New Century Kitchen Warrior

Chapter 44: The final daily routine begins from this night
The maid trembled as she glanced at Buyadi secretly, then nodded and whispered to Lei Ye.

"Mr. Lei Ye! Welcome, no, welcome back, how should I put it? (whispering) Welcome, welcome to become the new owner of this place. I am your exclusive maid, Lestar."

"It's so painful. The pressure is so great. It's so painful." (whispering)

Oh yes, that’s the feeling.

Although the way that Sekbosi pretends to be uncool is also cute, this damp girl is more interesting. The more scared she is, the more she wants to bully her.

Hey, how about ordering her to scrub herself later, but not with her hands.

Haha, don't look away in fear when your eyes meet. I'm just kidding. I'm not that mean. I won't let you use any weird part of your body to scrub my body. I'll just use my feet, haha.

Lei Ye felt a little happy. Although Lasda had forgotten what happened before and this was their first meeting, Lasda was still Lasda. There was still time for them to get to know each other again and rebuild the relationship they once had. In a nutshell, I was very happy to see you again.

When he looked up, Lei Ye saw a familiar person.

That was the inconspicuous assassin Miss Yuna, who was standing in the dark corner of the reception room. Her expressionless face actually looked relieved after seeing Buyadi.

In the blink of an eye, her expression completely disappeared and turned into the familiar Sima face. In another blink of an eye, she flashed behind Buyadi and stood there silently like a pendant.

Come to think of it, he vaguely remembered that the icy assassin lady's attitude towards him had softened a lot, but now she didn't even glance at him.

I've returned to a place where I know many of my friends, so why do I feel so lonely and out of place?

It doesn’t matter. It’s a familiar person, so Lei Ye still feels very happy.

"Your name is Lasda. Do you know why you were appointed as the personal maid of Mr. Lei?" While Lei Ye was feeling sentimental, Buyadi teased Lasda with a mischievous look on her face.

When Buyadi got so close to her face and called out to her, Lesda was so frightened that she looked like she was going to foam at the mouth at any moment.

She stammered in her answer.

"I know, I know, I don't know. It's because, because."

"Lasda, stand at attention!" Buyadi suddenly shouted.

"Alas!"

"I want to ask you, your master came back from a long journey, why is there no food on the table? Go, cook two dishes for Master Lei!"

“Okay, okay. Woohoooooooaaaaah (quietly)”

Dazed, she trotted toward the kitchen.

Looking at her back as she wiped her tears, Buyadi let out a nasty laugh.

With this smile, she narrowed her eyes into a dangerous arc and looked towards Lei Ye.

"Mr. Lei, who's watching the show over there, you look quite happy. Why, do you like this clumsy little maid? Oh, oh, a decadent master and a bullied maid, your dirty mind shouldn't have any strange ideas."

not good!

This low-pitched question gave Lei Ye goosebumps.

"How could that be! I am a very honest person!" he retorted immediately.

Actually, I was thinking about it just now. Bu Yadi must have discovered it.

Miss Amakusa's words can be quite scary, and she seems to be getting more and more irritable recently.

dinner time.

Leda made two dishes, scrambled eggs with green peppers and scrambled eggs with green peppers.

Lei Ye and Buyadi, who were sitting at the table, looked at the dishes and chopsticks placed in front of them, then looked at Lesa who was trembling as she stood aside, and finally looked at each other.

Not to mention whether the dinner prepared for the Demon King is a bit shabby, these two dishes look alike.

"Let me ask you, Lasda, what are the names of these two dishes?" Buyadi asked.

"Yes, yes," Lesda lowered her head, "It's scrambled eggs with green peppers, and scrambled eggs with green peppers."

After a moment of silence, Lei Ye asked again.

"Let me ask you, Lasda, is this the only dish you can cook?"

"Yes, yes. Woo." Lesta lowered her head even more.

The child, who was like a punched bag, spoke in a small voice with a hint of crying.

Alas, this useless maid. No wonder she was slacking off during the previous dinner.

Seeing her like that, Lei Ye withdrew his hand that was about to take out the lunch box from the storage bag, picked up a piece of egg from some unknown monster, and chewed it.

Bad eating.

As he ate, he reached out to Lesda, "Do you have anything for me?"

"W-what?"

"Like a list or something."

The moment she heard the list, Lesta looked even more dejected as if the sky had fallen, and immediately frantically groped around her body.

"Ahhh, I'm sorry. I should have given this to you right away, but I was too nervous. I'm so sorry."

I've seen this episode once, so I'll skip it.

While eating, Lei Ye took the list handed to him by Lesta.

Check out the names above.

At the same time, he glanced at a succubus maid who was standing aside, idly waiting for orders.

"Chris, step out!"

He patted the seat next to him with one hand and pointed with the other hand at the succubus with a pipe hidden behind her back. Even though Buyadi was there, she didn't act nonchalant at all. But when she was called out, she was stunned, with confusion and uneasiness on her face.

