I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

With a click, the door opened. The girl cheered, completely ignoring Li Cheng's mutterings behind her, and hurriedly took off her shoes and ran into the room. She jumped lightly and fell onto the soft sofa, grabbed the fox-shaped cushion, hugged it, and then rolled around comfortably.

Honestly, how am I supposed to lecture someone like this?

Li Cheng sighed and could only slowly walk into the house, put down his cane, and sit down on the sofa.

Actually, he wouldn't have any problems even without using crutches. Although he had to forcefully grab the back of the van and brake with his foot to stop it from moving forward, which rubbed the skin off his soles, the medical advancements in this world were quite remarkable. In just five days, all of Li Cheng's injuries were basically healed.

In fact, it was only because of Shirou's insistence, a gentle and kind-hearted man, that Li Cheng started using that cane. The boy insisted on letting Li Cheng experience what it's like to be a pirate captain, arguing that "the injury to my leg has just healed, and Uncle should be more careful."

Although it was a bit of a hassle, it was a kind gesture after all, and he wouldn't refuse easily, so he obediently walked back to his home with his cane.

Speaking of which, according to Kiritsugu Emiya, Shirou seemed to come and help clean his house every few days during his hospitalization, so even though no one lived there for many days, the place is still very clean.

Looks like I'll have to find some time to properly thank that kid.

Thinking this, Li Cheng turned around and looked at the girl beside him, who was rolling around on the sofa hugging a fox-shaped pillow. He suddenly remembered his decision with Kiritsugu Emiya last night and hesitated for a moment. Just as he was pondering what to do next, he looked up and saw the wall clock in the corner.

Oh, right, it's already 11:30, it's almost noon.

"How are you? Are you hungry?"

Li Cheng patted the girl's shoulder and asked with a smile.

"Cheng, let's eat!"

To this, the gluttonous monster girl always gives an incredibly positive response.

Upon entering the kitchen, Li Cheng was surprised to find a large food box on the stove. Opening it, he discovered a rather exquisite bento box inside, clearly the work of Emiya Shirou.

I'm so ashamed to be taken care of by that child.

But this gentle, kind, handsome, and strong boy—I wonder which lucky girl will be able to marry him?

"Wow!"

A girl's exclamation rang out beside him. He didn't know when the girl had slipped up to him, grabbed his clothes, and climbed onto his shoulder. She stared at the food in the food box with a distracted expression.

What a little glutton!

Li Cheng smiled and let her lean on his shoulder. He carried the food box back to the living room, walked to the dining table, and began lunch without hesitation.

But watching the girl wolf down her food, Li Cheng found himself unable to eat anything.

He looked at the girl, hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself. After thinking for a long time, he finally looked at her and slowly said:

"Um, you said your surname is 'Yakumo', right?"

"Well?"

The girl looked up blankly, her face showing a puzzled expression as if asking, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"I mean, I mean, um... well, okay, I mean, if I were to give you a name, would you be able to accept it?"

The girl still didn't seem to understand.

"Look, I'm Li Cheng. When you call me Cheng, I know it's you calling me. So, I'll give you a name, so that every time I call that name, you'll know it's me calling you. How about that? Can you accept that?"

Li Cheng scratched his head, laughing as he spoke, spouting nonsense that even he himself didn't know what he was saying.

The girl tilted her head, looking at the man in front of her with a mixture of embarrassment and discomfort in his smile, somewhat puzzled. After a moment, she gave him a thumbs up and said very seriously:

"Cheng, you're such an idiot!"

"...So it really turned out like this in the end."

With a long sigh, Li Cheng patiently watched the girl finish the food box, wipe the grease from the corners of her mouth with a tissue, take the food box back to the kitchen and put it in the sink, then jump back onto the sofa and continue rolling around in front of the fox plushie.

I should have just said no, why am I hesitating here?

"Hey, kid!"

Li Cheng raised his voice, and the girl on the sofa immediately turned around, hugging a cushion and looking at him with a puzzled expression.

"Although I've called you little devil, little rascal, little bastard and a bunch of other names for so long, none of them really count as a proper name. I've thought about it for a long time and decided that I should give you a formal name. Anyway, you can't remember it clearly, so it's normal for me, as your guardian, to give it to you."

As he spoke, Li Cheng walked up to the girl, squatted down, and positioned himself at eye level with her.

"So, from today onwards, I'll be taking good care of you, little one, no—"

He cleared his throat.

"Yakumo Shio".

The young youkai girl—no, Yakumo Shio—looked at Li Cheng with some confusion, not understanding what he was saying. But then, Li Cheng tapped her nose and called her "Shio," "Shio," "Shio" repeatedly... and she quickly understood that he was addressing her, just as when she said "Cheng," she was addressing the man in front of her.

So she softly hummed in her clear voice.

"As expected, you can still understand."

Li Cheng laughed and patted Ya Yunxi's head, which made her cotton hat tilt slightly. This made her very dissatisfied and she shouted, immediately slapping Li Cheng's hand away.

