Becoming a god in a low-key way in the supernatural world

Takanashi looked up at him and asked in a low voice, "Do you think I'm being unreasonable? I asked for the date, and I asked to go back."

Kotegawa wiped his mouth with a napkin and replied, "I didn't think that way."

"What are you thinking about?"

"I wasn't thinking about anything... Don't look at me like that, I'm not lying to you, I'm enjoying the moment."

Takanashi stared blankly at him: "You...you won't be angry? You always do what I want, don't you think I'm a troublesome woman? You only care about yourself, selfish and boring..."

"Why would you think that?" For the first time, surprise appeared in Kotegawa's eyes. "I'm having a great time! We go to baths together, get massages together, and eat delicious food together..."

"Hey, we didn't take a bath together!" Takanashi corrected, then mustered her courage and said, "But... is this enough? You... you said you really wanted me, I... I..."

She couldn't continue speaking; some of the things she wanted to say were too embarrassing for a girl who had never even been in a relationship.

Kotegawa knew what she was going to say and chuckled, "You mean there's no physical intimacy... right?"

With her cheeks burning again, Kotori nodded a few times.

Kotegawa pondered for a moment and said, "Since we are still friends, and I am in the pursuit stage, if I were to think about doing something, it would be no different from being a hooligan."

Takanashi looked at him in surprise.

This reason... is so normal that it makes her feel ashamed, and makes her feel like there's something wrong with her head.

Or perhaps when she said those words, she subconsciously accepted what Kotekawa would do to her... but Kotekawa's integrity made her feel ashamed.

Kotegawa looked out the window, his tone leisurely: "Abiding by the law and having a moral bottom line are very important. Although I am a man, I am also a swordsman. I have certain requirements for myself. I do not bully the weak, I do not cowardly bully the weak, I do not do evil, and I do not force others to do things they do not want to do... I am a gentleman."

This time, Takanashi didn't laugh at him.

The two ate a hearty lunch at a leisurely pace, enjoyed the scenery for a while longer, and then left the Tokyo Skytree at one o'clock in the afternoon to drive home.

On the way back, Takanashi suddenly said, "Koutegawa... is a very remarkable boy."

"So don't let him get away with this!" Kotegawa climbed up the pole.

The girl leaned back in her chair, not immediately retorting, but looking blankly at him, she said, "But that kind of thing is too outrageous... Will sharing love become torture in the future?"

Never.

Kotegawa said this at the doorstep of Takanashi's house.

……

After watching Kotori enter her house with a mixture of emotions on his mind, he drove home as well. (Gu Zi)

She made a very good point: we should spend more time with Hu Tao and Qing Kong on the precious weekend.

It's the end of January now. Although it's a bit warmer around noon, the temperature is still quite low every day. There's no one in the yard; everyone is staying inside.

The kitten and the big white cat were watching TV in the living room.

When he returned, both cats stood up.

"You're back?" Amamiya Kazuki said in a childish voice.

He hummed in agreement, looked around the room, and asked, "Where are they?"

"I'm studying in the study," the kitten said without hesitation.

"You two can continue watching TV." He walked upstairs and saw Yujia and Qingkong engrossed in writing their papers in the study.

"Oh my, where have you been?" Yu Jia asked in surprise when she saw him, as if she really didn't know where he had gone.

Qingkong also put down her pen, but didn't say anything, just turned her head to look at him.

He thought for a moment and said, "I went to the hot spring with Kotori, took a bath, got a massage, and then had lunch."

"Taking a bath? Together?"

"...Do you think that's possible?"

"It's so nice to have hot springs to soak in and get a massage. Unlike us, we can't even afford to turn on the air conditioning, right? Qingkong?" Youjia said, rubbing her shoulders.

Qingkong didn't reply to her, but instead said to Kotegawa, "Let's go take a bath together... You really came up with that idea."

Kotegawa rubbed his prickly head and chuckled, "I don't really know anything about all this stuff. Taking a bath is nice, though. How about we go together sometime?"

"Although we'd like to go too, it just feels a bit strange if we go after you and Huawu have already done it, so let's just forget about it. Next time we'll just ask Hu Tao to go with us." Youjia grumbled, revealing a hint of resentment at not being included in the bath.

"It was a last-minute decision..." Kotegawa sat down at his desk and continued, "If you don't want to soak in a hot spring, you can go somewhere else to play."

"Going anywhere is boring, so I might as well stay home, watch TV, and play games."

Now that things have come to this, Yuka no longer hides the fact that she is an otaku.

Qingkong wasn't one to go shopping, so she checked the time and asked him softly, "Are you going out this afternoon?"

"No, I'm not going anywhere for the next couple of days," Kotegawa said. "We're going to make dumplings together later."

"It's good that you remember."

After chatting for a few minutes, Yuka and Haruka continued studying, while Kotegawa casually turned on the air conditioner, adjusted it to a comfortable temperature, leaned back on the sofa in the study, and took out his phone.

It wasn't that he was so bored that he started scrolling through his phone.

Instead, you should check the new emails you receive.

There were indeed a few new emails, but the main ones were LE messages, which were always marked with 99+ red text each time I checked.

He clicked on the message and saw the message Hu Tao had sent him: "My dad said that the gods don't care about him at all, so this matter probably can't help you."

He fell silent, his brows furrowing slightly.