Of course, even though this maid seemed arrogant in her impression, now that Bu Yadi was here, she could only sit next to Lei Ye hesitantly after Lei Ye spoke.

How should I put it? Although she is just taking advantage of the power of others, she still has the refreshing feeling of a bad girl with a high opinion of herself compromising with power and obeying the principal's son.

"Do you recognize me?" Lei Ye raised his eyebrows.

The maid named Chris who was sitting next to him turned her head slightly, and Lei Ye heard a faint "tsk".

When she turned around again, her face was filled with the impeccable smile of a succubus maid, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes slightly narrowed.

"Master Lei, you are joking. Before we came here, we were specifically told that we would be serving Master Buyadi's cherished friend, the great new devil Mr. Lei Ye. As your maids, how could we not know you?"

".Not awesome anymore?"

Seeing that she was obviously unhappy but pretending to be a good maid, Lei Ye felt secretly happy.

Scorched earth is still better. In scorched earth, the lower-level devils are also the bosses!
".?"

This girl named Chris had an expression on her face that she was trying hard to hold back her speech.

It seemed like he had no idea why Lei Ye was looking for trouble.

Lei Ye suddenly stretched out his hand, "What are you hiding behind your back?"

The speechless expression turned into a trace of panic, and Chris turned his head away again, "Nothing."

"Bring it here, let me see it!"

"tsk"

She no longer had that unhappy expression, but because Buyadi, who was sitting opposite her, was watching the show, Chris had no choice but to reluctantly hand over the pipe hidden behind her waist.

Lei Ye took it and looked at the long and exquisitely shaped pipe.

Sniffing the cigarette outlet, he smelled a fresh fruity scent.

When I looked up, I saw Chris's disgusted look as if she was looking at a disgusting bug.

"You M you. Master Lei, did you hold it upside down?" Her tone was full of disgust.

Lei Ye looked at the pipe again and found that it was indeed held upside down.

Wow this thing is so flawed in design.

Lei Ye turned around and took a sniff, which was a pungent fruity smell.

He smiled crookedly, handed the thing back and shook his head.

"Your pipe seems a bit too traditional." Lei Ye said softly.

Chris didn't listen to what he said, but just wiped the cigarette holder gently with her sleeve with a look of heartache.

Looking at Chris in that state, Lei Ye suddenly smiled a little wickedly, and an interesting idea came to his mind.

Can his skills be used on tobacco leaves? The storage bag does contain a kind of tobacco leaves he found in this alien world, but the quantity is not large, he saved it for seeds.

It was too precious to be worth giving away, so Lei Ye thought about it and took out some dried fruits and some pink petals from the storage bag.

Then he took out a small bowl and used elementary fire magic to bake it at low temperature, refining it in an instant.

【Kitchen Man】Skill activated!
Lei Ye snatched Chris's pipe again, stuffed the crushed fruit and curled flower leaves into the mouth of the pipe, and returned it.

"This is very powerful!"

Chris was speechless, sighed, and took the pipe with her slender fingers.

As if she was dealing with her boss's unreasonable demands, she reluctantly crossed her legs and lit her pipe with fire magic.

"Okay, I'm full, Rasta. From now on, as long as I'm here, I will be responsible for the three meals a day of Yuzu Fort. When the time comes, you follow me and learn carefully. I will train you to be the second chef of Scorched Earth," Lei Ye glanced at Buyadi and immediately changed his words, "The third chef of Scorched Earth!"

"Jade-Jade Foot Burger? Master, are you going to cook it yourself?"

The strange name of the castle and the strange devil who wanted to cook made Lestar, who was standing aside, a little confused.

But her condition was still good, but Chris, who was sitting next to Lei Ye, was in a bad condition.

She leaned back in the chair, rolling her eyes like a dead fish. Only the occasional twitching of her body proved that she was still alive.

The elegance and charm she had shown previously had completely disappeared, and only a faint 'ah' or 'ooh' sound occasionally escaped from her mouth.

She's been like this for more than ten minutes. This is not okay.

Lei Ye took out a small portion of roasted green mushrooms, thought about it, cut it into small pieces with a knife and fed it into her mouth.

【Grilled Mushrooms (Green)】: Quickly restores spirit.

"It seems that the combination of my skills and cigarettes is a bit too powerful. Fortunately, what I made is not harmful, otherwise it would be really bad."

He grumbled quietly as he fed.

Seeing Chris, who had recovered a little and immediately stretched out her soft tongue to lick the cigarette holder, Lei Ye silently decided to turn around and burn the tobacco leaves in the storage bag.

As for cigarettes, forget it. It’s better not to make money from them.

"What are you doing? Are you upset with her?"

Buyadi, who had been watching the show with great interest, suddenly said.

