Ministry Action Records

"Everyone feels the same way. It's like déjà vu." Yukinoshita also echoed.

"Let's order some food too, Yukinoshita."

"Then can I order something I like? Hikigaya...Dad..." Yukinoshita held the menu excitedly like a little girl.

"Of course, order something you like. If you can't finish it, I'll take care of it, Yukinoshita." Hikigaya looked at Yukinoshita lovingly. The two of them were like a warm father and daughter.

Hikigaya and Yukinoshita were also put into some mysterious scene...

"The food is served quite quickly, Van-san." Shidou said to Van happily as he watched the dishes he ordered being quickly brought to the table. He also had a better impression of this restaurant.

Shidou was picking out the green peppers and onions from the dish when he suddenly felt Van's gaze.

"Haha... Van-san, I don't really like green peppers and onions. They smell weird, but they're in a lot of dishes, so I always pick them out before eating them." Shidao explained to Van.

"Shidou, it's not good to be picky about food, and onions and green peppers are actually not too bad. If you think they taste too strange, you can crush them into pieces and mix them into the dish and eat them with rice. It will taste better." Van said as he used a knife and fork to chop the green peppers and onions into very small pieces and stirred them with the dish. Shidou found that there was no trace of green peppers and onions in the dish. Then Van picked up some vegetables and put them on Shidou's rice bowl.

"Give it a try, Shidou." Still with that kind smile, Van suggested to Shidou.

Shidao looked at the dishes on the bowl. Although he could no longer see the green peppers and onions, he knew they were still mixed in. He held the chopsticks and was a little hesitant about whether to eat it or not. However, looking at Van-san's encouraging eyes, Shidao decided to try it. It was just a little green peppers and onions. He gritted his teeth and ate it in a flash. With a certain awareness, Shidao put the food into his mouth.

"What do you think, Shidou?" Van looked like he already knew what would happen next, but he still asked Shidou what he thought.

Chewing the food in his mouth carefully and slowly, Shidou was ready to swallow it quickly, but after biting further, he did not feel any bitterness of green peppers or pungent taste of onions, and the taste of the original food seemed to be even more... perfect?

"It really has become more delicious, Van-san. It no longer has the unpleasant taste of green peppers and onions."

"I'm right, right? You can do this when you eat these in the future." Van patted Shidao's arm.

"Yeah." Shidou nodded.

"To coax a child to eat food he doesn't like? My mother always tried every way to coax me to eat green peppers, bitter gourds, etc., but she was not always successful..." Yukinoshita also recalled the past. She could still clearly remember the bitter taste in her mouth when she bit into a large piece of green pepper for the first time. She said with tears in her eyes that her mother was a liar and that green peppers were not delicious at all.

"Everyone has tried it. We all got through it this way." Hikigaya echoed.

Soon, Shidao was full and Van dealt with the rest of the meal.

"Van-san, didn't you say you had something to do? I should be able to help." After dinner, Shidou mentioned what Van said when he just arrived.

"There's no rush for my business. Tell me about yourself. Now that you're out, is there any place you want to go that no one has ever been with you before? I can go with you."

"Actually, there's nothing..." Speaking of places I want to go, I'm usually either at school or at home taking care of my sister and the elves. When I go out, I go shopping with Tohka or play hide-and-seek with the Yoshinos. It's not that I'm unhappy, but there's a place I really want to go but I don't think they're interested so I've never been there. If it's Van-san, maybe I can...

"So there is, Shidou, tell me."

"Actually... I've always wanted to go to the arcade here." Shidou said this, perhaps hoping that he could fulfill his little wish this time.

"No... Is it okay..." Shidao didn't hear Van's reply. Well, Van-san wouldn't like to go to such a place at his age.

"What a great idea! This is where boys want to go, Shidou."

"Really? That's great." Shidao was a little surprised by Van's affirmation and agreement.

"Let's go, Shidou!" Van waved his hand and asked Shidou to lead the way, and the two started heading towards the video game arcade.

"So now it's time to help the kids make up for their childhood regrets?" Hikigaya and Yukinoshita followed quietly, and Hikigaya complained.