Or perhaps we should just kill Jingwu and then directly ask Kitami Kenzun.

Chapter 105 Return to the Dark Lands

In the evening, in the kitchen, Kotegawa tied an apron around his neck, placed several kinds of dumpling fillings he had prepared on the table, and then took out dough, skillfully slapping, kneading, dicing, and rolling out the wrappers.

Yuka and Haruka, who were waiting nearby, held chopsticks in one hand and dumpling wrappers in the other, wrapping the wrappers and filling together.

Making dumplings involves several steps, and each dumpling must be made with care. So, it's something that one person is very reluctant to do, because the preparation time alone could take up several bowls of noodles.

However, if the whole family sits around the cutting board, preparing the filling and rolling out the dough together, chatting as they go, even about mundane family matters, they won't find making dumplings troublesome.

Amamiya Kazuki's eyes widened in surprise: "Are we having dumplings tonight?"

Yuka glanced at Kotegawa and replied, "Not just tonight, but tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and all the way until the day after that, you can eat dumplings anytime you want."

Today is the 29th, and Chinese New Year is just two days away.

The kitten counted on its fingers and said incredulously, "Four days in a row?"

"As long as there's dumpling filling, we can eat anytime," Kotegawa casually remarked.

It's almost the end of the year. Tomorrow, I'll take Qingkong Hutao shopping, buy some new clothes, and a lot more meat, fried tofu, and meatballs... As for other things, I'll deal with them after the New Year. After all, this was originally the time he planned to use up the spiritual fruits.

Time flew by, and when the sky outside was completely dark, Qingkong stretched and got up to go to the stove to turn on the fire and boil water to cook dumplings.

Kotegawa pinched the last dumpling and put it down, then raised his hand and fanned the dumplings on the table.

[Heart of Frost] was activated, and a chilling aura mixed with frost and snowflakes enveloped the table.

The freshly wrapped dumplings were instantly frozen.

This thing is much better than a refrigerator.

The kitten next to them stared in disbelief.

Kotegawa casually waved away the remaining chill, got up, rummaged through a large box, picked up the frozen dumplings, and stuffed them into the large refrigerator.

Yuka, who had been halfway through making dumplings and then ran to the living room to cuddle with the big white cat and watch TV, glanced over and said, "That's so nice! I wish I could do that too! In the summer, all I have to do is wave my hand!" She held the big white cat's front paw and waved it in the air.

"I'll never be afraid of the heat again!"

The big white cat, being used as a tool, meowed, and shivered. Fear filled its eyes. Sometimes it really couldn't tell whether Kotegawa was a human or some thousand-year-old monster.

"What a pity, this is our exclusive skill, even if I wanted to teach you, I couldn't."

"What a pity! Right? Meow meow meow..." Yujia buried her face in the back of the big white cat, rubbing against it and sucking on it.

Although making dumplings takes time, cooking them doesn't take much effort.

Kotegawa set out the bowls of chili oil and vinegar, then thought for a moment and added another dish.

The big white cat at home is quite clean. The kitten brushes its teeth every day, and it should get a share of the dumplings too.

Soon, the first batch of dumplings was cooked.

After dividing the Furude River, they immediately started cooking the second batch.

"Let's eat!" Youjia clapped her hands and said, eagerly picking up dumplings and, following his example, putting them directly into the vinegar bowl, dipping them in and taking a bite.

The big white cat sat on the chair, burying its head in its food.

"It's rare to see a cat like dumplings," Qingkong said with some surprise.

"Yes, maybe it even prefers eating shrimp and fish."

“How is that possible? It must be hungry, that’s why it’s not picky about food.” Youjia argued confidently, “If you give it shrimp, it definitely won’t eat dumplings.”

As she spoke, she stood up, ran to the fish tank in the living room, and scooped up a few lively, wriggling shrimp with a net.

Since getting a cat, the two girls chipped in to buy a fish tank to use as a "refrigerator" for the cat to raise shrimp.

The big white cat watched the shrimp jumping around and splashing water droplets everywhere. It silently stretched out its front paws to protect its plate, then moved aside a few times, turned around, and continued to eat its dumplings.

It has been eating live shrimp for who knows how many days, and now it feels like vomiting just looking at them.

"Huh?" Yujia was confused.

Kotegawa said speechlessly, "Anyone would get tired of eating shrimp every day... Alright, put the shrimp back and eat your food properly."

"Oh..." Yujia put the shrimp back into the fish tank, washed her hands, and then went back to eat.

An hour later, the two girls took turns showering, while Kotegawa finished his last bowl of dumplings, burping as he went to the kitchen counter to wash the pots and pans.

After quickly finishing his chores, he didn't rush upstairs. Instead, he went out to the yard, took a walk around the neighborhood, calmed down for a while, and then practiced some boxing before locking the door and returning to the house.

The two girls huddled together in front of the TV to watch the new drama series that aired that night. It was a rather old-fashioned monster-themed campus romance drama, which sounded a bit like an anime. In any case, it was all the same old clichéd story. Whether it could capture the audience's hearts or not depended entirely on the skill of the writers and actors.

Kotegawa had absolutely no interest in this. He had encountered far too many monsters, so when he watched this kind of drama, he always felt that everything was awkward, incongruous, and problematic. But everyone else seemed to enjoy it immensely.