My daily life of exorcising demons and falling in love with a witch.

The fact that she can write as well with her left hand as with her right hand shows that the dexterity of both hands is almost the same, and her coordination is almost perfect.

In this way, Xiao Ji will have a great advantage if she wields two weapons.

She can wield her secondary weapon just as effectively as her primary weapon. She can even handle two swords of the same length without much difficulty.

The reason Yoshiyuki specifically considered this is because dual-wielding usually requires the two weapons to be of different lengths. For example, one hand holding a katana and the other a tanto. This is to avoid accidental collisions between the weapons during swings.

The difficulty of controlling two weapons of the same length increases significantly when wielding them simultaneously.

Xiao Ji finished writing quickly with her nimble fingers.

She held up the notebook and showed it to the two of them.

It reads: "My mom often buys me books and reads them to me."

"Unbelievable!" Yixing exclaimed in astonishment. "The young lady can actually read stories to others! Is she really not an imposter?"

"Hey! What do you mean, you scoundrel servant?!" Erina shouted, half annoyed. "You make it sound like I can't read stories to people!"

"It's just a little hard to imagine," Yoshiyuki complained. "Because you still need me to tell you bedtime stories. The contrast is just too big for that."

"Hmph, what?! I can tell stories to Ji now too! With such a lovely daughter, of course I'll do my duty as a mother!"

"Then, Miss, how about starting to learn to cook tonight? Let's begin with chopping vegetables."

"No way!" Erina immediately refused upon hearing about cooking. "Why should I cook! I just need to breastfeed Hime at night. That's tiring enough!"

Upon hearing this, Yixing was struck dumb as if by lightning, and his hand holding the eel trembled violently.

The food almost flew out of the lunchbox. Luckily, it hit the edge of the lunchbox.

Since Makiko Kodera happened to be passing by, she was lucky enough that the eel would probably poke her eye.

What?!

Yi Xing cried out in his heart.

Xiao Ji actually did *that* with the young lady last night?!

Ahhh, I'm so envious!!!

I really want to try it too!

Despite feeling extremely jealous, Yi Xing had to maintain a calm demeanor on the surface.

That's all he asked.

"Xiao Ji, remember next time you can't drink milk after brushing your teeth. If you really have to drink it, at least rinse your mouth afterwards."

Xiao Ji nodded.

"Hey, what?! I don't have any milk at all, okay?!" Erina retorted, then glanced at Yoshiyuki's expression and gave him a mischievous grin. "Oh dear, you scumbag servant, aren't you envious? You want to be like Hime too, don't you?"

"No way. I'm all grown up now." Yixing tried to appear calm. "I'm not interested at all."

"Oh, is that so? What a pity." Erina sighed, feigning disappointment. "I was thinking of letting Yoshiyuki try it. I didn't expect that the lowly servant has absolutely no interest."

What?!

Is it really that amazing?!

I'm interested!!!

Yi Xing blushed and barely managed to hold back from shouting these words out loud.

He knew Erina was just teasing him.

If you take it seriously, you'll fall into their trap.

I'll definitely be mercilessly mocked by the young lady, and I'll truly understand what it means to be a clown.

On the contrary, remaining silent might disappoint the young lady.

Thinking about it this way makes me feel much better.

It can even create the illusion that you've won too much.

After the meal, Yixing put away the food box and specifically asked Xiaoji if she had eaten enough.

She nodded and wrote the following line in her notebook.

[Xiao Ji's order has arrived; she needs to pick it up from the convenience store.]

"Huh? What kind of goods are they?" Erina asked excitedly. "Is it merchandise?"

"That's enough, Miss. Don't compare yourself to Xiao Ji."

"What's wrong with buying merchandise? It's not like it's anything weird!"

"That's not true. But it's strange that your first reaction to the order was about the surrounding area!"

As for what Xiao Ji actually ordered, the answer was soon revealed.

It's fish food.

These weren't regular items at the convenience store; she asked the shop owner to bring them back when he was ordering stock.

This made Yixing realize something, and he remembered what Yaodaoji had said before—Chairman Shimizu had asked her to help feed the goldfish in the wishing well.

Of course, strictly speaking, it should be "written".

The lifestyle store wasn't far from here, and they quickly arrived nearby.

From here, you can already see the magnificent auditorium in the distance.

It appears to be the only place that is not open to the public today.

However, since the opening ceremony will be held here tomorrow, and everyone will go in and take their seats, Yoshiyuki is incredibly excited just thinking about what kind of speech Yusuke will give and what kind of performances each club will put on.

Since the cafeteria was closed, students who hadn't prepared lunch boxes bought instant food from the convenience store.

Therefore, many people gathered there.

The reason this place doesn't quite qualify as a convenience store is that it doesn't offer the essential ready-to-eat meals like oden, fried chicken, and bento boxes. Those items need to be purchased from the cafeteria.

In this small shop that mainly sells snacks and school supplies, the most popular items for students who need to solve their lunch problem are instant noodles, various kinds of sandwich bread, and rice balls.

The salmon rice balls were the first to be sold out.

When Yixing and the others arrived, the shelf that should have been there was completely empty.

Due to the popularity of cup noodles, poached eggs are also selling well—these are packaged foods and are available almost everywhere cup noodles are sold. Most students who buy cup noodles also add an egg to their meal.

There are original flavors and seasoned flavors—such as seafood flavor, soy sauce flavor, etc.

Yoshiyuki and Erina looked around curiously and found Kitajima Sayo, Sakura Yuki Chiai and that pink-haired bunny girl eating together.

They seemed very familiar to me.

Yoshiyuki doesn't know whether the bunny-eared girl became familiar with Sakura because of her good relationship with Kitajima.

But he could probably guess the reason why Beidao and Yingxue were so close.

It's probably because she often comes to the library to read that she frequently runs into the Snow Maiden who lives outside the academy.

Yingxue's family was poor, and although she ate with them, she didn't buy anything.

Her lunchbox consisted of just white rice and a dried plum dyed red.

This cheapest bento box is also known as the Hinomaru Bento because it resembles the Japanese flag.

People with even a little bit of means wouldn't bring such things to school, which shows just how tight the food budget was.

This made Yixing feel a pang of sadness.

She reminded him of himself before he traveled through time.

They have to be extremely frugal, even with just a penny.

Kitajima Sayo and the bunny-eared girl are eating cup noodles with poached eggs and mentaiko mashed potatoes, along with a rice ball with a bursting egg, as their main meal.

As for the side dishes, they were all kinds of snacks—cheese fish sausage, spicy crab sticks, and Hokkaido cheese rice cakes.

These dishes are all quite delicious.

Erina, who is a big fan of junk food, has eaten at least a truckload of it since she was a child.