"How about we play this first?" Van and Shido Itsuka stood in front of a basketball shooting game console.

"As for basketball, I'm actually not very good at it..." Shidao scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, I'll teach you." Van had already put in the coins and started the basketball game.

Van picked up a basketball, "Look, Shidou, hold the ball in your right hand like this and raise it to the top of your head. Just support it lightly with your left hand. You don't need to use too much force. Just aim and throw the ball."

Bang! Van's shot hit the target accurately.

"If you feel you don't have enough strength, you can squat down first, prepare for the shot and then stretch your body vertically upwards. Use your right arm to shoot the ball upwards as your body moves upwards, like this." Van demonstrated it to Shidao, and the ball still hit the target accurately.

Is Van-san teaching me how to shoot? I feel like he is my father. To be honest, I have never seen my biological father. After being adopted by the Gokawa family, my adoptive parents are often not at home. After all, they have their own things to do. But I have also thought about it. If someone takes me to the arcade to play games, like now, if Van-san is me...

"Come on, Shidou, you try it too." Shidou came back to his senses from his thoughts and caught the basketball that Van put in his hands.

"Let's do it together. I think the record of this game console is easy to break." Van and Shidou started to challenge the game together. The two of them shot quickly, and the scores kept rising, getting closer and closer to the highest record. Although most of the shots were made by Van, Shidou also tried very hard.

"Wow, Yukinoshita, did you see that? This atmosphere is full of 'I wish you were my father' and 'Kid, I'll teach you how to play basketball.'" Hikigaya, who was peeking from the side, expressed his own thoughts.

"You're so annoying..."

"However, what Hikigaya responded to was Yukinoshita's coldness and indifference."

"You find it fun to act as the narrator, right? And you even say that I'm cold and heartless..." Yukinoshita looked at Hikigaya with a frown on her face.

"Yeah, Shidou broke the record." Van patted Shidou Gokawa's shoulder, and Shidou also smiled happily.

"Let's go play a racing game, Van-san." Shidou also relaxed a little and said the game he wanted to play.

"Let's go."

Van and Shidou sat in the seats for the racing game and started the game.

Shidao drove properly and slowed down before turning. Although he didn't hit anything throughout the whole process, he barely passed the first two levels and then lost the third level.

"Ah, Van-san, I lost." Shidao was not too discouraged. After all, someone came to play arcade games with him, and he was already very happy today.

"Shidao, you're driving too cautiously. When playing this kind of game, don't let up on the accelerator except when you're turning. It's okay to bump into things. You're supposed to have fun playing games. Let me show you." He braked and swung the steering wheel. The car driven by Van on the screen drifted handsomely through one turn after another, leaving the computer behind by a long distance and winning the race.

"Have you seen clearly, Shidou? This is the real way to play this game."

"Shidou?"

Shidou, who seemed to be in a daze, came back to his senses.

"Are you okay, Shidao? Are you feeling unwell?" Van asked with concern.

"It's okay, I'm just thinking about something..." Shidou hesitated whether to say what he wanted to say. In fact, he was still just a child, so it didn't matter if he said it out loud.

"Is there anything you want to say, Shidou?"

Shidou clenched his fist and decided to speak his mind.

"I was just thinking... it would be nice if you were my father, Van-san. I have never seen my biological father, and I don't know why my biological mother left. I can understand that my adoptive parents are busy, but I often imagine what it would be like if my parents were still alive. Maybe it would be like today, like Van, eating together, ordering a lot of my favorite dishes, playing video games, racing, shooting games together... I'm sorry, I may have said a little too much... It's just that, today, I can't help but think about such things... I..." Shidao didn't know what he wanted to say. It was very confusing. Why is this happening? Obviously, he wanted to help Van-san and other elves live well in this world at the beginning, with this as his goal, what am I doing now...

Van placed his broad palm on Shidou's head. Feeling the warmth and heaviness on his head, Gokawa Shidou also let go of his thoughts.

"If you were my child, this wouldn't be bad either." Van's steady voice reached Shidao's ears.

At this time, the peeping Hikigaya and Yukinoshita had already discovered that things had made significant progress!