"Not really," Lei Ye shook his head. "I found this maid a bit troublesome before. I didn't want to use the method I used last time to make her work. I thought of taming her in another way this time, but now it seems unethical, so I decided to forget it."

"Is that so? Isn't that good?" Buyadi raised her eyebrows excitedly when she heard the word 'morality'. She waved to Yuna who was standing behind her, "By the way, that Saint Lady should be okay. Bring her here and throw her into the basement!"

As she said this she looked towards Lei Ye.

"Yes, we talked about this before. This time you want her to sign her name on your contract book. I am looking forward to what means you will use to make her sign, and how you will use that soul to please yourself in the soul realm~"

Lei Ye nodded without much hesitation.

It's strange to say, maybe it's really because his moral values ​​have dropped, but now he has no psychological burden at all about the idea of ​​taking away Ronnies' soul.

He imitated Buyadi's movements, waved to Lasda behind him, and instructed her on a few things.

"Move Chris back to the dormitory to have some rest. Also, make sure the people I brought here are settled. This is their dinner. Bring it over."

An overly tall maid carried the limp Chris away, and Lesda took several boxed lunches from Lei Ye.

Looking at Chris, whose skin was rosy and moist, Lei Ye was thoughtful.

The versatility of his skills seemed to be even higher than he had imagined. Things like 'tobacco leaves' should not be considered as food, but they could benefit from the bonus of [Cook].

This non-combat auxiliary skill seems to have not been fully developed.

For example, if this skill is used to refine medicine, will it be effective?

"Why are you suddenly distracted? What are you thinking about?" Buyadi, who had been staring at him for a long time, changed into a comfortable position.

Lei Ye shook his head, "Nothing."

"What? You seemed quite happy since you came here, but you suddenly looked serious just now. I thought you were thinking of something bad."

"Not really. Do I look happy?"

"Obviously."

Is that so, he feels happy here on Scorch Earth?
Perhaps it was because he hadn't felt the feeling of 'daily life' for a long time, he felt very relaxed here, and had a sense of security that he wouldn't encounter any abstract developments.

Oh, it’s indeed a long-lost daily routine, it’s time to enjoy it.

Tease the little maid, and then find that blueberry-scented kid to be your follower or something.

You must be doing very well in the scorched earth.

At this moment, Buyadi stood up with the help of the table.

"Okay, let's go now and find Grady while you're in a good mood."

Lei Ye was stunned, "Now? So suddenly? It's so late now, she should be asleep already."

"Don't worry, that guy must not be asleep yet, just follow me."

She pulled Lei Ye up.

They came outside and let the black mist envelope the two of them.

Then, he flew up and left.

Lei Ye thought they were going to go through a wormhole and was ready to release the magic bubble, but he soon understood why Buyadi wanted to carry him flying, because Buyadi's speed was faster than a wormhole!

While flying at low altitude, Lei Ye looked at the dead trees that flew past him quickly.

On the orange-red soil, the dry pieces of wood stood crookedly.

His heart moved and he thought of what Buyadi had talked to him about before.

"You said before that you wanted to grow something with me."

"Well, your skill has a hidden feature, I noticed it."

No wonder.
The hidden characteristics of the [Kitchen Man] were discovered by Lei Ye accidentally. He can make seeds germinate faster and grow stronger.

So he had always wanted a house with arable land, so that even if he didn't become an explorer, he wouldn't have to worry about starving to death and could be self-sufficient.

However, because he had been working as a cook for the past five years, although he had collected a variety of seeds in his storage bag, this characteristic had hardly been developed.

So that's how it is. Scorched earth is difficult to cultivate. This reason alone is enough to explain the basic worldview of this world where humans and demons have been fighting endlessly for many years.

In this sense, Lesda's scrambled eggs with green peppers should be considered a very high-end food in Scorched Earth.

He suddenly thought of something and lowered his head in silence.

No wonder. No wonder Bu Yadi kept staring at me.

[Kitchen Man] This skill is not strong, but it is rare enough. He who possesses this skill is necessary for Scorched Earth.

"But you have to understand, I'm not pestering you because of this skill," Buyad said suddenly without even looking at him, "I'm staring at you because I like you."

"That's it."

Subconsciously, Lei Ye raised the corner of his mouth, and the gloom in his heart disappeared.

I couldn't help but think of what Buyadi said a long time ago.

'You have been targeted by the devil.'

It seems to be true.

"What is the name of Grady's castle?" Lei Ye changed the subject.

"Moko Castle." Buyadi answered.

Moko Burger. Compared with the Yuzu Burger and the Barbecue Burger, it is a very serious and nice name, and it also has an inexplicably high-end feeling.

Maybe it's because it has something to do with 'technology'?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of the little gadget he had given to Grady before.

He gently took out a radio, held it in his hand and pressed the buttons.

The song floated out, as if celebrating his reunion with that old friend.

(It's been a long day)

(End of this chapter)