"Cheng, you idiot!"

"It's this again... Wait, where did you learn the word 'idiot' from?!"

Unbeknownst to both Li Cheng and Yakumo Shio, in order to make the girl's identity more plausible by altering the household registration records, Emiya Kiritsugu secretly modified Li Cheng's records, adding the name "Yakumo Cheng" to make his connection with the youkai Yakumo Shio seem more reasonable.

However, that's irrelevant now. For the two of them, enjoying a peaceful life is their priority.

……

Thank you to reader Brunhilde for the razor blade, and to Binglingtan for the spicy snacks.

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The first volume, "The Young Girl and the Cult Incident," has come to a perfect end. This volume tells the story of Li Cheng, an ordinary person, and Yakumo Shio, a yokai, from their first meeting to their growing dependence on each other.

Yes, Li Cheng, an ordinary person who physically stopped a car and caught a bullet with his bare body.

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Section 23, Chapter 1: Li Cheng's Math Classroom

Early morning, in a quiet apartment building near the city outskirts.

"Then here, 19 plus 1, to make 20, the same applies to 29, 39, and so on... Hey, don't doze off, tide, pay attention!"

The drowsy girl, with a helpless and irritable expression of utter despair, looked at the middle-aged man who was enthusiastically lecturing her.

So boring, so annoying, so irritating.

The girl twirled the pencil in her hand, unable to resist thinking about what to eat for lunch.

"tide? Hey, tide, are you listening? tide! You, recite the multiplication table again."

Even a minute or two of distraction will result in a reprimand from the teacher. This is probably the most painful aspect of one-on-one tutoring for students.

The girl looked up at the man, who continued his endless chatter, with a resentful expression, and couldn't help but feel the urge to punch him. However, considering the difference in their skin thickness, she could only weakly slam her head against the table and shake it back and forth.

"tide is hungry, tide wants to eat!"

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the girl stretched out her little hand and shouted loudly.

"Are you hungry so early? Are you a pig?" Li Cheng sighed, then put down the elementary school textbook he had borrowed from Ilya, turned to look at the wall clock, and found that it was only about 11 o'clock.

"tide, I'm hungry..."

Her sleeve was gently tugged, and when she turned her head, she saw Yakumo Shio, who was almost lying on the table, looking at Li Cheng with a pitiful expression.

"..."

Li Cheng sighed, then could only say "get out of class dismissed" before closing his textbook.

The girl, who looked like she was on the verge of death, immediately jumped up with a shout of "Yay!" and fled from the desk like a whirlwind.

Does this girl really hate studying that much?

Li Cheng felt an unprecedented sense of frustration.

tide didn't care about Li Cheng's reaction. After running around the room for a while, she ran back to Li Cheng, tugged at his clothes hard, and shouted happily, "Buy groceries! Buy groceries! Let's go buy groceries!"

"Okay, okay, I know, just don't tear your clothes."

As he spoke, Li Cheng picked up a hat from the coat rack by the door, squatted down and put it on Yakumo Shio, then tidied the girl's somewhat disheveled long golden hair.

During this period, Li Cheng no longer went out to buy groceries alone, but took Ya Yunxi with him. On the one hand, this was to let her get used to crowded places so that she wouldn't be too afraid of strangers; on the other hand, it was also to let her get familiar with the surrounding environment so that she could find her way home even if she went out alone.

Kiritsugu Emiya initially opposed this approach, as Yakumo Shio's background remained a mystery, and allowing the girl to appear in public might lead to unforeseen consequences. However, Li Cheng disagreed with his idea this time and insisted on taking the girl out every day.

He hoped to give tide a normal human life experience.

"Oh my, the beef is so fresh today. tide, would you like some?"

"Mmm-hmm!" (Nodding frantically)

"Is this cod? It's so big! It looks delicious. tide, do you want some?"

"Mmm-hmm-hmm!" (Nodding frantically)

"However, you only need one main course. You can only choose one, either fish or beef. Shizuo, which one would you prefer?"

The young girl earnestly extended one hand, opened it, then slowly clenched it, looked up at the man, and answered with a serious expression:

"I want it all!"

"...You are not allowed to learn those strange things from Ilya."

(Ilya: Achoo (*>﹏<*))

In the end, I bought both the beef and the cod and brought them home.

tide continued to eat happily. After spending some time together, Li Cheng had realized that the quantity of food was meaningless to her; her appetite was a true bottomless pit, connected to another dimension. She could eat as much as a normal person, and even many times that amount without a problem, as if she had a built-in control button, able to eat as much as she wanted. Therefore, Li Cheng generally didn't consider the quantity when cooking, since she could eat it all clean, no matter how little. He'd rather focus on making it more delicious and appealing.

Thanks to Shio, and after a long period of culinary training, Li Cheng has now barely reached the skill level of 0.02 Emiya Shirou.

"We'll continue studying arithmetic this afternoon."

Unwittingly, Li Cheng uttered words that horrified the girl.