19. Two people in the arcade

"Yukinoshita, do you have any more grenades? Throw one forward and kill them. There are too many enemies."

"Uh...it seems there's more." Yukinoshita shook the model gun in her hand a few times and switched the weapon to a grenade launcher. The screen showed that there was still one round left.

"There's a guy on the second floor who's been shooting at me with a machine gun. Hikigaya, kill him first."

"OK." Hikigaya released the pedal under his feet, and the character left the bunker. He fired several shots in an instant, killing the enemy with a machine gun who had been aimed at him. Then he stepped on the pedal immediately, and the character he was controlling entered the bunker without suffering too much damage.

"Done, throw the grenade quickly." Hikigaya urged Yukinoshita.

"Yeah!" Yukinoshita didn't say much nonsense. She accurately killed the soldiers in front with a grenade. The soldiers on the field had been cleared out.

"Oh, finally the boss appears."

Yukinoshita and Hikigaya were unable to control their characters at this time, and entered the CG scene. On the screen, a huge robot broke through the wall, and its scarlet electronic eyes looked at the position of the two protagonists, aiming its guns and firing! However, the two protagonists rolled behind the bunker in a handsome manner. After a burst of smoke and dust dissipated, Yukinoshita and Hikigaya were able to control their characters again.

"Free fire, Yukinoshita."

"Well, if you die, I'll have to finish the fight alone."

"You are very confident, my friend." Hikigaya smiled.

The sound of gunfire and pedaling continued to sound. After 7 or 8 minutes, the boss finally fell. In the end, the two protagonists boarded a helicopter and flew away. The mission was completed. Yukinoshita and Hikigaya put the model gun back into the holster that came with the arcade machine.

"There are still a few game coins left. How do I use them?" Hikigaya asked Yukinoshita after taking out the remaining game coins from his pocket.

"Let's go shopping first." Yukinoshita didn't have any good ideas, so she suggested to Hikigaya that they go shopping first.

"Yeah." Hikigaya nodded.

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some time ago.

"Van, it's getting late. I should go back soon." Shidao seemed a little embarrassed. There were a few freeloaders at home waiting for him to go back and make dinner. Although he was very happy today, he couldn't play here for too long.

"It's okay Shidou, I had a lot of fun today too. We can do it again when we have time. We can invite more people. I have someone I know who is here too."

Someone Van knows? Could he also be an elf? Shidao thinks it's very likely.

"Well, Van doesn't have a place to live yet, how about living at my house first? I have plenty of space at home." Hearing Kotori's reminder in the headphones, Shidou thought of inviting Van to live in his house this time. Not to mention that it would be more convenient to conquer, and elves here generally don't have a place to live.

"Hmm? Is it okay? It might trouble your family." Van did not directly refuse Shidao's invitation.

"It's okay. There are only me, my sister and a few other elves at home. They will definitely welcome Van-san." Instead of being directly rejected, Shidou wanted to further persuade Van.

Are there other elves? It is indeed an organization dedicated to helping outsiders. Come to think of it, Xiao Ba also lived with me at the beginning. When I just started hunting, Xiao Ba would always come back to say to me: "Teacher, I was killed by those dogs again. It's too much." Those were really nostalgic days.

"Okay then, thank you, Shidou." Van accepted Shidou's invitation.

Let's live with Shidao first. It's been so many years and I don't remember how to get to that place. I don't know how to find that person.

"You agreed?! Van, let's go back now." Shidao seemed a little surprised at Van's agreement.

"Let's go, Shidou."

"They are leaving. What should we do, Hikigaya? Should we continue to follow them?" Yukinoshita asked as she watched Van and Shidou gradually go away.

"Forget it, they all said they were going home, we can't just follow them to Shidao's house. Besides, we've gained a lot today, I think a lot of the truth has surfaced before."

"Well, then shall we...go home too?"

"Let's go home directly... Now that we're here, why don't we play for a while before leaving?" Hikigaya looked at the various arcade machines around him and felt a little tempted.

"Well...it's indeed a good suggestion." Looking at the neatly arranged game consoles around her, Yukinoshita nodded slightly in agreement.

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"There are still a few game coins left. How do I use them?"