"

Lei Ye was immediately shocked and angry, "What are you talking about! I am a noble lolita control, don't confuse me with the damn copper smelting fetish!"

Looking at the annoyed Lei Ye, Buyadi just smiled.

It was strange that she was not unhappy about the appearance of a new little rival. Instead, she was somewhat happy.

She knew that everything she had seen today was evidence that she had not misled the wrong person.

The next location is not far away, it is a small shop nearby.

The boss was a middle-aged man with battle-tested muscles. As soon as Buyadi saw the wheelchair under his butt, she could guess the relationship between this guy and Lei Ye.

As soon as he saw Lei Ye, the man smiled brightly and waved at Lei Ye.

"Hey, I've been waiting for you for a long time. You finally come to stock up. Let me see what new things you have."

The man greeted, and glanced at Buyadi behind Lei Ye, his smile growing even wider, "Well, you finally brought your wife here, boy?"

This name is even more radical than the previous one.

Buyadi lowered her head and listened to her own restless heartbeat in silence. After a few seconds, she did not hear Lei Ye's denial, so she gently took Lei Ye's arm.

“Did the previous items sell well?”

"Not bad. As you know, since last winter, when no one froze to death for the first time, the business of this small shop has been very good. As a result, your small stove was sold out in the summer. Although the summer heat is not fatal, the temperature is really unbearable. Some people have been asking if there is a magic tool that can make the room cooler."

"It will be available next time I come, but it hasn't been put into mass production yet."

"Really? That's great. By the way, there have been increasing calls for more erotic toys to be put on the shelves recently."

"Dude, you have to distinguish which ones are real voices from users and stop messing around. This is the stock I came here to replenish this time. Take a look."

【Magic Furnace】

The summer in the other world is not too hot to kill people, but there are always people freezing to death in the winter, especially those people from the other world who don’t have many gold coins.

【Magic lamps】

There are magical lamps for sale in this world, but most of them focus on beauty without considering efficiency, and the consumption of magic power is quite high. Without sufficient magic power, it is impossible to keep the lamps lit for too long.

Similar problems have all been solved by the magic drive device. Lei Ye's version of the magic lamp only needs a small amount of magic power to stay bright all day long.

In addition, the price is low enough, and today, Lei Ye’s light has illuminated the entire slum.

【condom】

A slim item made from monster materials, with a line of small words on the packaging: Fewer and better births, a happy life.

Solve the problem of continued poverty outbreak at its root.

"Oh, finally! Finally the stock is restocked! This is really good news. Let me tell you, Lei Ye, I've recently started to notice some big shots in fancy clothes coming here to buy things. Some even said they want to contact the maker for cooperation. Here, take this, and you'll get rich."

"It's fine to sell to people who come from far away, but you have to keep them quiet," Lei Ye put the business card the man handed over into his storage bag without even looking at it. "Also, these people are prohibited from buying multiple items. If you find someone who comes here just to buy goods, put him on the blacklist and forbid him to buy things again."

After thinking for a while, Lei Ye added, "Except for condoms."

"gone."

He waved his hand and turned away.

Buyadi didn't say a word the whole time, she just watched his negotiations silently and thought.

As she turned and left with Lei Ye, Buyadi finally figured out the problem she had just been thinking about.

"All the magic tools you made were not made for yourself."

After reading Lei Ye's memories, Buyadi knew that Lei Ye accidentally taught himself to become an engineer who could make artificial magic tools. After he mastered this craft -

[Loudspeaker], [Wheelchair], [Magic Furnace].
——These things were all for the weak people in need, and he worked hard to make them using his limited time.

This is how he became the monster with a moral value of 49 points step by step.

For a moment, Buyadi felt heartbroken and at a loss.

Lei Ye did not answer Buyadi's question immediately. He silently took out his notebook from his clothes.

Because of the rollback, he hasn't written anything on it for a long time, because the words always disappear.

However, he could see the main plot he had written at the beginning, the words he had written on the first page.

'save the world' (crossed out)

Lei Ye snapped the notebook shut and put it back.

"You're wrong. I'm doing this for myself." he said suddenly.

"What?" Buyadi was stunned.

"I've felt this way since the beginning. This moral value is actually not reliable at all. I'm not as righteous as you think. In fact, I'm much more dirty and hypocritical than you think."

Lei Ye sighed deeply.

"For example, in my worldview, slaves are an unimaginable existence. I should have been disgusted with this system and shouted that I have a dream to call for the liberation of slaves, but I couldn't do it. I knew clearly that I was incapable of doing it, so I told myself that this was the rule of this world and I needed to abide by it. Buying two slaves was actually what I had always wanted to do to satisfy my hypocritical view of good and evil. I would be very kind and concerned about them to prove that I was a person from a civilized world, but I was unwilling to remove their slave tattoos because I bought them with money."

"For example, you see I have done a lot of things in the slums, but I didn't do it for free. Their admiring gazes on me made me think I was a good person, but I didn't actually save all of them. I can save more people with the money I saved now, but I didn't do it because I needed the money myself. So I pretended not to see the people I didn't save, and I only looked at the people I saved to satisfy my delusion that 'I am a good person.'"

"Even what I'm saying to you now, I'm trying to prove to you that I'm a good person. I do these things for the peace and satisfaction that comes from it. You don't have to treat me like a saint who grew up in a church. I'm just an ordinary person with a dirty heart."

Buyadi listened attentively.

After confirming that Lei Ye had finished speaking, she opened and closed her mouth as if she had something to say.

I want to express some approval, I want to express some rebuttal.

But the words couldn't come out of her mouth. She realized that the man in front of her finally opened his heart to her and dissected his bloody self for her.

She accepted it happily, she just, just liked it this way.
An indescribable warmth burst out in my heart.

She suddenly laughed.

"Guess what, a filthy fellow like you might not be suitable for the brave team, but for the Demon King, it's just right!"

Holding Lei Ye's hand, she ran happily on the street. The sunlight fell on their shoulders, casting a layer of warm orange light.

She finally understood one thing.

The favorability level increased to 50, but her vague mood changes were only expressed in numbers.

And this moment is the moment when her first love begins.

"The date isn't over yet. Let's go somewhere else to play. Where's the next stop? Oh, I remember, the library! Let's go to the library!" she said loudly.

"Dating?"

"Otherwise, it's just a date."

"There's nothing fun in the library."

"Why is there nothing to do? Let's go read some pornographic books! Let's go read some pornographic books together!"

"Oh no"

Lei Ye sighed, unable to refuse Buyadi's strength or her joy.

That joy made him feel a little happy.

But he didn't know why Buyadi was so happy. He had brought Luoya here before, but that person disliked the dirty ground, the smelly air, and the impolite children, and soon stopped coming again.

But Buyadi seemed quite happy.

why?

Under this grand sunshine, Buyadi suddenly turned around.

That smiling face was shrouded in a warm halo, presenting a breathtaking beauty. Her clear red eyes were brighter than ever, burning like the color of flames.

Lei Ye knew clearly that this time, the light was no longer a scrutiny of him, but the light of the girl enveloping him with her burning heart.

(End of this chapter)