The three got off at Akihabara East Station and then walked back to the electronics district.

This is the road she'll be walking home from school every day from now on. Erina has already started looking around the shops with great interest, planning what she can eat on her way home.

Originally, the young lady was probably just so hungry that she wanted to eat her daughter, not so hungry that her stomach was growling.

However, when she saw the food cart with the sign "Xia Xia's Grilled Sausage" appear, a loud rumbling sound of her stomach churning suddenly rang out, as if Yi Xing was abusing her and hadn't given her any food all day.

"Ah, it's here!" Erina pointed at it and shouted excitedly, "I haven't found it for days! It's even opened in Akihabara! Hime, shall we go eat that? It has animal ears made of kemonomimi (animal-eared girls), it's super delicious!"

Xiao Ji nodded, looking eager to try, with a little drool escaping from the corner of her mouth, which she then gently wiped away.

Yi Xing couldn't help but wonder whether he should tell her the fact that there were actually no animal ears inside.

However, this was still too cruel for a child who was only a little over a hundred years old, so Yixing, as a loving father, ultimately did not speak up.

The same two people were still standing behind the food cart.

One of them is a purple-haired girl called "Xia Xia," wearing purple fake animal ears, who is busy grilling sausages.

The other one is a pink and white-haired girl known as "Mao Mao," whose entire body has been transformed with demon blood.

She carried a bladed bow on her back and wore a black leather collar with a chain attached.

Because she wasn't very busy, Mao Mao didn't do any work.

She sipped her milk tea and chatted with the customers.

The milk tea packaging features a cartoon snowman carrying an ice cream RPG and wearing sunglasses.

Two customers are waiting for grilled sausages.

He didn't recognize one of the women, who had short black hair.

But the other one is someone we are very familiar with.

"Yay!" Wu Lili turned around and waved happily at them, "You're back from school?"

"Yeah, that's true. Speaking of which... I feel like you're really free, always slacking off outside." Yoshiyuki retorted, "Is this something Ms. Fujimori allows?"

"I just wanted to catch my breath while the manager wasn't around. There are other staff members serving customers over there anyway." Wu Lili sighed wearily as she mentioned this, "You have no idea how tiring it is to be a waitress."

"Yeah, right... I suddenly remembered, Black Forest Cafe is only closed for four hours a day," Yoshiyuki said. "From 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., right?"

"Yes, that's right. Those four hours are just for restocking supplies and cleaning after closing time," Wu Lili complained. "Actually, there aren't many customers at all at night. But the manager insists on staying open that late, and we're working really hard!"

"From what you're saying, it's like there's no shift work." Erina was a little confused. "How many hours do you guys actually work a day?"

"Hmm... not necessarily." Wu Lili twitched her animal ears and answered, "In principle, it's from six in the morning to nine at night. But in reality, we basically work 24 hours a day. However, we can rest whenever we want when there aren't many customers, since we live in the shop anyway."

"Should I say this work style is too casual or what..." Yixing felt speechless after hearing her say that.

He actually wanted to ask Wu Nini and Wu Lili what their relationship was with the store manager.

They don't look like ordinary employees at all.

"Speaking of which, this little girl is so cute!" Wu Lili looked down at Yaodaoji, scratching her bouncy, white animal ears, seemingly also feeling a flutter of infatuation: "Where did you find her?"

"What do you mean 'found'?! This is our girl— Waaah!"

Yi Xing was startled and immediately intervened. Fortunately, he managed to shut the young lady up in time.

Erina realized she had almost let something slip and looked terrified.

"Huh? What did you say?" Wu Lili looked at Yixing curiously, then at Erina: "Who is she to you?"

"She's a good friend we made at school, her name is Yaodao-hime." Yoshiyuki immediately explained casually, "She's not very talkative, please forgive her."

"Oh, I see! Hello, Demon Blade Princess~" Wu Lili smiled and pointed to herself: "My name is Wu Lili! I'm a very normal human girl! Nice to meet you!"

Xiao Ji tilted her head slightly, looking at the beast-eared girl with no particular expression.

However, Yixing could tell from her eyes that Yaodaoji seemed to be troubled by Wu Lili's confusing behavior.

"Hey! Don't try to cover it up like that, okay?" Yi Xing leaned close to Wu Lili's ear, who had a naturally four-speaker voice, and whispered a reminder: "It might not have been a big deal, but by emphasizing it like this, people will probably suspect you're a monster."

"Huh? Really?" Wu Lili choked back a sob and explained in a low voice, "I don't usually say that to people. I only emphasized it because I noticed she had a very strong demonic aura..."

As Wu Lili was speaking, she suddenly stopped, looked at the black-haired customer next to her who was smiling and patting Yaodaoji's head, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow! Xiaoming! You sneaked away! How cunning!"

"Oh dear, why didn't you make the first move?" The black-haired woman, called Xiaoming, rubbed Xiaoji's cheek and chuckled. "This child is quite remarkable... she feels amazing."

"Hey, haven't you had enough?! Let go!" Erina snatched the seemingly dazed Hime back into her arms, huffed, and asserted her ownership: "Only I can touch Hime however I want!"

"Oh—what about me?" Yoshiyuki quickly pointed to himself and asked.

"Oh...oh right, and those scumbag servants too!"

"Don't act like you just remembered I exist!"

After making his rant, Yixing turned to look at the black-haired girl with a puzzled expression.

The "Xiao Ming" mentioned earlier was pronounced in Chinese.

As a Chinese time traveler, his first reaction upon hearing this name was that it was a frequent subject in textbooks.

Xiao Ming is a legendary figure.

Even the simplest arithmetic can go wrong, experiments are always unclear, and there are always piles of grammatically incorrect sentences.

They would do something as idiotic as simultaneously turning on both the inlet and outlet pipes to fill the pool.

My English is terrible, yet I always write letters to foreign friends. When I can't understand something, I ask you for help.

Strangely, ever since he entered high school, Yi Xing, who was in the pre-time travel era, has never seen Xiao Ming appear in his homework.

It's probably because such a poor student, who is also not very bright, can't get into high school.

In short, Yi Xing felt quite uncomfortable when he saw the girl Xiao Ming in front of him.

"Uh, wait a minute, your name is Xiaoming? So that means..."

"Yes. I'm of Chinese descent, you know? My full name is Ming Suihua. I've known Wu Lili for a long time." Ming Suihua took the sausage Xia handed her and took a bite. "I've heard about you before. You must be the famous Yoshiyuki Yoda, right?"

"Huh?" Erina was taken aback.

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